Chapter & Verse Reading Series

Jan 28: Dolph, Dowling, Hawkey

2012-01-21T14:47:00.003-05:00

Christian Hawkey has written two full-length poetry collections (The Book of Funnels, Wave Books, 2005 and Citizen Of, Wave Books, 2007), four chapbooks, and the cross-genre book Ventrakl (2010, Ugly Duckling Presse). He translates contemporary German poetry, and with the German poet Uljana Wolf he translates the Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger. His own work has been translated into over a dozen languages. He lives in Brooklyn and Berlin.

Sarah Dowling's first book, Security Posture, was published in 2009. Her work has appeared in journals such as Action, Yes!, EOAGH, and West Coast Line, and is forthcoming in I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women. Sarah is international editor at Jacket2, and she is also a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department at Penn.

Steve Dolph's translation of Scars by the Argentine novelist Juan José Saer was published in 2011 by Open Letter. He lives in Philadelphia.

Dec 10: Davis, DeBoer, Teare

2011-12-02T20:56:00.003-05:00

Brian Teare is the author of The Room Where I Was Born, Sight Map, the Lambda-award winning Pleasure, and Companion Grasses, forthcoming from Omnidawn in 2013. An Assistant Professor at Temple University, he lives in Philadelphia, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.

JenMarie Davis is half of Fact-Simile Editions and builds books and poems from recycled and reclaimed material. She is the author of Sometime Soon Ago (Shadow Mountain, 2009) and her work has appeared in the Handmade/Homemade exhibit, Glitterpony, Court Green, Little Red Leaves, Interim, Gargoyle and other print and online journals.

Nicholas DeBoer was born at 1024pm. 29.1 F/5.8mph East Wind/Clear Sky/Chicago, IL. Michael Reece hospital, designed by Walter Gropius. He likes to think about it. He attended schools, they were nice schools and some of his friends were met there. He has some intense obsessions since he found Edgar Poe & Al Crowley on the back of the Beatles seventh album when he was 11. He believes in the 23 Engima. Especially on his b-day 10/23/1981. Some of his poetry can be read in Fact-Simile, Bombay Gin, Eccolinguistics, Apparent Mag and other magazines.

Nov 19: Davisson, Marinovich, Sadicario

2011-11-07T20:41:00.005-05:00

Filip Marinovich is coeditor with Stephen Boyer of the OCCUPY WALL STREET POETRY ANTHOLOGY and a librarian at THE PEOPLE'S LIBRARY AT OCCUPY WALL STREET and a performer at LIBERTY SQUARE POETRY ASSEMBLY. Filip is author of ZERO READERSHIP and AND IF YOU DON'T GO CRAZY I'LL MEET YOU HERE TOMORROW, both from Ugly Duckling Presse. Filip's new book WOLFMAN LIBRARIAN is currently looking for a publisher. Excerpt from it appears in EOAGH 7.

Ian Davisson is a poet who currently explores the aesthetics and linguistic properties of the panic attack. To do this, he has to have a lot of panic attacks, which is convenient, because he happens to have a lot of panic attacks. He also examines the masculine subject position in lyric poetry, which sounds impressive until you factor in all the crying. Older work can be found in journals in print and on the internet, while newer work is still churning around in his head. Hopefully you enjoy the churn.

Jaclyn (Jackee) Sadicario is a poet who is from New York, living in Philadelphia. She is a graduate of Temple University, where she was the creative editor of Hyphen, the undergraduate literary and art magazine. She now works at the University of Pennsylvania doing psychotherapy research in community mental health settings. She has been most recently published in Apiary (online and print). (She can be seen on 13th street every morning running for the el. Occasionally, she smells slightly of gin.)

Oct 22: Gardner, Kaschock, McCreary

2011-10-13T16:33:00.005-04:00

Susana Gardner is the author of HERSO (Black Radish Books, 2011) and [ LAPSED INSEL WEARY ] (The Tangent Press, 2008), as well as several chapbooks, including Hyper-Phantasie Constructs (Dusie Kollektiv, 2010) and Herso (University of Theory and Memorabilia Press, 2009). Her poetry has appeared in Jacket, How2, Puerto Del Sol, and Cambridge Literary Review among others, and has been featured in several anthologies, including 131.839 slög með bilum (131,839 keystrokes with spaces) (Ntamo, Finland, 2007) and NOT FOR MOTHERS ONLY: CONTEMPORARY POEMS ON CHILD-GETTING AND CHILD-REARING (Fence Books, USA, 2007). She lives in Zürich, Switzerland, where she also edits and curates the online poetics journal and experimental kollektiv press, Dusie.

Kirsten Kaschock is the author of two books of poetry, A Beautiful Name for a Girl and Unfathoms. Her first novel, Sleight, was published recently by Coffee House Press. She has earned a PhD in English from the University of Georgia and is currently a doctoral fellow in dance at Temple University. Kirsten lives with her three sons and their father in Philadelphia, where she likes to make poems, dances, and sometimes--other people.

Jenn McCreary is the author of :ab ovo:, published by Dusie Press, and of several chapbooks, including Odyssey & Oracle, which is forthcoming this winter from Least Weasel. She lives in Philadelphia where she co-edits ixnay press with the writer Chris McCreary, works for the Mural Arts Program, wrangles twins, & charms snakes.

Sept 24: Abendroth, Bouchard, Hadbawnik

2011-09-13T12:08:00.005-04:00

Emily Abendroth is a writer and artist who lives both here and elsewhere as the situation requires. She is the author of toward eadward forward (horse less press), muzzle blast dander (in refuge/refugee, chain links vol 3), and Property : None / Property : Undone (a broadside project with TapRoot Editions). Together with fellow poet Justin Audia she co-curates the Moles Not Molar Reading & Performance Series.

Daniel Bouchard’s poetry books include The Filaments (Zasterle, 2006), Some Mountains Removed, and Diminutive Revolutions (Subpress 2004, 2000). He grew up south of Philadelphia and attended the Temple Writing Program. An essay on Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s Drafts is forthcoming in Jacket2.

