Off The Bricks

Welcome to Off The Bricks poets and poetry lovers! This month we welcome poet Nancy Chen Long to the program. Nancy Chen Long is the author of Wider than the Sky, selected for the Diode Editions Book Award (Diode Editions, 2020) and Light into Bodies, winner of the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry (University of Tampa Press, 2017), as well as the chapbook Clouds as Inkblots for the War Prone (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2013). Today in conversation with Joyce Brinkman, Nancy Chen Long discusses her poetry inspired by memory and its curious nature and challenges. You can learn more about her work on her website linked here.

Welcome to Off The Bricks poets and poetry lovers! Today's show brings back our publishers' series with Natalie Solmer

Welcome to Off the Bricks, poets and poetry lovers! This month we are proud to feature the poetic works of our Brick Street Poetry - poetry night participants who met for a live recording this past 4th of July. On the 1st Thursday of each month, Brick Street Poetry hosts enriching programming at the Sullivan Munce in Zionsville, Indiana. Today's episode showcases a diverse interpretation of the concept and celebration of Freedom. Please consider joining us next month, Off The Bricks

Welcome to Off The Bricks poets and poetry lovers! This month we have with us Curtis L Crisler the current Indiana Poet Laureate! Crisler was born and raised in Gary, Indiana. He received a BA in English, with a minor in Theatre, from Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW, now PFW), and he received his MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. You can learn more about Curtis at his website, and find the works featured in this episode for purchase at C&R Press.

Welcome to Off The Bricks, poets and poetry lovers! This month we have with us, Tracy Mishkin! Mishkin recently published her first full-length book of poetry, The Way The Salt Falls, with Main Street Rag Publishing Company. Tracy is also the author of three chapbooks, I Almost Didn't Make It to McDonald's (Finishing Line Press, 2014), The Night I Quit Flossing (Five Oaks Press, 2016), and This is Still Life (Brain Mill Press, 2018). A graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Butler University, she lives in Indianapolis with her family and fewer than ten cats and dogs. You can read some of her poems on her website, www.tracymishkin.com, as well as her Amazon Sellers Page.

Welcome to Off The Bricks poets and poetry lovers! This month we have a special episode for you featuring our very own members! This episode is a live recording of Brick Street Poetry's in-person poetry reading/ open mic held on the first Thursday of each month.

Thank you for joining us, Off The Bricks!