SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16th, 7pm
An evening of readings from:
James Belflower (Instance Press)
Kate Greenstreet (Ahsahta)
Joe Hall (Black Ocean)
Steven Karl (Flying Guillotine)
Lauren Bender (Publishing Genius)
Andy Devine/Jamie Gaughran-Perez (Publishing Genius)
Dan Magers (Immaculate Disciples Press)
Adam Robinson (Publishing Genius)
Ben Segal (Publishing Genius)
at Philly’s FERGIE’S PUB: 1214 SANSOM
James Belflower is the author of Commuter (Instance Press) and Bird Leaves the Cornice, winner of the 2010 Spring Gun Press Chapbook contest. Commuter was recently voted 2009’s “Best Book Length Long Poem/Sequence by ColdFront magazine. His work appears, or is forthcoming in: EOAGH, Denver Quarterly, Apostrophe Cast, 1913 & Greatcoat among others. He curates the Yes! Reading Series in Albany NY.
Lauren Bender is co-director of Narrow House, Feminine Arbiter of Phrases for the Performance Thanatology Research Society, and curator of Show&Tell, a new performance series in Baltimore. Books include Whale Box (Publishing Genius) and The Dictionary Poems(Furniture Press). Work has appeared in various print and online places including onedit, Featherproof’s iPhone app, and The Shattered Wig Review. Performances have included Big Pink with William Bender at the BMA as part of the Franz West: To Build a House You Start With the Roof exhibition, and CorpOreo I and II, video performances as part of the Transmodern Festival in Baltimore and the Los Solos Series, respectively. Sporadic postings can be found at http://www.times-infinity.blogspot.com/.
Andy Devine’s alphabetical fiction and essays have appeared in a variety of literary magazines, including New York Tyrant, Unsaid, Elimae, Everyday Genius, and Taint. In 2002, he was awarded the Riddley Walker Prize (for a work that ignores conventional rules of grammar and punctuation). In 2007, he published a chapbook, “As Day Same That the the Was Year” (Publishing Genius). In 2009, Andy Devine was awarded The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Award (for fiction in the face of adversity). WORDS (2010, Publishing Genius) is his first book. Andy Devine Avenue — in Flagstaff, Arizona — is named after him.
Kate Greenstreet is the author of The Last 4 Things and case sensitive, both on Ahsahta Press, and four chapbooks, most recently “but even now I am perhaps not speaking” (Imprint Press, 2010). Her new work is in current or forthcoming issues of Chicago Review, Colorado Review, Cannibal, VOLT, and other journals. More information at kickingwind.com.
Joe Hall’s first book of poems is Pigafetta Is My Wife (Black Ocean Press 2010). Pigafetta has appeared on the Small Press Distribution Best Seller List and is a Poetry International Notable Book of the Year. His poetry and fiction have appeared in Gulf Coast, HTML Giant, Barrelhouse, The Boog Portable Reader, Zone 3 and elsewhere. With Wade Fletcher he co-organizes the DC area reading series Cheryl’s Gone. He no longer lives in a trailer park.
Steven Karl is the author of (Ir)Rational Animals (Flying Guillotine Press, 2010) and with Joseph Lappie, the collaborative chapbook, State(s) of Flux (Peptic Robot Press, 2009). He has e-chaps forthcoming from h_ngm_n and Scantily Clad Press. He’s the News Editor for Coldfront and an assistant editor for Sink Review. He adjuncts at many places and calls Brooklyn, NY his home.
Dan Magers graduated from The New School’s MFA program and works on engineering books for a publishing company. He is co-founder and co-editor of Sink Review (sinkreview.org), an online poetry magazine, as well as a chapbook press called Immaculate Disciples Press. He has poems published in Sixth Finch, Eleven Eleven, the tiny, and forthcoming in Forklift, Ohio, among other places. A regular contributor of books reviews at New Pages (newpages.com), he currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Adam Robinson is the publisher of 15 books of innovative prose and poetry through his small press, Publishing Genius. He has also written two books of his own poetry, including Adam Robison and Other Poems, which Narrow House released last spring. He holds an MFA from the University of Baltimore, where he won the Yale Gordon advisory committee award. He writes about poetics and small press culture for HTMLGIANT, the literary blog of the future, and plays guitar in the rock band, Sweatpants.
Ben Segal is the author of 78 Stories (No Record Press). His chapbooks ‘Science Fiction Pornography’ and ‘Weather Days’ were published by Publishing Genius and ML Press, and his short fiction has appeared in various publications including Gigantic, The Collagist, Eyeshot, and elimae. He is also the co-editor of The Official Catalog of the Library of Potential Literature.
Poets from all over the Eastern Seaboard! You do not want to miss this spectacular.
