Welcome to Poetry at the Lion! All poets and poetry fans are welcome!
Each month, a featured poet will read from their works and shape the evening’s experience. Poetry lovers can stop on their way to eat out or bring a brown bag meal and stay for the whole evening. Light refreshments will be provided.
The featured poet for February is John Philip Johnson and he's bringing friends -- Bob Hall and Sophie Johnson!
John Philip Johnson will read some of his poems. Special guest Bob Hall, of Marvel and DC Comics fame, will read some of John’s poems which Bob illustrated for their poetry comic books. Joining them will be Sophie Johnson, who will read some of her own poems and a selection from Susan Stayer Deal’s book, No Moving Parts. Sophie is an award-winning artist who will also be showing some of her original art. Art prints and poetry comic books will be available.
About the Artists
John Philip Johnson has work in or forthcoming from Southern Poetry Review, Image, Rattle, Strange Horizons, Pedestal, Rust & Moth, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, the newspaper column, “American Life in Poetry,” and many other places. He has two comic books of graphic poetry, Stairs Appear in a Hole Outside of Town and The Book of Fly, the latter which won an Elgin Award. He would live on Mars if his wife would go with him.
Bob Hall is a writer and theatrical director, and the founder of the Flatwater Shakespeare Festival. Besides that, he is a veteran comic book artist, having drawn Batman, Spider-man, The Avengers, among many other titles for Marvel and DC Comics. He earned a Master’s in Fine Arts from the University of Nebraska.
Sophie Johnson is an artist and writer. She has had her poetry and art published in literary journals including New Bile, Pyre Magazine, and Illuminations, the Southeast Community College publication. She frequently paints relics from mid-century America. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Nebraska.
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