David Hadbawnik is a poet and performer currently living with his wife in Buffalo, NY. In 2011, he edited Jack Spicer’s Beowulf for the CUNY Lost and Found Document series (with Sean Reynolds), and published Field Work (BlazeVOX Books). Other publications include the books Translations From Creeley (Sardines, 2008), Ovid in Exile (Interbirth, 2007), and SF Spleen (Skanky Possum, 2006). He is the editor and publisher of Habenicht Press and the journal kadar koli. He began studying towards his PhD in poetics at SUNY Buffalo in fall 2008, where he directs the Buffalo Poets Theater.

May 21: Lee, Sherlock, Smith

2011-05-16T10:50:00.005-04:00

Rod Smith is the author of Deed, Music or Honesty, Protective Immediacy, and In Memory of My Theories. A CD, Fear the Sky, came out from Narrow House Recordings in 2005. Smith lives in Washington, DC where he edits Aerial, publishes Edge Books, and manages Bridge Street Books. With Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris, he is editing The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley for the University of California Press.

Frank Sherlock is the author of Over Here (Factory School), Feast Day Gone & Coming (Cy Gist), The City Real & Imagined (Factory School), a collaboration with CA Conrad, and Ready-to-Eat Individual (Lavender Ink), a collaboration with Brett Evans. Sherlock contributed to Journeys South, a public installation project in South Philadelphia, writing seven poems for broadsides called Neighbor Ballads, which celebrate figures from immigrant communities that continue to shape one of Philadelphia's most diverse and storied neighborhoods. The broadsides, which include artwork by Erik Ruin, can be found in honor boxes along 9th Street and East Passyunk Avenue.

Sueyeun Juliette Lee lives in Philadelphia, where she edits Corollary Press, a chapbook series devoted to multi-ethnic experimental writing. Her books include That Gorgeous Feeling (Coconut Books) and Underground National (Factory School). She is also a contributing editor to EOAGH and The Constant Critic.

April 23: hassen, Kalfopoulou, Rackin

2011-04-13T19:16:00.009-04:00

Adrianne Kalfopoulou is the author of two collections of poetry, Wild Greens (2002) and Passion Maps (2009), both from Red Hen Press. She has written a memoir, Broken Greek, and essays in various journals, including Hotel Amerika and World Literature Today. Currently she is at work on a monograph on Sylvia Plath's poetry and Ralph Waldo Emerson's philosophy. She teaches at Hellenic American University in Athens, and is on the adjunct faculty in the Creative Writing Program at NYU.

Ethel Rackin’s poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Volt, Court Green, Poetry East, The American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Most recently, poems from her manuscript, Red as a Tree, appeared on the Kelsey Street Press blog, and were set to music and performed by the Norman David Eleventet. She earned her MFA from Bard College and her Phd in English Literature from Princeton University. She is currently Assistant Professor of Language & Literature at Bucks County Community College in Pennsylvania.

hassen writes and performs experimental poetry and creates multimedia and mixed media work, including photography, audio, video, encaustics, and ephemeral art gestures. Chapbooks include Salem (Belladona*), Crabapples (Furniture Press), Sky Journal from Land, Sky Journal from Sea. Her poems have appeared in Sous Rature, Tool a Magazine, EOAGH, Frequency Audio Journal, Skanky Possum, Big Bridge, Dusie, 100 Days Anthology and elsewhere. More about her creative work can be found here.

March 26: Durand, Jagannathan, Yearous-Algozin

2011-03-14T20:11:00.004-04:00

Marcella Durand is the author of some books of poetry, most recently Deep Eco Pré, a collaboration with Tina Darragh; AREA (Belladonna Books, 2008); and Traffic & Weather (Futurepoem Books, 2008). She is teaching a class on ecology and poetry this spring at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania as the 2010-2011 Fellow in Poetics and Poetic Practice. She lives in New York City with her husband, painter Rich O’Russa, and son Ismael Toussaint Durand O’Russa.

Mytili Jagannathan is a poet who listens to the notion that “every letter is an alphabet,” making poems that investigate public and private space, power, gender, property, desire, collectivity, and the conditions of speech. She is the author of Acts (Habenicht Press); and her poems have appeared in Sous Rature, EOAGH, Rattapallax, Mirage#4/Period[ical], Combo, Fanzine, Interlope, Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics, and Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry. Her poetry was also part of a recent collaboration, Up Against, with filmmaker Sara Zia Ebrahimi and electronic musician Gralin Hughes for the "Shelter" episode of the Termite TV Collective. She lives in Philadelphia.

Joseph Yearous-Algozin is the author of the chapbooks Kensington Notebook (Lean-To) and The Lazarus Project: Alien Vs. Predator (TROLL THREAD). Along with Holly Melgard, he is the in-coming co-editor of P-Queue magazine. Currently he lives in Buffalo, NY, where he is a PhD student in English at SUNY-Buffalo.

Feb 26: Carpenter, Corbett, DeGezelle

2011-02-11T16:29:00.002-05:00

William Corbett is a poet and memoirist who lives in Boston's South End and teaches writing at MIT. He edited Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, directs the small press Pressed Wafer, and is on the advisory board of Manhattan's CUE Art Foundation. In 2008 Hanging Loose published his book of poems Opening Day. His most recent books include an essay on the painter Albert York and The Whalen Poem.

Brian Carpenter has been living in Philadelphia since 2005, after moving from his native habitat of Seattle and spending two years in the Poetics program at the University of Maine. He has self-published two books of poems (Aspect Cycle, Bluest Keys) and one box (Small Seasons). An earlier prose poem, The Green Island Problem, is available through Vancouver's Kootenay School of Writing collective. He currently works as an audio archivist of Native American language recordings.

Melissa DeGezelle lives in South Philly with her three-year old daughter Hazel. Some newish poems can be found at Sawbuck and Literary Mama.

Jan 29: Keene & Morkun

2011-01-22T13:19:00.003-05:00

John Keene is the author of Annotations (New Directions) and, with artist Christopher Stackhouse, of the poetry-text dialogue Seismosis (1913 Press). He has published his fiction, poetry, essays, translations, and interviews with other authors widely. He teaches at Northwestern University.

Debrah Morkun's first full length book of poetry, Projection Machine, was published by BlazeVox Books in April 2010. She lives in Philadelphia, where she runs The Jubilant Thicket Literary Series. She believes in the Muse and does rituals to her before she sits to write. Visit Debrah at http://www.debrahmorkun.com .

