Eric Amling/Kate Colby/Justin Petropoulos/Helen Phillips

7 PM on January 27′th @ Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, Brooklyn

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Eric Amling is the author of the forthcoming chapbooks DIDN’T SUSPECT THE FORCEFIELD and AMERICANA LA DOUCHE. His writing and artwork has appeared in periodicals, internet journals and record albums including some by the bands Dr. Dog and The Bowerbirds. He was born and raised in Marine Park, Brooklyn.

Kate Colby is author of four books of poetry, including Beauport (Litmus Press) and The Return of the Native (Ugly Duckling Press). Her first book, Fruitlands, won the Norma Farber First Book Award. She hosts a quarterly poetry series at the Gloucester Writers Center in Gloucester, Mass., and lives with her family in Providence, RI.

Justin Petropoulos is the author of the poetry collection Eminent Domain, selected by Anne Waldman for the 2010 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in A capplla Zoo, American Letters & Commentary, Anemone Sidecar, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Crab Creek Review, Gulf Coast, Mandorla, MiPOesias, Portland Review, and most recently in Spinning Jenny. Justin co-curated Triptych Readings with poets Mary Austin Speaker and Anne Lovering Rounds from 2010 to 2011 and has been a guest blogger for Bryant Park’s summer poetry reading series, Word for Word. He holds an MFA from the Indiana University. Justin currently is the site director of an after-school program for elementary age children. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his pet octopus, Siete.

Helen Phillips is the author of And Yet They Were Happy (Leapfrog Press, 2011). She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, the Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction, The Iowa Review Nonfiction Award, the DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction Award, and the Meridian Editors’ Prize. Her work has appeared in BOMB, Mississippi Review, PEN America, Salt Hill, and on NPR’s Selected Shorts, as well as in the anthology American Fiction: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers. Her children’s adventure novel Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green is forthcoming from Delacorte Press (Random House Children’s Division) in Fall 2012. A graduate of Yale and the Brooklyn College MFA program, she currently teaches creative writing at Brooklyn College. Originally from Colorado, Helen lives in Brooklyn with her husband, artist Adam Thompson.

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Heather Christle – Paul Siegell – Jennifer Tamayo – Karen Weiser – Jared White

7 PM on November 18′th @ Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, Brooklyn

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Heather Christle is the author of The Trees The Trees (Octopus Books, 2011) and The Difficult Farm (Octopus Books, 2009). Her third book, What Is Amazing, will be published by Wesleyan University Press in 2012. She is the web editor for jubilat and lives in Western Massachusetts.

Paul Siegell is the author of three books of poetry: wild life rifle fire (Otoliths Books, 2010), jambandbootleg (A-Head Publishing, 2009) and Poemergency Room (Otoliths Books, 2008). Paul is a senior editor at Painted Bride Quarterly, and has recently contributed to Black Warrior Review, Dark Sky Magazine, La Petite Zine and many other fine journals. Kindly find more of Paul’s work at ReVeLeR @ eYeLeVeL.

A writer, artist, & performer, Jennifer Tamayo is interested in the human body. Her manuscript, Red Missed Aches, Read Missed Aches, Red Mistakes, Read Mistakes was selected by Cathy Park Hong as the 2010 winner of Switchback Book’s Gatewood Prize and was published in June 2011. She serves as the Managing Editor at Futurepoem and teaches art and poetry to students in Harlem. Recent work can be found at Delirious Hem and the New Delta Review. Currently, JT is working on a project on desire, Harriet Tubman, girly things, falling in love, photography, having affairs, silence, stalking, letter writing, Alfred Hitchcock and other personal matters. More on JT can be found at www.jennifertamayo.com

Karen Weiser’s full-length collection To Light Out came out from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2010. She lives in New York City with five other creatures, two of them children, two pets. More information can be found at www.karenweiser.com.

Jared White lives in Brooklyn, where he co-directs the Yardmeter Editions event series and, with Farrah Field, he has recently founded a poetry bookstore, Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop. His chapbook Yellowcake was included in the hand-sewn anthology Narwhal from Cannibal Books in 2009. Poems and essays have also recently appeared in Action, Yes, Coconut, Harp & Altar, La Petite Zine, No, Dear, Open Letters Monthly, and We Are So Happy To Know Something. An occasional blog can be found at jaredswhite.blogspot.com.

