August 15th: Anniversary reading with Kristina Marie Darling, Kyle McCord, Larry Sawyer, and Carrie Olivia Adams

ELEVENTH ANNIVERSARY 

AUGUST 15TH AT 7:30PM

KRISTINA MARIE DARLING is the author of five books of poetry:  Night Songs (Gold Wake Press, 2010), Compendium (Cow Heavy Books, 2011), The Body is a Little Gilded Cage: A Story in Letters & Fragments (Gold Wake Press, 2011), Melancholia (An Essay) (Ravenna Press, 2012), and Palimpsest (Patasola Press, 2012). She has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Ragdale Foundation, as well as grants from the Vermont Studio Center and the Elizabeth George Foundation.

KYLE McCORD is the author of three books of poetry: Galley of the Beloved in Torment (Dream Horse Press 2009), a co-written book of epistolary poems entitled Informal Invitations to a Traveler (Gold Wake Press 2011) and Sympathy from the Devil forthcoming from Gold Wake Press in 2013.  He has work featured in Boston Review, Columbia Poetry Journal, Meridian, Gulf Coast, Volt and elsewhere.  He co-edits iO: A Journal of New American Poetry.  He is a teaching fellow at University of North Texas in Denton, TX.

LARRY SAWYER curates the long-running Myopic Books Poetry Reading Series in Chicago and is Co-Director of The Chicago School of Poetics  with poet Francesco Levato. His collection Unable to Fully California (Otoliths Press) is available here. Larry also edits the online magazine milkmag.org with Lina ramona Vitkauskas. Poetry, essays, and reviews have been published or are forthcoming in Action Yes, Arthur, The Chicago Tribune, Coconut, Court Green, Exquisite Corpse, The Miami Sun Post, Moria, The National Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.

CARRIE OLIVIA ADAMS lives in Chicago, where she is a professional book publicist and the poetry editor for the small press Black Ocean. She is the author of Intervening Absence (Ahsahta Press 2009) and the forthcoming Forty-One Jane Doe’s, which will be published with a companion DVD of poem-films (Ahsahta 2013). Her poems and films have appeared in Cannibal, DIAGRAM, the Laurel Review, Horse Less Review, Slope, and Thermos, among others.