A new year brings a new lineup of readers to Hometown Voices: Your Local Reading and Performance Series.

On Sunday, January 19, at 3pm, Todd Davis will read alongside Abby Minor at Tempest Studios.

Todd Davis is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Ditch Memory: New & Selected Poems and Coffin Honey, both published by Michigan State University Press. His work has won the Midwest Book Award, the Foreword INDIES Book of the YearAward, the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editors Prize, and the Bloomsburg University Book Prize. His poems appear in such journals and magazines as American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Missouri Review, North American Review, and Orion. For the past 22 years, he has lived along the Allegheny Front where he hunts, fishes, and forages for wild food. He is an emeritus fellow of the Black Earth Institute and teaches environmental studies and creative writing at Penn State Altoona.

Abby Minor lives in East Penns Valley, where she works on poems, essays, gardens, farms, and projects exploring regional and reproductive politics. Her first book, As I Said: A Dissent (Ricochet Editions, 2022), is a collection of long documentary poems concerning abortion, justice, and citizenship in U.S. history. Granddaughter of Appalachian tinkerers and Yiddish-speaking New Yorkers, she teaches poetry in our region’s low-income nursing homes, facilitates after-school art classes and summer camps for rural kids, and co-directs a local education nonprofit called Ridgelines Language Arts. Her poems and essays appear in Fence, American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Cut Bank, the Boston Review, and Feminist Studies.

See the attached flyer and please share with your communities. All readings are free and open to the public. Parking in the Fraser Deck (located just above Tempest Studios) is free on Sundays.