Dec 11: Sullivan & Perkins-Valdez

2010-12-05T20:14:00.003-05:00

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is from Harlem, New York. Her fiction has appeared in Callaloo, Best New Writing, Crab Orchard Review, The Minnesota Review, Bloom, X-24: Unclassified, Baobab: South African Journal of New Writing, 2010 Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize Stories, and other publications. She is the winner of the Charles Johnson Fiction Award, the William Gunn Fiction Award, the James Baldwin Memorial Playwriting Award, and the second place winner of the American Short Fiction Short Story Contest. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate and Dean’s Scholar in English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, and is completing her first novel.

Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the author of the novel Wench. Her fiction and essays have appeared in StoryQuarterly, Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories 2009, The Kenyon Review, PMS: PoemMemoirStory, North Carolina Literary Review, and Richard Wright Newsletter. Born and raised in Memphis, a graduate of Harvard, and a former University of California postdoctoral fellow, Perkins-Valdez lives in Washington, DC.

Nov 20: Lyalin, Russell, Taransky

2010-11-15T18:47:00.003-05:00

Natalie Lyalin is the author of Pink and Hot Pink Habitat (Coconut Books 2009) and the chapbook Try A Little Time Travel (Ugly Duckling Presse 2010). She is the co-founder and co-editor of GlitterPony Magazine and Agnes Fox Press. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Temple University and The University of the Arts.

Jacob Russell was recently honored by a request from a dead tree on Passyunk Avenue to accept the position of curator & caretaker of what had hitherto been the tree’s Secret Life as a Mystical Magical PoemTree. Jacob has it from reliable sources that there are countless other PoemTrees in Philly & across our tiny blue marble in the void, waiting with the admirable patience for which trees are famous--for a passing poet, attentive to the Waking Life beyond the Corporate Hologram, to accept them in joyous partnership. Jacob & PoemTree have recently become engaged, & look forward to the day when, with perhaps a circle of poets in attendance for a reading, they may exchange vows of spiritual union in public ceremony. Jacob states his poetic credo as follows: First you do stuff. Then you write about it. If the stuff you DO is a poem, you are a poet. Links to his fiction and poetry can be found on his blog, Jacob Russell's Barking Dog.

Michelle Taransky is the author of BARN BURNED, THEN selected by Marjorie Welish for the 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize. Taransky lives in Philadelphia, works at Kelly Writers House, is reviews editor for Jacket2, and teaches writing at University of Pennsylvania and Temple University.

Nov 13: McCreary, Nguyen, Skinner

2010-11-05T16:24:00.003-04:00

Hoa Nguyen was born in the Mekong Delta, grew up in the DC area and studied poetics in San Francisco. She is the author of 8 books and chapbooks, most recently Hecate Lochia (Hot Whiskey, 2009), Kiss a Bomb Tattoo (Effing Press, 2009) and Chinaberry (Fact Simile, 2010). Based in Austin, TX, Hoa curates a reading series and leads a creative writing workshop.

Jonathan Skinner 's poetry collections include With Naked Foot (Little Scratch Pad Press, 2009) and Political Cactus Poems (Palm Press, 2005). He founded and edits the journal ecopoetics, which features creative-critical intersections between writing and ecology. Skinner also writes ecocriticism on contemporary poetry and poetics: his essay "Thoughts on Things: Poetics of the Third Landscape" appeared recently in the eco language reader (ed. Brenda Iijima). Skinner teaches in the Environmental Studies Program at Bates College, in Central Maine, where he makes his home.

Chris McCreary is the author of Undone : A Fakebook as well as a chapbook of revisions of older poems, An Apocrypha, which can be downloaded for free via ixnay press's website. In a recent review of Poets on Teaching at 360mainstreet.com, he discusses his work as a high school English and creative writing teacher. He lives in Philadelphia.

Oct 23: Cory, Glaser, Neuman

2010-10-14T12:53:00.005-04:00

Rachel B. Glaser was born in New Jersey. Her stories have been published in New York Tyrant, American Short Fiction, Unsaid, and elsewhere. Her first story collection Pee On Water has recently been published by Publishing Genius Press. Colin Bassett says of Pee On Water, "the stories all seem simple and enjoyable but then somewhere inside of them there's something else happening that feels outrageous and sort of painfully new." Glaser lived in Philly, in the Italian Market area, from 2006-2007, before moving to Western Mass, where she's lived ever since.

Jim Cory was born in 1953 in Oklahoma, grew up in a NYC suburb and in the Midwest for a few years. His father sold carpet and made a science of non-communication. He had seven brothers and sisters, most of them difficult. He learned about modernist poetry and how to read it when a house painter came down off his ladder one afternoon and explicated a Wallace Stevens poem in the anthology he was reading, circa age 14. He studied European history at Penn State and began writing poetry in his late teens. Recently he stopped watching television. Some of his poems can be read in Elective Affinities.

Laura Neuman is a poet and performing artist originally from the San Francisco bay area. Since moving to Philadelphia in 2005, she has studied clown technique, taught preschool drama, learned and then forgotten how to tie the bow-line, and collaborated with several dance and dance-theatre companies, including the Workshop For Potential Movement. You can hear her read some poems at PennSound. She has an M.F.A. in Writing from Bard College, and is currently studying poetry at Temple University.

Oct 9: Bell, Neigh, Taggart

2010-09-30T12:08:00.007-04:00

Paige Taggart lives in Brooklyn and her chapbook Polaroid Parade is forthcoming with Greying Ghost Press. An e-chapbook, Won't Be A Girl is available from Scantily Clad Press. Recent or forthcoming work can be found at So and So Magazine, No Tell Motel, Glitterpony, Sink Review, RealPoetik, Umbrella Factory, Bateau, and Sentence. She was a 2009 recipient of the New York Foundation of the Arts grant. And she has a jewelry blog.

Janet Neigh lives in Philadelphia. Her writing has appeared in various publications, including the journals P-Queue, HOW2, and West Coast Line as well as the anthology Shift and Switch: New Canadian Poetry. She recently completed her Ph.D. at Temple University. These days she spends a lot of time in her car driving to North Jersey where she teaches at Montclair State University.

