Pete's Big Poetry Series Spring 2009 Poet Bios
February 20 – CA Conrad, Ben Malkin, Jennifer Knox & Kristina Hummel
CAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia where he lives and writes with the PhillySound poets. His latest book The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2009) received The Gil Ott Book Award. He is also the author of Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), (Soma)tic Midge (FAUX Press, 2008), and two forthcoming books, advanced ELVIS course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED: Philadelphia Poems (Factory School Press, 2009).
Ben Malkin sings and plays keyboards for the band Gracefully, runs the multi-media label Goodbye Better, has released the poetry chapbook Listen with Robin Mapes, and is the editor & chief of Cock-Now Zine. He has also released albums and a bunch of Ê7"s and EPs with the band So L'il. His new book, The Birthday Poems, contains the new Gracefully album, Follow That Bliss and is coming out on February 20th, 2009.
Jennifer L. Knox hails from Lancaster, California, where absolutely anything can be made into a bong. Her books of poems, Drunk by Noon and A Gringo Like Me, are both available from Bloof Books. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies Best American Poetry (1997, 2003 and 2006), Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to Present, and Free Radicals, American Poets Before Their First Books.
Kristina's poems have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Agni, Colorado Review, Diagram, Fourteen Hills, and elsewhere. She has a chapbook forthcoming from handheld editions. She teaches writing at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science and at Baruch College.
March 6 – John Ebersole, Rauan Klassnik, Dan Magers & Sara Michas-Martin
John Ebersole teaches at Temple University. His most recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Western Humanities Review, Octopus Magazine, and Bateau.
Rauan Klassnik was born in South Africa and now lives in Mexico. His first book, Holy Land, was released from Black Ocean in 2008. His chapbook, Ringing, is forthcoming from Kitchen Press in early 2009 and a second chapbook, Dreaming, is due out in the summer from Scantily Clad Press. Rauan blogs actively at rauanklassnik.blogspot.com.
Dan Magers has poems published in the tiny and Red China Magazine, and his chapbook Exploitation Poems was published in 2007. He is a co-founder and editor of the online literary magazine Sink Review, and works in publishing. ÊHe lives in Brooklyn.
Sara Michas-Martin is a Former Wallace Stegner fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford. She recently joined the BFA low-residency faculty at Goddard College and lives in Brooklyn. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in APR, Bird Dog, Court Green, FIELD, Forklift, Ohio, and elsewhere.
March 20 – Tony Mancus, Myronn Hardy & Jess Mynes
Tony Mancus currently lives in Queens. He teaches writing at Montclair State University and Hunter College. His poems have appeared or will be appearing in cream city review, H_ngm_n, Forklift, Ohio, Handsome and elsewhere (like space perhaps--feel free to cut that--i like my bios dry like good wine--like riunite lambrusco, which wait...). He is co-founder of Flying Guillotine Press with SB and they make small books.
Myronn Hardy is the author of two volumes of poetry, Approaching the Center, which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and The Headless Saints both published by New Issues Press. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, FIELD, Versal (Amsterdam), Third Coast, and elsewhere. ÊHe lives in New York City.
Jess Mynes is the author of several published works, including: Birds for Example (CARVE Editions), In(ex)teriors (Anchorite Press), and If and When (Katalanche Press). His Sky Brightly Picked (Skysill Press) and Recently Clouds (Petrichord Books), a collaboration with poet Aaron Tieger, are to be published in 2009. He is the editor of Fewer & Further Press and he co-curates a reading series in Western, MA, All Small Caps. He also authors a mind boggling crossover dribble.
April 3 —Steven Karl, Cindy Savett, Carrie Olivia Adams & Josh Harmon
Steven Karl is the author of two chapbooks, Lovers' Last Go Around (Peptic Robot Press, 2005) and State(s) of Flux, a collaboration with the artist, Joseph Lappie (Peptic Robot Press, 2009). His poems have appeared in Barrow Street, No Tell Motel, Real Poetik, Sawbuck, Zoland Anthology of Poetry, and other fine journals. ÊHis essays and reviews have appeared in Teachers & Writers Magazine, Sink Review, Cold Front Magazine, and Galatea. ÊHe lives in Manhattan.
