On Friday, February 22nd, the Speak Social Reading Series will feature poet Matt Hart and author Patrick Wensink at Java Brewing Company on Bardstown Road. The event will begin at 7:30pm, open mic sign-ups at 7:00. As always, Java will be offering drink specials on beer and wine.

Java Brewing Company
1707 Bardstown Road
Louisville, KY 40205

MATT HART is the author of four books of poems, most recently Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless (Typecast Publishing, 2012). A fifth collection, Debacle Debacle, is forthcoming from H_NGM_N BKS in 2013. A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety, he lives in Cincinnati where he teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and plays in the band TRAVEL.

PATRICK WENSINK is the bestselling author of Broken Piano for President and three other books. His essays have appeared in the New York Times, Huffington Post and others. The New Yorker (Yes, THAT New Yorker) once wrote one, whole, entire sentence about him. He nearly choked on whatever he was eating at the time.

Hosted by John James and Sarah Maddix.

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This event is free and open to the public.