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Archive for the ‘reading’ Category
Saturday, 5/8: Amina Cain, Jen Karmin, Anne Shaw
Monday, April 12th, 2010Amina Cain, Jen Karmin, and Anne Shaw will read at Outpost 186 on Saturday, 5/8. 3 pm, small donation suggested.
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Amina Cain is the author of I Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues Press, 2009), a collection of stories that revolve quietly around human relationality, landscape, and emptiness, and a chapbook entitled Tramps Everywhere (Blanc Press, forthcoming). She is also a curator (most recently for When Does It or You Begin? Memory as Innovation, a month long festival of writing, performance, and video) and a current Visiting Lecturer at the University of California, San Diego, where she teaches creative writing/fiction. Her work has appeared in publications such as 3rd bed, Action Yes, Denver Quarterly, Dewclaw, La Petite Zine, onedit, Sidebrow, and Wreckage of Reason: Xxperimental Prose by Women Writers, and has been translated into Polish on MINIMALBOOKS. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and now lives in Los Angeles.
Read excerpts from Amina’s work here and here.
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Jennifer Karmin’s text-sound epic, Aaaaaaaaaaalice, was published by Flim Forum Press in 2010. She curates the Red Rover Series and is co-founder of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented at festivals, artist-run spaces, community centers, and on city streets across the U.S., Japan, and Kenya. A proud member of the Dusie Kollektiv, she is the author of the Dusie chapbook Evacuated: Disembodying Katrina. Walking Poem, a collaborative street project, is featured online at How2. At home in Chicago, Jennifer teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the public schools.
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.
Saturday, 2/27: Artifice Magazine Launch Party
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Small Animal Project teams up with Artifice Magazine to celebrate the launch of Issue #1 at Outpost 186 on Saturday, 2/27. 3 pm, small donation suggested. Readers will include Ori Fienberg, William Walsh, Elisa Gabbert & Jessica Bozek.
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Ori Fienberg is a Writing Center Coordinator for WriteBoston, an organization working to improve the writing of students in the Boston public high schools. He’s had work published in Diagram, Subtropics, and The Cincinnati Review, to name a few. He has work forthcoming in Pank Online and Artifice.
Read some of Ori’s work here and here.
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Elisa Gabbert is the poetry editor of Absent and the author of Thanks for Sending the Engine (Kitchen Press, 2007) and The French Exit (Birds LLC, forthcoming). Her latest chapbook co-written with Kathleen Rooney is Don’t ever stay the same; keep changing (Spooky Girlfriend Press). Recent poems can be found in Colorado Review, The Laurel Review, Puerto del Sol, and Salt Hill.
Read excerpts from Elisa’s work here and here.
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William Walsh is the author of Questionstruck (Keyhole Press, 2009) and Without Wax (Casperian Books, 2009). His stories and derived texts have appeared in Annalemma, Quick Fiction, LIT, Rosebud, New York Tyrant, Caketrain, Juked, and other journals. A book of short stories called Ampersand, Mass, and a collection of Joycean texts entitled Unknown Arts are forthcoming from Keyhole Press in February 2011.
Read some of William’s work here and here.
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Jessica Bozek is the author of The Bodyfeel Lexicon (Switchback Books) and several chapbooks. Recent poems appear in Action, Yes, Artifice, Fairy Tale Review, P-QUEUE, and Womb. Jessica runs Small Animal Project.
Monday, 12/14: Jack Christian, Cheryl Clark Vermeulen, Zach Savich
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009Jack Christian, Cheryl Clark Vermeulen, and Zach Savich will read at Outpost 186 on Monday, 12/14. 8 pm, small donation suggested.
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Jack Christian is the author of the chapbook Let’s Collaborate from Magic Helicopter Press. His poems are upcoming in Drunken Boat, Sixth Finch, and Thermos, and his work has appeared recently in Cimarron Review, notnostrums, Phoebe, and Diagram. He is from Richmond, Virginia, and lives now in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Read excerpts from Jack’s work here, here, and here.
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Cheryl Clark Vermuelen’s poems and translations can be found in the journals DIAGRAM, Third Coast, admit2, Can we have our ball back?, Carve [poems], Dispatx, and eXchanges, as well as the anthology Connecting Lines: New Poetry from Mexico. Her chapbook Dead-Eye Spring is published by Cy Gist Press. Hailing from Illinois, she now lives in Boston and teaches writing at the New England Conservatory and MassArt, and poetry at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.
Read some of Cheryl’’s work here, here, and here.
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Zach Savich’s first book, Full Catastrophe Living, won the Iowa Poetry
Prize. He has had recent poems in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly,
Kenyon Review, and the anthology Best New Poets 2008.
Sunday, November 22: Lily Brown, Andrew McDonald & Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Thursday, October 15th, 2009Fill up on poetry before the pie gets you. Lily Brown, Andrew McDonald, and Joshua Marie Wilkinson will read at Outpost 186 on Sunday, 11/22. 3 pm, small donation suggested.
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Lily Brown was born and raised in Massachusetts, and currently lives in Chicago and in Athens, Georgia, where she is a Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia. Her first book, Rust or Go Missing, is forthcoming in 2010 from Cleveland State University Poetry Center, and her poems have appeared in Fence, Pleiades, Denver Quarterly, and Tarpaulin Sky, among other journals. Her chapbook, Old with You, is available from Kitchen Press.
Read excerpts from Lily’s work here, here, and here.
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Andrew McDonald is an undergraduate Creative Writing student at Lesley University. He lives in Allston, MA and has never been published.
Read some of Andrew’s work here.
