St. Louis Poetry Center

November Observable Reading

November 06, 2008: Nickole Brown, Erin Keane, Kristi Maxwell and Cindy King

Nickole Brown is the author of Sister, published by Red Hen in September 2007. Her work has been featured in The Writer's Chronicle, Poets & Writers, 32 Poems, The Cortland Review, and others. Nickole works for the nonprofit, independent literary press, Sarabande Books.

Erin Keane is the author of The Gravity Soundtrack, a full-length collection of poems, and The One-Hit Wonders, a chapbook of poems about rock & roll. She directs the InKY Reading Series in Louisville, Kentucky, and teaches at Bellarmine University and the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts.

Kristi Maxwell is the author of Realm Sixty-four (Ahsahta, 2008), Elsewhere & Wise (Dancing Girl, 2008), and Hush Sessions (Saturnalia, forthcoming 2009). Her poems have appeared in Coconut, Saltgrass, The Concher, and Practice: New Writing & Art. She currently lives and writes in Cincinnati.

Cynthia Arrieu-King is assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton College in New Jersey. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, Diagram, Forklift, and others.