Uplifting Sober Voices (Dec 7 YouTube Live)

Uplifting Voices is an ongoing series of online readings, celebrating outstanding literary work and thoughtful conversation. We hope you'll join us for Uplifting Sober Voices on December 7 at 7pm via YouTube Live featuring writers Darren Demaree, Nick Gardner and Charles Kell.

Darren C. Demaree is the author of twenty-four full-length poetry collections, most recently Now Flourish Northern Cardinal (Small Harbor Publishing, November 2025). He is the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal.

Nick Rees Gardner is a teacher, a critic, a wine and beer monger, and the author of the linked story collection, Delinquents And Other Escape Attempts. He owns a boutique wine and beer store outside of Washington, DC, but his fiction is often about his hometown of Mansfield, Ohio.

Charles Kell is the author of Ishmael Mask (Autumn House Press, 2023). His first collection, Cage of Lit Glass, (Autumn House Press, 2019) was chosen by Kimiko Hahn for the 2018 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize.