The Clean Part Reading Series

The Clean Part Series Is Back!

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And we've moved to a new blog.

Here They Are, Now Come

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Michael Dumanis, Sarah Gridley

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Dear All,

This Saturday March 28th at 7pm Michael Dumanis and Sarah Gridley!!!

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Sat Dec 13 7pm Sasha Steensen, Eric Baus

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Sat Dec 13 7pm Sheldon Art Museum

Sasha Steensen!!! Eric Baus!!!

SAT NOV 8 at 7pm

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Kazim Ali

Katy Lederer

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Oct 9--Peter Gizzi, Julie Carr 7pm!

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PETER GIZZI is the author of The Outernationale, Some Values of Landscape and Weather, Artificial Heart, and Periplum and other poems 1987-1992. He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks, folios, and artist books. His work has been translated into numerous languages and anthologized here and abroad. His honors include the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets and fellowships in poetry from The Fund for Poetry, The Rex Foundation, Howard Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He has held residencies at The MacDowell Colony, The Foundation of French Literature at Royaumont, Un Bureau Sur L'Atlantique, and the Centre International de Poesie Marseille (cipM). His editing projects have included o•blék: a journal of language arts, The Exact Change Yearbook, The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer and My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer. He is currently the poetry editor for The Nation. He works at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Julie Carr is the author of Mead: An Epithalamion, and Equivocal. She has poems and essays in Volt, Verse, American Letters and Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Women Studies Quarterly, and English Language Notes. Poems of hers have also appeared in Best American Poetry 2007 and in the anthology, Not for Mothers Only (Fence Books). Carr teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and is the copublisher, with Tim Roberts, of Counterpath Press.

Peter Gizzi, Julie Carr--Clean Part #2

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Clean Part Installment #2--Peter Gizzi, Julie Carr

Thursday October 9 at 7:00pm
Sheldon Museum of Art

Clean Part Installment #1 Saturday Sept 13 7:00pm Laynie Browne and Ange Mlinko!!!

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The Clean Part Reading Series and the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Present:

Laynie Browne's most recent collections are The Scented Fox, recipient of the 2007 National Poetry Series Award, selected by Alice Notley (Wave Books), Daily Sonnets (Counterpath Books, 2007), and Drawing of a Swan Before Memory, winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series (University of Georgia Press, 2005).With others she helped organize the Ear Inn reading series in New York. She was a member of the Subtext Collective in Seattle, and is now as part of the POG Reading Series Tucson Arizona. She has taught creative writing at The University of Washington, Bothell, at Mills College in Oakland, California, and at the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona, where she is currently developing a new a poetry-in-the-schools program for K-5 schools.

Ange Mlinko is the author of two books, Matinees (Zoland Books, 1999) and Starred Wire (Coffee House Press, 2005) which was a National Poetry Series winner in 2004, and a finalist for the James Laughlin Award. She has taught poetry at Brown University, the Naropa University Summer Writing Program, and Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. Her poems are about urban life, about language and its failings, about the things we see and do not see. She is often compared to Frank O'Hara. The New Yorker praised her "unique sense of humor and mystery."

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery R and 12th St.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!

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Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!

Clean Part, Clean Part, Clean Part!

Fall, Fall, Fall!

Browne, Mlinko, Gizzi, Carr, Lederer, Ali, Baus, The Pines, and more!

Another rough and tumble season!

It's gonna look like this:

And this:

And probably this too:

Stay tuned!

Details soon!

Poets on Painters Reading, This Saturday

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The Clean Part Reading Series & The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Present a poetry reading to celebrate
The Poets on Painters

Featuring a reading by poets
Corina Copp
Paul Killebrew

And a discussion of the show by curator
Katie Geha

Saturday April 26th
7pm

Sheldon Memorial Gallery
12th & R Streets

This Saturday The Clean Part Reading Series and the Sheldon will be hosting a reading and discussion in conjunction with the opening of the Poets on Painters show at the Sheldon. Corina Copp and Paul Killebrew, two poets featured in the show, will be at the Sheldon to read from their work. Co-Curator Katie Geha will discuss her work with the show.

A visual and literary exhibition that pairs 20 contemporary poets with 20 contemporary paintings, Poets on Painters opens at the Sheldon on April 26. Each poet’s response to a painting will be displayed alongside the artwork. A sampling of today’s written and visual arts, Poets on Painters focuses on the intrinsic and fascinating connections between two of the oldest art forms as seen by some of their newest practitioners.

To view a slide show of the artworks, please click: Poets on Painters Slide Show.

