Feb 13: Hogan, Ireland, Soto Román

Lauren Ireland grew up in coastal Virginia and southern Maryland. Currently an editor at Lungfull! Magazine, she also co-curates the monthly poetry series, The Readings at Chrystie Street, and edits Invisible Magazine with Steve Roberts. Her poems have appeared in Sixth Finch, Conduit, Caketrain, and jubilat, among other magazines. She lives in Brooklyn.

Angel Hogan is a member of Mighty Writers, New Philadelphia Poets, and is a contributor to First Person Arts as well as the Pigeon Arts Collective. She lives and works in West Philadelphia. Visit her website here.

Carlos Soto Román was born in Valparaíso, Chile. He has published the books La Marcha de los Quiltros (The Mongrel's march,1999), Haiku Minero (Miner Haiku, 2007) and Cambio y Fuera (Over and Out, 2009). His work has been collected in Bar (Anthology, 2006) and in Pozo (collective book, 2007). In 2004 he received the Creation Fellowship of the Book & Reading Council of the Chilean Government. He has resided in Philadelphia since March 2009 and is a member of The New Philadelphia Poets and the editor of the new cooperative anthology of U.S. poetry, Elective Affinities.

Jan 30: McCarthy & DuPlessis

Pattie McCarthy is the author of Table Alphabetical of Hard Words (forthcoming), Verso, and bk of (h)rs, all from Apogee Press. She received her M.A. in Creative Writing—Poetry from Temple University. Her work has appeared recently in many journals, including Colorado Review, Dusie, EOAGH, Fanzine, ixnay reader, Lungfull!, The Poker, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and The Tangent. She has taught literature and writing at Queens College of the City University of New York, Loyola University Maryland, and Towson University. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Temple University.

Rachel Blau DuPlessis is the author of Drafts, begun in 1986, and collected most recently in Pitch: Drafts 77-95 and The Collage Poems of Drafts, both forthcoming in 2010 from Salt Publishing. Other volumes include Torques: Drafts 58-76, Drafts 1-38, Toll and Drafts 39-57, Pledge, with Draft unnnumbered: Précis. She has written several books of criticism, including Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work (2006), and the ground-breaking The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice ([1990] 2006). She teaches at Temple University. For links to DuPlessis’ work, visit her EPC page.

Jan 16: Love Among the Ruins

Daniel Lin has a chapbook, TINDER, from Nightboat Books, and he's published poems in Waccamaw, Unsplendid, Realpoetik, Agni, Chelsea and Notre Dame Review. He edits Love Among the Ruins, which recently published books by Ernest Hilbert, Heather Green, and Laura Jaramillo.

Heather Green’s poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Octopus, Tarpaulin Sky, and other journals. Her translations of Tristan Tzara recently appeared in Open Letters Monthly. Early in 2009, Dancing Girl Press published her chapbook, The Match Array.

Laura Jaramillo is a poet from Queens. She is the author of The Reactionary Poems (Olywa Press) and The Civilian Nest (Love Among the Ruins Press).

Dec 12: Bloch, Foster, Gallagher

Kristen Gallagher is from Philadelphia and now lives in New York where she teaches at LaGuardia Community College. Her book Reading a Map will come out in Spring 2010.

Julia Bloch's poems have appeared recently in Cue, The Sidebrow Anthology, and Cricket Online Review; she has reviewed poetry recently for How2, New Review of Literature, and Sentence. Her chapbook The Selfist is forthcoming from Katalanché Press; the title poem of that manuscript was set to music and performed at the Kimmel Center by the Network for New Music (sung by a baritone).

Tonya Foster is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court, a Belladonna chapbook, and is currently completing A Mathematics of Chaos, a cross-genre, multi-media piece on New Orleans, and Monkey Talk, an inter-genre piece about race, paranoia, and surveillance, and A History of the Bitch, a collection of poems. A native of New Orleans, she resides and writes in Harlem.

Nov 21: Betts, Meora, Siegell

Tara Betts is the author of Arc and Hue. She is a Cave Canem fellow. Her work appears in numerous publications such as Ninth Letter, Callaloo, Hanging Loose, andGathering Ground. She currently teaches at Rutgers University and leads community-based workshops. For more information, visit her website.

Adam Meora is the director of poetic arts performance project, a multi-venue, non profit that runs poetic events, including the only ongoing symposium series for poets in Philly. He has been featured at the Tin Angel, The Rotunda, the Philadelphia Free Library and many other venues. He has been a member of the poeticpolitical group Arsenic Pizza as well the poetic performance group the Unfuckwittables. He has been published but does not enjoy sitting still long enough to decipher which poems will be neatly packaged, even for his avant garde fantasy mags...so instead he has decided to let them collect in his email inbox. If you want to see him after this reading...look on you tube...his ninth grade students made fun of him for a week about one of his readings. Paul Siegell is the author of 2009's jambandbootleg and 2008's Poemergency Room. He is a copywriter at The Philadelphia Inquirer & Daily News, a staff editor at Painted Bride Quarterly, and has contributed to The American Poetry Review, Coconut, Rattle and many other fine journals. For more information, visit Paul's website.

