The Multifarious Array

Tyrone Williams, Jackie Clark & Tara Betts

2009-12-04T17:35:00.005-05:00

Friday, December 4th, 7pm

Tyrone Williams teaches literature and theory at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of two books of poetry, c.c.(Krupskaya Books, 2002) and On Spec(Omnidawn Publishing, 2008). He also has several chapbooks out, including AAB (Slack Buddha Press, 2004), Futures, Elections (Dos Madres Press, 2004)and Musique Noir (Overhere Press, 2006). A new book of poems, the Hero Project of the Century, is forthcoming in 2009 from The Backwaters Press. He recently completed a manuscript of poetry commissioned by Atelos Books.

Jackie Clark is currently co-editor-in-chief for LIT magazine. She also curates Poets off Poetry at Coldfront, where poets write about what they've been listening to lately. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming from Coconut, Elimae, and Word For/Word. She lives in Jersey City.

Tara Betts is the author of Arc and Hue. Tara is a Cave Canem fellow, a graduate of the New England College MFA Program. Her work appears in numerous anthologies and journals such as Ninth Letter, Callaloo, Hanging Loose, Gathering Ground, Bum Rush the Page, and both Spoken Word Revolution anthologies. She currently teaches at Rutgers University and leads community-based workshops.

Nate Pritts, Leigh Stein, Karin Randolph & Matthew Rohrer

2009-11-16T09:10:00.002-05:00

Friday, November 20, 7 pm

Nate Pritts is the author of the books Sensational Spectacular and Honorary Astronaut - with a new book, The Wonderfull Yeare, due out in early 2010. The editor & founder of H_NGM_N, Nate teaches poetry for the Downtown Writers Center/YMCA in Syracuse, NY & works as a freelance tech editor & copywriter.

Leigh Stein is the author of the chapbooks How to Mend a Broken Heart with Vengeance (Dancing Girl Press) and Least Inhabited Island II (h-ngm-n Combatives). Other work has appeared in Bat City Review, DIAGRAM, h-ngm-n, No Tell Motel, and Absent, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, where she teaches drama to public schoolchildren.

Karin Randolph is an ex-painter turned writer. She is the author of Either She Was, which was selected by David Shapiro for the 2007 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. She was also a finalist in the 2007 National Poetry Series.

Matthew Rohrer is the author of 6 or 8 books of poems, depending on what your definition of "book" is. Most recently Ugly Duckling Presse published his A PLATE OF CHICKEN. With Joshua Beckman he wrote NICE HAT. THANKS and recorded the audio CD ADVENTURES WHILE PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF BEAUTY, and with Joshua Beckman and Anthony McCann he wrote the secret book GENTLE READER! He lives in Brooklyn and teaches in the creative writing program at NYU.

Julian Billups, Thomas Sayers Ellis & Wendy S. Walters

2009-11-04T12:01:00.006-05:00

Friday, November 6, 7 pm

Julian Billups' work has appeared in AGNI Online, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Salt Hill, and others. He lives and works in New York. Read his poems here.

Thomas Sayers Ellis is the author of The Maverick Room (2005). His poems and photographs have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Best American Poetry (1997 and 2001), Grand Street, The Baffler, Jubilat, Tin House, Poetry, and The Nation. He is also an Assistant Professor of Writing at Sarah Lawrence College and a faculty member of The Lesley University low-residency M.F.A Program. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and spends his summers in Washington, D.C. working on The Go-Go Book: People in the Pocket in Washington, D.C. He recently joined the faculty of Cave Canem, performed at SummerStage in Central Park and at the Smithsonian Instituite’s Folklife Festival on the National Mall. His new book, Skin, Inc., is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in fall 2010. Here is a poem and here, too.

Wendy S. Walters’ is the author of Longer I Wait, More You Love Me (just released!) and a chapbook, Birds of Los Angeles (2005), both published by Palm Press (Long Beach, CA). Walters’ poetry has been recognized with residency fellowships from Breadloaf, MacDowell and Yaddo, and her poems have recently appeared in Callaloo, HOW2, Natural Bridge, Seneca Review and the Yalobusha Review, among several others. Her lyric and personal essays have been published or are forthcoming in Seneca Review, Seattle Review, and Harper’s Magazine.

