Friday, May 22 @ 7 pm

May 22nd @ 7 p.m. – Stain Bar – Williamsburg, Brooklyn

***An Extra Stain with Ken Chen, Johannes Goransson, Cathy Park Hong & Joyelle McSweeney**

Ken Chen is the Executive Director of The Asian American Writers’ Workshop. He is the 2009 recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. His work has been published in Best American Essays 2006 and was recently recognized in Best American Essays 2007. He started Satellite: The Berkeley Magazine of News + Culture and also helped found Arts & Letters Daily, a cultural website.

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Johannes Göransson was born in Sweden, but has lived around the US for several years. He is the author of: Dear Ra (Starcherone, 2008), Pilot (Fairy Tale Review Press, 2008) and A New Quarantine Will Take My Place (Apostrophe Books, 2007)—and the chapbook Majakovskij en tragedy (Dos Press, 2008). He is also the translator of: Collobert Orbital by Johan Jonsson, Gingerbread Monuments by Victor Johansson & Klara Kallstrom, Ideals Clearance by Henry Parland, Remainland: Selected Poems by Aase Berg and, most recently, With Deer by Aase Berg, out from Black Ocean. He is the co-editor of Action Books and the online journal Action, Yes.

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Cathy Park Hong’s first book, Translating Mo’um was published in 2002 by Hanging Loose Press. Her second collection, Dance Dance Revolution, was chosen for the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was published in 2007 by WW Norton. Hong is also the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Village Voice Fellowship for Minority Reporters. Her poems have been published in A Public Space, Paris Review, Poetry, American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Jubilat, and other journals, and she has reported for the Village Voice, The Guardian, Salon, and Christian Science Monitor. She now lives in New York City and is an Assistant Professor at Sarah Lawrence College.

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Joyelle McSweeney is the author of the novels Flet (Fence) and Nylund the Sarcographer (Tarpaulin Sky Press) and the poetry books The Red Bird and The Commandrine and Other Poems. She teaches in the MFA Program at Notre Dame and is a co-founder of Action Books.

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stain
766 grand street
brooklyn, ny 11211
(L train to Grand Street,
1 block west)
718/387-7840
open daily @ 5 p.m.

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Hosted by Amy King and Ana Božičević

Friday, May 29 @ 7 pm

May 29th @ 7 p.m. – Stain Bar – Williamsburg, Brooklyn

our last event at Stain Bar – the bar is closing! come for the sendoff!

***C. S. Carrier, Jennifer Firestone, Erica Kaufman, Matthew Klane, Maya Pindyck, Laura Sims***

C. S. Carrier was born in Dayton, OH and grew up in western North Carolina. His book, After Dayton, was published in 2008 by Four Way Books. He is also author of The 16s (Katalanche Press, 2007) and Lyric (horse less press, 2007). He adjuncts at the University of Hartford and lives in Sunderland, MA with a Chihuahua named Merwin.

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Jennifer Firestone is the co-editor of Letters To Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics, and Community (Saturnalia Books). She is the author of Holiday (Shearsman Books), Waves (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), From Flashes and snapshot (Sona Books). Her work has appeared in HOW2, LUNGFULL!, Xcp: Streetnotes,, Fourteen Hills, Dusie, 580 Split, Saint Elizabeth Street and others. She is an Assistant Professor teaching poetry at Eugene Lang College at The New School for Liberal Arts, and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their baby twins.

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erica kaufman is the author of several chapbooks, most recently censory impulse (an excerpt of her long poem of the same title) (OMG, March 2008), civilization day (Open24Hours, Winter 2007) and censory impulse (an excerpt of her long poem of the same title) (Big Game Books, Fall 2007). kaufman holds an MFA from the New School and was the winner of the 2003 New School University Chapbook Contest. kaufman is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center. she lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan and teaches at Baruch College.

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Matthew Klane is founder and editor of Flim Forum Press. His new book is B_____ Meditations (Stockport Flats Press) and his chapbooks include The- Associated Press, Sorrow Songs, Friend Delighting the Eloquent, and The Meister-Reich Experiments (online at www.housepress.org). Other work can be found in Plantarchy, string of small machines, and online at Otoliths and Word for/ Word. He currently lives and writes in Albany, NY. For more: www.matthewklane.blogspot.com.

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Maya Pindyck is a poet and visual artist living and working in Brooklyn. Her poems have appeared in Sycamore Review, Mississippi Review, Bellingham Review, and other journals. She is the author of Locket, Master, which won a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship in 2006, selected by Paul Muldoon. Her forthcoming first collection of poems, Friend Among Stones, won the Many Voices Project Award and will be published by New Rivers Press. In 2005, she co-founded Project Voice, an evolving compilation of abortion stories which aims to deflate the abortion stigma. Maya holds a B.A. in philosophy and studio art from Connecticut College, an M.F.A. in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.A. in education through the New York City Teaching Fellows program. She currently teaches at a public high school in Brownsville.

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Laura Sims is the author of two books of poems: Practice, Restraint, winner of the 2005 Fence Books Alberta Prize, and Stranger, forthcoming from Fence Books in April of 2009. Her book reviews and essays have appeared in Boston Review, New England Review, Rain Taxi, and The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and she has recently published poems in the journals Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, CAB/NET, and Crayon. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches writing at Baruch College in Manhattan.

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stain
766 grand street
brooklyn, ny 11211
(L train to Grand Street,
1 block west)
718/387-7840
open daily @ 5 p.m.

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Hosted by Amy King and Ana Božičević

Saturday, July 11th @ 6 pm

July 11th @ 6 p.m. – South 4th Bar – Williamsburg, Brooklyn

***Hunter College MFA Spectacular with Ari Banias, Danica Colic, Maya Funaro, Colie Hoffman, Alana Joblin, Caledonia Kearns***

Ari Banias has poems in recent or upcoming issues of Literary Imagination, EOAGH, The Cincinnati Review, Field, Aufgabe, The Portable Boog Reader, and elsewhere. He sometimes teaches writing and literature at Hunter College, and often sells books and hosts readings at Unnameable Books, in Prospect Heights.

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Danica Colic lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing at Hunter College, where she also received her MFA. Her poems have appeared in Terrain, RealPoetik, Arts & Letters, and Pebble Lake Review.

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Maya Funaro’s chapbook Setting in Motion was released this spring by Fox Point Press. She completed her MFA in poetry at Hunter College in May of 2008. She holds a B.A. in Visual Art from Brown University and has studied printmaking, bookbinding and letterpress printing in Providence, Bologna and New York. Born and raised in South Jersey, she currently makes her home in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

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Colie Hoffman lives and writes in New York, though she also calls North Carolina home. She received her MFA from Hunter College in 2009. Her work has appeared in Blood Orange Review, The Furnace Review and Obsidian.

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Alana Joblin grew up in Philadelphia. Prior to making New York City her home eight years ago, she earned her B.A. at Oberlin College, studying English and Religion, followed by seven months of writing poems in Israel’s desert, as part of the Arad Arts Project. Alana earned her MFA in poetry at Hunter College, where she also teaches undergraduate creative writing. Her work has appeared in Quarterly West, Crab Orchard Review, Womens Collaborative Circle and RealPoetik.

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Caledonia Kearns lives in Brooklyn with her daughter and is the editor of two anthologies of Irish American women’s writing. A proud graduate of Hunter College’s MFA program, a selection of her poems were recently published in The New Haven Review.

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And we’re proud to introduce you to South 4th Bar, a laid-back neighborhood haunt supportive of local art! Excellent brews & cocktails await.

South 4th Bar
90 South 4th St
(between Wythe Ave & Berry St)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Take L to Bedford Ave or J, M, Z trains to Marcy Ave

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Hosted by Amy King and Ana Božičević