Second Friday Notes

Whole Foods Market offers the following event description:

Second friday notes is a literary series that will take place on the second Friday evening of each month in our café. The hour-and-a-half show will usually feature two or more poets and one musical performer or group.

This month, musician Ed Yother will be performing. Ed plays mandolin, octave mandolin and Irish tenor banjo. He draws his repertoire mainly from Ireland, New England, and the maritime traditions. With a love for their history, he aims to treat these traditions with the sensitivity, detail, and liveliness they deserve.

Scheduled poets are Christy Callahan and William Kyle. Christy is at the University of Missouri-St. Louis studying for her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Poetry. Last summer Christy joined the UMSL Irish Summer School Program at the National University of Ireland at Galway to learn more about her Irish roots in literature and culture. Christy Callahan's recent poetry appears in publications such as LitMag and Bellerive. William Kyle grew up in St. Louis and earned a Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Iowa, Now an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, William works as an Associate Editor of Natural Bridge: A Journal of Contemporary Literature and as Arts & Entertainment editor of The Current newspaper, William is also the open microphone coordinator for The Northern Arts Council of St. Louis, and a musician. Last summer, William studied in Galway at The National University of Ireland. William’s poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Barbaric Yawp, Greatest Lakes Review, Earthwords, and elsewhere.

St. Louis poet Dwight Bitikofer will be the emcee for the event. The event is co-sponsored by the St. Louis Poetry Center. Dwight Bitikofer can be reached at bitikofer@timesnewspapers.com for more information.