Steve at KGB Bar in New York
For all our New York readers and fans, Steve will be at the KGB Bar November 1 for an issue release party from 7-9 for our upcoming fall issue. Ron Kolm, David Lawton, Alberto Zayden, Amy Barone, Paul Pines, Jennifer Juneau, Simon Pettet and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright will be joining Steve for an evening filled with readings and fun. Come join us!! Check out the KGB bar event page for more info: http://kgbbar.com/calendar/events/kgb_release_party_for_the_cafe_review/
Megan Grumbling reading at THRICE
Our wonderful Reviews Editor, Megan Grumbling, will be reading with Rebecca Morgan Frank and Rosa Lane on October 25 at Longfellow Books in Portland, Maine! Come hang out and listen to some great poetry!
From the THRICE event page:
2017 Maine Literary Award-winning poets Megan Grumbling and Rosa Lane read with special guest poet Rebecca Morgan Frank at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Rebecca Morgan Frank is visiting Maine to launch her third poetry collection: Sometimes We’re All Living in a Foreign Country (Carnegie Mellon University Press). Frank’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in some of the countries most revered publications, such places as The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, New England Review. She is the co-founder and editor of the online literary magazine Memorious and currently the poet-in-residence at Brandeis University.
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Megan Grumbling‘s debut poetry collection Booker’s Point (University of North Texas Press, 2016)—an oral history-driven portrait of an old Mainer—won the 2017 Maine Book Award for Poetry. Grumbling’s work has been awarded the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the Robert Frost Award, a Hawthornden Fellowship at Hawthornden Castle, Scotland, and a St. Boltoph Emerging Artist Award.
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Rosa Lane’s poem “Boats Named Women” won the 2017 Maine Book Award for Short Works Poetry. The poem appears in Lane’s collection Tiller North (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2016). Lane’s chapbook Roots and Reckonings (Granite Press, East) was published in 1980, and her work has appeared in numerous journals, including The Briar Cliff Review, Crab Orchard Review, New South, and Ploughshares. She works as an architect and divides her time between coastal Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area.
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W. J. Herbert
W.J. Herbert’s: debut collection, Dear Specimen, (Beacon Press, 2021) was selected by Kwame Dawes as a winner of the 2020 National Poetry Series and awarded a 2022 Maine Literary Award for Poetry. Herbert’s work appears in The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Atlantic, Best American Poetry 2017 & 2024, The Georgia Review, The Hudson Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere.
Tim Carrier
Tim Carrier’s: debut chapbook collection is Lookout Mountain [The Song Cave, 2025.) His poems have appeared in journals including Cordite Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Foglifter, The Offing, Poetry Northwest, and West Branch. He earned an MFA at the Institute of American Indian Arts, attending as a white / non-Native student. Originally from St. Louis, he lives in northern New Mexico.
Kieran Tuohy
Kieran Tuohy: is an Irish sculptor known for his unique use of bog oak, a medium that has been preserved in Ireland’s peat bogs. His work often reflects Irish history, particularly the Great Famine, through intricate sculptures that tell poignant stories of loss and resilience. Born in Galway in 1953, he moved to England at a young age and later returned to Ireland, where he began his artistic journey. His sculptures are characterized by their emotional depth and the use of natural wood textures, capturing the essence of Ireland’s tragic past.
Akimitsu Tamawake
Akimitsu Tamawake: is a printmaker based in Toyama, Japan. His works are known for their poetic, narrative, and broad worldview. The works have won awards in Taiwan, Italy, and have been exhibited all over the world. After completing graduated Master’s Program at the Toyama University, he worked at art college in Thailand, Japanese language school in Brazil. Currently, He is a teacher who teaches art to children with severe disabilities. Many experiences became the basis of his etching work and created his unique worldview.