Poets on Painters recalls 20th-century collaborations between Apollinaire and Duchamp, Stein and Picasso, and O’Hara and Rivers in its playful examination of how poetry and painting converge and diverge in the 21st century. The internationally recognized visual and literary artists included in the exhibition represent a vast array of styles and approaches, both traditional and experimental.

The project includes such notables as painters Mark Grotjahn, Sam Prekop, Laura Owens, Monique Prieto and Dana Schutz, and poets Jeff Clark, Joshua Marie Wilkinson Noah Eli Gordon and Sawako Nakayasu.

Organized by the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita, Kansas, the exhibition is curated by Katie Geha, former curator of modern and contemporary art at the Ulrich, and Travis Nichols, a freelance writer based in Seattle.

Bios:

Corina Copp hails from Lawrence, KS, Boulder, CO, and New Orleans, LA. She is most recently the author of the e-book, Carpeted (Faux Press, 2004) and Play Air (Belladonna* Books, 2005). Her poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming from Fence, The Germ, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Pom2, and Magazine Cypress. She is the Monday Night Reading Series Coordinator at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, and lives in Brooklyn.

You can read her work at:

http://www.fauxpress.com/e/copp/p1.htm
http://www.fencemag.com/v7n2/text/copp.html
http://germspot.blogspot.com/2005/09/corina-copp-p1.htm

Paul Killebrew has published work on Slope, La Petite Zine, and McSweeneys. he is the author of Inspector Vs. Evader, published by Ugly Duckling Presse.

You can read his work at:
http://www.lapetitezine.org/PaulKillebrew.htm
http://www.softtargetsjournal.com/v11/paul_killebrew.php

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Adam Clay is the author of The Wash (Parlor Press) and Canoe (Horse Less Press). His poems have appeared in A Public Space, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Sycamore Review, Court Green, and elsewhere.

Kate Greenstreet is the author of case sensitive (Ahsahta Press, 2006) and three chapbooks, Learning the Language (Etherdome Press, 2005), Rushes (above/ground press, 2007), and This is why I hurt you (Lame House Press, forthcoming). Statues, a Big Game Books tinyside, was available briefly in 2006. Last March, Flash+Card published In Paradise there is no art, a boxed set of 12 notecards (fragments of writing & art). Greenstreet's poems have appeared most recently in Handsome, Fascicle, Ocho, The Literary Review, and KELR (a "translation" collaboration with Bob Hicok). New work is forthcoming in Practice, Wildlife, Filling Station, Hotel Amerika, and Columbia Poetry Review. Her second book, The Last 4 Things, will be out from Ahsahta in 2009.

Anthony Hawley is the author of two full-length collections of poetry Forget Reading (2008) and The Concerto Form (2006) and four chapbooks Autobiography/Oughtabiography (Counterpath Press 2007), Record-breakers (Ori is the New Apple Press 2007), Afield (Ugly Duckling Presse 2004) and Vocative (Phylum Press 2004). Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Hat, The Tiny, 26, 1913, and Verse. He currently teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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Sat. Feb. 16, 2008. 7pm: John Gallaher, Wayne Miller & Betsy Wheeler

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John Gallaher is the author of Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls (2001), The Little Book of Guesses (2007), and Radio Good Luck (forthcoming 2010). His poems appear or are forthcoming in New American Writing, Field, Colorado Review, and The Best American Poetry 2008. he lives in rural Missouri and co-edits The Laurel Review.

Wayne Miller is the author of a collection of poems, Only the Senses Sleep (New Issues, 2006), and a chapbook, What Night Says to the Empty Boat (Greentower, 2005). He's also translator of I Don't Believe in Ghosts (BOA, 2007), by Albanian poet Moikom Zeqo, and co-editor of the forthcoming anthology New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008). Wayne lives in Kansas City and teaches at the University of Central Missouri, where he edits Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing.

Originally from the Upper Mississippi River Valley, Betsy Wheeler studied poetry and the art of the book at the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse where she was a Maple House Fellow for Sutton Hoo Press. She received her MFA in poetry from The Ohio State University in 2005, then lived, worked, and wrote as the Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University's Stadler Center for Poetry from 2005-2007. Her poems have recently appeared in Bat City Review, MiPoesias, Pebble Lake Review, Forklift Ohio, Ping Pong, and Absent. Her chapbook, Start Here, is available from Small Anchor Press. Co-editor of Pilot and Pilot Books, she lives in Northampton, Massachusetts where she works for Wondertime magazine.

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Winners of January's Clean Part raffled-off door prizes:

Joshua Marie Wilkinson of Chicago, IL. Chocolate/Walnut Banana Bread.

Tim Marcuson of Lincoln, NE. Chocolate/Walnut Banana Bread.

