Janaka Stucky, Dorothea Lasky & Michelle Taransky

!!!!SEASON FINALE!!!!

Friday, May 29, 7pm



Janaka Stucky is the founder and managing editor of Black Ocean, and publishes the magazine Handsome. He likes his whiskey neat and his music dirty. Since receiving his BFA from Emerson and an MFA in Poetry from Vermont College in 2003, he remains rooted in Boston--spending his life traveling, writing, and caring for the dead. Some of his poems appear or are forthcoming in: Cannibal, Denver Quarterly, North American Review, Redivider, and VOLT. Here he is in No Tell Motel.



Dorothea Lasky is the author of AWE (Wave Books, 2007) and Black Life (Wave Books, 2010). Her chapbooks include Tourmaline (Transmission Press, 2008), The Hatmaker's Wife (Braincase Press, 2006), Art (H_NGM_N Press, 2006), and Alphabets and Portraits (Anchorite Press, 2005). She has been educated at Washington University, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Harvard University. Currently, she studies creativity and education at the University of Pennsylvania. Here she is. And here.




Michelle Taransky was born in Camden, NJ. Her first book, "Barn Burned, Then" was selected by Marjorie Welish for the 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize and will be published during September 2009. With her father, architect Richard Taransky, she is the author of The Plans Caution (QUEUE 2007). She lives in Philadelphia and works at Kelly Writers House. Poems appear, or are forthcoming in VOLT, New American Writing, HOW2 and Denver Quarterly. Here are some. And here.

Karen Leona Anderson, Yona Harvey, Matvei Yankelevitch & Jenn Morea

Friday, May 15, 7pm



Karen Leona Anderson is the author of Punish honey, coming out this January from Carolina Wren Press. She has an MFA from the University of Iowa and a PhD from Cornell University, where she wrote a dissertation on poetry and science. She currently lives in Maryland, where she is an assistant professor at St. Mary's College of Maryland. Here's a poem.



Yona Harvey is a swish escaping the net. She rises in the light of blue curtains & sleeps with one ear open. She is a Cave Canem Fellow, maybe she is the water from which she pulls her baby son. Her work has appeared in Poem Memoir Story, Gulf Coast, Callaloo, Ploughshares, and Gathering Round: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade. ÊShe should keep better track of her volunteeringÑcarpooling, book sharing, telling the stories of Martin Luther King, Jr. She currently teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where she lives with her husband and two children. Next year, she'll probably go swimming in Tokyo. Read her here and here.



Matvei Yankelevich, is the author of a long poem, *The Present Work* (Palm Press, 2006) and the forthcoming book *Boris by the Sea* (Octopus, 2009). His writings and translations have appeared in Boston Review, Damn the Caesars, Fence, Open City, Circumference, Harpers and The New Yorker. His translation of *Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms* (Overlook, 2007) has received praise from the Times Literary Supplement, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He is a co-translator of *OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism* (Northwestern University, 2006) and his translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky's poem "Cloud in Pants" is included in *Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky* (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2008). He teaches Russian Lit. at Hunter College and edits the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse. Here are some of his poems and here.



Jenn Morea is a poet, writer, and educator. She has worked as a teaching artist in the Chicago Public Schools since 1996 and has edited more than twenty-five anthologies of writing by Chicago youth, including dream in yourself (Tia Chucha Press, 1997). Morea teaches with Project AIM at the Center for Arts Partnerships/Columbia College Chicago and with Young Chicago Authors. Her poems may be found in the online journals High Chair, Slope, and Wicked Alice.

Jared White, Carrie Hunter & Matthew Klane

Friday, May 1, 7pm



Jared White was born in Boston and has lived in Brooklyn for about
eight years, near two big bridges. His poems have appeared in previous
issues of Barrow Street, Cannibal, Coconut, Harp & Altar, and Word
For/Word, among other journals. A chapbook of poems entitled
Yellowcake appears in the chapbook collection, Narwhal, from Cannibal
Books. He maintains an occasional blog, No No Yes No Yes. Here he is, hairy and in MiPOesias and here in Foam.



Carrie Hunter's chapbook Vorticells was published by Cy Gist Press,
and an e-/chapbook Kine(sta)sis was published by Dusie. The Unicorns
will be coming out as a chapbook in the Dusie Chapbook Kollectiv year
3, and she has another chapbook forthcoming through House Press' Arrow
as Aarow series. She has been published online in Turntable & Blue
Light, Dusie, Parcel, and Sous Rature, and in print in Small Town XII,
Try! magazine, and Eleven Eleven. She received her MFA/MA in the now
defunct Poetics program at New College of California, edits ypolita
press, and lives in San Francisco. Here she is in Jacket.



Matthew Klane is co-editor/founder of Flim Forum Press, publisher of
the anthologies Oh One Arrow (2007) and A Sing Economy (2008). His
book is B_____ Meditations from Stockport Flats Press (2008). His
latest chapbooks include Friend Delighting the Eloquent, Sorrow Songs,
and The- Associated Press. Also see: The Meister-Reich Experiments, a
sprawling hypertext. He currently lives
and writes in Albany, NY. Here he is in Word For/Word and in spork.

