Poetry With Aozora Brockman and Anita Olivia Koester + Open Mic

By JohnKWilson on April 19, 2017 - 2:35 pm

Sunday, April 30, 2017
4:00pm 5:30pm
Evanston Public Library

Come celebrate National Poetry Month as two talented poets read from their latest collections. Aozora Brockman will share her new chapbook Memory of a Girl, and Anita Olivia Koester will read from her recent chapbook Arrow Songs. Copies of both books will be available to purchase, along with other works by Brockman and Koester. An open mic will follow the featured readers.

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