Featuring readings by Joanna Klink and Catherine Theis

Wednesday, January 18th
7:30PM

Joanna Klink is the author of They Are Sleeping (University of Georgia Press, 2000), Circadian (Penguin, 2007), and Raptus (Penguin, 2010). Her poems have appeared in Chicago Review, Boston Review, and other journals. A recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award, she has been a permanent member of the University of Montana poetry faculty since the fall of 2001.

Catherine Theis is the author of The Fraud of Good Sleep (Salt, 2011). Her poems have appeared in Fence, Gulf Coast, LIT, Volt, and many other journals. She is the recipient of an Individual Artists Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she lives and works in Chicago.

Featuring readings by Adam Fell, Michelle Taransky, and Aaron McCollough

Wednesday, December 14
7:30PM

Adam Fell is the author of I AM NOT A PIONEER, published by H_NGM_N Books, and the chapbook Ten Keys to Being a Champion On and Off the Field (H_NGM_N, 2010). He is a graduate of UW-Madison & the Iowa Writers’ Workshop & teaches at Edgewood College in Madison, WI, where he co-curates the Monsters of Poetry reading series.

Michelle Taransky is Reviews Editor for Jacket2 and the author of "Barn Burned, Then," (Omnidawn 2009), selected by Marjorie Welish for the 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize. Taransky lives in Philadelphia where she works at Kelly Writers House and teaches writing and poetry at University of Pennsylvania. A chapbook, "No, I Will Be In The Woods" was just published by Brave Men Press.

Aaron McCollough is the author of five books of poetry. His fourth, NO GRAVE CAN HOLD MY BODY DOWN was just released by Ahsahta Press in September, and his fifth, UNDERLIGHT is forthcoming next fall from Ugly Duckling Press. His other books include LITTLE EASE, DOUBLE VENUS, and WELKIN. McCollough is the Librarian for English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan's Hatcher Graduate Library. He lives in Ann Arbor.

Garin Cycholl, Lina ramona Vitkauskas, and Nathan Hoks

Wednesday, November 16

Lina ramona Vitkauskas is the author of THE RANGE OF YOUR AMAZING NOTHING (Ravenna Press, 2010) and the chapbook Failed Star Spawns Planet/Star (dancing girl press, 2006). She is a past curator at Woman Made Gallery. Translator for UniVerse: A United Nations of Poetry. Her work can be found at TriQuarterly, Sharkforum, The Prague Literary Review, The Chicago Review, The Toronto Quarterly, Van Gogh’s Ear (Paris), VLAK (Eds. Louis Armand, Edmund Berrigan), The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books, 2007), Aufgabe, Drunken Boat, and MiPoesias, among others. She was the recipient of The Poetry Center of Chicago’s 15th Annual Juried Reading award, judged by Brenda Hillman.

Garin Cycholl’s recent work includes The Bonegatherer, a book-length poem that rethinks the history of Chicago’s West Side through the Cook County Hospital Emergency Room. His work has appeared with Admit2, Rain Taxi, Exquisite Corpse, New American Writing, and Seven Corners. He is also the author of Blue Mound to 161 (winner of the 2003 Transcontinental Prize), Nightbirds, Levitations, Raeftown Georgics, and Hostile Witness (BlazeVox 2009.) Since 2002, he has been a member of the Jimmy Wynn fiction collaborative.

Nathan Hoks’ first book, Reveilles, won Salt Publishing’s Crashaw Prize. He is also the author of the chapbook Birds Mistaken for Wind and the translator of Arctic Poems, a chapbook of Vicente Huidobro’s poetry. He teaches at Columbia College Chicago. Some of his poems can be read here, here, and here.

Timothy Donnelly and Ted Mathys

Wednesday, October 19th

7:30PM

Timothy Donnelly is the author of The Cloud Corporation (Wave Books, 2010) and Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove Press, 2003). Donnelly’s poems have been published in anthologies such as Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry, as well as magazines and journals including Harper’s, jubilat, The Nation, The Paris Review, PEN America, Ploughshares, TriQuartely and various others. His work has also been translated in German and Italian. A graduate of Johns Hopkins, Columbia and Princeton Universities, he is a poetry editor for Boston Review and teaches in the Writing Program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters.

Ted Mathys is the author of The Spoils (2009) and Forge (2005), both from Coffee House Press. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and his poems have appeared in BOMB, Fence, Conjunctions, Jubilat, and elsewhere. He lives in Saint Louis.

Wednesday, September 14th

Ashley Capps received an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her first book of poems, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields, was published in 2006. She has held fellowships from the Iowa Arts Council, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the NEA. She lives in Bloomington, IL.

Gabriel Gudding is the author of _Rhode Island Notebook_ (Dalkey, 2007) and _A Defense of Poetry_ (Pitt, 2002), and recently three or so chapbooks. His work appears in such anthologies as _&Now: Best Innovative Writing_, _Great American Prose Poems_, and _Best American Poetry_. He teaches poetics, literature, and poetry writing at Illinois State University.

Nick Demske is the author of Nick Demske (FENCE Books, 2010), curator and host of the BONK! reading and performance series in Racine, WI., where he works as a librarian, and then some. More of his thoughts and works can be found at: http://nickipoo.wordpress.com/

THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY

Wednesday, August 24th
7:30PM
Danny's Tavern

Celebrate our 10th anniversary with Anthony McCann, Jessica Savitz, and Jason Bredle.

Anthony McCann is the author of I ♥ Your Fate (Wave Books, 2011), Moongarden (Wave Books, 2006) and Father of Noise (Fence Books, 2003). In addition to these three collections, he is one of the authors of Gentle Reader! (2007), a book of erasures of the English Romantics, along with Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer. Currently he lives in Los Angeles, where he works with Machine Project and teaches in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts.

Jessica Savitz is a graduate of Kenyon College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She was the inaugural winner of the Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer’s Residency Prize, and Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books released her book Hunting is Painting last fall. Savitz lives in Chicago with her husband and their two wondrous daughters.

Jason Bredle is the author of three books and three chapbooks, most recently

Smiles of the Unstoppable and The Book of Evil. His fourth book, Carnival, is forthcoming from the University of Akron Press in spring 2012. He lives in Chicago.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8th

ABRAHAM SMITH AND STEVE TIMM

7:30PM

ABRAHAM SMITH Abraham Smith hails from Ladysmith, Wisconsin. His books--Hank & Whim Man Mammon--were published by Action Books. Smith holds an MFA from University of Alabama, where he works as Instructor of English. For the next few months, he'll be riding Farmall tractors and cobbling together a cabin in the woods. Stop on by; bring your whiskey still!

STEVE TIMM is the author of a new book, Un storia, and an old one, Disparity, both from BlazeVOX Books, and three chapbooks, one of which, ’n’altra storio, can be found on Bathroom Magazine's web site [in case you'd like to have a look.] He teaches English as a second language at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.