tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85106795806705564092024-03-05T09:20:34.632-08:00Studio One Reading Series(Usually on) First Fridays
Mumolohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16161654573444785822noreply@blogger.comBlogger243125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8510679580670556409.post-22763204363340250412021-05-22T10:27:00.005-07:002021-05-22T10:46:45.564-07:00Tuesday, June 1st: A Virtual Reading with Cole Swensen, Forrest Gander & C.S. Giscombe<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiypJZFaNRnVeOrHrL2WwYTlBYrCYnXYrz4Pn1SxSMHr2rdRSSZu2u7pnH3J_oEefOBtOzJGSKMx9URhntO1Z3o14bhu4sg8-IPfuCwpcHwGOnYxcK6U7_tOXXEiy-26a9X_KQ1ZB6y-mBX/s1350/INSTA_1080x1350.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiypJZFaNRnVeOrHrL2WwYTlBYrCYnXYrz4Pn1SxSMHr2rdRSSZu2u7pnH3J_oEefOBtOzJGSKMx9URhntO1Z3o14bhu4sg8-IPfuCwpcHwGOnYxcK6U7_tOXXEiy-26a9X_KQ1ZB6y-mBX/w256-h320/INSTA_1080x1350.jpg" width="256" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>graphics by François Luong; Forrest Gander photo credit to Ashwini Bhat</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>RSVP </b></span><a href=" https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lfu6orzwuE9MtrMC7Vlr4pJ2QK-_l7hvt" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">through the Zoom registration form</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"> to have the link emailed to you.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a0ad6460-7fff-a963-f563-eebe652778c2"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cole Swensen</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> has published 19 volumes of poetry and a collection of critical essays, </span><a href="https://www.press.umich.edu/1903627/noise_that_stays_noise" style="font-family: arial; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Noise That Stays Noise</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Her most recent book, </span><a href="https://nightboat.org/book/art-in-time/" style="font-family: arial; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Art in Time</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which just came out from Nightboat, focuses on innovative landscape art. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she has been a finalist for the National Book Award and has been awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize, the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, and the National Poetry Series. She has also translated over 20 volumes of poetry, prose, and art criticism from French and has won the PEN USA Award in Literary Translation. </span><a href="http://www.coleswensen.com/" style="font-family: arial; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.coleswensen.com</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0a166090-7fff-d154-6921-4df7ee235086"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Forrest Gander</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a writer and translator with degrees in geology and literature, was born in the Mojave Desert and lives in northern California. His books, often concerned with ecology, include </span><a href="https://www.ndbooks.com/book/be-with/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Be With</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize, the novel </span><a href="https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-trace/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Trace</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="https://www.ndbooks.com/book/twice-alive/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twice Alive</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">just out (now!) from New Directions. Gander’s translations and co-translations include </span><a href="https://www.ndbooks.com/book/alice-iris-red-horse/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alice Iris Red Horse</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Gozo Yoshimasu, </span><a href="https://www.omnidawn.com/product/spectacle-pigsty/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spectacle & Pigsty</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Kiwao Nomura,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/then-come-back-the-lost-neruda-by-pablo-neruda-forrest-gander/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then Come Back: the Lost Neruda Poems</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6c5ff0da-7fff-01cb-16e1-32aa6b2c1f02"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">C. S. Giscombe</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">’s poetry books are </span><a href="https://www.dalkeyarchive.com/product/prairie-style/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Prairie Style</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><a href="https://www.dalkeyarchive.com/product/giscome-road/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Giscome Road</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><a href="http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/product/here/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, etc.; his prose books are </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Into and Out of Dislocation</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><a href="https://www.dalkeyarchive.com/product/border-towns/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Border Towns</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, and </span><a href="https://www.omnidawn.com/product/ohio-railroads/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ohio Railroads</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> (“a poem in essay form”). Recognitions include the Stephen Henderson Award, an American Book Award (for </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Prairie Style</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">) and the Carl Sandburg Prize (for </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Giscome Road</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">). Forthcoming poetry texts are </span><a href="https://bookshop.org/books/similarly-four-complete-books-and-new-poems/9781628973181?aid=262" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Similarly</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> (a “selected and new” volume) and </span><a href="https://bookshop.org/books/train-music-writing-pictures/9781632430885" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Train Music</span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">(a collaboration with the painter Judith Margolis) both due in 2021. Other books are in progress. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a long-distance cyclist.</span></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><p></p>Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04101418063576226547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8510679580670556409.post-61294719357809539922021-03-10T17:32:00.006-08:002021-03-11T12:07:50.378-08:00Friday, March 19th: A Virtual Celebration of Why to These Rocks: 50 Years of Poetry from the Community of Writers <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Please join the Studio One Reading Series and the Community of Writers on Friday, March 19th @ 5:30 PM PST/8:30 PM EST to celebrate the collection<i> </i></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><i><a href="https://heydaybooks.com/catalog/why-to-these-rocks/#:~:text=Why%20to%20These%20Rocks%20speaks,its%20creative%20and%20generative%20atmosphere." target="_blank">Why to These Rocks: 50 Years of Poetry from the Community of Writers</a></i></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf1G6TjZclbxtKl0X7rbpUfztrsdXqfS_FQqrKmWKLvUV1He90YC-rpQkHqQqSsbQl_ENTmC0CxlR3LSjE9yUJpc8S_d1fN_blGy4lRB7QdhVkVcIgvXXgw71wM8m3RllGRQyOOceVGSOh/s1280/YT_Thumbnail.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf1G6TjZclbxtKl0X7rbpUfztrsdXqfS_FQqrKmWKLvUV1He90YC-rpQkHqQqSsbQl_ENTmC0CxlR3LSjE9yUJpc8S_d1fN_blGy4lRB7QdhVkVcIgvXXgw71wM8m3RllGRQyOOceVGSOh/s320/YT_Thumbnail.