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| Wednesday June 13 at 7:30PM |
MARY AUSTIN SPEAKER is the author of the chapbook 20 Love Poems for 10 Months, forthcoming
in 2012 from Ugly Duckling Presse, and The
Bridge, published by Push Press in 2011. Her poems have recently appeared
in Boston Review, Iowa Review, New
Orleans Review, Mrs. Maybe, H_NGM_N, Epiphany, Lungfull and Big Bell. She works as a freelance book
designer in Iowa City, where she lives with her husband, Chris Martin.
BRANDON BROWN’s first two books were published in
2011, The Persians By Aeschylus (Displaced
Press) and The Poems of Gaius ValeriusCatullus (Krupskaya.) Poems and prose have recently appeared in Postmodern Culture, BPM, Sprung Formal,
Model Homes, and Art Practical. In
2012, his debut play Charles Baudelaire
the Vampire Slayer was staged at Small Press Traffic’s Poet’s Theater and
his work is currently part of the group show FAX at the San Francisco Arts Commission gallery. He's from
Kansas City, MO and has lived in San Francisco since 1998.
CHRIS MARTIN is the author of American Music
(Copper Canyon 2007) and Becoming Weather (Coffee House Press 2011). This
August, Flying Object will serially publish CHAT, an eclogue with
Cleverbot. It will appear on their website each day for a month with
accompanying illustrations by various artists. He is also the author of How
to Write a Mistake-ist Poem (Brave Men 2011) and the forthcoming enough
(Ugly Duckling 2012). He is an editor at Futurepoem books and lives in
Iowa City with his wife, the poet Mary Austin Speaker, with whom he co-wrote a
play entitled, I AM YOU THIS MORNING AND YOU ARE ME TONIGHT.
DANA WARD is the author of This Can't Be Life(Edge Books). Two new books are coming out in 2012, one from Futurepoem called
The Crisis of Infinite Worlds, & another, as yet untitled from Flowers
& Cream. He lives in Cincinnati, where he curates the Cy Press Poetry @ Thunder
Sky reading series, & co-edits, with Paul Coors, Perfect Lovers Press.