Cindy Savett teaches poetry workshops at psychiatric institutions in the Philadelphia area to both acute short-term and residential patients. Her book, Child in the Road, was recently released. She is published in numerous print and on-line journals, including Margie, Heliotrope, LIT, The Marlboro Review, and Free Verse. Cindy is also at work on a memoir on the death of her daughter. Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, she currently lives in Merion, Pennsylvania with her husband and children. She can be found at her website, www.cindysavett.com
Carrie Olivia Adams lives and works in Chicago, where she also serves as poetry editor for Black Ocean. Her poems and reviews have appeared in such journals as Backwards City Review, Cranky, DIAGRAM, Lilies and Cannonballs Review, and Verse. She is the author of the chapbook, A Useless Window, and her first full-length collection of poems, Intervening Absence is available from Ahsahta Press.
Joshua Harmon is the author of Quinnehtukqut, a novel, and Scape, a collection of poems. His fiction, poems, and essays have appeared in many journals, including Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, and Verse. A graduate of Marlboro College and Cornell University, he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and the Dutchess County Arts Council.
April 17 -- Jeremy Hoevanaar, Katy Henriksen, Zach Barocas & Anna Journey
Jeremy is a chubby dancing baby. His poems have been rejected by Jubilat, Fence, Octopus, and Shampoo. He edits Little Socks Press with Anne Lazovik.
Katy Henriksen is the art director for Cannibal Books, which she founded with her husband Matt Henriksen in Brooklyn, where they also ran The Burning Chair Readings. She recently returned to her hometown of Fayetteville, Arkansas, where she works as a cultural journalist and editor. This spring Cannibal Books will have its very own studio and The Burning Chair Readings will resume in its new home in the wild auspices of the Ozark Mountains. Her work has appeared in a wide variety of publications including Brooklyn Rail, Oxford American, Paste, Puremusic.com, Tight, and Venus Zine.
Poet & musician Zach Barocas edits The Cultural Society (http://culturalsociety.org). He lives in Brooklyn.
April 24 – Jen Currin, Christine Leclerc, Farrah Field & G.E. Patterson
Jen Currin lives in Vancouver, B.C., where she is a teacher (of creative writing) and a student (currently back in school doing a Masters in literature). Jen has published two books of poems, The Sleep of Four Cities and Hagiography, and has one forthcoming in 2010 called The Inquisition Yours.
Christine Leclerc, originally from Montreal, now lives in Vancouver. In 2008 she completed a BFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. Her work has appeared in Dig, FRONT, FU, Memewar, Pistola, subTerrain, terry, the Worksound gallery, and is forthcoming in Interim. She is the author of Counterfeit, a book of poetry published in fall 2008 by CUE.
Farrah Field's poems have appeared in many publications including Harp & Altar, Typo, Linebreak, The Cortland Review, 42 Opus and many others. Rising, published by Four Way Books, is her first collection of poems.
Poet and translator G.E. Patterson is the author of two book-length collections, Tug (Graywolf Press) and To & From (Ahsahta Press). His writing can be found in many magazines and anthologies, including Blues Poetry, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Poetry 180, Isn't It Romantic, nocturnes (re)view of the arts, and elsewhere.
May 1 – Jared White, Carrie Hunter & Matthew Klane
Jared White was born in Boston and has lived in Brooklyn for about eight years, near two big bridges. His poems have appeared in previous issues of Barrow Street, Cannibal, Coconut, Harp & Altar, and Word For/Word, among other journals. A chapbook of poems entitled Yellowcake will appear in the upcoming chapbook collection, Narwhal, from Cannibal Books. He maintains an occasional blog, No No Yes No Yes, at jaredswhite.blogspot.com.
Carrie Hunter's chapbook Vorticells was published by Cy Gist Press, and an e-/chapbook Kine(sta)sis was published by Dusie. The Unicorns will be coming out as a chapbook in the Dusie Chapbook Kollectiv year 3, and she has another chapbook forthcoming through House Press' Arrow as Aarow series. She has been published online in Turntable & Blue Light, Dusie, Parcel, and Sous Rature, and in print in Small Town XII, Try! magazine, and Eleven Eleven. She received her MFA/MA in the now defunct Poetics program at New College of California, edits ypolita press, and lives in San Francisco.
