Galileo Press is bringing its black pick-up truck with five red diamonds painted on the side to Gallery5 for a smashup poetry show featuring S. Preston Duncan and Rob Vance from Richmond, Sam Schmidt and Jenny Keith from Baltimore, and Barrett Warner from the low country. The night includes special guest Ryan Kent.
Bios:
S. Preston Duncan is the author of the forthcoming collection, Blood Alluvium (Parlyaree Press, 2024). He is also a co-creator of Lost Arcana, a poetry-based oracle deck and card game. Preston's work has been shortlisted for the Art of Creative Unity Award, nominated for Best of the Net, and featured in dozens of journals and anthologies.
Rob Vance has poetry featured in: Chiron Review, Hawai'i Pacific Review, The Hollins Critic, and other esteemed journals. He runs and also writes for Runners’ World and he’s pretty handy with a roll of kinesiology tape.
Sam Schmidt is the author of Dark Bird (Galileo Press 2024) and Suburban Myths (Beothuk Books 2012). For more than a decade he published WordHouse, a newsletter for Maryland writers, and hosted WordHouse at the Minas Gallery, a monthly reading series. He is a two-time recipient of the Maryland State Individual Artist Grant.
Jenny Keith is a bassist and lyracist for the post Punk band Batworth Stone. Her most recent collection of mad grooves is Terminarch (Able Muse 2024 book award). Her poems have appeared in Sewanee Theological Review, The Nebraska Review, The Free State Review, Fledgling Rag, Unsplendid, and Best American Poetry.
Ryan Kent is the author of the poetry collections: Poems For Dead People, This Is Why I Am Insane, Hit Me When I'm Pretty, and Everything Is On Fire: Selected Poems 2014-2021. He has also coauthored three collections of poetry with Brett Lloyd: Tomorrow Ruined Today, Some Of Us Love You, and Pardon My Reflection (TBA). His debut album, Dying Comes With Age, was released on vinyl by Rare Bird Lit (2022). It features contributions from heavy metal luminaries such as Randy Blythe (Lamb of God), Jimmy Bower (Down/Eyehategod), Laura Pleasants (Kylesa), and Eugene S. Robinson (OxBow). Ryan is a staff writer for RVA Magazine and teaches the 4th Grade in Richmond, VA.
Host Barrett Warner is the editor of Free State Review and Galileo Press. He is the author of Why Is It So Hard to Kill You? (Somondoco) and My Friend Ken Harvey (Publishing Genius). He used his Maryland Artist grant to move to South Carolina.He hates Maryland.