Join us for an afternoon of poetry featuring local authors Cindy Savett, Liz Chang, and Paul Hutchinson, followed by an open mic session.

Cindy Savett is the author of Child in the Road (Parlor Press) and the chapbooks The Story of My Eyes, Battle for the Metal Kiss, Rachel: In the Temporary Mist of Prayer, and Overtures of Survival. Her latest work, The Breath (BlazeVOX), is a riveting meditation on grief and resilience, written in response to the death of her young daughter.

Liz Chang's new book of poems, Museum of Things (Finishing Line Press), is "a powerful and ingenious collection of personal artifacts -- and the associated memories -- in poetry form" per Kirkus Reviews. She was the 2012 Montgomery County Poet Laureate, and has previously published Animal Nocturne, What Ordinary Objects, and Provenance.

Paul Hutchinson juxtaposes words and art in his work. becoming white grass, his fourth book, is a collection of short, naturalistic poems combining a clean page layout and black-and-white images. His goal is to allow readers to reconnect with themselves and reconsider with a meditative freshness their long journey through this world.