Beet Poetry: Shawn Pavey, Charly Fasano, Blake Marcelle

Poets Shawn Pavey, Charly Fasano and Blake Marcelle reading poetry at the Corner Beet. Open mic following the reading.

Shawn Pavey is the author of Talking to Shadows (Main Street Rag Press, 2008) and Nobody Steals the Towels From a Motel 6 (Spartan Press, 2015). He co-founded The Main Street Rag Literary Journal and served as an Associate Editor for three years. He served as an officer on the Board of Directors at The Writers Place, a Kansas City based literary non-profit. He has poems in the following published and forthcoming anthologies: Gimme Your Lunch Money: Heartland Poets Speak Out Against Bullies and Bullying (Paladin Publishing), Prompts: A Spontaneous Anthology (W 39 Press), Finding Zen In Cow Town (Spartan Press), and Poor Yorick’s Almanac (Spartan Press). His poetry, prose, and journalism has appeared in numerous national and regional publications. A graduate of the University of North Carolina’s Creative Writing Program, he likes his Tom Waits loud, his bourbon single barrel, and his basketball Carolina Blue.

Charly “the city mouse” Fasano is a poet, filmmaker, painter and block printer from Denver, CO. He has released two spoken word records accompanied by the music of Memphis’ Lucero. His short animated films have appeared at the No Budget Film Festival, Blackbird Film Festival and won a jury prize at Machinimo Expo 2014. Books of his poems have been published by Sunnyoutside Press (Buffalo NY), Spartan Press (Kansas City) and he continues to be a regular contributor to Suspect Press Magazine.

Blake Marcelle is a punk puppy, trans b-o-i with a working knowledge of multiple forms of whistling who puts the masc in mascara and has managed to shove fifty feet of love and rage into five feet of human body. They used to write only in iambic pentameter and read the dictionary for fun. Recently, they left the library, made friends, and started writing free-form feelsy junk. About one in five of blakes poems was written on their phone on a smoke break, about one in three is a platonic love poem about a chosen family member, and about one out of two has more similies than are really necessary. Blake’s first book, As for the body: annotations to an owner’s manual is forthcoming from punch drunk press. Most recently, their work has been featured in chinquapin literary magazine and on the Bombay gin’s radio hour. If you enjoy their poetry, you may also enjoy verbal fisticuffs, counting the divots in peach pits, calling dogs beefcake, and queering votive holders.