Observable Readings

October Observable Reading

Thursday, October 02, 2008 at 03:48 PM: Josh Kryah, Kent Shaw and Chad Parmenter

Josh Kryah's first collection of poems, Glean, was published in 2007. His poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, FIELD, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, and others. He teaches at University of Nevada Las Vegas where he is poetry editor for Witness.

Kent Shaw's first book, Calenture, won the 2007 Tampa Review Prize. His poems have appeared in Third Coast, The Literary Review, The Greensboro Review, and other journals. He is a PhD student in the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program.

Winner of the 2005 poetry contest of Hotel Amerika, and the 2007 poetry contest of The Black Warrior Review, Chad Parmenter's poems have appeared in The Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review, Smartish Pace, Pleiades, and elsewhere, including The Best American Poetry 2007. He is currently a creative writing fellow at the UM-Columbia.