Keith S. Wilson, David Welch, Steven Schroeder, & James Tadd Adcox.

Tuesday, October 7, Quenchers Saloon, 7 pm.

JAMES TADD ADCOX is the author of a novel, Does Not Love, now out from Curbside Press; and a collection of stories, The Map of the System of Human Knowledge, from Tiny Hardcore Press. He lives in Chicago.

STEVEN D. SCHROEDER’ssecond book, The Royal Nonesuch (Spark Wheel Press, 2013), won the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award from Southern Illinois University. His poetry is available from New England Review, Pleiades, The Journal, and Crab Orchard Review. Poems have also appeared by invitation in public transportation, city parks, and business waiting rooms. He serves as co-curator for Observable Readings in St. Louis and works as a Certified Professional Résumé Writer.

DAVID WELCH received the 2014 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and has recently published poems in AGNI, Conduit, Ninth Letter. He teaches in the creative writing programs at DePaul University where he is Coordinator of Literacy Outreach, serves as Poetry Editor of ACM, and with Molly Walsh co-curates Poets Picking Poets.

KEITH S. WILSON is an Affrilachian Poet, Cave Canem fellow, graduate of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, and recipient of a Bread Loaf scholarship. He holds an MFA in poetry from Chicago State University. Keith’s poetry has been published in 2 chapbooks: Generation Oz (Finishing Line Press) and Kindermeal (Imaginary Friend Press).

His work has appeared in a number of anthologies and has appeared or is appearing in the following journals: American Letters & Commentary, 32 Poems, Cider Press Review, Anti-, Muzzle, Mobius, and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. Additionally, he has had poems nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net award.