Poetry Open Mic - Featuring Mark O'Brien (Obee Dùid) and Ken Hada

Takes place on the first Wednesday of every month.

Sign up starts at 7. Readings start at 7:30. Each poet reads two short poems (less than one page) or one longer poem.

There is a featured reader each month who reads for approximately 20 minutes. Featured readers are booked by host Carol Graser. See our performance schedule for listings of past featured readers.

All styles of poetry are welcome, although as with all Caffè Lena events we request that performers refrain from excessive profanity… Show more or vulgarity. Enforcement is up to the discretion of the host.

Featuring Mark O'Brien (Obee Dùid) and Ken Hada

Ken Hada has three current collections of poetry: The Way of the Wind (Village Books Press, 2008), Spare Parts (Mongrel Empire Press, 2010) which was awarded the Western Heritage Wrangler Award for outstanding poetry from the National Western Heritage Museum and Cowboy Hall of Fame. Poems from this collection were featured four times on Garrison Keillor's program, The Writer's Almanac. Ken Hada is a professor in the Department of English and Languages at East Central University where he teaches courses in Humanities, American and Ethnic Literatures. Additionally, he directs the annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival held on the ECU campus.

Mark W. O'Brien's poems have appeared in Tin Wreath, Normanskill, and The Rootdrinker Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, among many other journals and anthologies. O'Brien's most recent collection of poems entitled Neo-lethean Dreams was published by Benevolent Bird Press in 2009.

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