Ben Atkinson’s first collection, Spider Lightning (Hidden Owl), will be released at JaxByJax this year. His poems have appeared in Cadence, Chelonian Conservation and Biology, Facets, FM Quarterly, and Stockpot. Ben has read for the JaxByJax Literary Arts Festival, Sing Out Loud Festival, and the Southeastern Sister Cities Reading Tour. 

We are very happy to have Atkinson read with us on Saturday, November 16th. See the JaxbyJax event page for schedules for all the readers.