San Francisco poet Richard Loranger will perform at 7:00 pm in MOTR Pub’s Sword Room, to be preceded and followed by the Word of Mouth Cincinnati open mic.

Richard Loranger is a poet, prose writer, and spoken word artist who has been working around the United States for over thirty years. He has lived in many parts of the country, including New York, Austin, Boulder, Ann Arbor, Chicago, and San Francisco, and he currently lives and works in Oakland, California.

He is the author of Poems for Teeth (We Press, 2005) and The Orange Book (International Review Press, 1990) and eight chapbooks, including 6 Questions, Hello Poems, and The Day Was Warm and Blue.  His work has been included in over ninety magazines and journals, and twenty-one anthologies. Recent work can be found in Out of Our #17, London Grip New Poetry (Summer 2014), and The Marsh Hawk Review (Spring 2014).

Loranger has done over 400 featured readings, in venues ranging from Lollapalooza (in 1994 and 1995) to Intersection for the Arts, City Lights, Paradise Lounge, and Café Babar in San Francisco to The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, The Bowery Poetry Club, and Teachers and Writers in New York.

Word of Mouth Cincinnati (WoMC) is co-hosted by fellow writers Jim Palmarini and Mark Flanigan. It was founded in memory of the late Aralee Strange who, after many years living, writing and producing work in the Cincinnati area, moved to Athens, Georgia where she co-founded Athens Word of Mouth, a popular reading series there.