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Meet the Poets
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6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Abraham Smith | Insomniac Sentinel
Steve Timm | Rule of Composition
@Beaverdale Books
Steve Timm is the author most recently of Ornithocracy, a chapbook to be released in July, 2024, from Stone Corpse Press, and Rule of Composition: 100 Poems Written to the Cecil Taylor Feel Trio’s 2 Ts for a Lovely T (Bananaquit Press, 2022). About an earlier book, Joan Retallack blurbed “Steve Timm’s word spectrum is brave, unnerving, dazzling, commodious… [and] unyieldingly good naturedly plays with an impressive number of entrenched expectations.” Many new and old poems can be found across the internet and in print journals (e.g., American Poetry Review). His live performances are known for ending with an improvised sound poem (àla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNSz6JG4tIw.)
A native of Kenosha, Wisconsin, he lives with his wife Shari Bernstein and son Alex (who finds his poems “interesting”) in Madison, Wisconsin, where until this year he taught English as a second language at the University of Wisconsin.
from Rule of Composition:
https://www.dreampoppress.net/steve-timm/
https://bnw-mag.blogspot.com/2017/10/steve-timm-five-poems.html
https://mosstrill.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/timm12.jpg
other recent poems:
https://blackstoneonawhitestone.wordpress.com/past-issues/steve-timm/
Abraham Smith was raised around Ladysmith, Wisconsin, and lives in Ogden, Utah, where he is associate professor of English and co-director of Creative Writing at Weber State University. He is the author of eight full-length poetry collections, most recently Insomniac Sentinel (Baobab Press, 2023) and Dear Weirdo (Propeller Books, 2022). Away from his desk, Smith improvises poems inside songs with the Snarlin’ Yarns: thesnarlinyarnsut.bandcamp.com. Their debut record Break Your Heart was released on Dial Back Sound in Fall 2020. He lives in Ogden, Utah, where he is associate professor of English and co-director of Creative Writing at Weber State.