Event Registration

Join us for an evening of poetry and spoken word at 7pm Saturday, February 15, 2025 in The Gallery at Towngate Theatre!

Empty Step is a spoken word event that includes a featured poet and an open mic.

7pm February 15 at Towngate Theatre.

Admission is $5. Purchase tickets online or call 304-242-7700.

Sponsored by Main Street Bank.

February featured poet:
W. Scott Hanna is a professor of English at West Liberty University, where he teaches creative writing and literature. His poetry and creative nonfiction have been published in “Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel,”  “Cleaver Magazine,” “Still: The Journal,” and others, as well as in the anthologies “Riparian: An Anthology of Ohio River Writing,” and “I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing: Ohio’s Appalachian Voices.” His poetry manuscript in progress is tentatively titled “The Only House on the Left.” He has served as the poetry editor of the “Northern Appalachia Review” since its inaugural volume in 2020 to the present. Born and raised in the Upper Ohio Valley, he currently lives in St. Clairsville, Ohio.