Not Pictured: Anthony Hawley of Lincoln, NE. Chocolate/Walnut Banana Bread.
Not Pictured: Rachel. Boston Creme Torte.

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Sat. Jan. 19, 2008. 7pm: Claire Becker, Lily Brown & Steve Langan

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Claire Becker lives in Oakland and teaches at the California School for the Blind. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in H_ngm_n, Typo Magazine, The Alembic, Octopus Magazine, 580 Split, Tarpaulin Sky and The Tiny. She holds an MFA from Saint Mary's College and is the author of the chapbook Untoward from Lame House Press.

Lily Brown holds an M.F.A. from Saint Mary's College of California and currently lives in San Francisco. Her first chapbook, The Renaissance Sheet, was published by Octopus Books in 2007. Her second chapbook, Old with You, is forthcoming from Kitchen Press. Poems have appeared in Typo, Octopus, Tarpaulin Sky, Fence, Coconut and Handsome. New work is forthcoming in Pleiades, 26 and Cannibal.

Steve Langan is the author Freezing, from New Issues Press, and Notes on Exile & Other Poems, a chapbook that received the Weldon Kees Award from Backwaters Press. His poems are in recent issues of Beloit Poetry Journal, Drunken Boat, Tarpaulin Sky and Zoland Poetry. He lives in Omaha, where he's the director of a non-profit health agency, and he teaches in the University of Nebraska MFA in Writing program.

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Cynthia Arrieu-King! Jason Bredle! Jen Tynes! Saturday, Dec 1st! 7 pm! Sheldon Art Gallery!

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Cynthia Arrieu-King is a doctoral candidate at the University of
Cincinnati and an echocardiographer. Her chapbook The Small Anything
City won the Dream Horse Press National Chapbook Contest in 2006.
She's been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts,
Kundiman, and the Juniper Summer Writer's Institute. Her poems have
appeared in Prairie Schooner, Diagram, Forklift, Ohio, Copper Nickel,
etc.

Jason Bredle is the author of Pain Fantasy (Red Morning Press),
Standing in Line for the Beast (New Issues), and A Twelve Step Guide
(New Michigan Press). He lives in Chicago.

Jen Tynes edits horse less press. She is the author of The End Of Rude
Handles (Red Morning Press 2006), See Also Electric Light (Dancing
Girl Press 2007), and, with Erika Howsare, The Ohio System (Octopus
Books 2007). Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in
Denver Quarterly, Tarpaulin Sky, LIT, and The Bedside Guide To No Tell
Motel: Second Floor.

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Winner of October's Clean Part Tort giveaway, Heather Green!

Sat Oct 27th, 7pm, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery: Ana Bozicevic-Bowling, Julia Cohen & Ken Rumble

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Ana Bozicevic-Bowling is a Croatian poet writing in English & the author of two chapbooks: Morning News (Kitchen Press, 2006) and Document (Octopus Books, forthcoming). Her recent poems are or will be in Octopus Magazine, The New York Quarterly, Denver Quarterly, In Posse, The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel - Second Floor and Outside Voices 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets. She coedits RealPoetik and works at PEN American Center in New York City.

Read her poems here
here
here
here

And read an interview with her here

Julia Cohen's chapbook, If Fire, Arrival, is out with horse less press. Her other chapbooks, Who Could Forget the Sensational First Evening of the Night (Hangman Books), When We Broke the Microscope (written with Mathias Svalina, Small Fires Press), and The History of a Lake Never Drowns (Dancing Girl Press) are forthcoming this year. Here are some of her poems from The Adirondack Review and h_ngm_n. You can find more links to her poems on her blog. She lives in Brooklyn

Read her poems here
here
here
& here

Ken Rumble is the author of Key Bridge (Carolina Wren Press, 2007) which one reviewer describes as an "exuberant free-verse tour of Washington, D.C." He works as the marketing director for the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art and lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his daughter. His poems have appeared in the literary journals Octopus, Fascicle, Coconut, Cutbank, Parakeet, the tiny, Carolina Quarterly, and others. He is currently at work with his father on a nonfiction book about the Antarctic ozone hole.

Read his poems here
here
here
& here

Sat Sept 8th

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Joyelle McSweeney, Johannes Göransson & John Gallaher: September 8, 7pm, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery

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John Gallaher is the author of Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls (SD 2001), The Little Book of Guesses (Four Way Books Levis Poetry prize, 2007), and Looselife (Four Way Books, forthcoming). Recent poems appear in jubilat, Denver Quarterly, and Colorado Review, and online at Caffeine Destiny and Pilot Poetry. He lives in rural Missouri and co-edits The Laurel Review.