Marion Bell lives in Fishtown and works in a coffee shop. Some of her poems can be read in Elective Affinities.

Sept 11: Mirov, Nghiem, Spagnoli

2010-08-31T10:23:00.005-04:00

Ben Mirov is the author of I is to Vorticism (New Michigan Press, 2010) and Ghost Machine (Caketrain, 2010). He has recent work in or forthcoming from Absent Magazine and Sixth Finch, LUNGFULL!, The Agriculture Reader, and We Are Champion. His critical writings can be found in The Brooklyn Rail, Coldfront, BOMB, and The Sink Review. He lives in Brooklyn.

Laura Spagnoli’s poems can be found in a handful of on-line and print publications, and her short story about people doing bad things in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood will appear this November in a collection called Philadelphia Noir. She lives south of South Street and makes her living teaching French. She loves artificial lighting and sometimes feels elated walking through the tunnels that connect subway, trolley, and rail lines beneath Center City.

Quyen Nghiem will be wearing dark brown suede boots, checkered pants, a t-shirt, and a black cardigan. He will be nervous and maybe slightly drunk.

July 31: Livingston, Behm-Steinberg, Short

2010-07-20T15:05:00.008-04:00

Reb Livingston is the author of GOD DAMSEL, YOUR TEN FAVORITE WORDS and co-editor of THE BEDSIDE GUIDE TO NO TELL MOTEL anthology series. She's also the editor of No Tell Motel and publisher of No Tell Books. She blogs at www.reblivingston.blogspot.com

Hugh Behm-Steinberg is the author of Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books) and Sorcery (Dusie Chapbook Kollektiv). His poems have appeared in such places as Crowd, VeRT, Volt, Spork, Cue, Slope, Aught, Fence, dirt, ditch, Swerve and Zeek, as well as some more multi-syllabic places such as foam: e and The Nepotist. He teaches at California College of the Arts, where he edits the journal Eleven Eleven.

Kim Gek Lin Short is the author of The Bugging Watch & Other Exhibits (Tarpaulin Sky Press) and the chapbook, Run (Rope-a-Dope). Her work appears in literary journals and blogs, as well as in the anthologies narrative (dis)continuities: prose experiments by younger american writers (Recycled Karma Press) and Elective Affinities: a cooperative e-anthology of U.S. poetry.

May 29: Costanzo, Thoumsin, Fletcher

2010-05-20T10:07:00.003-04:00

Wade Fletcher’s recent publications include Conditions Which (Pied-a-terre, 2010) and poems in Barrelhouse, Versal, and The Portable Boog Reader. A chapbook, Snitch Culture, was published with dusie press in 2008. He teaches poetry and writing at George Washington and George Mason Universities, co-curates the monthly Cheryl’s Gone Reading Series in Washington, DC and lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and son.

Chelsea Thoumsin arrived in Philadelphia nearly two years ago to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts’ Post Baccalaureate program. There she found that entwining poetry and drawing floats her boat. In less than a couple years, she has managed to live and navigate in South, West, and Central Philly. One day she plans to create a complex Venn diagram about these places. Until then, she lives in Center City with her goldfish Archimedes. Her favorite things include creating and cleaning up aesthetic messes. Some of her work can be seen on her website.

Francesca Costanzo began shooting photographs at age 4 and writing poetry at age 5. Her favorite poet was Maynard G. Krebs. As an adult, she has studied graphic design + advertising @ The Philadelphia College of ART [now UARTs] and is an award-winning copywriter and designer. She is a member of Suppose An Eyes Poetry Group and was the Winner of the First Annual 2010 Bukowskiest Poet Award. She has an upcoming book and performance piece: 8mm Backwards and a recently published e-chapbook: Dia: Six Sense (Avantacular Press, Limited Edition).

May 8: Conner, Maugeri, Ostashevsky

2010-04-28T14:59:00.006-04:00

Eugene Ostashevsky is a Russian-born American poet from New York City. His poetry books include Iterature and The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza, which employs characters such as MC Squared, Peepeesaurus, the Begriffon and, of course, DJ Spinoza, to explore the shortcomings of axiomatic systems with the insouciance and energy of Saturday-morning cartoons. He has edited an English-language anthology of Russian absurdist writings of the 1930s by such authors as Alexander Vvedensky and Daniil Kharms. His PhD dissertation was on the history of zero. He teaches at New York University.

Carolina Maugeri: Transcription, auto-correction, revision, & improvisation, & the personal-to-cultural tensions & histrionics that arise from such activities, make up her main poetic preoccupations. In addition to writing, she likes to make music, surveys, sketches, &
explores sound & textures through vocal phonic utterances, typewriter taps, multi-instrumental manipulations within interrupted songscapes. She lives in Philadelphia, where she teaches writing & literature to visual artists at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Kyle Conner is a poet who works and lives in Philadelphia with his keeshond Sam. His chapbooks are: Songs for South St. Bridge (1996), The Pulverized Thing of Doubt (2002), Toward Belief (2005) and breaths for f l e s h (2008). He has been involved with the Philadelphia literary scene for over 15 years and has given numerous readings in various venues. He co-curated the Highwire Reading Series from 1998-2000 and is the nominal spokesman for the theory of “Oughtism” (because you Ought to know), which makes the obvious explicit: that art is never more or less than an extension of the way one chooses to live one’s life.

Apr 24: Holmquest & Warsh

2010-04-19T20:47:00.003-04:00

Lewis Warsh is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction and autobiography, including A Place in the Sun, Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005, Touch of the Whip, Avenue of Escape and Ted's Favorite Skirt. He is coeditor 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 in Brooklyn.

Brandon Holmquest was born 1979, in Indiana. Teenage years up to early twenties Missouri. Three trips along the length of the Mississippi. Then three years in Chicago, two in Philadelphia, two and a half in New York. Currently in Philadelphia again. His books are Stereo Daguerreotype, The Sorrows of Young Worthless, and a translation of Manuel Maples Arce's City: Bolshevik Superpoem in 5 Cantos.