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Joshua Marie Wilkinson hails from Seattle. He is the author of four books of poetry, most recently The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth (Tupelo, 2009). Two new projects are due out in 2010: Selenography (Sidebrow), a book-length collaboration with the Polaroids of Califone’s Tim Rutili and Poets on Teaching, an anthology featuring short essays by 101 poets (Iowa). He lives in Chicago and Athens, Georgia.
Sunday, October 11: Matthew Derby, Kristen Iskandrian & John Dermot Woods
Monday, September 28th, 2009Come out over the long weekend to hear fiction and see comics by Matthew Derby, Kristen Iskandrian, and John Dermot Woods. At Outpost 186. 3 pm, small donation suggested.
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Matthew Derby is the author of Super Flat Times: Stories. His writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, Conjunctions, Guernica, Fence, and The Believer, where he served as an editor from 2004-2007.
Read excerpts from Matthew’s work here, here, and here.
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Kristen Iskandrian’s work has been published in Gulf Coast, American Letters & Commentary, Memorious, Denver Quarterly, La Petite Zine, Action Yes, and other journals. She received her PhD in English from University of Georgia, where currently she is an instructor of composition and creative writing. With her husband, daughter, and cantankerous cat, she lives outside of Athens in a funny little house.
Read an excerpt from Kristen’s work.
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John Dermot Woods lives with his family in Brooklyn, NY. He is the author of The Complete Collection of people, places & things (BlazeVOX). His comic chapbook, The Remains, is forthcoming from Doublecross Press. He edits the arts quarterly Action,Yes and organizes the online reading series Apostrophe Cast.
Read an excerpt from John’s work.
Tuesday, July 21: David Blair, David Rivard & Sam Witt
Monday, July 13th, 2009Celebrate the middle of summer by coming to hear poets David Blair, David Rivard, and Sam Witt read at Outpost 186. 8 pm, free.
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David Blair grew up in Pittsburgh. His first book Ascension Days was chosen by Thomas Lux for the 2006 Del Sol Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in the anthologies The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet and Zoland Poetry, Boston Review, Fourth River, Fulcrum, The Greensboro Review, The Harvard Review, The Hat, Ploughshares, and Verse. He’s an associate professor at The New England Institute of Art, and he lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Read an excerpt from David’s work.
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David Rivard is the author of four books: Sugartown (Graywolf, 2006), Bewitched Playground (Graywolf, 2000), Wise Poison (Graywolf, 1996), the winner of the James Laughlin Prize from the Academy of American Poets in 1996 and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and Torque ( Pitt, 1988), winner of the Starrett Poetry Prize. Among his other awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Arts Foundation and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, as well as the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and teenage daughter, and teaches in the MFA program in writing at the University of New Hampshire.
Read an excerpt from David’s work.
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Sam Witt is the author of two poetry collections, Everlasting Quail (UPNE, 2001), winner of the Katherine Nason Bakeless Prize, and Sunflower Brother (Cleveland State University Press, 2006). He has taught at Harvard University, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and at Whitman College. Witt is currently looking for a publisher for his new manuscript, “Occupation: Dreamland,” while freelancing and living in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Read an excerpt from Sam’s work, below:
FROM THE APHASIA WARD
The sea is approaching. Ghostcrabs approach
on whispering feet, a tumbleweed of newspaper.
The woman approaches, holding her empty camera.
Now. I will not try to say these syllables:
When you first stumbled across this small heap of decay,
black feather, hollow bone, these small dead, the birds,
it must have looked like a sweater for a small child,
or a black bra the sea had washed up in.
I was sleeping, as they say, under the wing.
Unlike these dead birds, fresh from their migration cycle,
I came preforgotten, like a photograph of a dirty beach.
They perfume my loss. They fall out of the sky into the ocean, etc.
They make me want to shed my triploid human gene:
All flesh is black grass, therefore: All flesh
goes the way of flight when it evaporates.
You could almost hear the sea’s ceaseless mathematics
from the aphasia ward, like a xerox of disappeared honeybees,
put together out of the small sounds she made in her sleep.
The sea turns over its dead. The sea delivers us.
The sea persists in washing its white hands of me, at noon.
The sea conjugates these dead
at the cost of a young woman’s form, because already
the body has spilled its liquid shadow like ink, at noon,
like a photographer’s black hood thrown down over the birds.
The sea negates the sky like manna, because living
it’s something like swallowing jewels, isn’t it? Like manna
the birds fall out of the heavens & they eat you
with their small black eyes. We take the light with us,
therefore, flight & decay, thus,
the starched hospital beds are filled. Thus,
from the beachfront hospital, a girl with no hair
watched a small speck fall out of the sky.
Let me tell you how the wind in the leaves
of the Eucalyptus tree outside moved her lips.
She made a wish behind her powerful head
& slept.
Monday, April 27: Noy Holland & Kate Schapira
Monday, April 27th, 2009Come hear fiction writer Noy Holland and poet Kate Schapira kick off the Small Animal Project Reading Series. 8 pm, free.
Noy Holland is the author of two collections of short fiction, What Begins With Bird (FC2), and The Spectacle of the Body (Knopf), and the recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her stories have appeared in The Quarterly, Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Ploughshares, Open City, New York Tyrant, Denver Quarterly, NOON, and others. She is a Professor in the MFA program for Writers and Poets at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she co-directs the Juniper Initiative.
Read an excerpt from Noy’s work.
Kate Schapira lives in Providence, where she writes, teaches, and runs the Publicly Complex reading series. In addition to making her own chapbooks, she’s the author of four chapbooks published by other people, including The Love of Freak Millways and Tango Wax (Cy Gist Press) and two mini-chaps from Rope-A-Dope Press. She just started working with first graders as a Writer in the Schools.
Read an excerpt from Kate’s work.