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Bruce Covey + Emily Kendal Frey (-) Eléna Rivera ~ Angela Veronica Wong = James Yeh

7 PM on October 28′th @ Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, Brooklyn

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Bruce Covey’s fifth book of poetry, Reveal, will be published by Bitter Cherry Books before the end of 2011; his next-most-recent books are Glass Is Really a Liquid (2010) and Elapsing Speedway Organism (2006). He lives in Atlanta, GA, where he edits Coconut Poetry and curates the What’s New in Poetry Reading Series. He work has appeared in Best of the Net 2006 (selected by Paul Guest), Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years, The Holiday Album (selected by Elaine Equi), and Wingbeats: Exercises and Practice in Poetry, along with several other anthologies and journals.

Emily Kendal Frey is the author of THE GRIEF PERFORMANCE (published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2011) as well as several chapbooks and chapbook collaborations. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Eléna Rivera’s most recent books are The Perforated Map (Shearsman Books, 2011) and Remembrance of Things Plastic (LRL-e Editions, 2010). She won the 2010 Robert Fagles prize in translation for her translation of The Rest of the Voyage by Bernard Noël published by Graywolf Press (2011). She is the recipient of a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Translation, and a 2009 Fundacíon Valparaíso Poetry Residency in Mojácar, Spain. She currently lives in New York City.

Angela Veronica Wong lives in Manhattan. Her chapbook Dear Johnny, In Your Last Letter was selected by Bob Hicok as a winner of the 2011 Poetry Society of America New York Chapbook Fellowship. She is also the author of the chapbooks 25 little red poems (dancing girl press 2012), to know this (Cy Gist Press 2009), and All the Little Red Girls (Flying Guillotine Press 2009). An e-chapbook will be released by YesYes Books in Fall 2011. Her first full-length collection of poems, entitled how to survive a hotel fire, is forthcoming from Coconut Books in Spring 2012. Visit www.angelaveronicawong.com

James Yeh is a founding editor of Gigantic. His fiction and nonfiction appears or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s, NOON, Vice, PEN America, the anthology 30 Under 30, and elsewhere. A recipient of fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and Columbia University, he is a 2011 Center for Fiction NYC Emerging Writers Fellow. He lives just down the street from here and is one-half of the DJ party Kings County Society for Fitness, Science & Musical Merriment, which he will be DJing later tonight at Manhattan Inn, in Greenpoint.

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Adam Fell – Amy Lawless – Matt Rohrer – Mike Soto – Eric Weinstein

7 PM on September 30′th @ Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, Brooklyn

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Adam Fell is the author of I AM NOT A PIONEER, published by H_NGM_N Books, and the chapbook Ten Keys to Being a Champion On and Off the Field (H_NGM_N, 2010). He is a graduate of UW-Madison & the Iowa Writers’ Workshop & teaches at Edgewood College in Madison, WI, where he co-curates the Monsters of Poetry reading series.

Amy Lawless is the author of Noctis Licentia (Black Maze Books 2008) and a four poem pamphlet from Greying Ghost Press. Her poems have been most recently published in No, Dear, LIT, Catch Up Louisville, Words Are Mighty, and Hail Satan! Contemporary Writing and Images from Hell. She has been named a 2011 New York Foundation for the Arts fellow. She was born and raised in Boston but lives in Brooklyn.

Matt L. Rohrer is a writer and musician from San Francisco who lives in Brooklyn. His writing has appeared in Tinfish, Skein, Watchword, The Surfer’s Journal, and other publications. His chapbook, Probability of Dependent Events,was recently published by Beard of Bees. He is a founding editor of Small Desk Press and a regular contributor to the literary blog We Who Are About To Die. He is a New York City Teaching Fellow and a Special Education high school teacher.

Mike Soto grew up in Dallas overhearing trains on the Santa Fe Railroad,and in a small town in Mexico, overhearing swallows. He received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY and Dalhart, TX.

Eric Weinstein is the author of a collection, Vivisection, which won the 2010 New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM chapbook competition. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Best New Poets 2009 anthology, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Ploughshares, and others. He was recently named a finalist for both the 2011 Ruth Lilly Fellowship and the 2011 National Poetry Series. He lives in New York City.

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Paul Siegell + Kiely Sweatt + Bronwen Tate + Jared White

7 PM on August 26′th @ Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, Brooklyn

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Paul Siegell is the author of three books of poetry: wild life rifle fire (Otoliths Books, 2010), jambandbootleg (A-Head Publishing, 2009) and Poemergency Room (Otoliths Books, 2008). Paul is a senior editor at Painted Bride Quarterly, and has recently contributed to Black Warrior Review, Dark Sky Magazine, La Petite Zine and many other fine journals. Kindly find more of Paul’s work at ReVeLeR @ eYeLeVeL (http://paulsiegell.blogspot.com).

