Live Music at The Reading Room
6pm Door - 6:30 Show
Roger Green Premieres: Music for Plants
A new composition for the natural world.

Clandestine Cinema on the Lawn
6:30pm Door - 7:00 Film
A Short Reading of Mount Analog - René Dumal

followed by a Screening of a surrealist film, by a Chilean Surrealist

Poetry at The Reading Room
6pm Door - 6:30 Readings
Poetry Readings With David Abel, Maureen Owen, Michael Klausman, Jennifer Dunbar Dorn.
Their accomplishments and Bios are too numerous to name are Right Here.

Maureen Owen is the former editor and chief of Telephone Magazine and Telephone Books, currently celebrated in a two-volume recap by The Poetry Collection at The University of Buffalo.

Her latest title is everything turns on a delicate measure from BlazeVOX Books. Recent publications include let the heart hold down the breakage  Or  the caregiver's log from Hanging Loose Press and  Poets on the Road, a collaborative reading tour blog with Barbara Henning in print from City Point Press. Other noted titles are Edges of Water from Chax Press and Erosion's Pull, a Coffee House Press title that was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and the Balcones Poetry Prize. Her collection American Rush: Selected Poems was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize and her work AE (Amelia Earhart) was a recipient of the prestigious Before Columbus American Book Award. 

She has taught at Naropa University, both on campus and in the low-residency MFA Creative Writing Program, and served as editor-in-chief of Naropa’s on-line zine not enough night. A recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, she can be found reading her work on the PennSound website.

Michael Klausman, living on the Front Range of Colorado. With poet Whit Griffin co-edits & publishes the poetry mag Luigi Ten Co. With Patrick Tillery, co-edits & publishes the small press WRY, which focuses on both new and archival poetry and artists’ books. Releases sound works as Fielding Daws.

Has recently edited & published a book of poems entitled Skip Tracing, by legendary Philly poet Ken Bluford. Edited & published a collection of lost & recovered poems by the shadowy beat-era figure Paolo Lionni. Edited & published a previously unreleased manuscript called The Cobra King by the great, queer, English modernist poet Oswell Blakeston. 

His own books include Aeolian Darts (Seance Centre) and The End of the Poem (NFMP). Yesterday's Weather, a Fielding Daws cassette tape with illustrated book by the Chicago based design team Sonnenzimmer, is forthcoming December 2025 from the record label Love All Day.

David Abel is a poet, editor, and interdisciplinary artist, and the proprietor of Passages Bookshop in Portland, Oregon. With a group of friends he founded the Spare Room reading series in 2002, still going strong in its twenty-fourth year. 

The author of more than two dozen books, chapbooks, artist’s books, and text objects, his most recent publications are two chapbook of poems, Strange Attractors, from Airfoil, and Equifinality, from Crane’s Bill Books in Albuquerque, NM; two books based on verbal performance scores — XIV Eclipses, published by Couch Press in Portland, and Selected Durations, published by the Black Rock Press at the University of Nevada in Reno; and a reissue by Redfoxpress in Ireland of the glyphic narrative Carrier. 

An expanded bilingual edition of his Eclipses is forthcoming from Escandalar in Mexico City, as well as a selection of early poems, After the Frontier, from Himal Press in Portland.

Jennifer Dunbar Dorn was born in Moscow and grew up in London. Married to Edward Dorn for thirty years, her collaborations with him include a book of poems, Manchester Square (1975), and the magazine Rolling Stock (1980s). She edited Dorn’s posthumous collections of poetry Chemo Sábe (2001) and (with Michael Rothenberg) Way More West: New and Selected Poems (2007). She taught at the University of Colorado and lives in Denver. A chapbook of her poetry, Galactic Runaway (2007), was published by Limberlost Press, and Eastward Ho: The Saga of Vitus Bering (2015) by Earth of the Parallel Bread, in collaboration with Lost & Found/CUNY.