Every month is a new party on the 2nd Monday of the month at Gatsby Books and September will be no exception! This month’s features will be Michael Miller and Kevin Ridgeway. Come down to Gatsby Books on September 8th at 7:15 to sign up on the open reading list. Stay for the knockout features and the always delightful open mic readers. RSVP on Facebook!
Orange County poet Michael Miller is the editor and publisher of Moontide Press, which has published many prominent SoCal poets (http://www.moontidepress.com/). Hs latest book is The First Thing Mastered, published by Tebot Bach. His previous volume, College Town, was also published by Tebot Bach. He has read throughout SoCal, and has hosted many readings as well, most notably at the Muckenthaler Center in Fullerton.
Kevin Ridgeway is a local from Whittier, CA, where he resides in a shady bungalow with his girlfriend and their one-eyed cat. His work has appeared in Bank-Heavy Press, Gutter Eloquence Magazine, Santa Fe Literary Review and Zygote in my Coffee, among many others. His latest chapbook, All the Rage (Electric Windmill Press, 2013) can be purchased here: StoreEnvy.com
Cadence Collective: Long Beach Poets 