Robert Fernandez and Anthony Madrid, May 23rd 7:30PM

Wednesday, May 23rd 7:30PM

ROBERT FERNANDEZ is the author of We Are Pharaoh and the forthcoming Pink Reef, both from Canarium Books. His poems are forthcoming in The Boston Review, Conjunctions, Hambone, and Mandorla. He lives in Iowa City. 

ANTHONY MADRID lives in Chicago.  His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI Online, Boston Review, Fence, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, Lana Turner, LIT, Poetry, Washington Square, and WEB CONJUNCTIONS.  His first book, called I AM YOUR SLAVE NOW DO WHAT I SAY, was published in March by Canarium Books. 

Lisa Fishman and Amanda Nadelberg

Wednesday, April 25th
7:30PM

Lisa Fishman wrote F L O W E R C A R T (Ahsahta, 2011) and Current (Parlor Press, 2011). Her earlier books are The Happiness Experiment; Dear, Read; and The Deep Heart’s Core Is a Suitcase. A chapbook on Albion Books, at the same time as scattering, came out in 2010; recent work appears or is forthcoming in Little Red Leaves (the ephemera issue), jubilat, and The Arcadia Project anthology. She lives in Orfordville, Wisconsin and teaches at Columbia College Chicago.

Amanda Nadelberg is the author of Isa the Truck Named Isadore, selected by Lisa Jarnot for the 2005 Slope Editions Book Prize, and Bright Brave Phenomena (Coffee House Press, 2012) as well as a chapbook, Building Castles in Spain, Getting Married (The Song Cave, 2009). She lives in Oakland, California.

ADA LIMÓN ADAM CLAY NATE SLAWSON

Wednesday, March 28
7:30PM Sharp.

ADA LIMÓN grew up in Glen Ellen and Sonoma, California. A graduate of New York University’s MFA Creative Writing Program, she has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and won the Chicago Literary Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harvard Review, and Poetry Daily. She is the author of three books of poetry, Lucky Wreck (Autumn House Press, 2006), This Big Fake World (Pearl Editions, 2007), and Sharks in the Rivers (Milkweed Editions, 2010). She is currently at work on a novel, a book of essays, and a new collection of poems.

ADAM CLAY is the author of A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World (Milkweed Editions, 2012) and The Wash (Parlor Press, 2006). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. He co-edits TYPO Magazine and lives in Kentucky.

NATE SLAWSON is the author of Panic Attack, USA (YesYes, Fall 2011) and two chapbooks, The Tiny Jukebox (H_NGM_N Books) and A Mixtape Called Zooey Deschanel (Line4). Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in diode, Handsome, alice blue, Slope, Cannibal, horse less review, Corduroy Mtn., Forklift Ohio, DIAGRAM, Typo, and other places. He lives in Chicago where he teaches and runs cinematheque, an indie press that publishes chapbooks of poetry and prose.

February 29th: Bellamy, Gizzi, Reines, Warsh

DODIE BELLAMY is the author of Barf Manifesto (UDP, 2008), the novel, The Letters of Mina Harker (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004); a collection of fiction, memoirs, and essays, Pink Steam (Suspect Thoughts, 2004); an epistolary collaboration on AIDS with the late Sam D’Allesandro, Real (Talisman House, 1994); and a cross-genre collection of pedagogical essays and fictions, Academonia (Krupskaya, 2006). Her book Cunt-Ups (Tender Buttons, 2002), a radical feminist revision of the "cut-up" pioneered by William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Poetry. She lives in San Francisco with her partner Kevin Killian and three cats, Ted, Sylvia, and Quincy. With Kevin, she has edited over 150 issues of the literary/art zine Mirage #4/Period(ical).

PETER GIZZI is the author of numerous books, including The Outernationale (2007) and most recently, Threshold Songs, just out last November. Song Cave published his chap book Pinnochio's Gnosis in 2010. In 2008, Peter and Kevin Killian produced, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer and, from 2007 to 2011, Gizzi was the Poetry Editor for The Nation. Last year, Peter was the Judith E Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Cambridge University. He works at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

ARIANA REINES is the author of The Cow (Alberta Prize, Fence: 2006), Coeur de Lion (Mal-O-Mar: 2007, Fence: 2011), and Mercury (Fence: 2011). Her play, TELEPHONE, was commissioned and produced by The Foundry Theatre in 2009, with two Obies. Her newest translation is TIQQUN's Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl (Semoitext(e): forthcoming 2012). She was Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at UC Berkeley in 2009, and is teaching workshops at The Poetry Project and Poets House in New York this spring.

LEWIS WARSH is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction and autobiography, including A Place in the Sun (Spuyten Duyvil, 2010), inseparable: Poems 1995-2005 (Granary, 2008), Debtor's Prison, in collaboration with Julie Harrison (Granary, 2002), Touch of the Whip (Singing Horse, 2002), and The Origin of the World (Creative Arts, 2001). He is co-editor of The Angel Hair Anthology, editor and publisher of United Artists Books, and director of the MFA program in creative writing at Long Island University, Brooklyn.

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.