Madtown Poetry Open Mic w/ Featured Reader, Kevin Ducey

Kevin Ducey’s poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Zoland, Circumference, Hotel Amerika, & etc.

In response to Ducey’s collection of poems, Rhinoceros, winner of the Honickman Award, Rupert Loydell writes in Stride Magazine, “Ducey must decide whether he is going to be court jester, stand-up comedian or a kind of postmodern satirist, for this book suggests he can do all three....” While the book prompted the critic Judith Kitchen to ask: “Where are the chickens?”

Ducey lives on the west coast of Wisconsin. He is the former editor of Madison’s Chew Magazine. His current interests include penumbral graphic behaviors, esp. in regard to the anthropophagous behavior in tribal poetics. And garlic.

For over ten years Ron hosted poetry readings as well as an open mic at Avol's Bookstore in Madison. His poems have appeared both on-line and in print journals. His manuscript, "The Office of Uncomfortable Admissions," received an honorable mention in the Concrete Wolf Chapbook Contest. Ron serves on the board of The Council for Wisconsin Writers, and sells used and out-of-print books on-line under the name Avol's Books LLC. If you have questions about the open mic, call Ron at 608-255-4730, or email him at avols@chorus.net.