We love small presses and hope you do too! Join us for a reading featuring Finishing Line Press poets Roger Hecht, Wren Tuatha, and Jillian Barnet!

Featured Poets:

Roger W. Hecht is an Associate Professor of English at SUNY, Oneonta, where he has taught American Literature and Creative Writing since 2004. He is author of a collection of poems, Talking Pictures (Cervena Barva Press) and a chapbook, Lunch at the Table of Opposites (Red Dancefloor Press). His poems have appearedin Denver Quarterly, Diagram, Sheila-na-gig, Puerto del Sol, Bracken, and many other journals. When he’s not teaching and writing, he plays drums in a blues band in Ithaca, NY, where he lives with his wife, daughters, and myriad animals they call pets.

Wren Tuatha is founding editor of the literary journal, Califragile. Her poetry has appeared in The Cafe Review, Canary, Peacock Journal, Coachella Review, Baltimore Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Loch Raven Review, Clover, Lavender Review and elsewhere. She was previously Artist-in-Residence at Heathcote Community and co-founded Baltimore’s Sunday Salon. Wren studied education at University of Louisville, and film and poetry at Towson University, where she minored in Gay and Lesbian Studies. She received grants from Towson University’s Women’s Center and Office of Diversity to perform her slam play, This Is How She Steps on Snakes, and other productions. She won a Young Authors Award for Poetry. Wren and her partner, author/activist C.T. Lawrence Butler, herd skeptical goats on a mountain in California.

Jillian Barnet’s poetry has appeared in North American Review, Nimrod, Image, California Quarterly and many other literary journals and anthologies. Her work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the Bellingham Review. Jillian received her MFA from Vermont College in 2003. Links to some of her work and a blog can be found on her website at www.jillianbarnetwrites.com.