Nov 7: McCreary, Higdon, Fugate

Jenn McCreary is the author of :ab ovo:, published by Dusie Press (2009). She is also the author of two chapbooks: errata stigmata (Potes & Poets Press), and four o'clock pocket chiming (Beautiful Swimmer Press); the e-chapbook :Maps & Legends: (Scantily Clad Press) and a doctrine of signatures (Singing Horse Press). Her poetry has been published in magazines including Combo, Lungfull!, Tool: A Magazine, POM2, So To Speak, Sous Rature, Tangent, & How2. She lives with her family in Philadelphia where she co-edits ixnay press with Chris McCreary, works for the Mural Arts Program, and serves on the board of the Philly Spells Writing Center.

Ethan Fugate lives, writes, and bikes in New York City with his partner Allison, Elvis, the daschund, Coltrane, the beagle, and Noodle, the alleycat. They all get along famously for the most part. His work has appeared most recently in The Brooklyn Rail, The Boog City Reader, Shampoo Poetry, and Puppyflowers. He is co-editor of the journal Pom2, which has been in a state suspended animation for a couple of years now. Ethan has been obsessively documenting his cycling commute with photographs for the past year and is currently working on an ekphrastic translation of those photos.

Hailey Higdon is the author of The Palinode Project. She is originally from Nashville, Tennessee and has lived and worked in many places, including Boston, Madison WI, and parts of South Africa. She now lives in Philadelphia, where she teaches pre-kindergarten. Recently she started what to us (press) and released the chapbook The Third Word, by Lewis Freedman, in February 2009.

Oct 24: Osman, Gizzi, Watson

Jena Osman's books of poetry include The Character, An Essay in Asterisks, and the forthcoming The Network (winner of the 2009 National Poetry Series). An excerpt from "Public Figures," her continuing project on statuary in Philadelphia, can be found in the online journal HOW2 (vol. 3, issue 1). She co-edits the ChainLinks book series with Juliana Spahr and teaches in the Creative Writing program at Temple University.

Craig Watson has been a theater manager, corporate executive, technical writer, volunteer fire fighter, strategic consultant and college instructor, among other vocations. Currently, he serves as an associate artistic director for a professional theater in Rhode Island. His eleven books of poetry began with Drawing A Blank (Singing Horse Press, 1980) and most recently include True News (Instance, 2002) and Secret Histories (Burning Deck, 2007). He lives on an island at the mouth of Narragansett Bay.

Michael Gizzi studied poetry at Brown University, and worked as an arborist in Southern New England in the 1970’s. In the early 1980’s he migrated to the Berkshire Hills, where he began teaching. For the next twenty years he coordinated poetry readings and edited lingo magazine and Hard Press, which published, among others, Bernadette Mayer and Jim Brodey. Back in Rhode Island, he continued publishing, with Craig Watson, the imprint Qua Books. His most recent collections are My Terza Rima (The Figures, 2001) and New Depths of Deadpan (Burning Deck, 2009).

Oct 10: Arrieu-King, Giffin, Hosea

Cynthia Arrieu-King is an assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton College. Her chapbook The Small Anything City won the Dream Horse Press National Chapbook Prize in 2006 and her poems are forthcoming this year in Witness, Boston Review, Fou Magazine, Harp and Altar, and Forklift, Ohio.

Lawrence Giffin is the author of the chapbook Get the fuck back into that burning plane, from Ugly Duckling Presse, and a member of the loose publishing collective Lil' Norton, where he edits the Physical Poets Home Library.

Chris Hosea's poems appear in LIT, Swerve, VOLT, Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, Article and The Literary Review. With Cecily Iddings, he is co-editor of The Blue Letter, a free direct-mail poetry newsletter. He lives in Brooklyn.

Sept 26: Carr, Lowinger, Dolph

Angela Carr is a poet and translator based in Montréal. She is the author of The Rose Concordance (Bookthug 2009), A Short Excerpt from the Complete History of the Beautiful Risk (Beautiful Outlaw Press 2009), Ropewalk (2006), and contributed to Translating Translating Montréal.

Aaron Lowinger grew up in a religious household in America, with family dinners and sports. As a young adult, a series of relationships and travels began to write its own poetry. As a member of House Press, a feeling of deep connection to anything and everything was wildly encouraged and spurred on by self-publication. He lives with his family in his hometown of Buffalo, NY where he co-curates a monthly poetry event and stalks the cracks along the Niagara River.

Steve Dolph is a translator from the Spanish. His translation of Juan José Saer's Glosa will be published in 2010 by Open Letter. He's currently at work on translations of work by the scatological/eschatological Argentine poet Osvaldo Lamborghini with his friend, poet Brandon Holmquest.

Sept 12: Heinowitz, Laynor, Davisson

Cole Heinowitz is the author of two books of poetry, Daily Chimera (Incommunicado Press, 1995) and The Rubicon (The Rest Press, 2008), and the chapbook, Stunning in Muscle Hospital (Detour Press, 2002). Her poems have appeared in journals including Fence, The Poker, The Brooklyn Rail, HOW2, Canwehaveourballback, 6X6, Factorial!, Highway Robbery, and Mirage 4 Period(ical). Her book-length study, Spanish America and British Romanticism, 1777-1826: Rewriting Conquest will appear from Edinburgh University Press in December 2009. Cole is Assistant Professor of Literature at Bard College.

Ian Davisson is a Masters student at Temple University. His work has appeared both online and in print in places like Fence, word for/word, The Denver Quarterly, and Lamination Colony. He lives in Rittenhouse with all the lawyers and investment bankers, and cleans up after their children at the Lombard Swim Club.

Gregory Laynor is an academic poet, currently at Temple University. His reading of Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans appears on UbuWeb.