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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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