Featuring poets JL Kato and Eric Rensberger

JL Kato is a native of Japan whose assimilation into American culture is so complete, he cannot use chopsticks. His first book of poetry, Shadows Set in Concrete, chronicles his life as an immigrant in Indiana. That volume was selected the 2011 Best Book of Indiana for poetry by the Indiana Center for the Book. He is president of Brick Street Poetry Inc., which brings poetry to public places. He is poetry editor of the Flying Island, the literary journal of the Indiana Writers Center.

Eric Rensberger is originally from Elkhart County in northern Indiana, but he has lived in southern Indiana, mainly in Bloomington, since 1974. His work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. His chapbooks include, amongst other titles, Letters, Standing Where Something Did, and Blank of Blanks, and he has indulged in more fugitive forms of publication such as posting poems anonymously on public kiosks, street lamp poles, and bulletin boards in restaurants. He is a convinced and persistent self-publisher. His collected works can be found at the website www.ericrensbergerpoetry.net, which is home to his major work, the ongoing chronological series Account of My Days, at present consisting of more than 1,000 poems.

Thursday, Mar 24, 7 – 9 p.m.

Bloomingfoods EAST Patio Room
3220 East Third Street

Free and open to the public

Produced by the Writers Guild at Bloomington

Cost: Free

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