The Writers Place Reading Series featuring William Trowbridge, John Moessner, Al Ortolani

John Moessner is the author of Harmonia (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2023). He received his MFA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His work has appeared in New Letters, North American Review, and Poet Lore. www.johnmoessnerpoetry.com

Al Ortolani’s poetry has appeared in journals such as Rattle, poetrybay, diode, New York Quarterly, and Chiron. His most recent collections are The Taco Boat was released from New York Quarterly Books in 2022. His collection Swimming Shelter was named a Kansas Notable Book for 2021 by the Kansas Library Association. Ortolani is the Manuscript Editor for Woodley Press in Topeka, Kansas, and has directed a memoir writing project for Vietnam veterans across Kansas in association with the Library of Congress and Humanities Kansas. 

William Trowbridge, who has been making millions from writing poetry for the past 50 years, has developed a method for you, yes you, to do the same. For as little as $19.95 a month (plus shipping and handling), you will receive, sent directly to your home address, the best-selling Writing for Obscene Sums handbook, plus a list the world’s best-loved metaphors, a selection of important names to drop, and a set of personalized dinner napkins. Apply to William “Who, Me?” Trowbridge at PoetryWhorehouse.Org. (Due to a temporary IRS investigation, that web site has been changed to ZowetryZhorehorse.org).