James Sherry // Guest Curator
Saturday at 2pm @ The Auction Ring
James Sherry (no photo) is the author of more than 10 books of poetry and criticism. His book Sorry: Environmental Poetics is forthcoming. He is publisher of Roof Books and founder of The Segue Foundation. He lives in New York City.
Drew Gardner is the author of Sugar Pill (Krupskaya) and Petroleum Hat (Roof.) His third collection of poetry, Chomp Away, is forthcoming from Combo Books in 2010. Drew is also conductor of the Poetics Orchestra working with musicians and poets that he conducts using hand
signals and cards. He lives in New York City.
Ann Lauterbach is the author of numerous books of poetry and criticism from publishers such as Viking, Penguin, and other major university presses. A collection of essays, The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience, was published by Viking in 2005. Or to Begin Again (2009) was nominated for a National Book Award. In 1993, she received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship. She lives in Germantown, New York.
Michael Gottlieb is the author of fourteen books including: The Likes Of Us, Lost and Found, Gorgeous Plunge, The River Road, and New York. In the 1970s he helped edit the seminal magazine Roof. A native New Yorker, his 9/11 elegy “The Dust” has been described by the poet and critic, Ron Silliman, as “one of the half-dozen most important poems written by anyone associated with Language poetry, a read-this-&-change-your-life experience.” In 2010 he published Memoir and Essay, an eloquent memoir focused on the emergence of the Language Poets with an essay titled “Jobs of the Poets”.
Kate Schapira // Guest Curator
Kate Schapira (no photo) is the author of TOWN (Factory School, Heretical Texts, 2010), The Bounty: Four Addresses (Noemi Press, forthcoming 2011) and several chapbooks. She runs and co-curates the Publicly Complex reading series in Providence, RI.
Kate has assembled a group of poets (their bios below) to perform.
Sueyeun Juliette Lee grew up 3 miles from the CIA. Her publications include That Gorgeous Feeling (Coconut Books) and Underground National (Factory School). She currently edits Corollary Press, a multi-ethnic chapbook series devoted to experimental writing. She lives in Philadelphia.
DEBORAH POE is the author of the poetry collections Elements (Stockport Flats Press 2010) and Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords 2008). Deborah’s writing has recently appeared in journals such as Jacket Magazine, Peaches & Bats, Colorado Review, Sidebrow, Filter Literary Journal and Denver Quarterly. For more information about Deborah, visit www.deborahpoe.com.
Tamiko Beyer is the author of bough breaks (forthcoming from Meritage Press). Her poetry has appeared in Sonora Review, OCHO, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. She is the poetry editor of Drunken Boat, founding member of Agent 409: a queer, multi-racial writing collective in New York City, and a Kundiman Fellow. Find her online at wonderinghome.com and blogging at kenyonreview.org
Lilly Bechtel (bio and photo coming soon!)