The Poets Weave

Poet Daniel Lassell reads “Llama,” “Ritter Park Cabin,” “Frame [Like a resurrected body],” “Downward Rooms,” and “Frame Inside a Frame [In the underworld].” Daniel is the author of two poetry books: Spit , published by Wheelbarrow Books in 2021, after winning the 2020 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize ; and Frame Inside a Frame published by Texas Review Press in 2025. Daniel grew up in Kentucky and l...

Poet Michael M. Feinstein reads "Gender Clinic," "On Devotion," and "Recognition." Michael M. Weinstein is a poet, essayist, and literary scholar. He is the author of Saint Consequence (Alice James Books, 2025) as well as articles and poems that have appeared in venues like The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Boston Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books , and elsewhere. Michael holds a Ph. D. fro...

Bloomington-based poet Tony Brewer reads from his manuscript Musical Chairs in the Dark : “Wash My Feet,” “Electors,” “Big Red Jupiter Storm Spot,” and “Forever Home.”

Novelist, memoirist, and poet, Joseph Di Prisco published his fourth book of poetry, My Last Resume: New & Collected Poems in 2023. His work has appeared in numerous journals and periodicals, and his poetry has been awarded prizes from Poetry Northwest, Bear Star Press, and Bread Loaf.  Joe champions writers, artists, educators, and students through his decades of teaching and his involvement...

“As a child, I unexpectedly became aware of lying in a bed located in a city located on the Earth located in the World.” - Clarice Lispector Kourtney Jones is a poet, teacher, and interdisciplinary artist from Fort Wayne, Indiana. She can be found typing in public spaces from a typewriter with her performance poetry project known as The Poem Market .  She is the author of the poetry chapbook The M...

Bloomington-based poet Eric Rensberger reads “Reading,” “A Diety,” and “Historical Imagination.” Eric is originally from Elkhart County in northern Indiana, but he has lived in southern Indiana, mainly in Bloomington, since 1974.  His work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies.  His chapbooks include, amongst other titles, Letters, Standing Where Something Did, and Blank of Blank...

“The poem is a form of negotiation with what haunts us or to put it another way is the interior dialogue we have with our other selves and so far as what haunts us is in part who we are.” -- Carl Phillips Joseph Kerschbaum’s most recent publications include Mirror Box published in 2020 by Main St Rag Press and Distant Shores of a Split Second published in 2018 by Louisiana Literature Press. His wo...

Zilia Balkansky-Sellés is a Bloomington, Indiana-based writer and actor. She was published in Comparative Woman (Louisiana State University). She has a poem included in Trigger Warnings , edited by Joan Hawkins and Kalynn Brower, two poems included in Stormwash: Environmental Poems , edited by Hiromi Yoshida, and in the 2023 Ryder Magazine Poetry Edition .  The play she co-wrote with Wild Swan The...

Poet Daniel Lassell reads “Frame [in the underworld],” “The Glassmaker’s Bench,” “Edge Markers,” “Frame [in the underworld],” and “Frame Inside a Frame.” Daniel is the author of two poetry books: Spit , published by Wheelbarrow Books in 2021, after winning the 2020 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize ; and Frame Inside a Frame published by Texas Review Press in 2025. Daniel grew up in Kentucky and live...

Poet Michael M. Feinstein reads sections I, VII, X, and XVL from his poem "Brother." Michael is a poet, essayist, and literary scholar. He is the author of Saint Consequence (Alice James Books, 2025) as well as articles and poems that have appeared in venues like The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Boston Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. Michael holds a Ph. D. from Harvard an...

Poet Tony Brewer reads pieces from various Poetry on Demand events between 2023-2025: "Life Lines," "Electric Dreams of Acoustic Souls," "Ode to My Immune System," "Fear and Loathing at the Circus;" "Rust Can't Sleep;" and the haiku "His Crooked Smile." Tony is a poet and audio artist from Bloomington, Indiana. He has published 13 books and chapbooks, most recently Water Witch from Pure Sleeze Pre...

Dr. Deirdre Fagan is a widow, wife, and mother of two who writes about love, loss, grief, and survival. She is the award-winning multi-genre author of five books, including Phantom Limbs , a poetry collection from Finishing Line Press; as well as her memoir, Find a Place for Me ; a short story collection, The Grief Eater ; a chapbook of poetry, Have Love ; and a reference book, Critical Companion...

Born and raised in Chicago, Janine Harrison is the author of Turning 50 on El Camino de Santiago, Weight of Silence , and If We Were Birds . Her work has appeared in Veils, Halos, Not Like the Rest of Us, Gyroscope Review, and "Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women."  Janine lives in Highland, Indiana, and is a former Highland Poet Laureate. She joined us from h...

