The line-up for the Soul Bone Literary Festival—Maharishi International University’s Low-Res Creative Writing Festival—is amazing! Kelli Russell Agodon • Ellen Bass • Mermer Blakeslee • Laure-Anne Bosselaar • Nickole Brown • Joseph Cardillo • James Crews • Eileen Espinoza • Joshua Jennifer Espinoza • Linda Egenes • Anika Fajardo • Sherrie Fernandez-Williams • Molly Fisk • Valerie Gangas • Rafael Jesús González • Sara Henning • Lily Hoang • Carolyn Holbrook • Jessica Jacobs • Benji Jones • Ezekiel Joubert III • Jennifer L. Knox • Danusha Laméris • Rustin Larson • Emilie Lygren • Nathan McClain • Mel McCuin • Ahmad Qais Munhazim • Danielle Pafunda • Mona (Susan) Power • Monica Prince • Jennie Rothenberg Gritz • Sun Yung Shin • Katie Jean Shinkle • Mark Spragg • Lynne Thompson • Diane Wilson

Photo: Joëlle Matthias, Poetry Wall at ICON Gallery, Fairfield, Iowa

I’m very excited to be reading with Nynke Salverda Passi, Program Director of the MIU MFA program and co-chair of the MIU English Dept!

Nynke was born and raised in the Netherlands. Her work has been published in CALYX, Gulf Coast, Poetry Breakfast, Life & Legends, and more. Her poetry has been anthologized in Pandemic Puzzle Pieces and River of Earth & Sky (Blue Light Press), Carrying the Branch (Glass Lyre Press), and Oxygen: Parables of the Pandemic (River Paw Press). Together with Rustin Larson and Christine Schrum, she edited the poetry collection Leaves by Night, Flowers by Day.

There will also be an open mic reading with all the MFA candidates on Sunday, Sept 4, 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT!

All the events listed here are free and open to the public. Nice! Register here: shorturl.at/cdJL7