Clear Creek Food Cooperative

You are invited to a poetry reading at the Clear Creek Food Cooperative on Sunday July 18th at 6:00pm. The reading is part of the Dream Horse Press First Book Tour, a national poetry touring spanning fourteen states. The Richmond reading will feature poets Kyle McCord, Keith Montesano, and Travis Poling who will be reading from their recently released books.

Kyle McCord’s book, Galley of the Beloved in Torment, was the winner of the 2008 Orphic Prize. He’s received awards or grants from the Academy of American Poets, the Vermont Studio Center, Art in Motion Australia, and the Iowa Poetry Society. He has work forthcoming or published from Boston Review, Cimarron Review, Columbia: a Journal of Art and Literature, Cream City Review, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. He currently lives and teaches in Des Moines, Iowa.

Keith Montesano’s Ghost Lights was published this year by Dream Horse Press. Other poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review, American Literary Review, Third Coast, River Styx, Crab Orchard Review, Sonora Review, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. He currently lives with his wife in New York, where he is a PhD Candidate in English and Creative Writing at Binghamton University.

Travis Poling’s first book, Poems that Should Never Be Read in Church, was recently self-published. His poems have appeared in Alba: A Journal of Short Poetry, DreamSeeker Magazine, and CrossCurrents. He currently attends Bethany Theological Seminary in Richmond, Indiana where he studies poetry, writing and theology.