SPECTRA Poetry Reading Series Saturday, April 27 8 pm @ROZZ-TOX

Featuring BJ Best, Matt Mauch, Shane McCrae

B.J. Best is the author But Our Princess Is in Another Castle (Rose Metal Press), Birds of Wisconsin (New Rivers Press), and State Sonnets (sunnyoutside). He is also the author of three chapbooks from Centennial Press, most recently Drag: Twenty Short Poems about Smoking. He teaches at Carroll University and lives in the Wisconsin countryside with one wife, one son, three cats, and nine video game systems. He asserts he is the only person in the history of the world to have beaten Super Mario Bros.—with an actual Nintendo and television—on a pontoon boat.

Matt Mauch is the author of If You’re Lucky Is a Theory of Mine (Trio House Press), Prayer Book (Lowbrow Press), and the chapbook The Brilliance of the Sparrow (Mondo Bummer). Host of the Great Twin Cities Poetry Read and Maeve’s Sessions readings, and editor of the annual anthology Poetry City, USA, he teaches creative writing at Normandale Community College, and lives in Minneapolis.

Shane McCrae is the author of Mule (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011), a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award, and Blood (Noemi Press, 2013), as well as three chapbooks—most recently, Nonfiction, which won the Black Lawrence Press Black River Chapbook Competition. He work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Smartish Pace and elsewhere, and he has received a Whiting Writer’s Award and fellowship from the NEA.