Poetry at Beattie: Shannon Tharp and Whit Griffin. Sat., May 11, 6pm. Free admission

Friends of Beattie-Powers welcomes noted poets Shannon Tharp  and Whit Griffin, who will read their own works. Presented in collaboration with Blue Mountain Readings. Reservations at rhoveninc@gmail.com

Shannon Tharp is the author of The Cost of Walking (Skysill Press, 2011) and Vertigo in Spring (The Cultural Society, 2013). She's also co-editor with Sommer Browning of Poet-Librarians in the Library of Babel: Innovative Meditations on Librarianship (Library Juice Press, 2018). Her poems and essays have most recently appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Coldfront Magazine, The Doris, The RS 500, and Typo. She lives in Denver, where she's a librarian at the University of Denver.

Whit Griffin studied poetry at Bennington College and Brooklyn College, respectively. But his real education came through his friendship with Ted Enslin and his decade-long connection to Jonathan Williams and Tom Meyer. These three figures played a key role in his development, and it was through them that many of his later friendships can be traced. He is the author of five books, most recently We Who Saw Everything (Cultural Society, 2015) and Extramission (Lunar Chandelier Collective, 2017). A collaboration with the book artist Timothy C. Ely is forthcoming from Granary Books. He lives in Denver, Colorado.