ADAM W. HART

Adam W. Hart is a poet, prose writer, musician, filmmaker and queer agitator originally hailing from Green, Ohio. While at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, studying magazine journalism, he came under the guidance of several poets and authors, among them Michael Bugeja (The Art & Craft of Poetry; current director of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University) and Alyce Miller (Flannery O'Connor Award-winner for The Nature of Longing; current professor of English at Indiana University). Through their mentoring - and the input of others - Hart has over the years adapted elements of prose to his poetry - and vice-versa. A transplant to the Chicago region in 1997, he went into self-imposed ("job-related") performance/poetry scene exile until the fall of 2006. Since then, Hart has immersed himself in various readings around Chicago, including: the Poetry Center's Lip series; Molly Mallone's series in Forest Park; UniVerse of Poetry's One Poem reading (2007); and Scott Free's long-running LGBT series Homolatte (January 2008, feature).