# Event Details

- **Event Name**: NIGHTJAR, a poetry series, featuring Karen Kovacik
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 19 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Wed, 19 Nov, 2025 at 09:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Doors at 6:30 pm, Karen Kovacik's reading starts at 7 pm. The reading will be followed by an open mic of poems in response to the following prompt: Write a poem that explores what you've inherited, whether from your culture, history, religion, family, or other context. 

Karen Kovacik is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Portable City (Hanging Loose, 2025). Also a translator of Polish poetry, she has brought into English Jacek Dehnel's Aperture, a finalist for the 2019 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and she is one of three translators of Krystyna Dąbrowska's Tideline, a finalist for the 2023 Derek Walcott Prize.  The editor of Scattering the Dark, an anthology of Polish women poets, she has received many awards, including two translation fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Fulbright Research Grant to Poland. From 2012-2014, she served as Indiana's Poet Laureate.

NIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative, lyric, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/indianapolis/nightjar-a-poetry-series-featuring-karen-kovacik/200028741604559
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, open-mic, performances, entertainment, spoken-word
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 33

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Indianapolis
- **state**: IN
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, United States, Indiana 46203
- **lat**: 39.72914
- **long**: -86.13866
- **full address**: 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, United States, Indiana 46203

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Nightjar (https://allevents.in/org/nightjar/23553460)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 19 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, United States, Indiana 46203
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Nightjar
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, open-mic, performances, entertainment, spoken-word
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about NIGHTJAR, a poetry series, featuring Karen Kovacik ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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