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://heydaybooks.com/catalog/why-to-these-rocks/#:~:text=Why%20to%20These%20Rocks%20speaks,its%20creative%20and%20generative%20atmosphere." imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUmQda9dkj6X2NinLBXpmNkADo_jTlRUh09bR5atK8DGteuC44pw26HcW0BmfvOBGaKaQKNnn-bT9yeCRRzwUWKQ4X33jkCw1SSIUmbXYJnqotemGZw_Yf_tTxIILMPkMSAGSr7XhP2Gu_/s320/WWTR+Book+in+Color.png" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <u>Featuring readings from:</u></div></span><p></p><b><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*Lisa Alvarez*<br />*Kazim Ali*<br />*Arlene Biala*<br />*Jennifer Swanton Brown*<br />*Blas Falconer*<br />*Molly Fisk*<br />*Major Jackson* <br />*Danusha Laméris*<br />*Robert Lipton*</span></div></span></b><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-large; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><a href="https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkde6spzktGNxLFocyfi6jPjnicpuy2mVZ " target="_blank">Register for the event here</a></b></span></span></p><p></p><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzZqk0ceG3ILp7Fi0dLIjpw5updD61RVxSOpemq-2hy5LlDmv3D7hQF9A2IN0_hfUTgYmiW-UzmQNSdYNfXDl5x53H3yqiCbW4mqb87hs2BUY6Ui_8AhFuqr_khl0PSTmbosqH5MLtl4Ya/s596/01.LisaAlvarez.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="596" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzZqk0ceG3ILp7Fi0dLIjpw5updD61RVxSOpemq-2hy5LlDmv3D7hQF9A2IN0_hfUTgYmiW-UzmQNSdYNfXDl5x53H3yqiCbW4mqb87hs2BUY6Ui_8AhFuqr_khl0PSTmbosqH5MLtl4Ya/w200-h200/01.LisaAlvarez.png" width="200" /></a></div><br />Lisa Alvarez</b> has edited two landmark collections: <i>Writer’s Workshop in a Book: The Community of Writers on the Art of Fiction </i>with Alan Cheuse and <i>Orange County: A Literary Field Guide</i> with Andrew Tonkovich. She is a fiction writer and poet whose work has appeared in <i>Huizache</i>, <i>PANK</i>, <i>Santa Monica Review</i> and others. Her commentary has been featured in the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>. She teaches writing at Irvine Valley College and co-directs the Community of Writers.<br /><br /><br /><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTjLxASS0AW0rppcopwsG9yTJ_3ulArOtUg-zo4mkiNFkDhzzj2bR3enAcWLB8iPHMke7pcozV94m8pPMzppNctcXS14jeemSXGH2wjuy6_GGX3pgkTeEdWzGRpfQ0iFn69oqHdWkT-3gt/s596/02.KazimAli.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="596" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTjLxASS0AW0rppcopwsG9yTJ_3ulArOtUg-zo4mkiNFkDhzzj2bR3enAcWLB8iPHMke7pcozV94m8pPMzppNctcXS14jeemSXGH2wjuy6_GGX3pgkTeEdWzGRpfQ0iFn69oqHdWkT-3gt/w200-h200/02.KazimAli.png" width="200" /></a></div><br />Kazim Ali</b> first attended the conference as a participant in 1998 and has returned often as teaching staff. His writing spans genres, including poetry, novels, and essays along with translations. His poetry collection <i>The Far Mosque </i>won Alice James Books’ New England/New York Award in 2005, and <i>Sky Ward </i>was the winner of the 2014 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry. Cofounder of Nightboat Books, Ali is currently a professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego. His most recent books are <i>The Voice of Sheila Chandra</i>, a volume of three long poems; and a memoir of his Canadian childhood, <i>Northern Light: Power, Land and the Memory of Water. </i><br /><br /><br /><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFaS5x2UgSHooQ4G19bimMHCkU55qghd1avZkcFHgL0VXMqmP1g4gs1QhE-_HthQgdJQTV9KCQfH87_QUA7PNe6FDTrDuubJ3w3kAxCibCKxvsfkG641D6kYdYXQpXebMGf686yr2E5AAM/s596/03.ArleneBiala.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="596" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFaS5x2UgSHooQ4G19bimMHCkU55qghd1avZkcFHgL0VXMqmP1g4gs1QhE-_HthQgdJQTV9KCQfH87_QUA7PNe6FDTrDuubJ3w3kAxCibCKxvsfkG641D6kYdYXQpXebMGf686yr2E5AAM/w200-h200/03.ArleneBiala.png" width="200" /></a></div><br />Arlene Biala</b> is a Pinay poet; the 2016–17 Santa Clara County poet laureate; and author of <i>continental drift, her beckoning hands </i>(2015 American Book Award), and <i>one inch punch.</i> She lives in Sunnyvale, California. <br /><br /><br /><b><br /></b></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-H4MF8m6_9RMYyEqdGBPfXbWPBZwU9jE7rwe1LhIs7PJuzgynU7MhmhLwsGrPUXpOynFZ8qROzvtmGIx1bdbosalwF2W78a1hTw6zpDGrgZ_5fMtLvMRsoUtLtVYOTgnuIxqFgUgQRpIl/s596/04.JenniferSwantonBrown.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="596" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-H4MF8m6_9RMYyEqdGBPfXbWPBZwU9jE7rwe1LhIs7PJuzgynU7MhmhLwsGrPUXpOynFZ8qROzvtmGIx1bdbosalwF2W78a1hTw6zpDGrgZ_5fMtLvMRsoUtLtVYOTgnuIxqFgUgQRpIl/w200-h200/04.JenniferSwantonBrown.png" width="200" /></a></div><br />Jennifer Swanton Brown </b>served as the second poet laureate of her hometown, Cupertino, California, and works at Stanford University in clinical research administration. <br /><br /><br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgof-77qO0HlUBWk6ZKMZHWozlBoExR9obrFi9IEAooKIQbmBK5aM8iljZHvi3qp4CwsPfHkYmABXSrMd72-L4p4SaPKofk_X-sHFW1j6VsojsfpZSIpTk_-rC5n69QKuwbC4dQ3A5qbXxH/s596/05.BlasFalconer.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="596" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgof-77qO0HlUBWk6ZKMZHWozlBoExR9obrFi9IEAooKIQbmBK5aM8iljZHvi3qp4CwsPfHkYmABXSrMd72-L4p4SaPKofk_X-sHFW1j6VsojsfpZSIpTk_-rC5n69QKuwbC4dQ3A5qbXxH/w200-h200/05.BlasFalconer.png" width="200" /></a></div><br />Blas Falconer </b>is the author of three poetry collections, including <i>Forgive the Body This Failure</i>, and a coeditor of two essay collections, <i>The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity </i>and <i>Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets.</i> His poems have been featured by <i>Poetry</i>, <i>Harvard Review</i>, and The New York Times, and his awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and Poets and Writers. He is a poetry editor for <i>The Los Angeles Review</i> and teaches in the MFA program at San Diego State University.<br /><br /><br /><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT22n5lb_bnHYHmDA153BafO4SotFCB6qrnZetbnvItlXpblOuYlxq6R65YPPw9GFWQIVUB5PrEGg8cSULxhoitaB0QRwOg029BlfNROuKO82acxCnlRxFUCnqW4o99V3-_fLW1ah0FkTt/s596/06.MollyFisk.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="596" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT22n5lb_bnHYHmDA153BafO4SotFCB6qrnZetbnvItlXpblOuYlxq6R65YPPw9GFWQIVUB5PrEGg8cSULxhoitaB0QRwOg029BlfNROuKO82acxCnlRxFUCnqW4o99V3-_fLW1ah0FkTt/w200-h200/06.MollyFisk.png" width="200" /></a></div><br />Molly Fisk </b>edited <i>California Fire &Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology</i>, the culmination of her 2019–20 Academy of American Poets Laureate fellowship, and is a writing teacher, radio commentator, and radical life coach in Nevada City, California.<br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR0rTymlXa0RNg0EeQV37eQojaxn4bzK_EDYjc9IAFyqs5Z-ZgeexnBnYYmgu4lQ6SGs_vwYfnp510fNPdzsGfP1yH8AcPeUTsPeTNxhTia2AWwSAnBTPOM7Jifun8ycSrKBfTCTt4d6h_/s596/07.MajorJackson.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="596" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR0rTymlXa0RNg0EeQV37eQojaxn4bzK_EDYjc9IAFyqs5Z-ZgeexnBnYYmgu4lQ6SGs_vwYfnp510fNPdzsGfP1yH8AcPeUTsPeTNxhTia2AWwSAnBTPOM7Jifun8ycSrKBfTCTt4d6h_/w200-h200/07.MajorJackson.png" width="200" /></a></div><br />Major Jackson</b> first joined the conference staff in 2011. He is the author of five books of poetry, including <i>Leaving Saturn</i>, which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. His edited volumes include <i>Best American Poetry 2019</i>, <i>Renga for Obama</i>, and the Library of America’s <i>Countee Cullen: Collected Poems.</i> His honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and fellowships including those from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. He is poetry editor of <i>The Harvard Review</i> and is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. His most recent book is <i>The Absurd Man</i>. <br /><br /><br /><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje2TyEO3XbSTyoowxSbDVa_n2B1hmCC-EKS0E4MxeVkmr86vwE2rPKyimIS45rq0IATUjasKyRjKwXZaBt5fklhUl2hW7oD6R3Y-yv-9BwZT_MsoYJqXyA1W-2lCql1G6FFUGlmgFpOI81/s596/08.DanushaLameris.