Surprise Reading!

Don't tell anyone!

Zachary Schomburg!
Genine Lentine!
Emily Kendal Frey!
Genya Turovskaya!

FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH! of June -- Seven pee em



Zachary Schomburg is the author of The Man Suit (Black Ocean 2007) and has poems from his forthcoming second book, Scary, No Scary in Denver Quarterly, Born, and Fou. His translations of the Russian poet, Andrei Sen-Senkov, are forthcoming in Circumference and Mantis and his poetry collaborations with Emily Kendal Frey are forthcoming in Pilot, Diode, and Sir!. With Mathias Svalina, he co-edits Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books. He is wrapping up his Ph.D at the University of Nebraska.




Genine Lentine’s poems, essays, and interviews have appeared in American Poetry Review, American Speech, Diagram, Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, O, the Oprah Magazine, and Tricycle. Her collaboration with Stanley Kunitz and photographer Marnie Crawford Samuelson, The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden was published in 2005 by W.W. Norton. Her manuscript, Mr. Worthington's Beautiful Experiments on Splashes was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her project, Listening Booth was recently part of Southern Exposure Gallery's 1st Annual Public Art day. She lives in San Francisco.



Emily Kendal Frey lives in Portland, Oregon. Recent work is forthcoming from New York Quarterly, Spinning Jenny and 42opus. Collaborative work with Sarah Bartlett will appear in Portland Review, Bat City Review and the horse less press anthology New Pony. Poems from Something Should Happen at Night Outside, a collaboration with Zachary Schomburg, will appear in Pilot, Sir!, Diode and Jubilat. Here she is in Diagram and Coconut and Shampoo and RealPoetik.

Genya Turovskaya is the author of Calendar (UDP 2002), and The Tides (Octopus Books 2007). Her poetry and translations of contemporary Russian poets have appeared in Chicago Review, Conjunctions, A Public Space, Octopus, jubilat, and other publications. Her translation of Aleksandr Skidan's Red Shifting was published by Ugly Duckling Presse (2008). She has been the recipient of various awards and fellowships including a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a Montana Artist Refuge Fellowship, the Witter Bynner Translation Residency at Santa Fe Art Institute, and a Fund for Poetry grant. She holds an MFA from Bard College and lives in Brooklyn, New York where she is the Associate Editor of the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse.