The Word Works and The Writer’s Center present Café Muse featuring Lindsay Lusby and Charlotte Matthews. Join a few minutes early to listen to Michael C. Davis playing guitar music before the featured readers begin at 7:30pm. Registration is free but required to get the Zoom link for the event. To do so go to https://sites.google.com/
LINDSAY LUSBY is the author of the poetry collection Catechesis: a postpastoral (The University of Utah Press, 2019), winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize, judged by Kimiko Hahn. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Blackbird Whitetail Redhand (Porkbelly Press, 2018) and Imago (dancing girl press, 2014), and the winner of the 2015 Fairy Tale Review Poetry Contest. Her poems have appeared most recently in Gulf Coast, The Cincinnati Review, Passages North, The Account, and North Dakota Quarterly. Her visual poems have appeared in Dream Pop Press and Duende. She is a Senior Poetry Reader for Cherry Tree. Lindsay Lusby lives in Chestertown, MD.
CHARLOTTE MATTHEWS is the author of the memoir Comes with Furniture and People (Black Rose Writing, 2019), a Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist, and three poetry collections: Still Enough to Be Dreaming (Iris, 2007), Green Stars (Iris, 2006), and Whistle What Can’t Be Said (Unicorn Press, 2017). Her work appears in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Cave Wall, and elsewhere. Recipient of The Adele F. Robertson Award for Excellence in Teaching, she has received fellowships from The Chautauqua Institute, The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, and The Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She is Associate Professor at The University of Virginia and lives in Crozet, VA.
