Poetry and Pie

A great evening combining home-made pie and readings from the works of three fine Wisconsin poets: Chris Straw, Bill Murtaugh, and Stephen Anderson. Chris Straw is best known for her singing (the Moxy Chicks) and songs written from her time in the Portage Road Songwriters Guild). Tonight’s performance will showcase the poems that have been years in the works. Bill Murtaugh is a local writer of poetry, prose, and plays. Bill has inhabited and read at many coffeehouses and poetry venues in our fair city, and has been a much loved reader at The Coffee House for decades. The poet Antler invites us to read Bill's Autumn Runs to Darkness and to "...discover secrets of survival and tenderness from one of Milwaukee's longtime lifelong poets." Stephen Anderson is a Milwaukee poet and writer whose work has appeared in Southwest Review, Latin American Literature Today, Verser Wisconsin, Amsterdam Quarterly, Verse-Virtual, Blue Heron Review and numerous other print and online journals. Many… View Source