The Faculty Reading Series Presents: A Reading by JEFFREY BEAN and DARRIN DOYLE

Jeffrey Bean is the author of three chapbooks and three full-length poetry collections. His most recent chapbook, Ella’s Plan, was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the 2022 Poet’s Corner/Maine Media Chapbook Contest, and his most recent full-length collection, Everywhere, Everywhere, was chosen by Robert Morgan for the 2024 Vern Rutsala Prize and published by Cloudbank Books. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in The Southern Review, Colorado Review, Poets.org, Image, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Tahoma Literary Review, among other journals. He is a Professor of English at Central Michigan University, where he is a two-time winner of the Excellence in Teaching Award. www.jeffreybeanpoet.com.

Darrin Doyle is the author of seven books of fiction, most recently the novella Let Gravity Seize the Dead (Regal House Publishing) and the novel The Beast in Aisle 34 (Tortoise Books). His short stories have appeared in many literary journals. He teaches at Central Michigan University, watches too many horror movies, and has a cat named Ham. His forthcoming novella, The Boy Behind the World, will be released in 2027 from Regal House Publishing. His website is www.darrindoyle.com