Poetry Reading with Kevin Simmonds and Sarah Clancy

Outhouse.ie

Friday October 28th @ 7pm in the Library, Outhouse 105 Capel St, Dublin 1

Kevin Simmonds is a San Francisco-based writer, musician and filmmaker originally from New Orleans. His writing appears in journals such as Asia Literary Review, Callaloo, jubilat, Kyoto Journal and Poetry. His edited works include Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality and Ota Benga Under My Mother's Roof. His music and performances have been featured on BBC Radio 3, PBS and Japan's NHK Television and at London's Royal Festival Hall, Japan's Nakano Sun Plaza and the National Black Theatre Festival. feti(sh)ame, his genre-defying short film, based entirely on his poetry, has screened internationally and been hailed by Los Angeles film critic Ernest Hardy as "an elegantly profane meditation on desire." Mad for Meat is his debut collection.


Sarah Clancy is from Galway and has been writing poetry for about two years. Already she has been shortlisted for several poetry prizes including the Patrick Kavanagh award and the Listowel Collection of Poetry competition in 2010. She was the runner up in the 2010 North Beach Nights Grand slam series and won the Cuirt International Festival of Literature Grand Slam in 2011.
Sarah’s first collection of poetry Stacey and the Mechanical Bull was published by Lapwing Press, Belfast in December 2010. Her work was further featured in a three-writer anthology published by Doire Press in June 2011 and her second full length collection Thanks for nothing, Hippies will be published by Salmon Poetry in April 2012.