Small Animal Project

Kate Colby, Kate Schapira, and Michelle Taransky will read at Outpost 186 on Sunday, 2/12. 3 pm, small donation suggested. Small Animal Project gratefully acknowledges partial funding from theMassachusetts Cultural Council and the Cambridge Arts Council for its 2012 readings.

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Kate Schapira is the author of How We Saved the City (Stockport Flats), The Bounty: Four Addresses (Noemi Press) TOWN (Factory School, Heretical Texts Series), and The Soft Place (forthcoming from Horseless Press in 2012), as well as several chapbooks with Flying Guillotine, Cy Gist, Rope-A-Dope and Horseless Presses and Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. She lives in Providence, where she co-runs the Publicly Complex Reading Series and teaches writing to college students and fourth-grade scientists. Read work here, here, and here.

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Michelle Taransky is Reviews Editor for Jacket2 and the author of Barn Burned, Then (Omnidawn 2009), selected by Marjorie Welish for the 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize.  Taransky lives in Philadelphia where she works at Kelly Writers House and teaches writing and poetry at University of Pennsylvania.  A chapbook, No, I Will Be In The Woods, was just published by Brave Men Press. Read work here and here.

Amaranth Borsuk, Brigitte Byrd, and Kate Durbin will read at Outpost 186 on Thursday, 11/17. 8 pm, small donation suggested.

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Amaranth Borsuk is the author Handiwork (Slope Editions, forthcoming), selected by Paul Hoover for the 2011 Slope Editions Prize, a chapbook, Tonal Saw (The Song Cave, 2010), and, with programmer Brad Bouse, the digital/print hybridBetween Page and Screen (Siglio Press, forthcoming). Abra, her conjoined collaborative book with Kate Durbin, is forthcoming in print and iPad editions from ZG Press. Her poems and book reviews have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Harp & Altar, The Destroyer, Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion, and Gulf Coast. She has a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California and is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at MIT. Read work here and here, and an interview here.

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Kate Durbin is a Los Angeles-based writer and performance artist. She is author of The Ravenous Audience (Akashic Books, 2009), E! Entertainment(Blanc Press, diamond edition, forthcoming), ABRA (Zg Press, forthcoming w/ Amarant Borsuk), as well as the conceptual fashion magazine The Fashion Issue (Zg Press, forthcoming), and five chapbooks: Fragments Found in a 1937 Aviator’s Boot (Dancing Girl Press, 2009), FASHIONWHORE(Legacy Pictures, 2010), The Polished You, as part of Vanessa Place’s Factory Series (oodpress, 2010), E! Entertainment (Insert Press, forthcoming), and Kept Women(Insert Press, forthcoming). She is founding editor of Gaga Stigmata, which will be published as a book from Zg Press in 2012. Read Kate’s work here and here, and one of Kate’s collaborations with Amaranth here.

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A native of France where she was trained as a dancer, Brigitte Byrd is the author of Song of a Living Room (Ahsahta, 2009), The Dazzling Land (Black Zinnias, 2008), and Fence above the Sea (Ahsahta, 2005). She currently lives in Atlanta and is an Associate Professor of English teaching Creative Writing at Clayton State University.  She is also an editorial reviewer for Confluence: The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies. Read work here and here.

Rob MacDonald, Megan Martin, and Kristi Maxwell will read at Outpost 186 on Wednesday, 10/5. 8 pm, small donation suggested.

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Rob MacDonald lives in Boston and is the editor of the online journal Sixth Finch. His poems have appeared in Octopus, H_NGM_N, The Lumberyard, notnostrums and other journals. Last New Death, a chapbook, is available from Scantily Clad Press. Read poems here and here.

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Megan Martin is the author of Sparrow & Other Eulogies (Gold Wake Press 2011). Her short prose has recently appeared or is forthcoming in H_NGM_N, Caketrain, Action, Yes!, The Collagist, and La Petite Zine, among others. She lives in Cincinnati where she teaches writing at Xavier University and the University of Cincinnati. Read poems here, here, and here.

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Kristi Maxwell is the author of Realm-Sixty-four (Ahsahta, 2008), Hush Sessions (Saturnalia, 2009), and the recently published Re- (Ahsahta). Her poems have most recently appeared in New American Writing and 1913 a journal of forms. She teaches at the Poetry Center and university in Tucson and serves on the POG board of directors. Read poems here, here, and here.

Carrie Bennett, Jennifer Denrow, and Jen Tynes will read at Outpost 186 on Monday, 5/2. 8 pm, small donation suggested.

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Carrie Bennett is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and author of biography of water (Word Works’ Washington Prize, 2004). She currently lives in Somerville, MA and teaches writing at Boston University. Her poetry has been published in Boston Review, Caketrain, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, and Interim, among others.  Her chapbook, A Quiet Winter, will be published next Spring (dancing girl press). Read some of her work here and here.

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Jennifer Denrow has two chapbooks: A Knee for a Life (Horse Less Press) and From California, On (Brave Men Press). Her first book, California, is available from Four Way Books. Read poems here, here and here.

