WFHB Bloomington Community Radio
Bring your best five minutes of writing or musical creative talent to the open mic at the beginning of the night, then be ready for a poetry reading and writing prompts with award-winning poets L. Renée and Noah Davis.
Alberto Sveum is a second-year MFA candidate in Poetry at Indiana University, where he serves as the Associate Editor at Indiana Review. He received his B.A. in English and Philosophy, with a minor in Creative Writing, from the University of Northern Iowa.
Renée is a poet from Columbus, Ohio. She is a second-year MFA candidate at Indiana University, where she serves as the Nonfiction Editor of the Indiana Review and as Associate Director of the Indiana University Writers’ Conference. Her work is forthcoming in Tin House. She is the recipient of scholarships and fellowships to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and the Green Mountain Writers Conference. She was awarded a National Silver medal in poetry at the NAACP’s Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics, and a Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Fellowship from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she earned her MS in Journalism.
Noah Davis’ manuscript Of This River was selected for the 2019 Wheelbarrow Emerging Poet Book Contest from Michigan State University’s Center for Poetry. His poetry is published in Best New Poets, Orion, North American Review, Atlanta Review, Water~Stone Review, and Chautauqua among others. Davis has received Pushcart Prize nominations from Poet Lore and Natural Bridge. Davis was also a Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and the recipient of the 2018 Jean Ritchie Appalachian Literature Fellowship from Lincoln Memorial University.