Matthew Klane is co-editor/founder of Flim Forum Press, publisher of the anthologies Oh One Arrow (2007) and A Sing Economy (2008). His book is B_____ Meditations from Stockport Flats Press (2008). His latest chapbooks include Friend Delighting the Eloquent, Sorrow Songs, and The- Associated Press. Also see: The Meister-Reich Experiments, a sprawling hypertext, online at www.housepress.org. He currently lives and writes in Albany, NY.
May 9 - No, Dear Issue Release
Poetry journal No, Dear launches Issue 3: Consumption. Poets featured
in Issue 3 read from their bodies of work.
May 15 – Karen Anderson, Yona Harvey, Matvei Yankelevitch & Jenn Morea
Karen Leona Anderson is the author of Punish honey, coming out this January from Carolina Wren Press. She has an MFA from the University of Iowa and a PhD from Cornell University, where she wrote a dissertation on poetry and science. She currently lives in Maryland, where she is an assistant professor at St. Mary's College of Maryland.
Yona Harvey is a swish escaping the net. She rises in the light of blue curtains & sleeps with one ear open. She is a Cave Canem Fellow, maybe she is the water from which she pulls her baby son. Her work has appeared in Poem Memoir Story, Gulf Coast, Callaloo, Ploughshares, and Gathering Round: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade. ÊShe should keep better track of her volunteeringÑcarpooling, book sharing, telling the stories of Martin Luther King, Jr. She currently teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where she lives with her husband and two children. Next year, she'll probably go swimming in Tokyo.
Matvei Yankelevich, is the author of a long poem, *The Present Work* (Palm Press, 2006) and the forthcoming book *Boris by the Sea* (Octopus, 2009). His writing has appeared in Boston Review, Damn the Caesars, Fence, Open City, Tantalum, Zen Monster, etc. His translations have appeared in journals including Circumference, Harpers, New American Writing, and The New Yorker. His translation of *Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms* (Overlook, 2007) has received praise from the Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He is a co-translator of *OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism* (Northwestern University, 2006) and his translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky's poem "Cloud in Pants" is included in *Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky* (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2008). He teaches Russian Lit. at Hunter College and edits the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse.
Jenn Morea is a poet, writer, and educator. She has worked as a teaching artist in the Chicago Public Schools since 1996 and has edited more than twenty-five anthologies of writing by Chicago youth, including dream in yourself (Tia Chucha Press, 1997). Morea teaches with Project AIM at the Center for Arts Partnerships/Columbia College Chicago and with Young Chicago Authors. Her poems may be found in the online journals High Chair, Slope, and Wicked Alice.
May 29 – Janaka Stucky, Dorothea Lasky
Janaka Stucky is the founder and managing editor of Black Ocean, and publishes the magazine Handsome. He likes his whiskey neat and his music dirty. Since receiving his BFA from Emerson and an MFA in Poetry from Vermont College in 2003, he remains rooted in Boston--spending his life traveling, writing, and caring for the dead. Some of his poems appear or are forthcoming in: Cannibal, Denver Quarterly, North American Review, Redivider, and VOLT.
Dorothea Lasky is the author of AWE (Wave Books, 2007) and Black Life (Wave Books, 2010). Her chapbooks include Tourmaline (Transmission Press, 2008), The Hatmaker's Wife (Braincase Press, 2006), Art (H_NGM_N Press, 2006), and Alphabets and Portraits (Anchorite Press, 2005). She has been educated at Washington University, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Harvard University. Currently, she studies creativity and education at the University of Pennsylvania.
Michelle Taransky was born in Camden, NJ. Her first book, "Barn Burned, Then" was selected by Marjorie Welish for the 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize and will be published during September 2009. With her father, architect Richard Taransky, she is the author of The Plans Caution (QUEUE 2007). She lives in Philadelphia and works at Kelly Writers House. Poems appear, or are forthcoming in VOLT, New American Writing, HOW2 and Denver Quarterly.
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