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="596" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje2TyEO3XbSTyoowxSbDVa_n2B1hmCC-EKS0E4MxeVkmr86vwE2rPKyimIS45rq0IATUjasKyRjKwXZaBt5fklhUl2hW7oD6R3Y-yv-9BwZT_MsoYJqXyA1W-2lCql1G6FFUGlmgFpOI81/w200-h200/08.DanushaLameris.png" width="200" /></a></div><br />Danusha Laméris</b> is the author of <i>The Moons of August</i> and <i>Bonfire Opera</i> and lives in Santa Cruz, California, where she served as poet laureate from 2018 to 2020. <br /><br /><br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLJ7ZAQ2kDI3JAblKKuO-KL4Wdl9-YSJmDGU80a0lpHlQ3_rCZFQSRzv07owFhsS0tf7moRdAQ0lzYdaGTsI5EeFkCUftwT20iNjF9k7w1g8hbBQQbXAXs3bjEPyDUOKOW86B1i7nTqih0/s596/09.RobertLipton.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="596" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLJ7ZAQ2kDI3JAblKKuO-KL4Wdl9-YSJmDGU80a0lpHlQ3_rCZFQSRzv07owFhsS0tf7moRdAQ0lzYdaGTsI5EeFkCUftwT20iNjF9k7w1g8hbBQQbXAXs3bjEPyDUOKOW86B1i7nTqih0/w200-h200/09.RobertLipton.png" width="200" /></a></div><br />Robert Lipton</b> is the author of the collection <i>A Complex Bravery </i>and the winner of the 2018 Gregory O’Donoghue Competition at the Munster Literature Centre in Cork, Ireland, with his poem “Official Story”; he lives in Richmond, California, where he has served as poet laureate. <br /></span><br /></div><div><br /></div>Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04101418063576226547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8510679580670556409.post-23310189819978912872020-12-31T12:14:00.007-08:002020-12-31T14:38:46.313-08:00Thursday, January 7th *Virtual Reading* feat. Gillian Conoley, Ezequiel Zaidenwerg, and Robin Myers<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFarujwEMGr5G7g7Yk9vx5FEdE3jhTzKI_d_hIB070OsEo-QsaOFYaOfAymtC45vmOZwcRdGPf6Y3IkIvBSrb2fTS5aDU_pXDvZ7sQN9HL7yK7TOzPh3QQFtfTp18hoJXf8Z95N-Gc1bdy/s1280/YT_Thumbnail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFarujwEMGr5G7g7Yk9vx5FEdE3jhTzKI_d_hIB070OsEo-QsaOFYaOfAymtC45vmOZwcRdGPf6Y3IkIvBSrb2fTS5aDU_pXDvZ7sQN9HL7yK7TOzPh3QQFtfTp18hoJXf8Z95N-Gc1bdy/w400-h225/YT_Thumbnail.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Graphics by </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">François Luong</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Please </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://forms.gle/5oiF1z75cnwziTr58" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">RSVP for the reading here</span> </a></span><span style="font-family: arial;">to have the Zoom link emailed to you. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span> *</span><i>We hope you and your loved ones are safe & well,
and we look forward to sharing this experience with you!*</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ec6f4461-7fff-3aa5-09dd-43b9d84b649e"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gillian Conoley’s</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://nightboat.org/book/a-little-more-red-sun-on-the-human/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Little More Red Sun on the Human: New and Selected Poems</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, with Nightboat Books, won the 39th annual Northern California Book Award in 2020. She received the 2017 Shelley Memorial Award for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America, and was also awarded the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and a Fund for Poetry Award. She is the author of seven previous books, including </span><a href="https://www.omnidawn.com/product/peace/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PEACE</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, an Academy of American Poets Standout Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Conoley’s translations of three books by Henri Michaux, </span><a href="http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100346340" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thousand Times Broken</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> appeared in 2014 with City Lights. Conoley is Poet-in-Residence and Professor of English at Sonoma State University where she edits </span><a href="https://volt-litmag.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VOLT</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ezequiel Zaidenwerg</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a poet, translator and essayist, not necessarily in that order. His most recent book is </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">50 estados: 13 poetas contemporáneos de Estados Unidos</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a novelized anthology of recent American poetry. He translates a poem a day at</span><a href="http://zaidenwerg.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">zaidenwerg.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, produces the podcast series Orden de traslado, and writes on poetry, translation and politics for </span><a href="https://www.elmalpensante.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">El Malpensante</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Robin Myers</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lives in Mexico City and works as a translator. Her poems have recently appeared in </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alaska Quarterly</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Poetry Northwest</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PANK Magazine</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">32 Poems, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Massachusetts Review</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, among other publications. Her book-length collections have been translated into Spanish (mostly by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg, also featured in this reading) and published in Mexico, Argentina, and Spain. She writes a monthly column on translation for </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Palette Poetry. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can find her at </span></span><a href="http://robinepmyers.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">robinepmyers.com</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span></div>Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04101418063576226547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8510679580670556409.post-29885695417517202862020-10-24T10:48:00.006-07:002020-10-24T10:48:55.863-07:00Friday, November 6th, *Virtual* Reading feat. Brenda Hillman, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, & Andrew Zawacki<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7-tSBgtSxU4M-IdiAxERIwq63ZG7bSXz0v_7MT-3HlPT-hkTbkhKz5LvgovkECj4w8KbYKc-EmVaYGLGuuRcODSzsYpNeGpfljgj9-abuE14n_O8SRzQoMJPc6u5oZaFgZglkzR2LKiMd/s1280/YT_Thumbnail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7-tSBgtSxU4M-IdiAxERIwq63ZG7bSXz0v_7MT-3HlPT-hkTbkhKz5LvgovkECj4w8KbYKc-EmVaYGLGuuRcODSzsYpNeGpfljgj9-abuE14n_O8SRzQoMJPc6u5oZaFgZglkzR2LKiMd/w400-h225/YT_Thumbnail.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><i>Graphics by François Luong</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://forms.gle/vdaaMPqotjidq5jp7">RSVP for the reading here</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://forms.gle/vdaaMPqotjidq5jp7"> </a>to have the link emailed to you.</span></span></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; text-align: start;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">we hope you and your loved ones are safe & well,</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and we look forward to sharing this experience with you!