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Poetry reading series organized by Ashley Roach-Freiman

ELIJAH BURRELL is the author of one collection of poems, titled The Skin of the River (Aldrich Press, 2014). His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Agni, Birmingham Poetry Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Measure, Sugar House Review, Structo, and many others. He received the 2009 Cecil A. Blue Award in Poetry and the 2010 Jane Kenyon Scholarship at Bennington College. His poem “Bones” was recently featured in audio form on Sugar House Review’s podcast. Not long ago, two of his poems were featured on The Missouri Review’s audio podcast. He resides in Jefferson City, Missouri, with his wife and two daughters, and teaches creative writing and literature at Lincoln University.

RICHARD BOADA is the author of The Error of Nostalgia (Texas Review Press) and the chapbook Archipelago Sinking (Finishing Line Press), both nominated for Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Awards. He is a graduate of the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, and won the University of Louisville’s Sara-Jean McDowell Award for Creative Writing. Recent work appears in The North American Review, RHINO, Crab Orchard Review, Yalobusha Review, Jabberwock Review, and The Louisville Review among others. He teaches creative writing at the University of Memphis.

AMIE IRWIN lives with her two daughters, Maggie and Jane, in Oxford, MS where she is a John and Rene Grisham fellow in poetry at the University of Mississippi. She has been published by Prairie Schooner.