Samples of his work can be read
here,
here,
& here.

Johannes Göransson is the co-editor of Action Books and Action,Yes and a PhD candidate at the U of Georgia. He has a couple of books of poetry and a novel coming out in the near future, as well as a translation of Finland-Swedish Dadaist Henry Parland's Ideals Clearance (originally published in 1929). He has also translated Remainland: Selected Poems of Aase Berg.

Samples of his work can be read
here,
here,
here
& here.

Joyelle McSweeney is the author of The Red Bird and The Commandrine and Other Poems, both from Fence. She is a co-founder and co-editor of Action Books and Action, Yes, a press and web quarterly for international writing and hybrid forms. She writes regular reviews for Rain Taxi, The Constant Critic, and other venues and teaches in the MFA Program at Notre Dame. Her next book will be the science fiction novel Flet, forthcoming from Fence in 2008.

Samples of her work can be read
here,
here,
here,
& here.

Reading Schedule for the 07/08 Season

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Sat 9-8 Joyelle McSweeney, Johannes Göransson & John Gallaher

Sat 10-27 Ana Bozicevic-Bowling & Julia Cohen & Ken Rumble

Sat 12-1 Jen Tynes & Jason Bredle, Cynthia Arrieu-King & Dorothea Lasky

Sat 1-19 Claire Becker, Lily Brown & Steve Langan

Sat 2-16 Lori Shine & Betsy Wheeler

Sat 3-8 Kate Greenstreet, Alex Lemon & Adam Clay

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Laura Sims, Hadara Bar-Nadav, & Michael Dumanis at The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery: Sat, April 14th, 7pm

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Hadara Bar-Nadav's recent publications appear or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Chelsea, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, The Journal, TriQuarterly, Verse, and other journals. Her book of poems A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight was chosen by Kim Addonizio as the winner of the MARGIE First Book Prize and is now available. Born in New York and former resident of Lincoln, she currently lives in Minnesota and is an Assistant Professor of English at St. John's University.

Read sample poems at her website.

Laura Sims's first book of poetry, Practice, Restraint, won the 2005 Fence Books Alberta Prize. She is also the author of the chapbooks Bank Book (Answer Tag, 2004), Paperback Book (3rd Bed, 2006), & Corrections (Bronze Skull, 2006). Her poems have appeared in First Intensity, 26, How2, 6X6, La Petite Zine, Columbia Poetry Review, jubilat, LIT, Boston Review, Indiana Review, & 3rd Bed & other journals. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Read sample poems here and here. Read interviews with Laura here and here.

Michael Dumanis' first collection, entitled My Soviet Union, will be available at the reading Saturday. Dumanis holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a PhD from the University of Houston. Currently an assistant professor of English at Nebraska Wesleyan University , he is coeditor of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande, 2006).

Saturday

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Sat. Mar. 24, 2007. 7pm: Joshua Poteat & Allison Titus

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Allison Titus has poems in Caketrain, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly,
jubilat & Typo. Her manuscript Barter, Fasten was a finalist in the
2006 National Poetry Series competition. She is the co-editor of the
new journal Handsome. She lives in Richmond, VA where she is at work
on a novel.

Read some poems of hers:

here,
here,
& here.

Joshua Poteat's Ornithologies won the 2004 Anhinga Prize for Poetry, &
his chapbook Meditations won the Poetry Society of Americas 2004
National Chapbook Award. He has won awards from American Literary
Review, River City, Nebraska Review, Marlboro Review, Columbia,
Bellingham Review & others. He has new poems in Virginia Quarterly
Review & Ninth Letter.

Read some of his poems
here,
here,
& here.

Read an interview with him
here.

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Sat. Feb. 10, 2007. 7pm: Sandy Florian, Sommer Browning & Julie Doxsee

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Sandy Florian was born in New York and raised in Latin America. She is of Colombian and Puerto Rican descent. She holds an MFA from Brown University's Creative Writing Program in Fiction. At Brown, she was the recipient for the Francis Mason Harris Award for best book-length manuscript written by a woman. She was also the recipient of the New Voices Sudden Fiction Prize in Cambridge. She is currently pursuing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver. Her work appears in the following journals: Indiana Review, Bombay Gin, Shampoo, La Petite Zine, Washington Square Review, 14 Hills, elimae, New Orleans Review, eratio, Tarpaulin Sky, Gargoyle, 42 Opus, Copper Nickel, Upstairs at Duroc, Word For/Word, Segue, Versal, Horse Less Review, Identity Theory, The Encyclopedia Project, Elixir, dANDelion, The Brooklyn Rail, and others.

