August 22 @ 7 p.m. – Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, Brooklyn
*Emily Kendal Frey, Phil Memmer, Jeni “truck darling” Olin, Zachary Schomburg & JodiAnn Stevenson*
Emily Kendal Frey lives in Portland, Oregon and teaches at Portland Community College. She is the author of AIRPORT (Blue Hour Press, 2009).
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Philip Memmer is the author of three collections of poems: Lucifer: A Hagiography, winner of the 2008 Idaho Prize for Poetry; Threat of Pleasure, winner of the 2008 Adirondack Literary Award for Poetry, and Sweetheart, Baby, Darling. His work has been published in many journals, including Poetry Magazine, Epoch, and Mid-American Review, and has been included in several anthologies, including 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day and Don’t Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review.
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Truck Darling (published as “Jeni Olin”) lives in NYC where she rages in posh isolation with her dog named Good Times. Truck received her BA & MFA from Naropa University. Her first full-length book BLUE COLLAR HOLIDAY was published by Hanging Loose in 2005. Her most recent publication is a chapbook of pharmaceutical sonnets about antidepressants titled THE PILL BOOK from Faux Press, 2008. Her next book called HOLD TIGHT! will be published this April 2010 by Hanging Loose.
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Zachary Schomburg is the author of Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean 2009) and The Man Suit (Black Ocean 2007), and the co-editor of Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books. A collaborative chapbook with Emily Kendal Frey called Team Sad will be published by Cinematheque Press in the fall. He lives in Portland, OR.
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JodiAnn Stevenson makes her home in Bay City, Michigan where she is an Assistant Professor of writing and poetry at Delta College. She founded Binge Press, to showcase women’s work, in 2004 and 27 rue de fleures, an online journal of women’s poetries in 2005. Her first collection of poetry, The Procedure, was published in the fall of 2006 by March Street Press. Her second collection of poetry, We, the Emperors was a finalist in the Gertrude Press Chapbook Award in 2008. An excerpt of her Kamikaze Death Poetry is forthcoming in the “faux histories” issue of SPECS. Her recent blog project, Ms. Fish, the relentless, can be found at: http://msfishtherelentless.blogspot.com. Some of her visual poetry resides at www.bowlofmilk.com.
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August 1 @ 7 p.m. – Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, Brooklyn
*Julian Brolaski, Adam Fieled, Nada Gordon, Scott Hightower, Chris Stackhouse & David Wolach*
Julian T. Brolaski is the author of the chapbooks Hellish Death Monsters (Spooky Press, 2001), Letters to Hank Williams (True West Press, 2003), The Daily Usonian (Atticus/Finch, 2004) and Madame Bovary’s Diary (Cy Press, 2005) (under the name Tanya Brolaski), Buck in a Corridor (flynpyntar, 2008) and the blog herm of warsaw. Xir first book gowanus atropolis is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse. Brolaski lives in Brooklyn where xe writes poetry, serves as a Litmus Press editor, plays country music in The Low & the Lonesome, and curates th’every-other-monthly freakshow Mongrel Vaudeville.
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Adam Fieled is a poet, musician, and critic based in Philadelphia. He has released several books and chapbooks, maintains two blogs, and is finishing his PhD at Temple University, where he teaches.
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Nada Gordon is the author of four poetry books: Folly, V. Imp, Are Not Our Lowing Heifers Sleeker than Night-Swollen Mushrooms?, and foriegnn bodie – and, with Gary Sullivan, an e-pistolary techno-romantic non-fiction novel, Swoon. She practices poetry as deep entertainment and is a proud member of the Flarf Collective. Visit her blog at http://ululate.blogspot.com.
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Scott Hightower’s third collection, “Part of the Bargain,” received the 2004 Hayden Carruth Award. His translations from Spanish have garnered him a Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. He is a contributing editor to “The Journal.” His reviews frequently appear in “Coldfront Magazine” and “Boxcar Poetry Review.” A native of central Texas, he lives with one foot in New York City, one in Texas, and one in Madrid, Spain. He teaches at NYU, and has taught poetry, non-fiction writing, and translation at Drew, F.I.T., Fordham, and Poets House.