Kiely Sweatt has been living in Barcelona the last three years teaching English, translating and writing poetry. She started up the Prostibulo Poetico, in partnership with the Poetry Brothel, Poetry Society of NYC. She has since helped to start working on branches in Madrid, Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia and Venezuela. She is co organizer of Tri Lengua, a multi lingual reading series in Barcelona, which looks to promote overseas writers of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. She holds a degree in Spanish Literature from WVU and an MFA in poetry from The New School. Her work has appeared online and in-print through such publications as The Why and the Later by Carly Sachs, Best American Poetry blog, Shampoo, Sawbuck Review, BCN Ink, and PSEUDÒNIMS

Bronwen Tate is the author of the chapbooks Souvenirs (Dusie 2007), Like the Native Tongue the Vanquished (Cannibal Books 2008), Scaffolding (Dusie 2009), and if a thermometer (dancing girl press, forthcoming 2011). Her most recent chapbook is the loss letters (Dusie 2011), a collaboration with Ming Holden. Bronwen makes her friends hungry on her blog at http://breadnjamforfrances.blogspot.com. She’s a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at Stanford University where she’s completing a dissertation on scale in post-1945 poetry. These days she’s really enthusiastic about the word processing program Scrivener, the new Gillian Welch album, and Sundara silky lace yarn in the “heirloom tomato” shade.

Jared White lives in Brooklyn, where he co-directs the Yardmeter Editions event series and, with Farrah Field, he has recently founded a poetry bookstore, Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop. His chapbook Yellowcake was included in the hand-sewn anthology Narwhal from Cannibal Books in 2009. Poems and essays have also recently appeared in Action, Yes, Coconut, Harp & Altar, La Petite Zine, No, Dear, Open Letters Monthly, and We Are So Happy To Know Something. An occasional blog can be found at jaredswhite.blogspot.com.

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John Deming φ Chris Martin η Mary Austin Speaker π Ken L. Walker

7 PM on July 29′th @ Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, Brooklyn

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John Deming is the editor of Coldfront Magazine. His new chapbook 8 Poems was released in June from Eye for an Iris Press. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Fence, Verse Daily, POOL, Parthenon West Review and elsewhere. His four song “tugboat EP,” which features members of Parliament-Funkadelic, was released by BozFonk Music in May. He lives in New York City and teaches at Baruch College and LIM College.

Chris Martin is the author of Becoming Weather (Coffee House Press 2011) and American Music (Copper Canyon Press 2007). He is also the author of several chapbooks, most recent among them being How to Write a Mistake-ist Poem (Brave Men Press 2011). After editing the online magazine Puppy Flowers for its entire run, he is now an editor at Futurepoem books, where he curates the blog Futurepost and the event series Futurepoem Presents. He was married by an Angel (true story) to the poet Mary Austin Speaker in Brooklyn this year.

Mary Austin Speaker is the author of two chapbooks, In the End There Were Thousands of Cowboys, and Abandoning the Firmament from Menagerie Editions 2009, and a third, The Bridge, forthcoming in 2011 from Push Press. New work will appear in Mrs. Maybe and Boog City Reader, and has recently appeared in Pleiades, Big Bell, Boston Review, 20012, Iowa Review, New Orleans Review and elsewhere. She teaches writing and works as a freelance book designer in Iowa City, IA.

Ken L. Walker still has a Kentucky driver’s license and sadly completed leading a poetry workshop at the Riker’s Island Correctional Facility. He received his MFA degree from Brooklyn College and has published criticism and poetry in the Boxcar, the Poetry Project Newsletter, The New Yorker on-line, Lumberyard, The Wolf, Crab Orchard Review. He is the features editor for Coldfront magazine and curates the semi-annual Letter Home Reading Series.

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PS We’re also thrilled to be participating in the First Annual New York Poetry Festival on Governors Island. Our reading is on Saturday, July 30th at 2pm on Stage 1 at The Commodore. Come out and hear readings from Niina Pollari, Dustin Luke Nelson and Jillian Brall. Here’s the link for the Facebook invite: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=210803775630363

Also be sure to mark your calendars August 26th- Dorthea Lasky, Jared White, Bronwen Tate, and Paul Siegell
September 30th- Eric Weinstein, Mike Soto and TBA
October 28th- Bruce Covey, Emily Kendal Frey, Angela Veronica Wong, James Yeh and Elena Rivera

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B.C. Edwards * Sasha Fletcher * Will Hubbard * Ryan Doyle May * Daniel Schoonebeek*

7 PM on June 24′th @ Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, Brooklyn

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B.C. Edwards lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He is the author of the forthcoming novella ‘knucklebone’ and is the managing editor of Pax Americana. His work is featured in Mathematics Magazine, BOMB, The Sink Review as well as Hobart which nominated him for a 2011 Pushcart Prize. He is also a Literary Death Match champion and has the medal to prove it.

