The reading series voted most likely to avoid refined sugars later in life rolls onward with a startling healthy snack assortment of poets and their so-called poetry.

Elsewhere, a lab rat with a heart of gold can no longer continue a tumultuous relationship with a frustrated, under-funded neuropharmocologist.

The readers will be:
Ben Bush‘s writing has appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, The Literary Review, Yeti, The Believer, Poets & Writers, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He was recently accepted to Iowa Writers’ Workshop as a Truman Capote Fellow.

Kelly Forsythe is currently living and writing in Washington, D.C. Her poems have appeared in The Minnesota Review, Black Warrior Review, and Columbia Poetry Review, among others. She was the subject of an Emerging Poet profile by Noelle Kocot in a recent issue of Academy of American Poets’ American Poet magazine. She is the founder of Phantom Limb, an online literary journal, teaches at The University of Maryland, and is the publicist for Copper Canyon Press.

Michael Keenan’s first book of poems, “Translations On Waking In An Italian Cemetery,” will be released by A-Minor Press in the spring of 2014. His writing has appeared in the PEN Poetry Series, Fence, Alice Blue Review, RealPoetik, inter|rupture, Shampoo, Paul Revere’s Horse, and Arsenic Lobster, among others. Michael no longer drives a waffle truck in Northern Florida, but he wishes that he did.

Maya Catherine Popa‘s work appears or is forthcoming in Tin House, Kenyon Review, Fence, Narrative, FIELD, Poetry London, and elsewhere. She holds a Master’s from Oxford University and an MFA from NYU, where she co-taught a workshop for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. She is an editorial fellow at Poets & Writers.

Britt Melewski’s poems have appeared in Puerto Del Sol, the Philadelphia Review of Books, Sporkpress, Heavy Feather Review, and are forthcoming in Tidal Basin Review among others. Melewski received his MFA at Rutgers-Newark in 2012. He lives in Brooklyn.

See you then.