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- (c) Satya Sheftel-Gomes
Christopher Stackhouse is the author of poetry collected in the chapbook Slip (Corollary Press, 2005); co-author of Seismosis (1913 Press, 2006), a dialogic collaboration featuring Stackhouse’s drawings and text by writer/professor John Keene (Northwestern University), with essays from poet Ed Roberson and poet/critic Geoffrey Jacques. He holds has MFA in Writing/Interdisciplinary Studies from Bard College; is a Cave Canem Writers Fellow; and is a 2005 Fellow in Poetry, New York Foundation for the Arts. His recent essays have been published in the literary journal American Poet, and the anthology A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years. He will be a guest faculty member in the Naropa University Summer Writing Program 2009, at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado. He organizes Readings at Max Protetch Gallery in New York City with poet/assistant gallery director Stuart Krimko. Currently completing a manuscript of poetry, while also doing research for the development of a non-fiction book on poetics, Stackhouse lives and works in Brooklyn New York.
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David Wolach is professor of writing, poetics, & philosophy at The Evergreen State in Olympia, Washington, and visiting poet in Bard College’s Workshop in Language & Thinking. Author of Fractions of M, The Transcendental Insect Reader, Acts of Art/Works of Violence, and the forthcoming Scripto Erratum (sound/text compositions, scored with composer Arun Chandra & video artist Tasha Glen), David’s work has appeared this year or is forthcoming from Bird Dog, CRIT, Night Train, Diode, The Concelebratory Shoehorn Review, Venereal Kittens, [...]: An Anthology of New American Writing, AB OVO, and Ignavia Press: Journal of Transgressive Queer Writing. Much of his work is multi-media and performative, and has been featured at venues such as Buffalo Poetics Series 2009, The American Cybernetics Conference 2009, and Bard’s Visiting Poets Series. David is also editor of Wheelhouse Magazine & Press and curator of PRESS: A Cross-Cultural Literary Conference.
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July 11th @ 6 p.m. – South 4th Bar – Williamsburg, Brooklyn
***Hunter College MFA Spectacular with Ari Banias, Maya Funaro, Colie Hoffman, Alana Joblin, Caledonia Kearns, Shani Thompson***
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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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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Shani Thompson is living in a land of cloudy, sleepless milkiness as her son sings good mornings to the wolf, bear, and other creatures suspended from his mobile.
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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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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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April 24th @ 7 p.m. – Stain Bar – Williamsburg, Brooklyn
***Jennifer Burch, Heather Green, Chris Hosea, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Daniel Lin, Barry Schwabsky***
Jennifer Burch holds a B.A. in Fine Art from Amherst College and an M.A. in Literature from the University of Kent in Canterbury, England. Her first book, No Matter, was released by The Winged Way (September 2008). Jennifer has published work in Article, Free Verse, Guernica, Left Facing Bird, Sal Mimeo, and Verse, and is included in Green Integer’s forthcoming anthology, The Gertrude Stein Awards. Jennifer lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she writes and teaches yoga.
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Heather Green’s work has appeared in Barrow Street, DIAGRAM, The Hat, Lungfull!, Pebble Lake Review, Tarpaulin Sky, and other journals. She’s the author of the chapbook The Match Array (Dancing Girl Press, 2008) and lives in Boston.
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Chris Hosea’s poems appear in VOLT, Swerve, Denver Quarterly, Article, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, and The Literary Review. With Cecily Iddings, he edits The Blue Letter, a free direct-mail poetry newsletter. He works at the Marymount School and lives in Brooklyn.
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Sueyeun Juliette Lee edits Corollary Press, a chapbook series devoted to new work by writers of color. Recent work has appeared in Effing, One Less, and online at critiphoria.org. Her chapbooks include Mental Commitment Robots (yo yo labs), Perfect Villagers (Octopus Books) and Trespass Slightly In (Coconut). Her first full-length collection, That Gorgeous Feeling, is out from Coconut Books. She currently lives in Philadelphia.
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Daniel Lin has a chapbook, TINDER, from Nightboat Books (2004), and has recently published poems in Unsplendid and The Jewish Quarterly. He was a N.Y. Times Fellow at NYU and a Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
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Barry Schwabsky is an American poet and art critic living in London. His new collection of poems, Book Left Open in the Rain, is published imminently by Black Square Editions and is available from Small press Distribution. He writes reguarly for The Nation and Artforum (where he also co-edits the international reviews section), among others. He is the author of Opera: Poems 1981-2002 (Meritage Press) and The Widening Circle: Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art (Cambridge University Press) as well as several chapbooks of poetry and contributions to dozens of books and exhibition catalogues on contemporary and modern art.
