A Reading by Jeffrey Bean and Darrin Doyle:

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JEFFREY BEAN is the author of three chapbooks and three full-length poetry collections. His most recent chapbook, Ella’s Plan, was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the 2022 Poet’s Corner/Maine Media Chapbook Contest, and his most recent full-length collection, Everywhere, Everywhere, was chosen by Robert Morgan for the 2024 Vern Rutsala Prize and published by Cloudbank Books. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in The Southern Review, Colorado Review, Poets.org, Sugar House Review, Poet Lore, and The Laurel Review, among other journals. He is Professor of English at Central Michigan University, where he is a two-time winner of the Excellence in Teaching Award.

DARRIN DOYLE is the author of seven books of fiction, most recently the novella Let Gravity Seize the Dead (Regal House) and the novel The Beast in Aisle 34 (Tortoise Books). He is celebrating the 2025 release of a new 10th Anniversary Edition of his story collection, The Dark Will End the Dark (Tortoise Books). His stories have appeared in many literary journals such as Alaska Quarterly Review, The Macguffin, and Blackbird. He teaches at Central Michigan University. His website is www.darrindoyle.com.

This event is October 22nd at 7:00 PM in Anspach 161.

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