Karren Lalonde Alenier and Henry Crawford read from their poetry. Event includes literary trivia quiz and brief open-mic.

Karren Lalonde Alenier is author of eight poetry collections—including: how we hold on from Broadstone Books, 2021 — and editor of three anthologies, including From the Belly, volumes I, II & III from The Word Works, 2026. Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On, her jazz opera with composer Bill Banfield, premiered June 2005 in New York by Encompass New Opera Theatre. More at https://www.alenier.com/.

Henry Crawford is author of three poetry collections, American Software, Binary Planet and, in 2025, Screens. A first prize winner in the 2019 World Food Poetry Competition, he has been published in many magazines, including Boulevard, Copper Nickel, and Rattle., He is a two-time finalist for the Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest and was nominated for a Rhysling Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association. A longtime co-host of the Café Muse Literary Salon Online, he Writes on Substack at https://everydaypoet.substack.com/.

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