Sasha Fletcher is the author of the novella WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED MARCHING BANDS WILL FILL THE STREETS AND WE WILL NOT HEAR THEM BECAUSE WE WILL BE UPSTAIRS IN THE CLOUDS [ml press 2010] and has an MFA in poetry from Columbia University.

Ryan Doyle May’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bombay Gin, Pax, Esque, Diving Divas and others. His chapbook the Anatomy of Gray was recently released through the Corresponding Society Press. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and lives in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn.

Will Hubbard grew up in North Carolina and lives in Brooklyn, New York. “Cursivism” is his first book.

Danniel Schoonebeek’s work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Tin House, Boston Review, The Awl, Publishers Weekly, The Rumpus, La Fovea, La Petite Zine, Paperbag, and elsewhere. He was born in the Catskills.

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MEGA WOMEN’S READING – Joanna Penn Cooper ~ Claire Donato ~ Farrah Field ~ Molly Gaudry ~ Hailey Higdon ~ Anne Cecilia Holmes ~ Brenda Iijima ~ Julia Story

7 PM on May 13′th @ Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, Brooklyn

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Joanna Penn Cooper’s creative and critical work has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of journals, including Poetry International, Opium, Supermachine, Pleiades, elimae, and Boog City. Her second chapbook of poetry and short prose pieces, Mesmer, was published in April 2010 by Dancing Girl Press. Joanna’s full-length poetry collection, How We Mostly Were, was a finalist for the Kinereth Gensler Award from Alice James Books in December 2010. A Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Fordham University, Joanna lives in New York City and has a blog at joannapenncooper.blogspot.com.

Claire Donato lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her prose and poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly and Action Yes. She holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University, is a member of the Electronic Literature Organization, co-edits Dewclaw and teaches at Eugene Lang College (The New School for Liberal Arts) in New York City. Her hometown is Pittsburgh, PA.

Farrah Field is the author of Rising (Four Way Books, 2009) and Parents (Immaculate Disciples Press, 2011). Two of her poems will appear in The Best American Poetry 2011 and more of her work is forthcoming in Fou, Dewclaw, and Drunken Boat. She lives in Brooklyn where she co-hosts an event series called Yardmeter Editions. Her second book of poetry (Four Way Books) is forthcoming in 2012. She occasionally blogs at www.adultish.blogspot.com and is co-owner of Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop.

Molly Gaudry is the author of the verse novel We Take Me Apart and her website is mollygaudry.com.

Hailey Higdon is the author of the chapbook How To Grow Almost Everything,
recently published by Agnes Fox Press. She runs What To Us (press) and is
currently publishing chapbooks by emergent female poets in a series called
THE DIMES. She lives in Philadelphia, PA.

Anne Cecelia Holmes is the managing editor of jubilat. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in SUPERMACHINE, notnostrums, and Sir!. With Lily Ladewig she is co-author of the chapbook I Am A Natural Wonder (Blue Hour Press 2011). She lives in Northampton, MA.

Brenda Iijima is the author of Around Sea (O Books), Animate, Inanimate Aims(Litmus Press), revv. you’ll-ution (Displaced Press) and If Not Metamorphic(Ahsahta Press) as well as numerous chapbooks and artist’s books. She is
also the editor of the eco language reader (Nightboat Books and PP@YYL).
Presently she is working on a body of work titled Untimely Death is Driven
Out Beyond the Horizon which focuses on psycho-geologic properties of space,
communication beyond event horizons, Leslie Scalapino, Antigone and the
toxicity of war. She is the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs
(http://yoyolabs.com/).

Julia Story’s first collection, Post Moxie, was the recipient of Sarabande Books’ 2009 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and Ploughshares’ 2010 John C. Zacharis First Book Award, and was named one of Coldfront’s Top 30 Poetry Books of 2010. Her recent work has appeared in The Paris Review, Octopus, and Salt Hill. She is currently working on her next collection, tentatively titled Red Town. A native of Indiana, she now lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

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Claire Becker * Jason Bredle * Cynthia King * Nate Pritts * Bill Rasmovicz * Paige Taggart

7 PM on April 29′th @ Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, Brooklyn

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Claire Becker is the author of the poetry collection Where We Think It Should Go (Octopus Books) and the chapbooks Untoward, Get You , Young Adult, We Know in 2010, We Survive, and The Werld. She co-edits the journal RealPoetik, teaches high school students at the California School for the Blind and lives in San Francisco. This is her first time reading in New York.