Read her poems
here,
here,
here,
& here.

Sommer Browning writes poems & draws comix in Brooklyn, New York. Her poems can or will soon be found at spork, The New York Quarterly, Forklift, Ohio, word for/word and elsewhere. Visit her comix at Asthma Chronicles &, if you're ever in Brooklyn, the poetry reading series she hosts at Pete's Candy Store.

Read her poems
here,
here
& here

Julie Doxsee received her MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002. After graduation she held adjunct positions at Columbia College and Loyola University Chicago before moving to Denver in 2004 to become an instructor and PhD candidate in the English department at the University of Denver. With the completion of two manuscripts in late 2005, her poems have appeared recently in over twenty-five journals, including Aufgabe, Fourteen Hills, and Tarpaulin Sky. A chapbook, The Knife-Grasses, and a book, Undersleep (Winter 2007/2008) are forthcoming from Octopus Books.

Read her poems
here,
here,
here
& here.

Saturday Nov. 18, 2006, 7PM: G.C. Waldrep, Kerri Sonnenberg & Kristi Maxwell

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Saturday Nov. 18, 2006, 7PM: G.C. Waldrep, Kerri Sonnenberg & Kristi Maxwell

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Kristi Maxwell, author of Realm Sixty-Four (forthcoming from Ahsahta Press), is pursuing her doctorate at the University of Cincinnati. Her poems have most recently appeared in 580 Split, Coconut, How2, Spinning Jenny & Tarpaulin Sky, & her poems are forthcoming in Backwards City Review, BirdDog, Lit, POOL & the tiny. In her non-language-related time, she likes to practice kung fu.

Read some of her work
Here
Here
Here
& Here

Kerri Sonnenberg lives in Chicago where she directs the Discrete Reading Series. In 2004 Litmus Press published her first book, The Mudra. Her chapbook, Practical Art Criticism (Bronze Skull Press, 2004), will be included in the forthcoming anthology The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab, 2008). Recent writings appear in MiPoesias, Magazine Cypress, Factorial & in the Unpleasant Event Schedule.

Read some of here work
Here
Here
Here
& Here

G.C. Waldrep's first book of poems, Goldbeater's Skin, won the 2003 Colorado Prize for Poetry, judged by Donald Revell. His second full-length book, Disclamor, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in 2007. He is also the author of two chapbooks, The Batteries (New Michigan Press, 2006) & One Way No Exit (Burning Chair, 2006). His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, New England Review, Georgia Review, American Letters & Commentary, Slope, Octopus, Tin House, New American Writing, & other journals. He teaches at Kenyon College in Ohio.

Read some of his work
Here
Here
Here
& Here

Sat. Oct. 28. 7 PM. Karla Kelsey, Matt Hart, and Aaron McCollough

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Saturday Oct. 28, 7PM: Matt Hart, Karla Kelsey & Aaron McCollough

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Matt Hart is the author of the poetry collection, Who's Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006) and the chapbooks, Revelated (Hollyridge Press, 2005) & Sonnet (H_NGM_N Books, 2006). His work has appeared in many print and online journals, including The Canary, Coconut, Lungfull! & Octopus . A co-founder and editor of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety, he lives in Ohio with his wife & daughter & teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

2 Poems in Coconut #5
5 Poems in Siren #1
2 Poems in Alice Blue Review #1
3 Poems in Konundrum Engine Literary Review
Sonnet collaborations w/Ethan Paquin in Tarpaulin Sky

The website for his band Travel (all the tracks can be downloaded for free)

Karla Kelsey is a graduate of the University of Denver (PhD) & the Iowa Writer's Workshop (MFA). Knowledge, Forms, the Aviary, her first book of poems, won the 2005 Sawtooth Poetry prize judged by Carolyn Forche & is out from Ahsahta Press. She has recently finished a book-length manuscript based on the sonnet called Iteration Nets; poems from this book can be found in recent issues of the Denver Quarterly, Bird Dog, & the New Review of Literature. Along with her husband Peter & dog Jessa-Belle she lives on the Susquehanna River.

An Introduction & Poems in The Boston Review
1 Poem in GutCult
6 Poems in Drunken Boat

Aaron McCollough's third book of poems, Little Ease, was released in September by Ahsahta Press. His other books include Double Venus (Salt, 2003) and Welkin (Ahsahta, 2002). McCollough lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is the editor of the online poetry magazine GutCult.