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Jen Tynes lives in Denver and is the founding editor of Horse Less Press. She also edits interviews and reviews for the Denver Quarterly and is the author or co-author of several books and chapbooks, most recently Heron/Girlfriend (Coconut Books) and Autogeography (a collaboration with Michael Sikkema, from Black Warrior Review). Read poems here and here.

Nathan Hoks, Sandra Lim, and James Shea will read at Outpost 186 on Thursday, 3/24. 8 pm, small donation suggested.

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Nathan Hoks’ first book, Reveilles, won Salt Publishing’s Crashaw Prize. He is also the author of the chapbook Birds Mistaken as Wind and the translator of Arctic Poems, a chapbook of Vicente Huidobro’s poetry. He teaches English, rides a bike, keeps a blog, and lives in Somerville, Mass. Some of his poems can be read here, here, and here.

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Sandra Lim is the author of a collection of poetry, Loveliest Grotesque, published by Kore Press in 2006. Her poems are also included in the anthology Gurlesque (Saturnalia 2010), and her work has appeared in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, American Letters & Commentary, and other journals. She is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Read poems here and here.

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James Shea is the author of Star in the Eye (Fence Books). His poems have appeared in various journals, including American Letters and Commentary, Boston Review, Colorado Review, jubilat, and Verse. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, DePaul University, and as a poet-in-residence in the Chicago public schools. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Nebraska Wesleyan University.

Claire Hero, Becca Klaver, and Julia Story will read at Outpost 186 on Wednesday, 12/15. 8 pm, small donation suggested.

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Claire Hero is the author of Sing, Mongrel (Noemi Press 2009) and two chapbooks: Cabinet (dancing girl press) and afterpastures, winner of the 2007 Caketrain Chapbook Competition.  Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Handsome, Poemeleon and Sous Rature.  She lives in upstate New York and teaches writing at SUNY – New Paltz.

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Bex on her birthday with her very own small animal, Contessa. Photo: Becca Fischer.

Becca Klaver is the author of the poetry collection LA Liminal (Kore Press, 2010) and the chapbook Inside a Red Corvette: A 90s Mix Tape (greying ghost, 2009). A founding editor of the feminist poetry press Switchback Books, she is also editing, with Arielle Greenberg, an anthology of poems for teenage girls. Becca holds degrees from the University of Southern California and Columbia College Chicago, and is currently a PhD student in English at Rutgers University. Born and raised in Milwaukee, WI, she now lives in Brooklyn, NY, and blogs at the pomo expo. You can read recent poems online at Super Arrow, InDigest, and Sharkforum.

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You can find some her recent work here and here. She blogs here.

Crystal Curry, Lucy Ives, and Greg Lawless will read at Outpost 186 on Sunday, 10/31. 3 pm, small donation suggested.

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Crystal Curry was born in Greenville, Ill. in 1974. Her work has appeared both off and online in journals such as VERSE, Denver Quarterly, Conduit, Open City, Octopus Magazine and Action, Yes. Curry received her B.A. in journalism and political science from Illinois State University and her M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a postgraduate fellow. Curry is the author of Our Chrome Arms of Gymnasium (Slope Editions, forthcoming) and the chapbook Logotherapy Pant (Cosa Nostra Editions, 2008). She currently writes poems in Seattle, where she makes plans and schemes and clafoutis, sometimes telecommutes and (s)mothers two cool boy chicks. Read some of Crystal’s work here, here, and here.

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Lucy Ives is a writer and graduate student living in New York. She is the author of Anamnesis (Slope Editions, 2009). Read a recent interview here.

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Gregory Lawless is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of I Thought I Was New Here (BlazeVOX). His poems, reviews and interviews have appeared in or are forthcoming from 2River View, Artifice, Best of the Net 2007, Cider Press Review, The Cortland Review, Drunken Boat, H_NGM_N, The Hollins Critic, InDigest, La Petite Zine, Sonora Review, Tarpaulin Sky, Thermos, Third Coast, Zoland Poetry and others. He has recently been nominated for a Pushcart and for Best of the Net. You can find some his recent work here, here, and here.

Brian Foley, Joshua Harmon, and Emily Pettit will read at Outpost 186 on Tuesday, 6/15. 8 pm, small donation suggested.

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Read excerpts from Brian’s work here and here.

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Joshua Harmon is the author of Scape (poems, 2009) and Quinnehtukqut (a novel, 2007), and the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Poems from his current project, Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie, are published or forthcoming in Absent, Agni, Colorado Review, Copper Nickel, Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, The Offending Adam, Sentence, Typo, and Volt, as well as in the chapbook The Poughkeepsiad (Greying Ghost Press, August 2010).  He no longer lives in Poughkeepsie.

Read excerpts from Josh’s work here, here, and here.

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Read some of Emily’s work here, here, and here.

Amina Cain, Jen Karmin, and Anne Shaw will read at Outpost 186 on Saturday, 5/8. 3 pm, small donation suggested.

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Read excerpts from Amina’s work here and here.

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Read some of Jen’s work here, here, and here.

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Anne Shaw is the author of Undertow (Persea Books), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Drunken Boat, Green Mountains Review, and New American Writing. She has also been featured in Poetry Daily and From the Fishouse. Her extended poetry project can be found on Twitter at twitter.com/anneshaw.

Read excerpts from Anne’s work on her website.