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

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

June 17th: Cisewski, Patterson & Fox

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!

You have six days to prepare.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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?

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