2 Poems on Jacket
1 Poem on Typo
4 Poems on Word/For Word
2 Longer Poems on Slope

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Friday, Sept 22, 7pm at The Sheldon Art Gallery: Grace Bauer, Gabriel Gudding & Nathan Bartel

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Nathan Bartel grew up in the Colorado Rockies, & recieved his MFA at the University of Montana, where he was a Richard Hugo scholar. Hewas a 2004 Ruth Lilly Fellow, & a 2005-2006 Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. He has published poems & reviews in Cutbank, The Common Review & Shankpainter. He teaches at his undergraduate alma mater, Bethel College, & lives in Newton, KS.

Grace Bauer’s is the author of Beholding Eye (CustomWords, 2006) and The Women At The Well (Portals Press, 1997), as well as three chapbooks of poems: Where You’ve Seen Her (Pennywhistle Press), The House Where I’ve Never Lived (Anabiosis Press), and Field Guide To The Ineffable: Poems On Marcel Duchamp (Snail’s Pace Press). Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including: Arts & Letters, Colorado Review, Doubletake, Margie, Poetry, Rattle, Southern Poetry Review, and others. She has received an Academy of American Poets’ Prize, and Individual Artist Grants from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Nebraska Arts Council, as well as fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. She is co-editor (with Julie Kane) of the anthology, Umpteen Ways Of Looking At A Possum: Creative And Critical Responses To Everette Maddox (Xavier Review Press). In August 2006, her manuscript was chosen by Robert Pack as winner of the Idaho Poetry Prize. The winning manuscript, Retreats & Recognitions, will be published by Lost Horse Press in 2007. She teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Gabriel Gudding is the author of two books, A Defense of Poetry (Pitt Poetry Series, 2002) and rhode island notebook (Dalkey Archive Press, 2008), the latter being a book he wrote entirely in his car during 25 roundtrips on the highways between Providence, RI and Normal, IL. A resident of Normal, Illinois since 2002, he is an Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Illinois State University. He is a trained mediator for the university and practices Vipassana meditation in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin. A winner of the Starrett Prize, the Nation Discovery Award, his work appears in such venues as New American Writing, LIT, Fence, American Poetry Review, Sentence, Jacket, and in such anthologies as Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner, 2003). He serves on the Board of Directors for the internationalist magazine Mandorla: New Writing from the Americans/ Nueva Escritura de las Américas. He has begun two creative writing programs in prisons and maintains a blog, Conchology. And oh yeah: "Gudding" rhymes with pudding.

The Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour

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at The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
12 & R Streets, Lincoln, Nebraska
September 11th, 7-9PM

Joshua Beckman
Matthew Zapruder
Anthony McCann
Erin Belieu
Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Anselm Berrigan
Michael Dumanis
Grace Bauer
Zachary Schomburg
Mathias Svalina

The Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour will be stopping in Lincoln Monday Sept. 11th. Stopping at 50 cities in 50 days, the Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour is the biggest literary event of 2006. Beginning September 4 and ending October 27, over one hundred poets, along with musicians, filmmakers and journalists, will participate as the bus traverses North America, bringing innovative poetry to big cities and small towns across the U.S. and Canada. Sponsored by Wave Books, the poetry bus will go more places with more poets reading more poems than was ever previously believed possible.

Touring poets Joshua Beckman, Matthew Zapruder, Anthony McCann, Erin Belieu, Joshua Marie Wilkinson & Anselm Berrigan are teaming up with local poets Michael Dumanis, Grace Bauer, Zachary Schomburg & Mathias Svalina to bring you a night of fun-filled poetry antics.

In addition to the Sheldon the tour's venues include: The Space Needle in Seattle, WA; The Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD; The Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, MN; The Bama Theater in Tuscaloosa, AL; James Turrell’s Roden Crater in AZ; Dia:Beacon in Beacon, NY; Dia Art Foundation in New York, NY; as well as bookstores, galleries, clubs, prisons and schools across the continent.

Participating poets throughout the entire tour include: Eileen Myles, James Tate, Cole Swensen, Dean Young, Joshua Beckman, Noelle Kocot, Matthew Zapruder, Tyehimba Jess, Hoa Nguyen, Richard Siken, Katy Lederer, Dara Wier, Arthur Sze, Catherine Wagner, Srikanth Reddy, Matthew Rohrer, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Bhanu Kapil and over 100 more.

This is going to be fun.

The Coming Year

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We're almost done finishing the schedule--
we'll let you know as soon as it's ready.

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The Clean Part is going to be rocking the Sheldon this upcoming year. See look.

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Ashley (middle) won the pie. The raffle was not rigged. The pie was not coconut cream (yes it was).

