Buzz Cafe
905 S Lombard Ave
Oak Park, IL 60304
United States
Admission: $3-5
Join Buzz Cafe for the Traveling Mollys Literary Open Mic and Reading Series, featuring John McCarthy.
6:30 | Open mic sign-up
7:00-9:00 | Reading
Admission: $5 if you can, $3 if you can’t
John McCarthy is the author of Scared Violent like Horses (2019), which won the 2017 Jake Adam York Prize. He is also the author Ghost County (Midwestern Gothic Press, 2016), which was named a Best Poetry Book of 2016 by The Chicago Review of Books. John is the winner of The Pinch Literary Award in Poetry. His work has appeared in anthologies such as Best New Poets and New Poetry from the Midwest, as well as in literary journals including American Literary Review, Copper Nickel, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Passages North, Sycamore Review, TriQuarterly, and Zone 3.
John McCarthy
John McCarthy is the author of Scared Violent Like Horses, selected by Victoria Chang as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, and Ghost Country, named a Best Poetry Book of 2016 by the Chicago Review of Books. He serves as an editor of RHINO magazine and the Quiddity international literary journal and public radio program.
Selected by Victoria Chang, this winner of the Jake Adam York Prize is a deeply personal examination of violent masculinity, driven by a yearning for more compassionate ways of being.