THAT POETRY THING
Recent Work Readings: Ross Donlon and Kimberly K Williams
+ open mic
7pm Monday 20 June (Doors open 6:30pm)
Smith’s Alternative, Canberra
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ROSS DONLON
Born in Ashfield, Sydney, Ross Donlon now lives in Castlemaine, Victoria, where he has convened literary events for over ten years. He has written four full length books of poetry, numerous chapbooks and won two international poetry competitions. Widely published in Australia and Ireland, he has read his poems extensively at home but also in many parts of Europe, including festivals in England and Ireland and other readings in Romania, Poland and Norway. He collaborates with Norwegian musician, Bjorn Otto Wallevik, as a lyricist and director of music videos. Poems about his father, a WW 2 U.S. serviceman from The Blue Dressing Gown were a program on Poetica, a national radio program in Australia. He is publisher of Mark Time Books.
KIMBERLY K. WILLIAMS
Kimberly K Williams is the author of two books, Sometimes a Woman (Recent Work Press) and Finally, the Moon, (Stephen F Austin University Press). She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas El Paso. Kimberly was short-listed for the University of Canberra's Vice-Chancellor's Poetry Prize in 2019, and her poems appear in many journals and anthologies around the world. After twenty years of writing and teaching in the U.S. Southwest, Kimberly moved to Canberra to work on a PhD. She is originally from Detroit, Michigan.