Frank Sherlock & Jen Hyde Read

2009-10-26T21:20:00.000-04:00

Frank Sherlock & Jen Hyde read for the Multifarious Array at Pete's Candy Store, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, October 9, 2009.

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Skip to Jen: 22'23"

Sandy Florian & Justin Taylor Read

2009-10-26T20:53:00.001-04:00

Sandy Florian & Justin Taylor read for the Multifarious Array, Pete's Candy Store, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, October 9, 2009.

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Skip to Justin: 19'33"

Beth Bachmann, Alex Lemon & Nick Flynn

2009-10-26T20:31:00.002-04:00

Beth Bachmann, Alex Lemon and Nick Flynn read for Beth Bachmann's book release party at the Multifarious Array, Pete's Candy Store, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, October 10, 2009.

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Skip to Nick: 20'10"
Skip to Beth: 30'23"

Paige Taggart, Sharon Dolin, Esther K. Smith & Patrick Lucy

2009-10-20T14:11:00.012-04:00

Friday, October 23, 7 pm

Paige Taggart is a 2009 NYFA fellow and has an e-chapbook with Scantily Clad Press, Won’t Be a Girl. Her poems have appeared in Alice Blue Review, La Petite Zine, Six Finch, Blazevox, Elimae, Caketrain, Eleven Eleven, Boog City. Here is more of her.

Sharon Dolin’s fourth book, Burn and Dodge won the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Her other books include Heart Work. Serious Pink, and Realm of the Possible. She is Writer-in-Residence at Eugene Lang College, The New School. She also teachers at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y and directs the Center for Books Arts Annual Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Competition. Here she is in Jacket.

Esther K Smith publishes limited editions and artist books at Purgatory Pie Press in New York City in collaboration with letterpress printer Dikko Faust and other artists and writers. She is the author of HOW TO MAKE BOOKS, MAGIC BOOKS & PAPER TOYS and forthcoming, THE PAPER BRIDE--published by Random House imprint, Potter Craft. Her poems have recently been published in Clwn Wrs, White Rabbit, and Live Mag. She is a proud member of Brevitas, a group that emails short poems on the first and fifteenth of each month. A few days ago, she opened a box in a basement and found a huge cockroach, sketchbooks and her first book of poetry, written when she was in sixth grade.

Patrick Lucy is a member of the New Philadelphia Poets, a group committed to advancing poetry, space & community in Philadelphia. His work has appeared recently in the Corduroy Mtn and Ink Node (featured). His chapbook, WILLIAM, is forthcoming from Con/Crescent Press. Patrick's disembodied press & blog, Catch/Confetti, produces fine poetry ephemera and comment. He lives in Fishtown and runs a web development company called Nimblelight.

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2009-10-08T17:48:00.002-04:00

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Nick Flynn, Alex Lemon & Beth Bachmann

2009-10-08T10:18:00.003-04:00

SATURDAY, October 10, 6pm

Celebrating Beth Bachmann's Book Release!

Nick Flynn’s “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City” (Norton, 2004), won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, was shortlisted for France’s Prix Femina, and has been translated into thirteen languages. He is also the author of two books of poetry, “Some Ether” (Graywolf, 2000), and “Blind Huber" (Graywolf, 2002), for which he received fellowships from, among other organizations, The Guggenheim Foundation and The Library of Congress. Some of the venues his poems, essays and non-fiction have appeared in include The New Yorker, the Paris Review, National Public Radio’s “This American Life,” and The New York Times Book Review. One semester a year he teaches at the University of Houston.

