Poetry reading by Matt Hart and Robert Murphy at Xavier University, the Surkamp Family Center in the Alumni Bldg. 7:30 p.m.. Thursday, Dec. 4. View a map of Xavier here.
Matt Hart is the author of Who’s Who (Slope Editions, 2006) and three chapbooks: Revelated (Hollyridge Press, 2005), Sonnet (H_NGM_N Books, 2006) and Simply Rocket (Lame House Press, 2007). A collaborated chapbook, Deafening Leafening, with poet Ethan Paquin, is forthcoming from Pilot Books in 2009. Additionally, his work has appeared in many print and online journals, including Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, Jubilat, and Octopus. He lives and teaches in Cincinnati where he edits Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety. http://www.hubcapart.com/ink/
Robert Murphy’s poems have appeared in the literary periodical Smartish Pace, as well as the Colorado Review, the Notre Dame Review, The Cultural Society, The Marsh Hawk Review, and the Chicago based journal LVNG. He is the author of a chapbook, Not For You Alone (Dos Madres, 2004), and Life In The Ordovician, selected poems (Dos Madres, 2007). He is a 2000 winner of the William Bronk Foundation prize for poetry. He was nominated for a 2008 Scripps Corbett Award in literary arts, and is a nominee for a 2009 Pushcart Prize. Robert Murphy is also executive editor and publisher of Cincinnati based Dos Madres Press. He is married to the iconographer and painter Elizabeth Hughes Murphy, who is both book designer and illustrator for Dos Madres Press.