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2cd058f3-7fff-aa3e-6d3a-fc5d8d432a28"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Brenda Hillman</span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">’s most recent book is </span><a href="https://www.hfsbooks.com/books/extra-hidden-life-among-the-days-hillman/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Extra Hidden Life among the Days</span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">(2018). Hillman has co-edited and co-translated numerous volumes, including Ana Cristina Cesar’s </span><a href="https://parlorpress.com/products/at-your-feet" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At Your Feet</span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">(Parlor Press, 2018), co-translated from Portuguese with her mother Helen Hillman. Her awards for poetry include the 2020 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award for Innovation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches </span><a href="https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/mfa-in-creative-writing" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">at Saint Mary’s College</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> in Moraga, California and currently serves as a Chancellor at the Academy of American Poets. </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blueflowerarts.com/artist/brenda-hillman/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://blueflowerarts.com/artist/brenda-hillman/</a></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-434d1e3b-7fff-f4ce-d295-7dc78a3224e9"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Cynthia Parker-Ohene </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">is a graduate of </span><a href="https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/mfa-in-creative-writing" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the MFA program at the Saint Mary’s College of California</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> where she was the Chester Aaron Scholar for Excellence in Creative Writing. She is a Tin House Summer Writer’s Conference alum, awarded the Pittman Scholarship from Juniper at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, an awardee at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, a Callaloo Fellow and Hurston/Wright Fellow, among others . Her poems have appeared or forthcoming in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Black Warrior Review</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Kweli</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Bellevue Literary Review</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Crab Orchard Review</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> Yellow Medicine Review</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, and others. She is a Pushcart Nominee, and the winner of the 2017 chapbook prize for </span><a href="https://backbonepress.org/chapbooks/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Drapetomania</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> published in 2017 by Backbone Press.</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andrew Zawacki </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is the author of the poetry books</span><a href="https://chbooks.com/Books/U/Unsun" style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unsun : f/11</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Coach House), </span><a href="http://counterpathpress.org/videotape" style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Videotape</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Counterpath),</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781584980643/petals-of-zero-petals-of-one.aspx" style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Petals of Zero Petals of One</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Talisman House), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Anabranch.html?id=pavQUgOfCWoC" style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;">Anabranch</a> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Wesleyan), and </span><a href="https://ugapress.org/book/9780820323411/by-reason-of-breakings/" style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By Reason of Breakings </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Georgia). His work has appeared in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Poems for </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Political Disaster,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The Iowa </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anthology of New American Poetries</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Great American Prose Poems</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Eloquent </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Poem</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and other anthologies, as well as </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The New Yorker</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The Nation</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The New </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Republic</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. His translation of Sébastien Smirou, </span><a href="https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781936194087/my-lorenzo.aspx" style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Lorenzo</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Burning Deck), received a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">French Voices Grant, and his translation of Smirou’s</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> See About </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(La Presse) earned an </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">NEA Translation Fellowship and a fellowship from the Centre National du Livre. He was </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">a 2016 Howard Foundation Fellow.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04101418063576226547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8510679580670556409.post-80705585432534601142020-08-26T21:22:00.018-07:002020-08-28T18:29:14.527-07:00Friday, September 11th *Virtual* Reading feat. Aricka Foreman and July Westhale<p style="text-align: center;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrkIOuvBc-aMM9F-q-iI5sQ1am7vld7bnDvGWh_l1-8pr6bA5xdP4CS0mSQEzezaqub1d4476-0tGwH1XFQK5W0PiEz_0IgMWi8j4YUOWJBI-_GOqEBKVN27gn8wFv2Jng-8UKqIK4fF0W/s1280/YT_Thumbnail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrkIOuvBc-aMM9F-q-iI5sQ1am7vld7bnDvGWh_l1-8pr6bA5xdP4CS0mSQEzezaqub1d4476-0tGwH1XFQK5W0PiEz_0IgMWi8j4YUOWJBI-_GOqEBKVN27gn8wFv2Jng-8UKqIK4fF0W/w512-h288/YT_Thumbnail.jpg" width="512" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; text-align: right;"><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Graphics by </span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: start;">Fran</span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: start;">çois Luong</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-44c94db2-7fff-c774-dbfc-2194dfd0080c"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*****</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please </span><span style="background-color: white; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and we look forward to sharing this experience with you!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3d3e5472-7fff-09ba-03d1-8588470638a1"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhabRH52OMC0fndltYABdVcAXRFPt7y9_OhhxGIcIXhbdTucPafyFDVGOkj21D-EME1qrDwYd-PJHbiyjin3JTA_XFmR5PqR6ty4GpULRevBmTBMMhaaeRy4uALlWnSBPuKFAc-_DAG7m2Z/s2048/Aricka+Foreman.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1371" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhabRH52OMC0fndltYABdVcAXRFPt7y9_OhhxGIcIXhbdTucPafyFDVGOkj21D-EME1qrDwYd-PJHbiyjin3JTA_XFmR5PqR6ty4GpULRevBmTBMMhaaeRy4uALlWnSBPuKFAc-_DAG7m2Z/w140-h210/Aricka+Foreman.JPG" width="140" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Aricka Foreman</b></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> is an American poet and interdisciplinary writer from Detroit MI. Author of the chapbook </span><a href="https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/dream-with-a-glass-chamber" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Dream with a Glass Chamber</i> </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">and </span><a href="https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/salt-body-shimmer" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Salt Body Shimmer</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></i></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">(YesYes Books), she has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She serves on the Board of Directors for</span><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="https://theoffingmag.