Alex Lemon is the author of Happy: A Memoir(Scribner), the poetry collections Mosquito (Tin House Books), Hallelujah Blackout (Milkweed Editions), Fancy Beasts (forthcoming, Milkweed Editions), and the chapbook At Last Unfolding Congo (horse less press). His writing has appeared in Esquire, Best American Poetry 2008, AGNI, BOMB, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Open City, Pleiades and Tin House, among others. He was awarded a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2006 Minnesota Arts Board Grant. He co-editsLUNA: A Journal of Poetry and Translation with Ray Gonzalez and frequently writes book reviews. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas and teaches at Texas Christian University.

Beth Bachmann's first book, Temper, was selected by Lynn Emanuel as winner of the AWP Award Series 2008 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry and is just out from the Pitt Poetry Series. Her poems appear in American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, and Tin House, among other journals, and have been anthologized in Alice Redux: New Stories of Alice, Lewis and Wonderland and Best New Poets 2005 and 2007. She holds graduate degrees from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and Concordia University in Montreal and teaches creative writing at Vanderbilt University.

Jen Hyde, Justin Taylor, Sandy Florian & Frank Sherlock

2009-10-08T10:16:00.003-04:00

Friday, October 9, 7pm

Jen Hyde is a poet, book artist, and the founding editor of Small Anchor Press. Her poems can be found in the Agriculture Reader, issue 3 and in LaFovea. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Justin Taylor is the co-editor of The Agriculture Reader, an arts annual. He is the author of one book of poems, More Perfect Depictions of Noise (X-ing Books), and his first book of short stories, Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever, will be out this spring from Harper Perennial.

Sandy Florian is the author of 4 books & 1 chapbook of prose poetry, Telescope (Action), 32 Pedals & 47 Stops (Tarpaulin Sky), The Tree of No (Action), Prelude to Air From Water (Elixir), and On Wonderland & Waste (Sidebrow). Currently, she lives in San Francisco and is an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts.

Frank Sherlock is the author of Over Here (Factory School 2009) and the co-author of Ready-To-Eat Individual (Lavender Ink 2008) with Brett Evans. A collaboration with CAConrad entitled The City Real & Imagined: Philadelphia Poems is forthcoming from Factory School in January 2010.

Jennifer Karmin Reading

2009-09-28T21:49:00.001-04:00

Jennifer Karmin reads for the Multifarious Array, Pete's Candy Store, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, September 25, 2009

Skip to Jennifer: 0'50"

Michael Leong & Estela Lamat Reading

2009-09-28T21:19:00.004-04:00

Michael Leong & Estela Lamat read for the Multifarious Array, Pete's Candy Store, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, September 25, 2009.

Skip to Michael: 1'26"
Skip to Estela: 27'39"

Jillian Weise & Janet Holmes Reading

2009-09-26T18:01:00.003-04:00

Jillian Weise & Janet Holmes read for the Multifarious Array at Pete's Candy Store.

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Skip to Janet: 16'20"

Andrew Rippeon & Lisa Forrest Reading

2009-09-26T14:50:00.005-04:00

Andrew Rippeon & Lisa Forrest read for the Multifarious Array.

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Skip to Lisa: 11'44"

Jennifer Karmin, Michael Leong & Estela Lamat

2009-09-19T14:16:00.004-04:00

This Friday, September 25th, 7pm

Jennifer Karmin's text-sound epic Aaaaaaaaaaalice will be published by Flim Forum Press in 2009. She curates the Red Rover Series and is a founding member of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented at festivals, artist-run spaces, and on city streets across the U.S. and Japan. At home in Chicago, she teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet in Residence for the public schools. New poems are published in the journals Cannot Exist, Otoliths, Plath Profiles, and anthologized in Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press), Not A Muse (Haven Books), and The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books).

Michael Leong’s poetry career began in the sixth grade when he won his first and only poetry prize in Mr. Harrison’s class for a haiku about a snake. Since then, he has received degrees in English and Creative Writing from Dartmouth College, Sarah Lawrence College, and Rutgers University and has published poems and translations in journals such as Action Yes, Bird Dog, Double Room, jubilat, Marginalia, Opium Magazine, Pindeldyboz, and Tin House. He is the author of I, the Worst of All (blazeVOX [books], 2009), a translation of the Chilean poet Estela Lamat, and e.s.p. (Silenced Press, 2009). He currently lives in New York City.