April 17: Audia, Berrigan, Weiser

2010-04-14T14:11:00.003-04:00

Justin Audia lives in Philadelphia, where he co-curates the Moles Not Molar series and works in adult education from 9 o'clock in the morning until 5 o'clock in the afternoon. His writing has appeared somewhat recently in places like sidebrow and Pocket Myths. He still hopes to publish his first book before turning 12.

Anselm Berrigan's most recent book of poems is Free Cell, published by City Lights last fall. Other books include Zero Star Hotel and Some Notes on My Programming. Recent unpublished poems include Primitive State and Notes from Irrelevance, the titles of which indicate work moving further away from the saleable light. He is the poetry editor for The Brooklyn Rail, and a member of the subpress publishing collective, through which he published Selected Poems of Steve Carey last year.

Karen Weiser lives in New York City where she is studying for her doctorate in English. Her chapbooks include Placefullness and Eight Positive Trees, she has published in 6X6, Lungfull! Magazine and Cypress Magazine, and her new book, To Light Out, was just released by Ugly Duckling Press.

March 27: Brooks, Gaudry, TeBordo

2010-03-21T11:19:00.006-04:00

Molly Gaudry is the author of We Take Me Apart (Mud Luscious Press, 2009) and the editor of Tell: An Anthology of Expository Narratives (Flatmancrooked, 2010). She facilitates the series "Look at this fucking writer" at Big Other, and she runs WWP, a fiction chapbook press. Find her online at mollygaudry.blogspot.com.

Christian TeBordo has published three novels, most recently We Go Liquid. His first collection of short fiction, The Awful Possibilities, is forthcoming from featherproof books. A recipient of a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, he lives in Philadelphia.

Jason Napoli Brooks's fiction has appeared in Ninth Letter, H.O.W., Pindeldyboz, and the anthology America Street II (HarperCollins), and his non-fiction in Tema Celeste, Colors, Index, and El Pais. Brooks was the recipient for the New School Chapbook Award for Best Fiction for an excerpt of his forthcoming novel Shelter. His debut collection of short stories Las Vidas Menos Vivadas (Sexto Piso Press, Mexico) will be published in 2011. He lives in New York City.

March 13: Byrne, Pritts, Hart

2010-03-03T15:54:00.004-05:00

Mairéad Byrne emigrated from Ireland to the United States in 1994, for poetry. Her books include The Best of (What’s Left of) Heaven (Publishing Genius 2010), Talk Poetry (Miami University Press 2007), SOS Poetry (/ubu Editions 2007), and Nelson & The Huruburu Bird (Wild Honey Press 2003). She lives in Providence and teaches at Rhode Island School of Design. Her blog is called Heaven.

Nate Pritts is the author of two poetry collections, Sensational Spectacular (BlazeVox) and Honorary Astronaut (Ghost Road Press), with a third, The Wonderfull Yeare on the way from Cooper-Dillon Press in 2010. He's also the founder and editor-in-chief of the online journal H_NGM_N.

Matt Hart is the author of the poetry collections Who's Who Vivid (Slope Editions) and YOU ARE MIST (MOOR Books, forthcoming), as well as several chapbooks, including The Hours (Cinematheque Press, forthcoming) and Deafening Leafening (Pilot Books), which he wrote in collaboration with Ethan Paquin. Additionally, Hart's poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, jubilat and Ploughshares. He is a co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety. He teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

Feb 27: Fuhrman, Varrone, Dowling

2010-02-17T15:17:00.005-05:00

Joanna Fuhrman is the author of three collections published by Hanging Loose Press, most recently Moraine. Her new book, Pageant, has just been released by Alice James Books. She teaches creative writing at Rutgers University and in public schools. Her essay on teaching Jayne Cortez’s work to high school students is in the current issue of Teachers & Writers magazine. She will be coordinating the Wednesday night readings at the Poetry Project at Saint Mark’s Church for the fall 2010 season and is the poetry editor for Boog City.

Sarah Dowling's first book, Security Posture, was the winner of the 2009 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Her work has previously appeared in Action, Yes!, The Capilano Review, Cue, Descant, EOAGH, GLQ, How2, Jacket, West Coast Line, and elsewhere. Sarah is a Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania, and is originally from Regina, SK.

Kevin Varrone's most recent collection, g-point almanac: passyunk lost, is just out from Ugly Duckling Presse, as is a companion chapbook, Philadelphia Improvements. His previous collection, g-point almanac: id est, was published by Instance Press in 2008. Individual poems are available electronically at Duration Press, in Big Bridge, Cross Connect, and are forthcoming in [out of nowhere]. He lives in South Philly and teaches at Temple University.

Feb 13: Hogan, Ireland, Soto Román

2010-02-01T18:31:00.001-05:00

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

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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

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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

2009-12-04T12:39:00.006-05:00

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Aug 29: Lucy & Olsen

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Geoffrey Olsen is the author of End Notebook (Petrichord Books). He lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and works at the Cooper Union.

Patrick Lucy is a member of the New Philadelphia Poets, a group committed to advancing poetry, space and community in Philadelphia. His work has appeared recently in the Corduroy Mtn and Ink Node (featured). His chapbook, WILLIAM, is forthcoming from Con/Crescent Press. Patrick's disembodied press & blog, _Catch/Confetti, produces poetry ephemera and comment. He lives in Fishtown and runs a web development company called Nimblelight.

The New Season

2009-08-07T12:20:00.005-04:00

Chapter and Verse will kick up again on August 29th, 2009 at 8pm, and there will be a reading every other Saturday throughout the Fall. More details soon.

May 23: Pettet & Sherlock

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The season finale of Chapter & Verse will be part of a poetry double-header which begins at 5pm at Fergie's Pub with Brenda Iijima and Yedda Morrison, hosted by New Philadelphia Poets. Then we'll go a few blocks down to the Chapterhouse to hear Frank Sherlock and Simon Pettet.

Frank Sherlock is a native Philadelphian, author of Over Here and Ready-To-Eat Individual, a collaboration written with Brett Evans about New Orleans in the Year 1 A.K. (After Katrina). You can listen to his work at PennSound.