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March 27 @ 7 p.m. – Stain Bar – Williamsburg, Brooklyn
*Joel Chace, Elena Georgiou, Stuart Greenhouse, Cindy King, Christian Peet and Brett Price*
Joel Chace has published poetry and prose poetry in print and electronic magazines such as 6ix, Tomorrow, Lost and Found Times, Coracle, xStream, Three Candles, 2River View, Joey & the Black Boots, Recursive Angel, and Veer. He has published more than a dozen print and electronic collections. Just out from BlazeVox Books is CLEANING THE MIRROR: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, and from Paper Kite Press is MATTER NO MATTER, another full-length collection. Two chapbook-length poetic sequences have also recently been published: SCAFFOLD, from Country ValleyPress; and (b)its, a “Tiny Book” from Eileen Tabios’s Meritage Press. For many years, Chace has been Poetry Editor for the experimental electronic magazine 5_Trope.
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Elena Georgiou is the author of Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrant (Harbor Mountain Press, 2009) and mercy mercy me, which won a Lambda Literary Award for poetry, was a finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award, and was reissued by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2003. She is also co-editor (with Michael Lassell) of the poetry anthology, The World In Us (St. Martin’s Press). Georgiou has won an Astraea Emerging Writers Award, a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, and was a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her recent work appears in Denver Quarterly, BOMB, MiPoesia, Lumina, Spoon River Review, Cream City Review, and Gargoyle. She is an editor at Tarpaulin Sky and a member of the faculty in the MFA program at Goddard College, Vermont.
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Stuart Greenhouse is the author of the chapbook What Remains (published by the Poetry Society of America) and the e-chapbook “All Architecture” (published by End & Shelf Press). He lives in New Jersey with his wife and children.
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Cynthia Arrieu-King is an assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton College in New Jersey. Her poems have or will appear this year in LIT, The Lumberyard, Black Warrior Review, Forklift Ohio and the new horseless press anthology on collaboration.
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Christian Peet is the author of Big American Trip (Shearsman Books, 2009) and two chapbooks: The Nines, Book 2 (Interbirth Books, 2009), and The Nines, Book 1 (Palm Press, 2006). His work appears in the anthology, A Best Of Fence: The First Nine Years, and in journals such as Action Yes, Denver Quarterly, Octopus Magazine, Practice: New Writing + Art, and SleepingFish, among others. He lives in Vermont, where he runs Tarpaulin Sky Press.
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Brett Price is an assistant editor of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, and Light Industrial Safety. He is working toward an MFA at Bard College. He is the author of Trouble With Mapping, a chapbook (Flying Guillotine, 2008). Other writing can be found in H_NGM_N, OCTOPUS, LA FOVEA, BIG BELL, and MILKMONEY. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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February 27 @ 7 p.m. – Stain Bar – Williamsburg, Brooklyn
*Jason Gray, Tony Mancus, Deborah Poe, Jessica Reed, Ric Royer and Mario Susko*
Jason Gray is the author of Photographing Eden (Ohio Univ. Press, 2008), winner of the Hollis Summers Prize, and two chapbooks, How to Paint the Savior Dead (Kent State Univ. Press, 2007) and Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo (Dream Horse, 2003). His poems and reviews have appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. He coedits the online magazine, Unsplendid (www.unsplendid.com). Web site: jason-gray.net.
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Tony Mancus’ poems have appeared or will be appearing in cream city review, Handsome, Forklift, Ohio, Memorious and elsewhere. He teaches writing at Montclair State University and Hunter College. He co-founded Flying Guillotine Press (flyingguillotinepress.blogspot.com) and makes books in Brooklyn and Queens.
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Deborah Poe is the author of the poetry collection Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords 2008) as well as chapbooks from Furniture_Press and Stockport Flats Press. Poe has received several literary awards including the Thayer Fellowship of the Arts (2008) and three Pushcart Prize nominations. Her writing is forthcoming or has appeared in journals such as Coconut, Diode, Ploughshares, Filter Literary Magazine, Denver Quarterly, Copper Nickel, and FOURSQUARE Editions as well as in the anthologies In Our Own Words (MW Enterprises 2009), Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS From the Black Diaspora (Third World Press 2007) and A Sing Economy (Flim Forum 2008). Her current projects include “Elements” (her poetry collection based on the periodic table), a short fiction collection entitled “Event Landmarks,” and an anthology of short fiction. Assistant Professor of English at Pace University, Pleasantville, Poe teaches creative writing, contemporary fiction and theory. Visit her Web site, www.deborahpoe.com, for more.
