9th Anniversary Reading

Featuring readings by Patrick Culliton, Devin King, and Caroline Picard

Patrick Culliton’s chapbook Hornet Homily is available from Octopus Books. Recent work has appeared, or will soon, in Another Chicago Magazine, Beeswax, Conduit, Eleven Eleven and elsewhere. He teaches at UIC and Loyola.

Devin King's first book CLOPS is out from the Green Lantern Press. He lives and works in Chicago.

Caroline Picard is a visual artist, the Founding Director of The Green Lantern Gallery & Press, and a Co-Editor for the literary podcast The Parlor (www. theparlorreads.com). Her writing has been published in a handful of publications including the Phildelphia Independant, NewCity, Lumpen, MAKE Magazine, the Chicago Art Journal Review and Proximity Magazine.

Happy Summertime

We are currently on summer break. Join us on August 18th for our ninth anniversary reading!

Featuring Caroline Picard, Patrick Culliton, and Devin King. More about our future schedule very soon...

Release reading for Suzanne Buffam and John Beer
Wednesday, June 9th, 7:30PM


Suzanne Buffam’s first book, Past Imperfect, was published in 2005 by House of Anansi Press. The Irrationalist, her second book, was published in the U.S. by Canarium Books and in Canada by House of Anansi Press in April 2010. She’s the recipient of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the CBC Literary Award for Poetry, and her poems have appeared in Boston Review, A Public Space, jubilat, Poetry, and many other journals. She lives in Chicago.




John Beer's first book, The Waste Land and Other Poems, was published by Canarium Books in April 2010. His work has appeared in Verse, The Brooklyn Rail, Denver Quarterly, Crowd, and elsewhere.

Jeff Clark and Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Wednesday, May 12th
7:30PM


Jeff Clark was born in 1971 in southern California. He was a first- team all-league middle linebacker for the Mission Viejo Diablos, and their defensive high-point player for 1989. He went to UC Davis for football, attended three practices, and then after a few months practicing with Davis's baseball team, he developed an interest in poetry and became immersed in the Davis music community. He went to the Iowa Writers Workshop, in 1995 returned to the Bay Area, and in 1997 his first book, The Little Door Slides Back, was published by Sun & Moon. Its first printing sold out, was let go by Sun & Moon, and was reissued in 2004 by Farrar Straus Giroux, who published his second book, Music and Suicide, the same year. He has also written Ruins (Turtle Point Press, 2009) and 2A (Quemadura, 2006; with Geoffrey G. O'Brien). Since 1996 Clark has made his living as a book designer, first with Wilsted & Taylor in Oakland, CA, and now as Quemadura (www.quemadura.net). He lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan.



Geoffrey G. O’Brien is the author of Green and Gray and The Guns and Flags Project, both from The University of California Press, and coauthor (in collaboration with the poet Jeff Clark) of 2A (Quemadura, 2006); his third collection, Metropole, is forthcoming from The University of California Press in 2011. A chapbook, Poem with No Good Lines, is recently out from Hand Held Editions and another, Hesiod, will be out in July from The Song Cave. He is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley and also teaches at San Quentin State Prison.

http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520250192

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Dara Wier and Michael Robins

Wednesday, April 28th at 7:30PM Sharp.

Dara Wier's ten previous books include Remnants of Hannah (Wave Books, 2006) and Reverse Rapture (Verse Press, 2005), which was awarded the Poetry Center Book Award. Her work has received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and The American Poetry Review. She lives and works in Amherst where she directs the University of Massachusetts MFA Program for Poets and Writers.

http://www.wavepoetry.com/catalog/77-selected-poems?page=&by=new

Michael Robins is the author of the chapbook Circus (Flying Guillotine Press, 2009) and The Next Settlement (UNT Press, 2007), which received the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. He was born in Portland, Oregon, and lives in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago.

http://web3.unt.edu/untpress/catalog/detail.cfm?ID=272
http://flyingguillotinepress.blogspot.com/2009/10/circus-by-michael-robins.html

Tipton and Snyder

Wednesday, March 10th

7:30 PM Sharp

Featuring poetry by John Tipton and Rick Snyder

John Tipton has two books, surfaces and a translation of Sophocles' Ajax. Both were published by Flood Editions. He is the director of the the Chicago Poetry Project.

http://www.floodeditions.com/tipton-catalogue

Rick Sniyder is the author of Escape from Combray (Ugly Duckling). His poems have appeared in print and online journals such as 6×6, Aufgabe, Barrow Street, Dusie, Hanging Loose, jubilat, LIT, LVNG, Lungfull!, Milk, Open City, The Poker, Radical Society, Readme, Skanky Possum, and TheEastVillage. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at the University of Southern California.


http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/item/?pubID=2