Sept. 12- Doug Lang & Tina Darragh

Doug Lang

Joan Retallack, Lynne Dreyer & Tina Darragh

Tina Darragh -
Deep eco pré, Tina Darragh’s collaboration with poet Marcella Durand, will be published this fall as an ebook by Little Red Leaves. Darragh’s essay “Blame Global Warming on Thoreau?” is included in the )((eco (lang)(uage(reader)) forthcoming from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. Along with Jane Sprague and Diane Ward, she participated in the belladonna Elders Series #8 (NYC, June 2009). Tina has no desire to maintain her persona as a mild-mannered librarian since Doug Lang included her in his blog on DC poets.

Doug Lang -
Doug Lang was born and raised in Wales, and has published poetry and novels in the UK. He came to DC in 1973, where he ran the Folio Reading Series in the late 1970s, and where he has taught writing at the Corcoran College of Art and Design since 1976. He was one of the poets representing DC at the recent Poetry of the 1970s conference at Orono. A collection of his selected poems, In the Works, is forthcoming from Edge Books.

June 6 – C A Conrad, Mel Nichols, Frank Sherlock

CA ConradMel NicholsFrank Sherlock

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C A Conrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. His books include- 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).

- visit him online at www.CAConrad.blogspot.com.

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Mel Nichols’ recent book is Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon (Edge 2009). Other publications include Bicycle Day (Slack Buddha 2008) and The Beginning of Beauty, Part 1: hottest new ringtones, mnichol6 (Edge 2007). Recent and forthcoming journal publications include New Ohio Review, Van Gogh’s Ear, Abraham Lincoln, The Brooklyn Rail, and Poetry. 
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Frank Sherlock is the author of Over Here (Factory School 2009) and the co-author of Ready-To-Eat Individual (Lavender Ink 2008) with Brett Evans. A collaboration with CAConrad entitled The City Real & Imagined: Philadelphia Poems is forthcoming from Factory School later this year.
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May 2- Leslie Bumstead, Heather Fuller

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Leslie Bumstead is the author of  Cipher/Civilian (Edge Books, 2005). Her most recent work has appeared in New Ohio Reveiw ( /nor) & the anthology Not For Mothers Only (Fence Books, 2007). She lives in Takoma Park, MD.

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Heather Fuller’s works include ‘perhaps this is a rescue fantasy’ (Edge Books, 1997), Dovecote (Edge Books, 2002) & Startle Response (O Books, 2005). She is one of five poets featured on the Narrow House Recordings CD titled Women in the Avant Garde. She lives in Fullerton, Baltimore. For more FUN FACTS visit www.startleresponse.com.

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