FLOW STATE LITERARY SERIES

A fresh literary series.

Free to Attend, no reservations required.

A partnership with UW-L’s English Department, Pump House Regional Arts Center and Pearl Street Books.

Schedule

October 6 – Matt Hart & Dobby Gibson
November 10 – Jenny Robertson
Discussions begin at 7pm, doors open at 6:30pm at Pump House

AUTHOR FEATURES

Matt Hart

Matt Hart is the author of thirteen books of poetry, including most recently FALLING FINE: Selected & New Poems (Pickpocket Books). From 1993-2019 he was a co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety. The Head of Creative Writing at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and a faculty mentor in the PNCA/Willamette University Low-Residency MFA Program, he lives in Cincinnati where he plays in the post-punk/indie rock band NEVERNEW and edits, solders, and publishes the poetry journal SOLID STATE.

Dobby Gibson

Dobby Gibson is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Hold Everything (Graywolf Press, 2024). His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review, among other publications. He lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Our featured writers, poets Dobby Gibson and Matt Hart, will read from their own work but also from a posthumous collection by the late Dean Young, who was a leading voice in American arts and letters, who died of complications from COVID-19. Here are the three books we plan to have available for this event:
– Gibson, Dobby. Hold Everything.
– Hart, Matt. Falling Fine: Selected & New Poems.
– Young, Dean. Creature Feature.

Jenny Robertson

Jenny Robertson is a fiction writer and poet from Minnesota and Michigan currently living in Wisconsin. Her fiction has appeared in South Carolina Review, SLAB, Hypertext, Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment, Cutthroat, and Gulf Stream Lit Mag. She has taught creative writing and literature at Front Street Writers, Interlochen Arts Camp, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and Ellipsis Writing. Jenny holds an MFA in Fiction from Pacific University and a PhD in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.