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Offing</span></a></i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, and spends her time in Chicago, IL engaging poetry with photography & video. </span><a href="https://www.arickaforeman.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.arickaforeman.com/</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is an essayist, translator, and the award-winning author of </span><a href="https://korepress.org/product/trailer-trash-by-july-westhale" style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Trailer Trash</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="https://korepress.org/product/via-negativa" style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Via Negativa</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which Publishers Weekly called "stunning" in a starred review.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her most recent work can be found in </span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">McSweeney’s, The National Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, CALYX, Hayden’s Ferry Review, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and</span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The Huffington Post,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> among others. She also has an inventively-named collection of salty chapbooks. When she’s not teaching, she works as a co-founding editor of </span><a href="https://www.thepulpmag.com/" style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PULP Magazine</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.<i> </i></span><a href="http://www.julywesthale.com/" style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">www.julywesthale.com</span></a></span><p></p><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></div>Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04101418063576226547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8510679580670556409.post-18150034403535025822020-06-04T15:56:00.001-07:002020-06-10T12:55:57.088-07:00Friday, June 12th *Virtual* Reading feat. 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Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04101418063576226547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8510679580670556409.post-16043065078138360452020-01-09T18:14:00.002-08:002020-01-10T18:59:23.636-08:00Friday, February 7th, featuring Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Will Vincent, Joshua McKinney, and Veronica Kornberg!<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joshua McKinney</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">’s most recent book of poetry is </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://parlorpress.com/freeverse/small_sillion" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Small Sillion</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Parlor Press, 2019). His work has appeared in such journals as </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Boulevard, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, New American Writing, </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and many others. He is the recipient of The Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize, The Dickinson Prize, The Pavement Saw Chapbook Prize, and a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Writing. He is co-editor of the online eco-poetry zine, </span><a href="http://www.cladesong.com/masthead.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: blue;">Clade Song</span></span></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A member of Senkakukan Dojo of Sacramento, he has studied Japanese sword arts for over thirty years. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maxine Chernoff </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">has published 17 books of poetry and six of fiction. Her latest poetry collection is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><a href="https://madhat-press.com/products/under-the-music-by-maxine-chernoff">Under the Music: Collected Prose Poems</a></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (MadHat Press). She is the recipient of a 2013 NEA and the 2009 PEN Translation Award for her co-translation of Friedrich Hoelderlin. Her fiction has won the Chicago Sun-Times Fiction Award, twice been a finalist for the Northern California Book Award, and been named a NYT Notable Book of the Year. In 2016 she was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome. She is a professor of Creative Writing at SFSU and the former editor of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>New American Writing</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lyn Hejinian</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> teaches in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where her academic work is addressed principally to modernist, postmodern, and contemporary poetry and poetics, with a particular interest in avant-garde movements and the social practices they entail. She is the author of over twenty-five volumes of poetry and critical prose, the most recent of which are </span><a href="http://www.belladonnaseries.org/positions-of-the-sun/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: blue;">Positions of the Sun</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Belladonna, 2019) and </span><a href="https://www.omnidawn.com/product/tribunallyn-hejinian/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tribunal</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Omnidawn, 2019).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Margaret Ronda</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of California-Davis, where she teaches American poetry and environmental theory and literature. She is the author of two books of poems, </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><a href="https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780981859156/personification.aspx"><span style="color: blue;">Personification </span></a></i></span><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Saturnalia Books, 2010</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666;">and</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781947817999/for-hunger.aspx" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For Hunger </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666;">(2018), and a critical study</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28109" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Remainders: American Poetry at Nature’s End</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">(</span><span style="color: #666666;">Stanford University Press, 2018)</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Judy Halebsky</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is the author of the poetry collections </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tree Line</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sky=Empty</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which won the New Issues Prize. Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, and the Canada Council for the Arts have supported her work. Her poems have been published in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">APR,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Field</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zyzzyva </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and elsewhere. Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, she moved to California to study poetry at Mills College. She now lives in Oakland with her spouse and young daughter. She is an associate professor at Dominican University of California and teaches in their low residency MFA program.