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About The Event
Come celebrate the release of CHARM OFFENSIVE, Ross White’s newest book of poems! We’ll have readings from Ellen C. Bush, Jason Gray, Terry L. Kennedy, and Michael McFee. We’ll cater some food, and the bartenders at Linda’s are the best on the planet. Books will be available for sale at the event! Event will be held in the Downbar.
Ross White is the author of Charm Offensive, winner of the Sexton Prize for Poetry, and three chapbooks, Valley of Want, How We Came Upon the Colony and The Polite Society. He is the director of Bull City Press, an independent publisher of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, where he hosts The Chapbook, a podcast devoted to chapbooks. He teaches creative writing, podcasting, publishing, and grammar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, Tin House, and The Southern Review, among others. With Matthew Olzmann, he edited Another & Another: An Anthology from the Grind Daily Writing Series. He also has a boutique design firm, Spock & Associates, and a weekly trivia show and podcast, Trivia Escape Pod. Follow him on Twitter: @rosswhite.