Jen Currin, Christine Leclerc, Farrah Field & G.E. Patterson

Friday, April 24, 7 pm



Jen Currin lives in Vancouver, B.C., where she is a teacher (of creative writing) and a student (currently back in school doing a Masters in literature). Jen has published two books of poems, The Sleep of Four Cities and Hagiography, and has one forthcoming in 2010 called The Inquisition Yours.



Christine Leclerc, originally from Montreal, now lives in Vancouver. In 2008 she completed a BFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. Her work has appeared in Dig, FRONT, FU, Memewar, Pistola, subTerrain, terry, the Worksound gallery, and is forthcoming in Interim. She is the author of Counterfeit, a book of poetry published in fall 2008 by CUE.



Farrah Field's poems have appeared in many publications including Harp & Altar, Typo, Linebreak, The Cortland Review, 42 Opus and many others. Rising, published by Four Way Books, is her first collection of poems.



Poet and translator G.E. Patterson is the author of two book-length collections, Tug (Graywolf Press) and To & From (Ahsahta Press). His writing can be found in many magazines and anthologies, including Blues Poetry, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Poetry 180, Isn't It Romantic, nocturnes (re)view of the arts, and elsewhere.

Jeremy Hoevanaar, Katy Henriksen & Zach Barocas

Friday, April 17 -- 7 pm



Jeremy is a chubby dancing baby. His poems have been rejected by Jubilat, Fence, Octopus, and Shampoo. He edits Little Socks Press with Anne Lazovik.



Katy Henriksen is the art director for Cannibal Books, which she founded with her husband Matt Henriksen in Brooklyn, where they curated The Burning Chair Readings. She recently returned to her hometown of Fayetteville, Arkansas and works as a cultural journalist and editor. This spring Cannibal Books will have its very own studio and The Burning Chair Readings will resume in the wild auspices of the Ozark Mountains. Her work has appeared in a wide variety of publications including Brooklyn Rail, Oxford American, Paste, Puremusic.com, Tight, and Venus Zine.



Poet & musician Zach Barocas edits The Cultural Society. He lives in Brooklyn.

Steven Karl, Cindy Savett, Carrie Olivia Adams & Joshua Harmon

Friday, April 3, 7 pm




Steven Karl is the author of two chapbooks, Lovers' Last Go Around (Peptic Robot Press, 2005) and State(s) of Flux, a collaboration with the artist, Joseph Lappie (Peptic Robot Press, 2009). His poems have appeared in Barrow Street, No Tell Motel, Real Poetik, Sawbuck, Zoland Anthology of Poetry, and other fine journals. His essays and reviews have appeared in Teachers & Writers Magazine, Sink Review, Cold Front Magazine, and Galatea. He lives in Manhattan.



Cindy Savett teaches poetry workshops at psychiatric institutions in the Philadelphia area to both acute short-term and residential patients. Her book, Child in the Road, was recently released. She is published in numerous print and on-line journals, including Margie, Heliotrope, LIT, The Marlboro Review, and Free Verse. Cindy is also at work on a memoir on the death of her daughter. Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, she currently lives in Merion, Pennsylvania with her husband and children.



Carrie Olivia Adams lives and works in Chicago, where she also serves as poetry editor for Black Ocean. Her poems and reviews have appeared in such journals as Backwards City Review, Cranky, DIAGRAM, Lilies and Cannonballs Review, and Verse. She is the author of the chapbook, A Useless Window, and her first full-length collection of poems, Intervening Absence, is available from Ahsahta Press. Here she is in Word For/Word.



Joshua Harmon is the author of Quinnehtukqut, a novel, and Scape, a collection of poems. His fiction, poems, and essays have appeared in many journals, including Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, and Verse. A graduate of Marlboro College and Cornell University, he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and the Dutchess County Arts Council. Here he is in DIAGRAM.

Tony Mancus, Myronn Hardy & Jess Mynes

Friday, March 20th, 7pm



Tony Mancus currently lives in Queens. He teaches writing at Montclair State University and Hunter College. His poems have appeared or will be appearing in cream city review, H_ngm_n, Forklift, Ohio, Handsome and elsewhere (like space perhaps--feel free to cut that--i like my bios dry like good wine--like riunite lambrusco, which wait...). He is co-founder of Flying Guillotine Press with SB and they make small books. Here he is in 42opus and an interview.



Myronn Hardy is the author of two volumes of poetry, Approaching the Center, which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and The Headless Saints both published by New Issues Press. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, FIELD, Versal (Amsterdam), Third Coast, and elsewhere. He lives in New York City.



Jess Mynes is the author of several published works, including: Birds for Example (CARVE Editions), In(ex)teriors (Anchorite Press), and If and When (Katalanche Press). His Sky Brightly Picked (Skysill Press) and Recently Clouds (Petrichord Books), a collaboration with poet Aaron Tieger, are to be published in 2009. He is the editor of Fewer & Further Press and he co-curates a reading series in Western, MA, All Small Caps. He also authors a mind boggling crossover dribble. Here he is in Shampoo.