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Julia B. Levine</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">’s most recent poetry collection, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, (LSU </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">press 2014) was awarded the 2015 Northern </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">California Book Award in Poetry. Her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">awards also include the Tampa Review Poetry Prize</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for her second collection, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ask</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anhinga Prize in Poetry and a bronze medal from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Foreword</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> magazine for her first </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">collection, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Practicing for Heaven</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the Pablo Neruda Prize in poetry from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Nimrod</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">grand prize from Public Poetry. Widely published, her work has been anthologized in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">many collections. She lives and works in Davis, California.</span></div>
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He is the author of two books of poetry, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Master of Leaves</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (2014) and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Any Old Wolf</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (2007), both also from Sixteen Rivers. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Any Old Wolf </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">received 2007 Independent Publisher medal for poetry. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition to being a poet, Murray is a retired architect and co-author of four books about architecture, including </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Pattern Language</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Oxford University Press) and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Patterns of Home </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(The Taunton Press). 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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morgan Parker</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is the author of the poetry collections</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://tinhouse.com/product/magical-negro/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Magical Negro</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://tinhouse.com/product/there-are-more-beautiful-things-than-beyonce-morgan-parker/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><a href="https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780986187612/other-peoples-comfort-keeps-me-up-at-night.aspx" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Her debut YA novel </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who Put This Song On? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will be published in late 2019 from Delacorte Press, and her debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One World/Random House. Parker is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and a </span><a href="https://cavecanempoets.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cave Canem</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> graduate fellow. She is the creator and host of</span><a href="https://www.acehotel.com/newyork/events-and-spaces/calendar/detail/reparations-live-morgan-parker/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Reparations, Live! at the Ace Hotel</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. With Tommy Pico, she co-curates the Poets with Attitude (PWA) reading series, and with Angel Nafis, she is The Other Black Girl Collective. She lives in Los Angeles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maw Shein Win</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a writer, editor, and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her poetry has appeared in many journals and several anthologies including </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MARY: A </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Journal of New Writing</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talking Writing</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Poetry International</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cimarron Review</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">others. She was an Artist in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts and is a </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto. Her collaborative book with paintings by </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">artist Mark Dutcher, </span><a href="https://poetrychapbooks.omeka.net/items/show/7" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ruins of a glittering palace</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, was published by SPA/Commonwealth </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projects. Her poetry chapbook </span><a href="https://www.nomadicpress.org/store/scoreandbone" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Score and Bone</span><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is on Nomadic Press. Her full-length </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">collection </span><a href="http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100741880" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Invisible Gifts: Poems</span><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">was published by Manic D Press in 2018. Win is the first </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">poet laureate of El Cerrito (2016 - 2018) and her forthcoming second full-length </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">collection of poetry will be published by </span><a href="http://omnidawn.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Omnidawn</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in Fall 2020.</span></span></div>
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Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals, including </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blackbird</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Boston Review</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gulf Coast</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Indiana Review</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">jubilat</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New American </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Writing</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">West Branch</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she has been the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Vermont Studio Center, Academy of American Poets and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University, The Writing Salon, and as a Teaching Artist for Performing Arts Workshop, a youth arts education non-profit.</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-3b6b955a-7fff-c84a-3f15-30551b04ad78"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brenda Hillman</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is the author of 10 collections from Wesleyan University Press, most recently </span></span><a href="https://www.upne.com/0819578051.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Extra Hidden Life, among the Days </span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(2018), </span><a href="https://www.upne.com/0819574145.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire </span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(2013), and</span><a href="https://www.upne.com/0819569318.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Practical Water </span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666;">(2011).</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666;"> Hillman recently co-translated</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.parlorpress.com/freeverse/cesar" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At Your Feet</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the poems of Ana Cristina Cesar</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666;"> (</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666;">Free Verse Editions, 2018). She lives in the Bay Area with her husband, Robert Hass and is Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California.</span></span></span></div>
