Featuring Susana H. Case and Andrew Kaufman

Hosted by Jerry T. Johnson

Plus open mic

21+, doors open at 3:00 pm

$3 suggested donation. Two drink min, alcoholic or non.

Susana H. Case has authored nine books of poetry, most recently If This Isn’t Love (Broadstone Books, 2023). She has won several Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards, an IPPY, a NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite award, and she was a Finalist twice and an Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, as well as Finalist for the American Book Fest Awards, and the International Book Awards. The first of her five chapbooks, The Scottish Café from Slapering Hol Press was re-released in an English-Polish version, Kawiarnia Szkocka, by Opole University Press, and an English-Ukrainian edition is forthcoming in January, 2024. Case co-edited, with Margo Taft Stever, the anthology I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe (Milk and Cake Press, 2022). A former university professor in NYC, Case currently is a co-editor of Slapering Hol Press. website

Andrew Kaufman’s awards include The Center for Book Arts Award for The Cinnamon Bay Sonnets, The Pearl Poetry Award for Earth’s Ends, and an NEA grant.  He will be reading from his recently-released book, The Rwanda Poems, Voices and Visions from the Genocide, based on his interviews in Rwanda with genocide survivors and, in prisons, with convicted perpetrators.