Please join us as we enthusiastically welcome back Subterranean alumnus Joe Betz for a reading and signing for his new poetry chapbook "Soot." Joe Betz lives in Bloomington, IN with his wife, Megan, and daughter, Madeline. He is an Associate Professor of English at Ivy Tech-Bloomington. He has received awards for his poetry from Michigan Quarterly Review (Goldstein Prize), Bat City Review (Editors’ Prize), and the University of Missouri-St. Louis (James Russell Grant Poetry Prize), where he earned his MFA in Creative Writing.
Soot challenges an American fascination with violence through the lenses of childhood and parenthood. There are questions with the hope of answers: How are generational lessons altered toward a more caring future? How is loss reimagined as growth? When will the pumpjack stop? Copies of Soot will be available for purchase and signing from Subterranean Books. The event is free and open to all.
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