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León, PhD, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CantoMundo graduate fellow, Cave Canem graduate fellow, and </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective, has been published in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">numerous journals as a writer of poetry, fiction and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">nonfiction. She is the author of three </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">collections of poetry, </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Canticle-Idols-Raina-J-Leon/dp/1934999334" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Canticle of Idols</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=309&a=248" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Boogeyman Dawn</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=381&a=248" style="text-decoration-line: none;">sombra: (dis)locate</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(2016) and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the chapbook, </span><a href="https://www.nomadicpress.org/store/profetawithoutrefuge" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">profeta without refuge</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (2016)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She has received fellowships and residencies </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">with Macondo, Montana Artists Refuge, the Macdowell Colony, Kimmel Harding Nelson </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and Ragdale, among others. She is a founding </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">editor of </span><a href="http://www.acentosreview.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Acentos Review</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, an online quarterly, international journal devoted to the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">promotion and publication of Latinx arts. She is an associate professor of education at Saint </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mary’s College of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">California. She is currently a teaching poet-in residence at the Museum of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">the African Diaspora in San Francisco. </span></div>
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Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04101418063576226547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8510679580670556409.post-23729379467011889332018-09-15T19:16:00.001-07:002018-09-16T14:57:14.406-07:00Friday, October 5th, feat. Tongo Eisen-Martin, Daniel Tiffany, Andrew Joron, and Ciaran O'Driscoll<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>+ a huge thank you to our generous sponsors!</u></span></div>
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Stanzas from his current project, a book-length poem, have been published, or will be appearing, in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BOMB</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Iowa Review</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FENCE</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Colorado Review</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The Tiny, Journal of Poetics Research</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Australia), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flash Cove </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Australia), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VOLT</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Horsethief</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lute & Drum</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Denver Quarterly</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> New American Writing</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">West Branch</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brooklyn Rail</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bennington Review</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (along with an interview about the project in</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Tupelo Quarterly</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). Tiffany is the author of five full-length collections of poetry, from presses including <u><a href="http://actionbooks.org/daniel-tiffany-privado/">Action Books</a></u>,<u> <a href="https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780978992996/the-dandelion-clock.aspx">Tinfish</a></u>, and </span><a href="https://www.omnidawn.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Omnidawn</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (along with a chapbook from Noemi Press). Poems from </span><a href="https://www.upne.com/0819576781.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Work-Shy</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Wesleyan University Press, 2016)—his most recent collection, produced in collaboration with BLUNT RESEARCH GROUP—have appeared in museum exhibitions in the US and been adapted for theater. His poetry has also appeared in journals such as</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Paris Review</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Poetry</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tin House</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">jubilat</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lana Turner</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Poetry Project Newsletter</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gulf Coast</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chicago Review</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and many others. In addition, he is the author five volumes of <u><a href="https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo7878012.html">literary criticism </a></u>and has published translations from French, Greek, and Italian. He is a recipient of the Chicago Review Poetry Prize and the Berlin Prize (awarded by the American Academy in Berlin).</span></span></div>
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His work has been translated into many languages. The </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Old Women of Magione</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, his fourth collection was published in a dual language edition as Vecchie Donne di Magione by Volumnia Editrice in 2006 and a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Selected Poems </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in Slovene translation, was published in 2013 by Kud France Preseren. In addition he has been represented in many foreign anthologies of Irish poetry. Liverpool University Press published his childhood memoir, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Runner Among Falling Leaves</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, in 2001. His novel, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Year’s Midnight</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, was published by Pighog Press in 2012. He has won a number of awards for his work, including the James Joyce Prize and the Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry.</span></span></div>
