Doors: 7 || Show: 7:30 || Open Mic Follows || $ Entry By Donation

Part literary reading, part author interview, part open mic…Literary Living Room is the Sherbino’s dynamic year-round series featuring local and national literary artists of all persuasions. The mic opens for readings by others after the Q&A with the author. This November, The Sherbino is excited to bring you poet Jill Burkey.

Jill Burkey’s work won the Mark Fischer Poetry Prize, and her poems, which have been called “warm, complex, and intensely satisfying,” have appeared in Deep Wild Journal, Front Range Review, Paddlefish, Pilgrimage, Plainsongs, Sixfold, Soundings Review, and others. Jill grew up on a three-generation cattle ranch in western Nebraska and began her education in a one-room schoolhouse. She later attended Nebraska Wesleyan University where she earned a BA in English and business with endorsements in secondary education.

As a writer-in-residence for Colorado Humanities’ Writers-in-the-Schools program, Jill taught poetry and writing to hundreds of elementary and high school students on the Western Slope of Colorado where she lives with her family. Her first chapbook of poetry, The Two Hearts Inside Us by Lithic Press is available at www.jillburkey.com, Lithic Bookstore in Fruita, CO, and Out West Books in Grand Junction, CO. You can connect with her at www.jillburkey.com or on Instagram @jillburkeywrites.

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