Simon Pettet is a poet from New York. HEARTH, a book that collects three decades' worth of poetry, came out this year from Talisman House. An essay about HEARTH can be read here. You can listen to an interview with Pettet here and read an interview in Brooklyn Rail here. Pettet is also the author of several collaborative volumes (including Talking Pictures, and Conversations About Everything, with Rudy Burckhardt), and is currently co-editing, with James Meetze, Other Flowers: The UnCollected Poems of James Schuyler.

May 9: Baus, Klein, Saterstrom

2009-05-02T01:23:00.003-04:00

Ish Klein is a self-taught film and puppet maker who also writes poems. She is an alumna of Columbia University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop for Poetry. In 2005, she was awarded the National Endowment of the Arts Digital Filmmaker Residency. Her poems have been published in Bridge,The Canary, Gare du Nord, and more recently in Hat magazine, X-connect, Big Bridge, Spork and Gut Cult. Her new book, UNION!, is just out from Canarium Press. Watch Ish Klein read her poem "I'm amazing, I'm a fireman."

Selah Saterstrom is the author of The Pink Institution and The Meat and Spirit Plan. A Mississippi native, she is currently on the faculty of The University of Denver's Creative Writing Program.

Eric Baus was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1975. His publications include Tuned Droves (Octopus Books, 2009), The To Sound (Verse Press, 2004; Winner of the 2002 Verse Press, selected by Forrest Gander), and the chapbooks The Space Between Magnets (Diaeresis), A Swarm In The Aperture (Margin to Margin), and Something Else The Music Was (Braincase Press). He edits Minus House chapbooks, and currently lives in Denver. More information about Eric Baus can be found at To the Sound.

April 25: Lee, Fletcher, Goldblatt

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Eli Goldblatt’s poems have appeared in journals such as Cincinnati Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Hambone, Hubbub, 6ix, and 88. His book-length volumes include Herakles: A Verse Play (Tamarisk, 1981), Sessions 1-62 (Chax, 1991), Speech Acts (Chax, 1999), and Without a Trace (Singing Horse, 2001). In addition, Goldblatt has published two children's books, Leo Loves Round and Lissa and the Moon's Sheep. He is currently working on a literacy autobiography called Writing Home as well as a poetry manuscript entitled A Slender Singer: Early and Recent Poems. Goldblatt has published books and articles in composition/rhetoric as well; his new book is Because We Live Here: Sponsoring Literacy beyond the College Curriculum. He is a professor of English at Temple University.

Sueyeun Juliette Lee is a poet who lives in Philadelphia. She is the author of that gorgeous feeling (Coconut, 2009) and Mental Commitment Robots (Yo-Yo Labs, 2007). She also runs Corollary Press. For links to some of her poems, click here.

sasha fletcher has a BFA in ceramics from Tyler School of Art. He lives in South Philadelphia. He guts and sells fish. In the fall he will be an MFA candidate in poetry at Columbia University up there in New York City. For links to his work, visit his blog, an ice cold coca cola.

April 11: Dinh, Mir, Yearous-Algozin

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Joey Yearous-Algozin lives in Philadelphia, where he is a graduate student in Poetry at Temple University. His work is forthcoming or has appeared in For(a)ge and The Robert Walser Society of Western Massachussets. His current project, TOWARDS DAYS, is accessible from his blog, LEAN-TO.

Stan Mir is the author of the forthcoming chapbook Flight Patterns (JR Van Sant) and the recipient of the 2008 Transcontinental Poetry Award from Pavement Saw Press for his manuscript The Lacustrine Suite, which will be published in March 2010. His work can be read in Fascicle, Octopus, word for/word, the ixnay reader, and elsewhere. He lives in the Germantown section of Philadelphia where he listens to people talk.

Linh Dinh is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House and Blood and Soap, four books of poems, All Around What Empties Out, American Tatts, Borderless Bodies and Jam Alerts, and a novel, Love Like Hate. He is also the editor of two anthologies of Vietnamese writers and poets. He maintains a blog, Detainees.

March 28: Gery, Sullivan, Taransky

2009-03-18T23:16:00.004-04:00

Michelle Taransky's first book, Barn Burned, Then, was selected by Marjorie Welish for the 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize and will be published in September 2009. Taransky works at Kelly Writers House and, with Emily Pettit, coordinates the Whenever We Feel Like It Reading Series.

John Gery is a poet and critic of modern and contemporary poetry. His books include Charlemagne: A Song of Gestures, The Enemies of Leisure, American Ghost: Selected Poems (English-Serbian, translated by Biljana Obradovic), Davenport’s Version, A Gallery of Ghosts, and Nuclear Annihilation and Contemporary American Poetry: Ways of Nothingness. His poetry, criticism, and reviews have appeared throughout the U.S. and Europe, including in Callaloo, New Orleans Review, Paideuma, Paris Review, and West Branch. He has done collaborative translations of works from Serbian, Armenian, Chinese, and French, and his own work has been translated into Serbian, Italian, Chinese, Romanian, Bengali, and Farsi. A Research Professor of English at the University of New Orleans, he also directs the Ezra Pound Center for Literature, Brunnenburg, Italy. He lives in New Orleans with his wife, poet Biljana Obradovic, and their son Petar.

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is from Harlem, New York. Her fiction has appeared and/or is forthcoming in the anthologies, Baby Remember My Name and X-24 Unclassified, as well as in the literary journals Crab Orchard Review, BLOOM, Philadelphia Stories online, Lumina, Amistad, Baobab South African Journal and others. She has received honors and awards from The Boston Fiction Festival, New World Theater, the NAACP, and other organizations. She received the 2008 Charles Johnson Student Fiction Award for her short story, “A Strange People,” and her full-length play, “Two Rings” was a finalist for the 2009 Downtown Urban Theatre Festival in New York City. She is currently working on a Ph.D. in English at the University of Pennsylvania.

March 14: Featherston, Russell, Van Winckel

2009-03-05T12:31:00.008-05:00

Dan Featherston is a scholar of modern and contemporary American literature and a poet whose books include The Clock Maker’s Memoir (Cuneiform Press, 2007), United States (Factory School, 2005), Into the Earth (Quarry Press, 2005) and The Radiant World (BlazeVox), which will be published later this year. He is currently a visiting assistant professor in the First-Year Writing Program at Temple University. He lives in Philadelphia with Rachel McCrystal and their dog Fredo. You can read some of Dan Featherston's work in Milk Magazine and on his blog.