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Jessica Reed’s poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House, LIT, The Huffington Post, Zeek: A Journal of Jewish Thought and Culture, as well as various online journals, and has been anthologized in Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House. She is the 2007 recipient of the Marie Ponsot Poetry Prize and the Jerome Lowell Dejur Award. Originally from Asheville, North Carolina, she lives in New York City, where she works as a technical editor and where she received her MFA from the the City College of the City University of New York.
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Ric Royer is a writer, performer, writer of performances and performer of writings. Other works of literature include Hystery of Heat (Publishing Genius), There Were One and It Was Two (Narrow House Records), and Anthesteria (Bark Art Press). The Weather Not The Weather is forthcoming from Outside Voices Press. He is also a founding editor of Ferrum Wheel.
An imprint of Bootstrap Productions (Cambridge, Mass.), Buffalo N.Y.-based Outside Voices publishes poetry & experimental text-based art.
http://www.ricroyer.com
http://www.looktouch.com/press
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A witness and survivor of the war in Bosnia, Mario Susko moved to the US in 1993 where he lived in the 70s and got his M.A. and Ph.D. from SUNY Stony Brook. He has published 77 books, 28 of which are his poetry collections. His most recent work includes an integral edition/translation of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, as well as an anthology of modern Jewish-American short stories A Declaration of Being which he co-edited with M. Schwartzman and translated into Croatian. His 6th poetry collection in English, Closing Time, was released in 2008 by Harbor Mountain Press. This January his Croatian publisher Meandarmedia put out a Croatian edition of Closing Time and the erbacce-press from Liverpool, UK, released his chapbook Rules of Engagement.
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January 30 @ 7 p.m. – Stain Bar – Williamsburg, Brooklyn
*Bill Berkson, Cindy Cruz, Aaron Fagan, Jennifer Fortin, Jean-Paul Pecqueur and Bill Rasmovicz*
Bill Berkson was born in New York in 1939. A poet, critic, teacher, and sometime curator, he moved to Northern California in 1970 and during the next decade edited a series of little magazines and books under the Big Sky imprint. From 1984 to 2008 he was a professor of Liberal Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute. He is a corresponding editor for Art in America and has contributed reviews and essays to such other journals as Aperture, Artforum, Works on Paper and Modern Painters. His recent books of poetry include Gloria (in a deluxe limited edition with etchings by Alex Katz), Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently, and Goods and Services. Other books include a collection of his criticism, The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings: 1985-2003; Sudden Address: Selected lectures 1981-2006; an epistolary collaboration with Bernadette Mayer entitled What’s Your Idea of a Good Time?: Interviews & Letters 1977-1985. His Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems will appear form Coffee House Press in 2009. Berkson was the 2006 Distinguished Mellon Fellow at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received the 2008 Goldie for Literature from the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He now lives in New York and San Francisco.
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Cynthia Cruz is the author of RUIN, published by Alice James Books in 2006. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in the American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Boston Review, AGNI, FIELD, and others and are anthologized in “The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries.” She has received fellowships to YADDO and the MacDowell Colony. She lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
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Aaron Fagan was born in Rochester, New York, in 1973. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines including The American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, and The Yale Review. He is the author of Garage (Salt Publishing, 2007), a debut collection which the critic Harold Bloom described as “vivid and aesthetically disturbing work. His promise is considerable because his originality should prove to be decisive.” A former Assistant Editor for Poetry, he is now a Copy Editor for Scientific American in New York City and lives in the Bronx.
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Jennifer H. Fortin lives in Brooklyn. She works as an Assistant. In May 2008, she obtained an M.F.A. in Poetry from The New School. Her work has appeared in TYPO, GlitterPony, Left Facing Bird, The Goucher Quarterly, AbroadView magazine and Ducts; it is forthcoming in Court Green, Action, Yes and Copper Nickel. She was a Finalist for the Poetry Foundation’s 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship and the recipient of an Honorable Mention in the 2008 Poets & Writers-sponsored Amy Awards. Fortin is happy to be able to say she is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Bulgaria 2004-2006).
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Jean-Paul Pecqueur’s first book, The Case Against Happiness, was published by Alice James Books in 2006. New poems have recently appeared in The Hat, Cranky, and Gulf Coast. Jean-Paul currently lives in Brooklyn, teaching writing at the Pratt Institute.
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Bill Rasmovicz has served as a literary excursion leader and workshop co-leader throughout Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Wales. His work has appeared in Hotel Amerika, Nimrod, Third Coast and other magazines. His first book, “The World in Place of Itself” was published in 2007 by Alice James Books and was also the 2008 recipient of the New England Poetry Club’s Sheila Margaret Motton Prize.
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