June 17th: Cisewski, Patterson & Fox

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Paula Cisewski is the author of Upon Arrival (Black Ocean, 2006) and the chapbook How Birds Work (Fuori Editions, 2002). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Swink, Hunger Mountain, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Spinning Jenny, Forklift OH, Swerve, Conduit, and Puppy Flowers, among other magazines. Paula received her B.A. from the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, MN, and her M.F.A. from Vermont College. She lives in Minneapolis.

Read her poems in Crazy Horse, Conduit (issue #7 in the archive), and at Green Finch Editions.

Juliet Patterson’s first book, The Truant Lover, was selected by Jean Valentine as the 2004 winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and was recently published by Nightboat Books. Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Letters &, Commentary, Bellingham Review, New Orleans Review, Washington Square, Verse and other magazines. She lives near the west bank of the Mississippi in Minneapolis and is an adjunct faculty member at The College of Saint Catherine and Hamline Univeristy.

Read her poems in Diagram, Word For/Word, Typo, and Three Candles.

Sarah Fox lives in Minneapolis with her husband John Colburn and her daughter Nora. She works as a doula, editor of Fuori Editions, and a teacher of poetry and creative writing at schools and literary centers throughout Minnesota. Because Why (Coffee House Press, 2006) is her first book. Photo by Ann Marsden.

Read her poems at The Academy of American Poets Website, Woodland Pattern, and the MN Artists website.

Saturday, June 17th!

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You have six days to prepare.

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Seanna Oakley (middle) was the proud winner of a Kuhl's apple crumb pie at Clean Part #4.

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For the fourth installment of The Clean Part Reading Series we are incredibly pleased to present Hadara Bar-Nadav, Dora Malech & Joshua Edwards reading thier poetry SaturdayMay 13th.

Bio: Hadara Bar-Nadav’s recent publications appear or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Chelsea, Indiana Review, The Journal, Quarterly West, TriQuarterly, Verse, and other journals. Her book of poems, A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight, was chosen by Kim Addonizio for the MARGIE First Book Prize and will be published in spring 2007. This summer, she'll be moving to MN where she'll be hanging out with monks and teaching creative writing.

Read some of her poems here, here and here.

Joshua Edwards edits The Canary with Anthony Robinson and Nick Twemlow. His poems appear in Crowd, Slate, The Tiny, GutCult, 3rd Bed, Colorado Review, 26, LIT, Skanky Possum, and elsewhere. He's spending this summer in trains, Chicago, and Oaxaca, Mexico.

Read his poems here, here, here and here.

Dora Malech is a poet and a visual artist who lives in Iowa City. She is currently the Glenn Schaeffer Poetry Fellow at the University of Iowa, and recently returned from teaching a poetry workshop at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. Her poems have recently appeared in American Letters & Commentary and the Black Warrior Review.

Read her poems here and here.

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Once again, Clean Part went smashingly. Stop by the blogs of its brainchildren, Mathias and Zach for a re-cap. Mathias does a much better job with thank yous and specifics, but Zach has more pictures.

Katie was your Clean Part #3 pie winner. The pie was chocolate.

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Noah Eli Gordon is the author of The Frequencies (Tougher Disguises, 2003), The Area of Sound Called the Subtone (Ahsahta Press, 2004), and the forthcoming A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow (New Issues, 2007) as well as numerous chapbooks, reviews, collaborations & other itinerant writings. Currently teaching at the University of Colorado at Denver, his most recent publication is That We Come To A Consensus, a chapbook written in collaboration with Sara Veglahn and published by Ugly Duckling Presse.

Joshua Marie Wilkinson's most recent book, Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk, is due out from University of Iowa Press next month as winner of the 2005 Iowa Poetry Prize. He is also the author of the recent chapbook, A Ghost as King of the Rabbits, and the book-length poem Suspension of a Secret in Abandoned Rooms, based on an imagined correspondence between Egon Schiele and Ludwig Wittgenstein, which was released last summer. Born and raised in Seattle, Wilkinson holds degrees an MFA in poetry from University of Arizona and an MA in film studies from University College Dublin. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in 14 Hills, Meridian, Burnside Review, Eye Rhyme, Phoebe, CutBank, and Backwards City Review. His first film, a tour documentary about the band Califone entitled Made a Machine by Describing the Landscape, is due out from Thrill Jockey Records later this year. He makes his home in Denver, Colorado, where he teaches literature and writing, works as an editor for the Denver Quarterly, is finishing an anthology, and is completing a doctorate in English and creative writing. His new book of prose poems, entitled With Children on Your Back through the Collating Light, is nearly complete.

Jake Adam York is the author of Murder Ballads, selected by Jane Satterfield for the Fifth Annual Elixir Press Awards Judge's Prize. His poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Oxford American, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, New Orleans Review, Quarterly West, Diagram, Octopus, Southern Review, Poetry Daily, and other journals as well as in the anthologies Visiting Walt (Iowa University Press, 2003) and Digerati (Three Candles, 2006).

