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OBSERVABLE
READINGS September 6 - Tony Trigilio
and Allison Funk Tony Trigilio is the Director of
Creative Writing-Poetry at Columbia College in Chicago, an editor of the
poetry journal Court Green, and the author of book of
poetry, The Lama's English Lessons (Three Candles Press, 2006), and
the critical volume Allen
Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics (SIU Press, 2007). His work has appeared in Denver
Quarterly, New Orleans Review, The Laurel Review, Hotel Amerika, and elsewhere. Allison Funk is a poet, editor, and translator of
Catalan poetry. She has
published three books of poems: The Knot Garden (Sheep Meadow Press, 2002); Living
at the Epicenter
(Northeastern University Press, 1995); and Forms of Conversion (Alice James Books, 1986). She co-edits the national literary
journal Sou’wester at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where she is Professor
of English and Creative Writing. October 4 - Daniel
Borzutzky, Peter Davis, and Richard Newman Daniel Borzutsky is the author of
Arbitrary Tales (Triple
Press, 2005) and The Ecstasy of Capitulation (BlazeVOX, 2007). Of the latter,
Gabriel Gudding writes: “Borzutzky is exactly the kind of
weirdo genius who can restructure a cultural imaginary. Comic, essayistic,
spare, moral, pointed, polyglossic and low, this book teaches us that we do
not live refractory lives…” Peter Davis' book of poems is Hitler's
Mustache (Barnwood,
2006). He edited Poet's Bookshelf: Contemporary Poets on Books that Shaped Their Art.
His poems have appeared in journals like Unpleasant Event Schedule, Kulture Vulture, Court Green, Mipoesias, McSweeney's, and La Petite Zine. He lives with his wife, son,
and daughter in Muncie, Indiana and teaches at Ball State University. St.
Louis poet Richard Newman is the author Borrowed Towns (Word Press, 2005). His poems
have appeared in Best American Poetry 2006, Crab Orchard Review, The Sun, Tar River Poetry, and 32 Poems. A poem of his which
recently appeared in New Letters won this year's New Letters Readers Choice
Award. For thirteen years he has served as Editor of River
Styx and
Director of the River Styx at Duff's Reading Series. October 6 - Special Engagement! An Observable Benefit Reading, featuring 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Troy Jollimore and local superstar Jane O. Wayne. Please visit http://observable.org/benefit for details. November 1 - Gabriel Fried, Dorothea Lasky, and Jane Ellen Ibur Gabriel Fried grew up in upstate
New York. His book, Making the New Lamb Take, won the Katharine A. Morton
prize in poetry from Sarabande Books and was published in 2007. His poems have appeared in a number of journals, including The
American Scholar,
Drunken Boat,
The Gettysburg Review, The Great River Review, and The Paris Review. He lives in New York City,
where he edits the poetry series at Persea Books. Native St. Louisan Dorothea Lasky is the author of AWE (Wave Books, 2007) and three chapbooks: The Hatmaker's Wife (Braincase Press, 2006), Art (H_NGM_N Press, 2005), and Alphabets and Portraits (Anchorite Press, 2004). Her poems have appeared in Crowd, 6x6, Boston Review, Delmar, Knock, Drill, Carve, and a number of other places. She now lives in Philadelphia, where she co-edits the Katalanche Press chapbook series. Jane Ellen Ibur's poetry has been published in journals such as Boulevard, Natural Bridge, Lilith, River Styx, and Drumvoices Review, and anthologized in Teaching the Arts Behind Bars and New Harvest. She is committed to teaching creative writing in alternative settings, such as homeless shelters and jails, as well as co-directing the Gifted Writers Project for middle and high school students. She is best known as co-producer of "Literature for the Halibut" on 88.1, KDHX, FM. November 2 – Day of
the Dead Beats Day of
the Dead Beats is an annual Brett
Underwood has taken over
coordination of the event since 2004 and is thrilled that the event is
part of Observable Readings. Join the Dead Beats at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dayofthedeadbeats/ December 6 - Francisco
Aragón and Adrian Matejka Former editor of The Berkeley
Poetry Review,
poet and translator Francisco Aragón is the author of Puerta
del Sol (Bilingual Press, 2005) and the founding editor of
Momotombo Press (http://www.momotombopress.com/), a venture based at Notre
Dame which supports emerging Latino writers. His work has appeared in various
print and web publications, including Chain, Crab
Orchard Review, Electronic Poetry Review,
and Terra Incognita. Adrian Matejka is the author of The
Devil’s Garden
(Alice James Books, 2003). He is a graduate of the Southern Illinois
University Carbondale MFA program and is a Cave Canem Fellow. His work has
recently appeared in Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Gulf Coast, and Indiana Review. He currently serves as a
Creative Writing professor at SIUE. December 13 – Studio St. Louis Reading This showcase of regional high school poets is made possible by Studio St. Louis; details forthcoming. (For more information about Studio St. Louis, see the article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "On the Wings of Hope.")