Jason Bredle is the author of three books and three chapbooks, most recently Smiles of the Unstoppable and The Book of Evil. He lives in Chicago.

Cynthia Arrieu-King is an assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton College. Her book, People are Tiny in Paintings of China, came out in the fall of 2010 from Octopus Books. Her poems are forthcoming in Boston Review, Saltgrass, and Forklift, Ohio.

Nate Pritts is the author of four books of poems – most recently Big Bright Sun (BlazeVOX) & The Wonderfull Yeare (Cooper Dillon Books). His fifth, Sweet Nothing, is forthcoming from Lowbrow Press in late 2011. His poetry has appeared in journals such as The Southern Review, Black Warrior Review, Columbia Poetry Review & Forklift, Ohio among many others. His reviews & critical prose appear regularly in Rain Taxi Review of Books, Boston Review, Octopus & Coldfront. Nate has his MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College (‘00) & his PhD in British Romanticism from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette (‘03). He is the founder & principal editor of H_NGM_N & H_NGM_N BKS & lives in Syracuse, New York.

Bill Rasmovicz is a graduate of the Vermont College MFA in Writing Program and Temple University School of Pharmacy. He has served as a workshop co-leader and literary excursion leader throughout Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Germany, England and Wales. His poems have appeared in Hotel Amerika, Nimrod, Mid-American Review, Third Coast, and other publications, and his first book, “The World in Place of Itself,” published by Alice James Books, was also the recipient of the New England Poetry Club’s Sheila Margaret Motton Prize. His current home is Brooklyn.

Paige Taggart’s poems were written on a bus through the Badlands, she’s an ex-continental-drifter. Her chapbook DIGITAL MACRAMÉ was recently released by Poor Claudia. On the horizon Polaroid Parade will emerge in chapbook-form from Greying Ghost Press. She was a 2009 recipient of the NYFA Fellowship. Peruse her blog: mactaggartjewelry.blogspot.com

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March 25 * Jackie Clark * Ben Fama * Matthew Reiter * Bianca Stone * Amish Trivedi * Genya Turovskaya

7 PM on March 25′th @ Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, Brooklyn

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Jackie Clark is the series editor of Poets off Poetry on coldfrontmag.com, a monthly series where poets write about music. She is also the author of two chapbooks Office Work (Greying Ghost Press) and Red Fortress (H-NG-M-N). She lives in Jersey City and can be found online at nohelpforthat.com.

Ben Fama is the author of the chapbooks Sun Come, Aquarius Rising, Jules and NEW WAVES (forthcoming from Minutes Books). He is the founding editor of Supermachine Poetry Journal. His work has been featured in GlitterPony, notnostrums, LIT, Poor Claudia, and on the Best American Poetry Blog, among others.

Matt Reiter lives in Jersey City and holds a BA in English from West Virginia University and a MFA in Creative Writing from Boise State University. He teaches English & Creative Writing at New Jersey City University and the College of Staten Island. His poems have appeared in SpringGun, MidRib, cold drill, Spiral Bridge, cornslaw and weirddeer.com, amongst others.

Bianca Stone is the creator and co-curator of the Ladder Poetry Reading Series, and editor of Monk Books. Her most recent poetry publications include Fou, Agriculture Reader, and Conduit. Bianca is the author of the chapbook Someone Else’s Wedding Vows from Argos Books. Her blog is called Poetry Comics http://whoisthatsupposedtobe.blogspot.com/ and she lives in Brooklyn.

Amish Trivedi writes poems and lives in Providence, Rhode Island where he is about to graduate from Brown’s MFA program (which terrifies him). Museum of Vandals, a chapbook from Cannibal, was released in 2010. Poems of his can be found in Cross-Cultural Poetics, Mandorla, La Petite Zine and in the Beard of Bees chap, Selections from Episode III. The Trivedi Chronicles (www.amishtrivedi.com) should be updated more often.

Genya Turovskaya is a poet and translator. Recent publications include New Year’s Day (Octopus Books 2011) and Dear Jenny (forthcoming from Supermachine). Her poetry and translations of contemporary Russian poets have appeared in Chicago Review, Conjunctions, A Public Space, Aufgabe, Octopus, jubilat,Supermachine, Saltgrass, Gulf Coast and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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