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Joron’s previous poetry collections include </span><a href="http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100544320" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(City Lights, 2010), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Removes </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Hard Press, 1999), </span><a href="http://www.blacksquareeditions.org/product-page/fathom-by-andrew-joron" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fathom</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Black Square Editions, 2003), and </span><a href="http://www.floodeditions.com/joron-the-sound-mirror" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Sound Mirror</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Flood Editions, 2008). </span><a href="http://counterpathpress.org/the-cry-at-zeroandrew-joron" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Cry at Zero</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a selection of his prose poems and critical essays, was published by Counterpath Press in 2007. From the German, he has translated the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Literary Essays</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of Marxist-Utopian philosopher Ernst Bloch (Stanford University Press, 1998) and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Perpetual Motion Machine</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by the proto-Dada fantasist Paul Scheerbart (Wakefield Press, 2011). As a musician, Joron plays the theremin in various experimental and free-jazz ensembles. Joron teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vi Khi Nao</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was born in Long Khánh, Vietnam. She is the author of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://blacksunlit.com/sheep-machine/">Sheep Machine</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://blacksunlit.com/sheep-machine/"> </a>(Black Sun Lit, 2018), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780999004920/umbilical-hospital.aspx">Umbilical Hospital</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (1913 Press, 2017), the story collection </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.fc2.org/authors/nao/brief_alphabet.html">A Brief Alphabet of Torture</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which won FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize in 2016, the novel </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://coffeehousepress.org/products/fish-in-exile">Fish In Exile</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://coffeehousepress.org/products/fish-in-exile"> </a>(Coffee House Press, 2016), and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.nightboat.org/title/old-philosopher">The Old Philosopher</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which won the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry in 2014. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Brown University, where she received the John Hawkes and Feldman Prizes in Fiction and the Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Award in Poetry.</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-731cc2d6-0e61-0fff-76db-5220a6c4b185"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jason Bayani </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is the author of </span><a href="http://writebloody.com/shop/products/amulet-by-jason-bayani/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Amulet</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(2013 </span><a href="http://writebloody.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Write Bloody Publishing</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). He's an MFA graduate from Saint Mary's College, a Kundiman fellow, and works as the Artistic Director for </span><a href="https://www.kearnystreet.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kearny Street Workshop</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Jason performs regularly around the country and recently debuted his solo theater show, "Locus of Control" in 2016. His second book, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Locus"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, is forthcoming from </span><a href="https://www.omnidawn.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Omnidawn Publishing</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in 2019.</span></span></span></div>
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Her poems have appeared in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Colorado Review,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Denver Quarterly</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Web Conjunctions</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New American Writing</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Verse</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VOLT</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">OmniVerse</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Witness</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and numerous other journals. She lives in Berkeley, California, and teaches in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alissa Valles</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is the author of the poetry books </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.fourwaybooks.com/books/valles/valles_reviews.php">Orphan Fire</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (2008) and </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anastylosis</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2014), and the editor and co-translator of Polish poet <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060783952/the-collected-poems">Zbigniew Herbert's</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060783952/the-collected-poems"> Collected Poems</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (2007; NY Times Notable Book) and</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Collected Prose </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(2010). </span><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/555923/our-life-grows-by-ryszard-krynicki-translated-from-the-polish-by-alissa-valles-afterword-by-adam-michnik/9781681371603/"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our Life Grows</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Poems of Ryszard Krynicki</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, edited and translated by Valles, is forthcoming from NYRB Poets in November 2017. Her writing has recently appeared in </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bomb,</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BRICK, PEN America </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and elsewhere. She is on the Editorial Board of the Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d90311fc-5a95-57af-263d-70095b674b80"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Dominic Luxford’s </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">scholarship, journalism and reviews have appeared in </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">The Emily Dickinson Journal, The Economist, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">Believer,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">McSweeney’s. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Luxford edited </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">The McSweeney’s Book of Poets Picking Poets</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">, is the founding poetry editor of <a href="https://www.believermag.com/">the </a></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.believermag.com/">Believer</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">magazine, and is a co-founding editor of the McSweeney’s Poetry Series. He lives in San Francisco.</span></span></span></div>
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