January
10 - Dana Goodyear and Aliki Barnstone Dana
Goodyear is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Honey and Junk (Norton, 2005), of which Publishers Weekly writes: “All the poems are short
and well-calibrated … her poems perfectly reproduce the claustrophobic
atmosphere of love among the ruins of plenty." Goodyear, a native St. Louisan, now lives in Los Angeles. Aliki Barnstone's most recent books are The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy: A New Translation (W.W. Norton, 2006), Blue Earth (Iris Press, 2004), Wild With It (Sheep Meadow Press 2002), and Changing Rapture: Emily Dickinson's Poetic Development (University Press of New England, 2007). A new book of poems, Pique, is forthcoming with Sheep Meadow. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Missouri-Columbia. February 7 - Andrew Pryor, Steven Schreiner,
and Obi Nwakanma Andrew Pryor is an MFA candidate at the University of Missouri-Saint Louis. He has work forthcoming in The Greensboro Review and was a participant in the 2007 Southampton Writers Conference, where he worked with Billy Collins. Among his many jobs, he serves as an editorial assistant for the literary journal, Natural Bridge, and as a roustabout for Joe's Café. Steven Schreiner teaches in the creative writing MFA program at University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is the author of Too Soon to Leave (Ridgeway Press, 1997) and a chapbook titled Imposing Presence. His writing has appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Image, Colorado Review, River Styx, Delmar, 52nd City, and other places. He has been awarded fellowships from The National Writers Voice of the YMCA and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and is the founding and senior editor of Natural Bridge, a journal of contemporary literature. Obi Nwakanma is the author of The Horsemen and Other Poems (Africa World Press, 2007). His first collection of poetry, The Roped Urn, won the ANA / Cadbury Award, Nigeria's highest poetry prize. Nwakanma has also written Thirsting for Sunlight, a biography of the late poet Christopher Okigbo who was killed during the Biafra War. He received his MFA from Washington University. February 14 - Valentine's Day at the Royale! SPECIAL EVENT. This evening of poetic and musical silliness at the Royal is super popular, so be sure to sign up early and tell your friends to, too. All the info you need is here.
March 6 - Andrew Zawacki,
Kristy Odelius, and Simone Muench Andrew Zawacki is the author of two books of
poetry—Anabranch and By Reason of
Breakings (winner
of the Contemporary Poetry Series)—as well as editor of
the anthology Afterwards: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995. His long poem 'Georgia' won the 1913 Prize and is due from Katalanché Press. He is coeditor of Verse and of The Verse Book of Interviews. Kristy Odelius lives in Chicago,
where she teaches creative writing and literature at North Park University.
She is a co-editor and co-founder of Near South, a Chicago-based journal of
innovative writing. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming in a variety of
journals, including Chicago Review , Another Chicago Magazine, and Diagram and her first book, Strange Trades, will be published in 2008 by Shearsman Books (UK). Simone Muench's second book Lampblack & Ash received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize (Sarabande, 2005). Her latest chapbooks are Orange Girl (dancing girl press) and Sonoluminescence (with Bill Allegrezza, Dusie Press). She has poems appearing in Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, LUNA and others. She directs the Writing Program at Lewis University, serves on the board for Switchback Books, and is an editor for Sharkforum. April 3 – Eight
Kates: Colby, Marvin, Ford, Greenstreet, Peterson, Pringle, Schapira, Lederer Kate Colby is author of Unbecoming Behavior (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2007) and Fruitlands (Litmus Press, 2006). Recent work can be found in Bay Poetics, New American Writing and Vanitas. She lives in Providence. Cate Marvin's first book, World's
Tallest Disaster (Sarabande, 2001), was awarded the Kathryn A. Morton Prize
by Robert Pinksy. She is co-editor with Michael Dumanis of Legitimate
Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande, January 2006). Her
poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Slate, and elsewhere. Katie Ford is the author of
Deposition and Colosseum (Graywolf Press, 2002 and 2008), as well as a
chapbook, Storm (Marick Press, 2007). Her
work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poets & Writers,
Partisan Review, Seneca Review, and Ploughshares. She is Poetry Editor of New Orleans
Review and currently teaches at Franklin & Marshall College. Kate Greenstreet is the author of
case sensitive (Ahsahta Press, 2006) and Learning the Language (Etherdome
Press, 2005). Visit her online at kickingwind.com. Katie Peterson is the author of
This One Tree, published by New Issues. Beginning in the Fall of 2007, she will be the Robert Aird Professor
of Humanities and Poet in Residence at Deep Springs College. She was born in
California. Kate Pringle has two chapbooks: Temper and Felicity
are Lovers, out on TAXT, and The Stills on duration
press. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in
Fence, 580 Split, Fourteen Hills, 42opus, AliceBlue,
Denver Quarterly, Dusie, foursquare, string of small
machines, & others. She is an editor at minor/american
and curates the minor american reading series in
Durham, NC.
Kate Schapira lives and writes in
Providence, where she organizes the Publicly Complex reading series, and
teaches throughout Rhode Island.
Her chapbook, Phoenix Memory, is available from horse less press. Katy
Lederer is the author of Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and The Heaven-Sent Leaf (BOA Editions, forthcoming
2008), as well as the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003). April 10 – Studio St. Louis Reading THIS READING HAS BEEN CANCELED
May
1 – Ken Rumble, Matt Freeman, and Larry Sawyer Ken
Rumble is the author of Key Bridge (Carolina Wren Press, 2007) and a
contributing editor for the magazine Fascicle. His poems have appeared
in Talisman, Parakeet, Typo, Cutbank, Octopus, Cranky, One Less Magazine, and others. He lives in
Greensboro, NC, and works for the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art. Matt Freeman's most recent book, The
Dogtown Poet,
was published by Ginninderra Press. Matt studied writing at NYU and has
performed his poems and songs all over the United States. His work has been
published in journals both small and big. He lives in St. Louis, where he is
a full-time poet. Larry Sawyer edits www.milkmag.org (since 1997) and curates the Myopic Books reading series in Wicker Park, Chicago. His poetry and literary reviews have appeared in publications including Jacket, MiPoesias, Court Green, Hunger, Shampoo, Van Gogh's Ear, and elsewhere. His comic, The Lifer (illustrated by Joe Kimball), will be published by Fantagraphics in Fall 2007.
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