Join us at Laney & Lu for a wonderful fall evening of poetry with DeMisty D. Bellinger and Mimi White! Please note the new start time, 6:30pm! Our two features will kick the evening off before we reset for the open mic portion of the evening, 7:30-8:30pm.
DeMisty D. Bellinger teaches creative writing at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. She is the author of the story collection All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere, the novel New to Liberty, and the poetry collection Peculiar Heritage. She has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Nebraska, an MFA from Southampton College, and she got her start in higher ed at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.
Mimi White is the author of five poetry collections, an essay published in The New York Times, and poems in Poetry, FIELD, and A Hole in the Head Review. Her chapbook, The Singed Horizon, won the Philbrick Poetry Award, selected by Robert Creeley, and The Last Island won the Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Poetry. Mimi lives in Exeter, NH, and was the 5th Portsmouth Poet Laureate.