Jacob Russell lives in South Philly. He loves dogs, playing chess & barroom pool. He wrote his first poem in second grade and spent the next 40 years thinking about it--it was a traumatic experience. At age 48, he quit procrastinating and got to work. He has written 47 volumes, 5,675 pages of journal entries; published short stories and poetry in various lit mags while collecting 1,594 rejection slips; took 8 years to write his first novel; second one is still W.I.P. He keeps a lit blog, Jacob Russell's Barking Dog, and has not given up hope that someone will publish his novels before he dies.

Nance Van Winckel's fifth collection of poems, No Starling, is recently out from U. of Washington Press. She is the recipient of two NEA Poetry Fellowships and awards from the Poetry Society of America, Poetry, and Prairie Schooner. New poems appear in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Poetry Northwest, Crazyhorse, Field, and Gettysburg Review. She is also the author of three collections of short fiction, most recently Curtain Creek Farm from Persea Books/Norton. She teaches in the MFA Programs at Eastern Washington University and Vermont College and is currently the Stadler Poet in Residence at Bucknell.

Feb 28: Klassnik, Hess, Conrad

2009-02-18T19:06:00.005-05:00

Rauan Klassnik's first book, Holy Land, was published in 2008 by Black Ocean. His poems have appeared (or are forthcoming) in The Mississippi Review, The North American Review, Sleepingfish, MiPoesias, No Tell Motel, Sentence, Forklift, and elsewhere. He blogs regularly (if not intelligently) at rauanklassnik.blogspot.com.

Mickey Hess is the author of Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory, Is Hip Hop Dead? and Icons of Hip Hop. He is an English professor at Rider University.

CAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia where he lives and writes with the PhillySound poets. He is the author of Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), (Soma)tic Midge (FAUX Press, 2008), The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2008), advanced ELVIS course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED: Philadelphia Poems (Factory School Press, 2009).

Feb 14: Release of Calque #5

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Come listen to readings by Jennifer Hayashida, Sandra Newman, and Brandon Holmquest as we celebrate the release of the final issue of Calque, a journal of literature in translation.

Jennifer Hayashida is a poet and translator. She was born in Oakland, California, and grew up in the suburbs of Stockholm and San Francisco. She has translated Fredrik Nyberg's A Different Practice (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2007) and Eva Sjödin's Inner China (Litmus Press, 2005). She is Director of the Asian American Studies Program at Hunter College in New York. This year, she is a Writer-in-Residence through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program, where she is working on an experimental prose piece centering on the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.

Sandra Newman is the author of the novels The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done and Cake. Her memoir, Folk Tales of the Rich, is due to be published by Random House in 2010.

Brandon Holmquest is co-editor of Calque. His essays can be read online in English and in Spanish.

Jan 31: Jones, Regan, Skaja

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Quincy Scott Jones earned a Bachelor's degree from Brown University, a Master's degree from Temple University, and $100 once working as supermarket clown. He is an Adjunct Professor at Arcadia University where this semester he is teaching writing, performance poetry, and something called "Politics & Poetics (or What Hip-Hop Was Suppose to Be)". March 28th he will be (co)hosting this year's Light of Unity Festival, an afternoon of artistic expression celebrating cultural, political, and aesthetic diversity.

Emily Skaja is obsessed with shades of plum and surrealism. She dislikes artichokes.

Duncan Regan is from St. Augustine, Florida. He can wear several pairs of pants at once, and there are poets who can attest to this. He spent time in Boone, North Carolina, where he got a degree from Appalachian State University. Now he lives in Philadelphia with a banana plant, but if he puts it in a bigger pot . . .

Dec 13: Miller, Jaramillo, Holmquest

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Cathleen Miller is a poet and artist who lives and works in Philadelphia. Her poems play with the ways that subjective experience is shaped by culture, nature, expectation and memory. She is interested in the intersections and overlaps between past and present, subject and object, history and narrative. She gains inspiration from her work as an archivist, her time spent in the garden watching seeds sprout into food, and an ongoing conversation with the world. Some of her work can be read in EOAGH and Fanzine.

Laura Jaramillo is a writer from Queens and for Queens, but has tremendous nostalgias for other places too. She is the author of B (unpublished) and The Reactionary Poems (Olywa Press).

Brandon Holmquest: Look, I can't keep writing these bio things in the third person like they were written by somebody else. My publicist or something. It's more than a little disingenuous. So, I write poems and stories and essays and make translations, as the mood takes me, and edit a journal called Calque with my friend Steve. Some of my poems are up online at www.essay-poems.blogspot.com.

Nov 22: Jagannathan, Pollock, Buchanan

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Oni Buchanan is a pianist and poet. Her second book of poetry, Spring, was published by the University of Illinois Press in September 2008, selected by Mark Doty as a winner of the 2007 National Poetry Series. Her first poetry book, What Animal, was published in 2003 by the University of Georgia Press. Ms. Buchanan currently maintains a private piano studio in Boston. For more about her music and poetry, including links to her work, visit her website.

Michael Pollock is a fiction writer and fledgling novelist, who is the editor of First City Review, a relatively new magazine out of Philadelphia.

Mytili Jagannathan lives in Philadelphia, where she's been actively involved in the community arts work of the Asian Arts Initiative. She is the author of Acts, a chapbook from Habenicht Press, and her poems have appeared in EOAGH, Rattapallax, Combo, Interlope, Mirage#4/Period[ical], Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics, and Fanzine. She is the recipient of an Emerging Artist grant from the Leeway Foundation and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts.

Nov 8: Short, Hoeffel, Bergmann

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F.J. Bergmann writes poetry and speculative fiction, often simultaneously. She manifests as the shadowy entity behind fibitz.com and madpoetry.org. She is the 2008 winner of the Science Fiction Poetry Association Rhysling Award for the Short Poem as well as the 2006 Mary Shelley Imaginative Fiction Award, and has three published chapbooks: Sauce Robert, Aqua Regia, and Constellation of the Dragonfly. Journals where her poetry appears include Asimov's, Beloit Poetry Journal, Margie, Southern Poetry Review, Unpleasant Event Schedule, and Weird Tales. One of her pseudopodia can reach all the way from the bedroom to the refrigerator. Her hairstyle is deceptive.