His work has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has placed in numerous competitions including the 2004 Campbell Corner Poetry Prize contest, the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award, the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize, and others.

York is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado, where he directs an undergraduate Creative Writing program and produces Copper Nickel with his students.

York is also a contributing editor for Shenandoah, a co-editor of the online journal storySouth and a founding editor of Thicket, an electronic journal dedicated to Alabama writers and Alabama writing. His work of poetic history, The Architecture of Address: The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry, was published by Routledge in 2005. His scholarship has appeared in The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, and his literary essays have appeared in Shenandoah and Florida Humanities Review.

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Mrs. Spencer was the lucky winner of the Clean Part's second pie raffle. She won a fabulous pecan pie from Kuhl's Diner. She looks happy about her Kuhl's pie. You should go there sometime. Kuhl's is at 1038 O Street in Lincoln right next to Gomez.

For more pictures of the second Clean Part, see the Dec. 9 posting here.

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Anthony Hawley & Amanda Nadelberg
Thursday, December 8, 2005. 7:00pm
at the Tugboat Art Gallery
(alley entrance behind Gomez Art Supply)
1028 O Street
Lincoln, NE

Get in FREE - And have a chance to win a terrific prize

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Anthony Hawley grew up in New England and was educated at Columbia University. He is the author of the chapbooks Afield (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2004) and Vocative (Phylum Press, 2004), and his poems have appeared in various magazines including Denver Quarterly, The New Republic, The Paris Review, 26, and Volt. He has served as Poetry Editor of Fence magazine, and his first full-length book of poems, The Concerto Form, will be published by Shearsman Books this spring. He currently teaches literature and writing at UNL, and lives in Lincoln with his wife and daughter.

2 poems in Shampoo
Pork Over Fire in Eleven Bulls
LVII in GutCult
2 poems in can we have our ball back?

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Amanda Nadelberg's first book, Isa the Truck Named Isadore, was selected by Lisa Jarnot as winner of the 4th Annual Slope Editions Book Prize and will be published Spring 2006. Poems have appeared or will appear in Unpleasant Event Schedule, Octopus, TYPO, Conduit, jubilat and No: a journal of the arts. She grew up in Boston and lives in Minneapolis.

My New Pet Word is Mozzarella in McSweeney's
2 poems in can we have our ball back?
3 poems in Unpleasant Event Schedule

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A big congratulations to Nicole de Fee! Nicole (center) was the winner of The Clean Part's first raffle drawing. The first raffle prize was a dutch apple pie.

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See round-ups and pictures of the first Clean Part here, here, here, here, and here.

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Adam Clay, Anne Boyer & Alex Lemon
Saturday, Nov. 5, 2005. 7:00pm.
at the Tugboat Gallery
(alley entrance behind Gomez Art Supply)
1028 O Street
Lincoln, NE

Get in FREE - Peanuts will be provided.

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Adam Clay's first book, The Wash, is forthcoming from Parlor Press (2006). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, Black Warrior Review, Cimarron Review, CutBank, Iowa Review, LIT, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. Adam now teaches composition and literature courses at Northwest Arkansas Community College and co-edits Typo Magazine.

Two poems in Octopus
Damaged Pigments in Tarpaulin Sky
Two Poems in Eleven Bulls
Study in Cartography in Shampoo
Four poems in StorySouth
Three poems in Milk

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Alex Lemon received his B.A. from Macalester College and was awarded an M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota, where he taught courses in literature and creative writing and was the assistant editor of Luna: A Journal of Poetry and Translation. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Cimarron Review, Hayden's Ferry, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Pleiades, Post Road, Swink and Washington Square among numerous other literary journals. His translations (with Wang Ping) of a number of contemporary Chinese poets are forthcoming in New American Writing and other journals. He is the new poetry editor for the online literary journal Konundrum Engine Literary Review.

2 poems in Octopus
Mugging in Typo
Meditation on Beasts and Trees in Square Lake
Mosquito in AGNI
Flourishing in Coconut

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Anne Boyer was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1973. Her poetry and lyric prose have appeared in TYPO, Denver Quarterly, Diagram, New Letters, Shampoo, Exquisite Corpse, KELR, and other journals. She lives in Des Moines, Iowa, where she teaches creative writing.

A Romance of Happy Workers in Typo
Two poems in Diagram
Two poems in Shampoo
Lab Notes in Unpleasant Event Schedule
With Feathers in Paranthetical Note
3 Poems in Kulture Vulture