Red Hen Press Reading: Jim Tilley, Teri Youmans, Shonda Buchanan and Randall Mann

Tonight’s poets bring the past to the present – paying tribute to past beauties and regrets while weaving in the old with the new. Jim Tilley recounts coming of age at summer camp; Teri Grimm follows the rise and fall of a fictional silent film legend; Shonda Buchanan traces her family’s journey through the South and middle America, celebrating their Native American and African American ancestry; Randall Mann’s poetry—at once vulnerable and brave—crosses a keen sense of place with an exploration of expectations, attraction, and brutalities.