Erato, the Georgia Tech journal of arts & letters, is honored to present the following two readers for an afternoon of poetry.

Rupert Fike has been nominated for a Pushcart prize in both fiction and poetry. His work has appeared in Rosebud, The Georgetown Review, Natural Bridge, The Atlanta Review, storySouth, and others. He won the Snake Nation Review's national single poem competition in 2007, and he has a poem inscribed in a downtown Atlanta plaza. His non-fiction work, "Voices from The Farm," accounts of life on a spiritual community in the 1970s, is now available in paperback.

Blake Leland has had poems published in The Atlanta Review, Commonweal, Epoch, Indiana Review, The New Yorker, and a number of electronic journals. Born and raised in Massachusetts, he has taught in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Tech since 1988.