August 1st: Stacy Szymaszek & Nicholas DeBoer
Join us Saturday August 1st, 5pm at Fergies Pub (upstairs), 1214 Sansom St. Philadelphia, PA, for a reading by guests Stacy Szymaszek and Nicholas A. DeBoer
Stacy Szymaszek is a poet and the author of the books Emptied of All Ships (Litmus Press, 2005) and Hyperglossia (Litmus Press, 2009), as well as numerous chapbooks of poetry, including Orizaba: A Voyage with Hart Crane (Faux Press, 2008), Stacy S.: Autoportraits (OMG, 2008), from Hyperglossia (Belladonna Books, 2005), and Mutual Aid (g o n g press, 2004). From 1999 to 2005, she worked at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood. Szymaszek and Drew Kunz edited the literary journal Traverse from 1999 to 2004. In 2005 she moved to New York City where she is the current Artistic Director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church. Nicholas A. DeBoer: On October 30, 1952, his parents were born in separate cities, twelve hours apart. Mine was on the 23rd, WSB’s #. EzPo in 1887, me in 1981 (94 years). The SI supported the barricades as long as they could, hands like miniature infidels, 1968 (13 years). Tumbled out in the middle of the night, without any breath in the lungs. Policy Wonk degree from WMU (2004), the rest from JKDP (2008). Chicago, the wild leek is home-base, is the cavern’s retreat. Manorexic Nervosity available from Con/Crescent Press. Published poems in Fact-Simile, Bombay Gin, In Stereo Press and other(s). My poem of some length caught in the graveyard, a tarantula on the right shoulder, inking venom into a tattoo: ‘ante mortem no scortum’”