Daniel Lassell is the author of two poetry books: Spit , published by Wheelbarrow Books in 2021, after winning the 2020 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, and Frame Inside a Frame published by Texas Review Press in 2025. Daniel grew up in Kentucky and lives in Bloomington, Indiana. Daniel reads “Museum of Exits,” “Nowhere for Safety,” “Frame [beyond these hills a river],” “Mirror,” and “Trodden Canva...

Michael M. Weinstein reads "Addendum to the Book of Marvels and Travel" and "The Civil Surgeon." Michael is a poet, essayist, and literary scholar. He is the author of Saint Consequence (Alice James Books, 2025) as well as articles and poems that have appeared in venues like The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Boston Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books , and elsewhere. Michael holds a Ph. D. fr...

Tony Brewer reads from his chapbook Water Witch (Pure Sleeze Press, 2025): "In Memoriam," "Close to the Earth," and "Confluence." Tony is a poet and audio artist from Bloomington, Indiana. He has published 13 books and chapbooks, most recently Water Witch from Pure Sleeze Press. Tony has been offering Poetry On Demand for over fifteen years and was named Indiana’s 2024 Literary Champion by the Eug...

Kentucky native, Rosemarie Wurth-Grice is a retired National Board Certified Teacher and founding member of the Not Dead Poets Society. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in Kentucky Monthly, Kudzu, and the Journal of Kentucky Studies. Her chapbook, Darkness Called Us Home, is forthcoming in 2025 by Finishing Line Press. Rosemarie reads "Vestigial," "One for Sorrow," "How is it Possible?,"...

Patsy Rahn’s poetry and prose is published in various journals and anthologies. Her book, The Grainy Wet Soul , is available from bookstores online. In 2021, she received the People's Choice Award from the 5th Open Eurasion Literary Festival of Festivals. Videos of her readings can be found on her website and You Tube. Patsy reads “Books,” “evolution,” “Ode to joy,” “In this moment of good night,”...

“Marriage is a long conversation.” — Friedrich Nietzsche  Dr. Deirdre Fagan is a widow, wife, and mother of two who writes about love, loss, grief, and survival. She is the award-winning multi-genre author of five books, including Phantom Limbs , a poetry collection from Finishing Line Press; as well as her memoir, Find a Place for Me ; a short story collection, The Grief Eater ; a chapbook of poe...

" Poetry comes with anger, hunger, and dismay. It does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together and would appall them if it did." - Christopher Morley  Born and raised in Chicago, Janine Harrison is the author of Turning 50 on El Camino de Santiago, Weight of Silence, and If We Were Birds. Her work has appeared in Veils, Halos, Not Like the Rest of Us, Gyroscope Revi...

Angela Lim is a poet, educator, and editor currently living in Bloomington, Indiana, where she is pursuing an MFA in poetry at Indiana University. In addition to writing poems, Angela has written dozens of juvenile nonfiction books. Angela reads "Claustrophobia," "Lying on my back," and "Elegy for Yearling."

Poet Heather Corbally Bryant reads “Santorini Airport, Dusk,” “Postcards,” “Silver Anniversary,” and “Oia.” Heather is a Senior Lecturer at Wellesley College, the author of a prize-winning study of Elizabeth Bowen, and eleven books of poems. Her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, the Massachusetts Book Award, and have received honorable mention in the Finishing Line Press’s Open Chapb...

Daniel Lassell is the author of two poetry books: Spit , published by Wheelbarrow Books in 2021, after winning the 2020 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, and Frame Inside a Frame published by Texas Review Press in 2025. Daniel grew up in Kentucky and lives in Bloomington, Indiana. Daniel says: "My most recent book thinks a lot about memory. Often when people think of memory, it’s first about their o...

Kourtney Jones is a poet, teacher, and interdisciplinary artist from Fort Wayne, Indiana. She can be found typing in public spaces from a typewriter with her performance poetry project known as The Poem Market. Kourtney is the author of the poetry chapbook The Mug Drops . Her current work explores the intersections of languages and dreams, the transmission between the dead and the living, environm...

William Landau is an MFA student at Indiana University, Bloomington. Their work has appeared in publications including Hanging Loose Press, Diabolical Plots, and Sinister Wisdom and will appear in an upcoming issue of Painted Bride Quarterly . When not reading or writing they're usually busy worshipping their cat, overanalyzing gay TV shows or perfecting their shortbread recipe. William reads "Law...