Here are the line-up and venues for the BroadCast 50 States Project readings. Each poet has been commissioned to write a new poem relating to an American state.


Thursday 3rd July at The Scooter Cafe
132 Lower Marsh, London at 8pm sharp - £5

Alaska - Marianne Burton
Arkansas - John Citizen
Arizona - Eloise Stonborough
California - Wayne Smith
Colorado - Roddy Lumsden
Georgia - David Floyd
Hawaii - Joe Dunthorne
Idaho - Judy Brown
Kansas - Annie Freud
Kentucky - Sinead Wilson
Louisiana - Retta Bowen
Maine - Derek Adams
Massachusetts - Tim Cumming
Minnesota - Donna Bamford
Missouri - Tim Wells
Nebraska - Imogen Robertson
Nevada - Inua Ellams
Oklahoma - Niall O'Sullivan
Pennsylvania - Julia Bird
Rhode Island - Octavia Lamb
South Carolina - Ahren Warner
Texas - Sophie Richmond
Utah - Matthew Caley
Vermont - Jacqueline Saphra
West Virginia - Katy Evans-Bush


Friday 4th July at The Betsey Trotwood
56 Farringdon Road, London at 8pm sharp - £5

Alabama - Emily Berry
Connecticut - Luke Heeley
Delaware - Helen Mort
Florida - Camellia Stafford
Illinois - Valerie Josephs
Indiana - Miranda Stonor
Iowa - Mark Waldron
Maryland - Jack Underwood
Michigan - Lara Frankena
Mississippi - Alan Buckley
Montana - James Dowd
New Hampshire - Michael McKimm
New Jersey - Tamar Yoseloff
New Mexico - Kate Kilalea
New York - Amy Key
North Carolina- Ben Morris
North Dakota - Digby Howard
Ohio - Heather Phillipson
Oregon - Gale Burns
South Dakota - Diana Pooley
Tennessee - Hannah Murgatroyd
Virginia - Kate Potts
Washington - Isobel Dixon
Wisconsin - Claire Crowther
Wyoming - Simon Barraclough

BUMP!

These readings are this week and should be marvellous.

I've blogged it. And I've drafted a poem. (I mean, it'll be ready.)

This was brilliant - more, please!