MAY 22: Christopher Stackhouse and Chris Glomski

Christopher Stackhouse is a writer and artist. Plural (2012)is a volume of his poetry published by Counterpath Press. Seismosis (2006) is a collaborative book of Stackhouse’s drawings in dialogue with text by writer John Keene, published by 1913 Press. He is a visiting critic at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Hoffberger School of Painting, guest lecturer at Bethel University’s, New York Center for Art & Media Studies, and visiting faculty at Naropa University, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Summer Writing Program in Boulder, Colorado. With artists Jomar Statkun and Jared Friedman, he is a founding member of the art and residency project This Red Door, which begins its third iteration at REH Kunst an arts space in Berlin, Germany this summer from July 1 - August 31 (please visit www.thisreddoor.com). Stackhouse is an advisory board member at Fence Magazine, a contributing editor at Bomb Magazine, and a contributing poetry editor at Vanitas Magazine. He mostly resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Chris Glomski’s second full-length poetry collection, The Nineteenth Century, was published in September 2011 by The Cultural Society.  He was born on an army depot in Pueblo, Colorado and grew up in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, northwest of Chicago.  He resided in Pisa, Italy from 1991 to 1992, free-lancing as an English teacher.  He co-curated the Danny’s Reading Series with Joel Craig from 2006-2010.  Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer in the English department at the University of Illinois, Chicago and lives in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.

April 17: Greenstreet, Olszewska, Wilkinson

Wednesday, April 17

7:30PM Sharp!

Kate Greenstreet's new book Young Tambling is just out from Ahsahta Press. Her previous books are case sensitive and The Last 4 Things, also with Ahsahta. Her poetry can be found in Colorado Review, Boston Review, Volt, Fence, Chicago Review, and other journals.

Daniela Olszewska is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: cloudfang : : cakedirt (Horse Less Press, 2012), True Confessions of an Escapee from The Capra Facility for Wayward Girls (Spittoon Press, 2013), and Citizen J (Artifice Books, forthcoming in Autumn 2013). She lives in Chicago and teaches writing at various community colleges and correctional facilities. 

Joshua Marie Wilkinson's new book is Swamp Isthmus, just out from Black Ocean. He lives in Tucson, where he edits The Volta and Letter Machine Editions.

April 2: Michael Zapruder's Pink Thunder

Tuesday, April 2
7:30PM

One of three Chicago events in celebration of Michael Zapruder’s Pink Thunder, a New Collection of Songs Featuring Collaborations from 23 Poets.

Michael Zapruder will be joined by Billy Blake and the Vagabonds members, Kennedy Greenrod and Reid Coker. Each will perform a few songs from their recent albums, and then answer questions about blending poetry and songwriting. Hosted by Joel Craig and Fred Sasaki. 

Presented by Black Ocean, Danny’s Reading Series, Rational Park, and MAKE Literary Productions

March 13: Lynn Xu and Joshua Edwards

Wednesday, March 13
7:30PM

Lynn Xu was born in Shanghai. Her poems have appeared in 6x6, 1913, Best American Poetry 2008, Boston Review,Octopus, Poor Claudia, and others.  A chapbook, June, was published by Corollary Press in 2006 and her first book, Debts & Lessons, will be published by Omnidawn in spring 2013. She co-edits Canarium Books.

Joshua Edwards directs and co-edits Canarium Books. He's the author of Imperial Nostalgias (Ugly Duckling, 2013) and Campeche (Noemi, 2011), and the translator of Mexican poet María Baranda's Ficticia (Shearsman, 2010). Currently a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, he divides his time between Stuttgart, Germany and Marfa, Texas.

February 20: Corina Copp, Brad Flis, Caryl Pagel

Wednesday, February 20

7:30PM

Corina Copp is most recently the author of Miracle Mare (Trafficker, 2013), and Pro Magenta/Be Met (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011), with publications forthcoming from Bad Press and Minutes Books. Poetry, performance texts, and critical writing can be found at SFMOMA's Open Space, The Claudius App, The Cambridge Literary Review, Boston Review, BOMB, Mrs. Maybe, Hi Zero, and elsewhere. The first installment of her three-part play, The Whole Tragedy of the Inability to Love, was presented at the CUNY Graduate Center's three-day PRELUDE.12 Festival. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Brad Flis is the author of the forthcoming Strong Suits (1913 Press, 2013). He lives in Detroit and does adjunct-work at Wayne State.

Caryl Pagel is the author of Experiments I Should Like Tried At My Own Death (Factory Hollow Press, 2012). Her poems and essays are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Mississippi Review, They Will Sew The Blue Sail, and notnostrums. She is the co-founder and editor of Rescue Press and a poetry editor at jubilat. She currently lives in Chicago.

January 23rd: Fiction with Suzanne Scanlon, Jac Jemc, and Dika Lam

Wednesday, January 23
7:30PM

SUZANNE SCANLON is the author of Promising Young Women (Dorothy 2012), a collection of fragmented narratives revolving around the lives of young women in an experimental mental health clinic in the nineties. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The American Scholar, DIAGRAM, BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other places. Her writing on theater, teaching, mothering, and travel has appeared in Poets & Writers, The American Scholar, Time Out Chicago and other places.

DIKA LAM was born in Canada and lives in Chicago. Her short fiction has appeared in Story and One Story, and has been anthologized in Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops 1999, This Is Not Chick Lit (Random House, 2006), and A Stranger Among Us (OV Books, 2008). She was a New York Times Fellow in the MFA program at New York University and won first prize in the American Fiction contest (New Rivers Press, 2012).

JAC JEMC is the author of My Only Wife (Dzanc Books, 2012) and These Strangers She'd Invited In (Greying Ghost Press, 2011). She lives in Chicago where she's the poetry editor of decomP and a fiction web editor for Hobart. You can learn more at jacjemc.com.

November 28: The Green Lantern Press release reading with Nick Twemlow and Joel Craig

Wednesday, November 28
7:30PM
Hosted by Caroline Picard and Devin King

NICK TWEMLOW is the author of Palm Trees (Green Lantern Press,2012). His poems have appeared in Boston Review, A Public Space, jubilat, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, and elsewhere. He lives with his family in Iowa City, where he writes, makes films, is a senior editor for The Iowa Review and co-edits Canarium Books. If you’re interested in learning more, please visit nicktwemlow.com

JOEL CRAIG is the author of The White House (Green Lantern Press, 2012). His poems have appeared in A Public Space, Boston Review, Fence, Iowa Review and Typo, among others. He lives and works in Chicago, Illinois where he also curates the Danny's Reading Series and is the poetry editor for MAKE: A Literary Magazine.