May 3, 2008- Buck Downs, Maureen Thorson, Rupert Wondolowski
Maureen Thorson is a poet and a lawyer living in Washington, DC. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in LIT, The Hat, and Typo. She enjoys non-alcoholic beverages and staying out of trouble. Maureen is the creator & publisher of Big Game Books. She also co-curates & hosts the In Your Ear Reading Series at District of Columbia Arts Center in DC.
Buck Downs is the author of Marijuana Soft Drink (Edge Books) ,the Narrow House chapdisc “Pontiac Fever”, & Recreational Vehicle (Apathy Press). Buck is one of America’s most inventive, provocative & unsung poets. He is currently working on a performance piece called “Shaving the Bear” where he has allowed former Baltimore poet Kevin Thurston to move in with him.
Rupert Wondolowski is currently a crab shack in a lead heavy corner of Curtis Bay weeds. He edits Shattered Wig Review, hosts Shattered Wig Night and co-owns Normal’s Books & Records in Baltimore. He is currently working on a story and poem collection called “The Origin of Paranoia As a Heated Mole Suit” and watching You Tube posts of Buck Downs shaving Kevin Thurston’s back. (Speaking of which, please check out Rip Torn and Norman Mailer’s tete-a-tete on said internet device.)
from April 19- Kristi Maxwell, Sandra Beasley, Les Wade
Sandra, Les, Kristi
April 19, 2008- Kristi Maxwell, Sandra Beasley, Les Wade
Even Les Wade finds the details of his own autobiography a little too unbelievable to relate, but he admits that it reads better in French. He is currently working on a manuscript that keeps appearing in places where he least expects it.
Sandra Beasley won the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize for her book Theories of Falling, selected by Marie Howe. Her poems have appeared in SLATE, The Believer, 32 Poems, Barrow Street, Blackbird, and the 2005 Best New Poets. She is an editor for The American Scholar in Washington, D.C.
Kristi Maxwell is the author of Realm Sixty-four, just out with Ahsahta Press; her second full-length book, Hush Sessions, will be published by Saturnalia Books in 2009, and her chapbook, Elsewhere & Wise, will be published by Dancing Girl Press this summer.
April 5, 2008- Cole Swensen, Thalia Field
Morandi , 1956
Cole Swensen is the author of twelve books of poetry, including
Ours (New California Poetry, 2008), The Glass Age (Alice James Books, 2007), Goest (Alice James Books 2004). Cole is one of America’s most
astute & prolific translators of French poetry, her latest translation is
You Are the Business by Caroline Dubois (Burning Deck Press, Feb. 2008).
She has won the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award, two
Pushcart Prizes, a National Poetry Series selection & the PEN USA Award
in Literary Translation. Cole is on the permanent faculty of The Iowa Writers’
Workshop. She lives & practices her art in Iowa, Washington, DC & Paris.
Thalia Field has two books published with New Directions: POINT AND LINE (2000) and INCARNATE: STORY MATERIAL (2004). Her new book, ULULU (CLOWN SHRAPNEL) is from Coffee House press in 2007, with film stills by Bill Morrison. Thalia’s writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Chicago Review, Ploughshares, Fence, Theater, Central Park, Chain and Conjunctions, where she served as editor and senior editor from 1995-1999. Performance works and plays include THE POMPEII EXHIBIT, composed by Toshiro Saruya, which was awarded an NEA commission grant in 1992, and HEY-STOP-THAT which was published in Theater magazine and produced at various US venues. Her current stage work is in collaboration with media artist and choreographer Jamie Jewett and includes SEVEN VEILS (Philadelphia and NY 2003) AFTER THE FALL (NY and Boston, 2004) and REST/LESS (NY, Boston, Providence 2005). Thalia serves on the editorial board of Chain, an interdisciplinary arts journal, and Play:A Journal of Plays. Before joining the faculty at Brown, Thalia taught at Bard College and at the Writing and Poetics program at Naropa University.
from March 15- Cathy Eisenhower & Bruce Andrews
Bruce & Cathy
March 15, 2008- Cathy Eisenhower & Bruce Andrews
Bruce Andrews was born in Chicago on April Fools Day, 1948. He is the author of several dozen books of poetry and performance scores, most recently, Lip Service (Coach House Press, 2001). His essays on poetics are collected in Paradise & Method: Poetics & Praxis (Northwestern University Press, 1996). He was co-editor, with Charles Bernstein, of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E (1978-1982) and The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book (Southern Illinois University Press, 1984).Andrews has taught Political Science at Fordham University since 1975 — with a focus on global capitalism, U.S. imperialism, the politics of communication, conspiracy theory, and covert politics. In New York City, he has also been involved in a long series of collaborative multi-media theatrical projects and performances. As composer, sound designer & live mixer, since the mid 1980s, he has been Music Director for Sally Silvers & Dancers.
Cathy Eisenhower is a poet-librarian living in Washington, DC. She runs the interrupting cow, a chapbook press, and translates the work of Argentine poet Diana Bellessi. Her books, clearing without reversal ,from Edge Books , would with and, from Roof Books & film, from Foursquare Editions are forthcoming in 2008. She co-curates the In Your Ear reading series at the District of Columbia Arts Center
from March 1- Justin Sirois, Ken Rumble, Gina Myers & Kate Pringle
Justin, Ken, Kate & Gina
March 1, 2008- Justin Sirois, Gina Myers, Ken Rumble
justin sirois is founder and one of three co-directors of narrow house, that publishing thing that used to be only a record thing. His new book, Secondary Sound (BlazeVOX Books) explores copyright reform, digital piracy, and listening for the ringtones that aren’t really there.
Gina Myers lives in Saginaw, Michigan where she makes books for Lame
House Press and co-edits the tiny. Her new chapbook, Behind the R, is
forthcoming from ypolita in summer/fall 2008.
Ken Rumble is the author of Key Bridge (Carolina Wren Press 2007) and an artist-in-residence at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative. His poems have appeared in Talisman, Parakeet, the tiny, Coconut, Cutbank, One Less Magazine, and others. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.