Mary Hoeffel is a fiction writer living and teaching in Philadelphia.

Kim Gek Lin Short is the daughter of a Scots-Irish geophysicist from the midwest and a Straits-Chinese tenpin champion from Singapore. Other unusual pairings appear in her chapbook The Residents (dancing girl press 2008), and in the recent or forthcoming pages of Caketrain Journal, Drunken Boat, 42opus, No Tell Motel, Fence, Pool, Tarpaulin Sky, and elsewhere. She was selected by Kate Northrop among the Mad Poets Review’s 2007 prize winners. Together with Chris Collision she is one of three Roses at The Autobiography of Rows Selavy. For links to her work, visit her website.

Oct 25: McCreary, Willenborg, Askenase

2008-10-14T12:58:00.006-04:00

Chris McCreary is the author of two books of poems, The Effacements and Dismembers. Poems from a new manuscript, "Undone," can be found online at Eratio, Turntable and Blue Light, and Scantily Clad Press. Along with Jenn McCreary, he is co-editor of ixnay press.

Chad Willenborg teaches at the Art Institute of Philadelphia, where he is mentor to the creative writing club, which hopes to launch a literary journal, Lorem Ipsum, this winter. Nominated for Best American Short Stories and twice runner-up in CityPaper’s annual writing contest,

Chad

’s work can be found in Fugue, The Believer, and McSweeney’s. This year his fiction was featured in First City Review and Philadelphia Stories. He is currently working on a novel and a collection of "cover versions" of James Joyce’s Dubliners.

Alicia Askenase is the author of the chapbooks Cover, Suspect, Shirley Shirley, and The Luxury of Pathos. Her work has appeared in lit journals and anthologies that include 5_trope, sonaweb, texture, Chain, and 100 Days. She is at work on The Cadillac Poems and a longer manuscript, Perverse Incentives, which she also plans to perform as stand-up tragi-comedy. She was a founding co-editor of the journal 6ix and writes, designs and horticults in Motown, NJ and Philadelphia, PA..

Oct 11: McDaniel, Rutkowski, Sirowitz

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Come hear these three great writers perform their work Saturday, October 11th @ 8PM:

Jeffrey McDaniel is the author of four books of poetry, most recently The Endarkenment from the University of Pittsburgh Press. His previous three books are The Splinter Factory (2002); The Forgiveness Parade (1998); and Alibi School (1995). Individual poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, and other magazines and anthologies. He was born in Philadelphia and recently moved from Brooklyn to the Hudson Valley with his wife and daughter. Listen to some of his poetry here. Read his contributions to the Poetry Foundation's Harriet Blog here.

Thaddeus Rutkowski grew up in central Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Cornell University and The John Hopkins University. His first novel, Roughhouse (Kaya Press), was a finalist for an Asian American Literary Award. He has received four Pushcart Prize nominations. He teaches fiction writing at the Writer's Voice of the West Side YMCA in New York. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and daughter. To read some of his work, visit his website.

Hal Sirowitz is the former poet laureate of Queens, New York. His first book, Mother Said, was translated into nine languages. He has been published in many journals, including Provincetown Arts Journal and The Bellevue Review. Garrison Keillor has read Sirowitz's poem on his radio show, The Writer's Almanac; and Sirowitz has been featured on Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Check out his work here.

Sept 27: Some Young Poets

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This Saturday, September 27th at 8pm
We've got cat ladies, paratroopers, flounder, and other fantastic delicacies!
Which means POETRY!

Featuring these mysterious young folks:

Drew Kalbach lives in Philadelphia. His work has appeared
(or will appear) in Elimae, Thieves Jargon, Robot Melon and
elsewhere. His chapbook The Zen of Chainsaws and Enormous Clippers
is available from dogzplot.com's achilles chapbook series.
He blogs at this-blog-is-a-piece-of-art.blogspot.com.

Quyen Nghiem was an Allied paratrooper in a past life. He
wakes up every morning with a parachute and a broken leg.

Jaclyn (or Jackee with two e's) Sadicario is a poet originally from
LAWNGUYLAND, NEW YAWK. She is a double major in
Psychology and English at Temple University. A short story
of hers was recently published in Hyphen, Temple's Literary
Magazine. She finds comfort in oceanic metaphors and can
only aspire to be the greatest cat lady to come. Visit her
blog, when I say what I mean.

Ryan Ruth is a writer living in Philadelphia.

Bryce Bayer lives in Philadelphia and attends Temple
University. You can visit her writings at brycebayer.blogspot.com.

Alina Ladyzhensky is currently floundering around as an
English major at Temple University. She aspires to continue
her floundering at a graduate school, and eventually tricking
enough people into thinking she's a poet. She enjoys
bottom-shelf whiskey, working to restore her Russian accent,
and giant jigsaw puzzles (especially of kittens).

Lauren Faralli is a writer living in Philadelphia.

Followed by an open mic!

What It's All About

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This reading series is organized and hosted by Stan Mir and Ryan Eckes, two poets who live and work in Philadelphia. Founded in 2006 by writer and translator Steve Dolph, who wanted an informal venue for local writers and small presses to share their work with each other, the Chapterhouse series quickly became a base for Philly writers to meet, listen, talk. Though the series has grown in popularity--we now attract (and invite) visitors from out of town--it does remain rooted in the the value of a local writing community. At every reading there are regulars and semi-regulars and a few strangers, and all are welcome. The local poets who read in the series tend to be regular audience members.

While we want to provide writers a venue to share their work - and promote their books - we receive many more solicitations to read than there are spaces available to read in the series. We will try our best to accommodate writers who are on book tours (especially small-press-published), but we do believe that the reading itself is important, that it's not simply a formality to push the book. Reading solicitations are welcome, but, as you might with a journal, check out the work of some of the people who have read here, and please include links to any recordings or sound files of previous readings. (It may take us several weeks to respond to a reading solicitation.) And, of course, if you live in Philadelphia, come to some readings! There's no specific aesthetic to the series. However, since the organizers are both poets, there's definitely a lean towards poetry, poetry that's in dialogue with the writing that's being performed in the series all the time.