ESTELA LAMAT was born at the age of eight in the backyard of the house. She has conducted meticulous nocturnal studies of sleeplessness, of stellar chances and causalities. Tamer of cats, enologist by nose, left-handed, and epileptic, she has never been in a workshop; she has never entered any contests; nor has she won any literary awards.

Lisa Forrest, Andrew Rippeon, Janet Holmes & Jillian Weise

2009-09-15T14:23:00.003-04:00

Friday, September 18, 7pm

Lisa A. Forrest is a Senior Assistant Librarian for SUNY College at Buffalo (Buffalo, New York) and the founding member of the school’s Rooftop Poetry Club. A 2007 and 2008 Pushcart Prize nominee, Lisa’s creative writing has been featured in ArtVoice, Buffalo News, eco-poetics, foursquare, Lake Affect, Not Just Air, WordWrights, Yellow Edenwald Field, and on WBFO, Buffalo’s local public radio station. She is a 2009 recipient of the National Public Radio News Directors Incorporated (PRINDI) Award for her featured commentary. Lisa’s first collection of poems, To the Eaves (2008), is available from BlazeVox Books.

Andrew Rippeon edits P-Queue (a journal of poetry, poetics, and innovative prose) and QUEUE (a chapbook series adjunct to the journal). He lives in Buffalo, NY, where he is enrolled in the Poetics Program at the University at Buffalo.

Janet Holmes is author of THE MS OF MY KIN (Shearsman, 2009), F2F, HUMANOPHONE, and other books. She teaches in the MFA program at Boise State University, where she is also editor of Ahsahta Press.

Jillian Weise is just back from a Fulbright to Argentina where she worked with Darwin's notebooks and helped translate Bob Dylan's first novel into Spanish. Her books are Translating the Body (All Nations Press 2006), The Amputee's Guide to Sex (Soft Skull Press 2007) and The Colony, a novel forthcoming this spring. Recent poems are featured on PBS's Poetry Everywhere and in the current issues of Tin House and Washington Square. She teaches workshops and seminars at Clemson University.

Fall Schedule Just Announced!

2009-09-04T09:15:00.006-04:00

September 18
Lisa Forrest, Andrew Rippeon, Janet Holmes & Jillian Weise

September 25
Jennifer Karmin, Michael Leong & Estela Lamat

October 9
Jen Hyde, Justin Taylor, Sandy Florian & Frank Sherlock

Saturday, October 10, 6pm
Beth Bachmann Book Release Celebration with Beth Bachmann, Nick Flynn & Alex Lemon

October 23
Paige Taggart, Sharon Dolin, Esther Smith & Patrick Lucy

November 6
Julian Billups, Cate Peebles, Thomas Sayers Ellis & Wendy S. Walters

November 13
No, Dear Issue Release Party

November 20
Nate Pritts, Leigh Stein, Karin Randolph & Matthew Rohrer

December 4
Crystal Williams, Tyrone Williams, Jackie Clark & Tara Betts

All Readings are FREE on Fridays at 7pm -- Unless Noted Otherwise

The Multifarious Array is Coming!

2009-08-13T19:49:00.000-04:00

But watch this for now:

Fall Season Resumes September 18th!

2009-07-21T09:08:00.003-04:00

This summer The Multifarious Array is drinking beer at Sammy's Fishbox on City Island, but imagining it's on the black sandy shores of Honokalani. The Multifarious Array has a very good imagination.

On Friday September 18th, it will return, refreshed and thoroughly drunk, with an incredible line-up of shiny, new poets. Check back then for a full schedule.

Janaka Stucky, Dorothea Lasky & Michelle Taransky

2009-05-26T15:07:00.003-04:00

!!!!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

2009-05-13T13:28:00.004-04:00

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

2009-04-30T11:02:00.003-04:00

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

2009-04-23T10:07:00.002-04:00

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

2009-04-14T18:51:00.002-04:00

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

2009-03-27T11:51:00.003-04:00

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.