Join us on Friday, December 6 @ 7:30 pm
for a collaboration with YesYes Books, featuring
Phillip B. Williams, Tanya Olson, Matt Hart and Roger Reeves
Admission is free; beverages & snacks will be served.
Phillip B. Williams is
a Chicago, Illinois native. He is the author of the chapbooks Bruised
Gospels (Arts in Bloom Inc., 2011) and Burn (YesYes
Books, 2013). He is a Cave Canem graduate and received scholarships from Bread
Loaf Writers Conference and a 2013 Ruth Lilly Fellowship. His work has appeared
or is forthcoming in Anti-, Callaloo, Kenyon Review Online, Poetry, The
Southern Review, West Branch and others. Phillip is currently a
Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow at the Washington University in St. Louis and is
working on his MFA in Creative Writing. He is the poetry editor of the online
journal Vinyl Poetry.
Tanya Olson holds an M.A. in Anglo-Irish Literature from
University College, Dublin and a Ph.D. in 20th Century British
Literature from UNC-Greensboro.
Her first book, Boyishly, was
released by YesYes Books in May 2013. Her work has been published in Boston Review, Beloit Poetry Review,
Southword (IRL), PANK, Cairn, Fanzine, Bad Subjects, Main Street Rag, Pedestal Magazine, Elysian
Fields, and Southern Cultures. In
2010, she won a Discovery/Boston Review
prize and was named a 2011 Lambda Fellow by the Lambda Literary Foundation.
Matt Hart is the author of five books of poems, Who's
Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006), Wolf Face (H_NGM_N
Books, 2010), Light-Headed (BlazeVOX, 2011),Sermons and
Lectures Both Blank and Relentless (Typecast Publishing, 2012),
and Debacle Debacle (H_NGM_N Books, 2013), as well as several
chapbooks. His poems, reviews, and essays have appeared in numerous print and
online journals, including Big Bell, Cincinnati Review, Coldfront, Columbia
Poetry Review, H_NGM_N, Harvard Review, jubilat, Lungfull!,
and Post Road. His awards include a Pushcart Prize, a 2013
individual artist grant from The Shifting Foundation, and fellowships from
both the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Warren Wilson College MFA
Program for Writers. A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift,
Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety, he lives
in Cincinnati where he teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and plays in
the band TRAVEL.
Roger Reeves's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals
such as Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston
Review, and Tin House, among others. Kim Addonizio
selected “Kletic of Walt Whitman” for the Best New Poets 2009 anthology.
He was awarded a 2013 NEA Fellowship, a 2013 Pushcart Prize, Ruth Lilly
Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation in 2008, two Bread Loaf Scholarships, an
Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and
two Cave Canem Fellowships. He earned his Ph.D. the University of Texas and is
currently an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Illinois,
Chicago. His first book, King Me, is just out from Copper Canyon
Press.
