12/3/10

NATE PRITTS, DOROTHY ALBERTINI and JENNIFER H. FORTIN

Friday December 10 6pm
Olin 102, Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson NY


NATE PRITTS

NATE PRITTS is the author of four full-length books of poems, most recently The Wonderfull Yeare (Cooper Dillon) and Big Bright Sun (BlazeVOX). His poems and criticism have appeared in numerous journals including Gulf Coast and Rain Taxi. He is the founder and editor of H_NGM_N.

DOROTHY ALBERTINI has been a Fellow at the MacDowell Arts Colony and Wellspring House. Her fiction and poetry appear in many journals including Shifter,Tantalum, Milk Money, and NANO Fiction, where she was the winner of the first annual NANO fiction contest. The winning piece was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She co-curates the Bard Roving Reading Series.

JENNIFER H. FORTIN

JENNIFER H. FORTIN loves and lives in Brooklyn. Any day now, Dancing Girl Press will release her chapbook If Made Into a Law. Another chapbook is forthcoming in early 2011 (Dusie Kollektiv). With three other poets, she founded and edits LEVELER.

11/8/10

ROB SCHLEGEL AND KATE GREENSTREET

Please join us for a reading
with Rob Schlegel and Kate Greenstreet:

Thursday November 18th, 2010
5pm
Bard College
Bertelsmann Campus
Center Lounge

...and then walk down the hall (to Weis Cinema) for the John Ashbery Poetry
Series' reading with John Ashbery and Anselm Berrigan at 6 pm!

ROB SCHLEGEL
Rob Schlegel is the author of The Lesser Fields, selected for the 2009 Colorado Prize for Poetry, and Bloom, selected for the 2010 Midwest Chapbook Series. His poetry and criticism appear in Boston Review, Colorado Review, Jacket2, Slope, Volt and elsewhere. He currently lives in Iowa City and teaches creative writing and literature at Cornell College.


KATE GREENSTREET
Kate Greenstreet's books are The Last 4 Things and case sensitive, both from Ahsahta Press. Her new work can be found in recent or forthcoming issues of Chicago Review, Colorado Review, Boston Review, Volt, and other journals. Her website is www.kickingwind.com

4/3/10

DEBORAH POE & MAX WINTER

Friday September 24th 6pm
Olin 102, Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson NY


DEBORAH POE
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, Sidebrow, Filter Literary Journal, and Denver Quarterly. Deborah Poe is assistant professor of English at Pace University, fiction editor of the international online journal of the arts Drunken Boat, and guest curator/editor for Trickhouse's "Experiment" door 2010/2011. For more information about Deborah, visit www.deborahpoe.com.

MAX WINTER

Max Winter's book The Pictures was published by Tarpaulin Sky Press in 2007. His work has appeared in The New Republic, Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, The Yale Review, Boulevard, The Iowa Review, Sentence, and Parthenon West. He has published reviews in The New York Times Book Review, Bomb, and many other publications. He is currently one of the poetry editors of Fence.

3/23/10

KATE SCHAPIRA & "TOWN"

Friday April 2nd 6 pm
Olin 102, Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson NY


KATE SCHAPIRA is the author of Town (Factory School 2010), and the chapbooks The Saint's Notebook (Flying Guillotine Press 2009), Heroes and Monsters (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs 2009), and The Love of Freak Millways and Tango Wax (Cy Gist Press 2009). She organizes the Publicly Complex reading series in Providence RI, where she teaches and writes.

Kate will be joined by Joan Retallack, Jenny Lee Fowler, and Dorothy Albertini in a reading of Town.

3/14/10

Audio of Celia Bland and Reb Livingston Reading

Available at the Internet Archive! What a great reading it was, too. Thanks Celia and Reb!

3/4/10

REB LIVINGSTON & CELIA BLAND

Friday March 12th 5:30 pm
Bard Hall, Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson NY

REB LIVINGSTON
Reb Livingston is the author of God Damsel, Your Ten Favorite Words, and co-editor of The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel anthology series. She's also the editor of No Tell Motel, and publisher of No Tell Books. She blogs at www.reblivingston.blogspot.com

CELIA BLAND
Celia Bland teaches at Bard College and for the Bard Prison Initiative. She has work in the current issue of The American Poetry Review, and forthcoming in Fifth Wednesday Review.

2/10/10

ELIZABETH BRYANT & RACHEL LEVITSKY

Friday February 26th 5:30 pm (reading postponed due to weather - stay tuned!)
Bard Hall, Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson NY


ELIZABETH BRYANT

Elizabeth Bryant is the author of (nevertheless enjoyment, published spring 2010 by Quale Press. Other forthcoming titles include her second book, Reality Visits the Land of Illusions (Black Radish Books 2010), and her fourth chapbook, No Subject (Dusie 2010). Her writing appears in many print and online lit mags, including: Delirious Hem (audio), Wheelhouse Magazine, Dusie, Intercapillary Space, and forthcoming in Coconut. She edits the intermittent writing experiment Defeffable, and co-curates the Bard Roving Reading Series. Her website is www.elizabeth-bryant.com

RACHEL LEVITSKY
Rachel Levitsky's second book, Neighbor, is newly released by Ugly Duckling Presse (2009). Her first full length volume, Under the Sun, was published by Futurepoem books in 2003. With Jan Lauwereyns she is currently guest editing DWB, in the 2010 issue of the Dutch language magazine, "The Empire of Women." Online, you can read her poems, prose and essays at Puppy Flowers, Sous Rature, and How2. In 1999, she started Belladonna*, a multi-faceted feminist avant-garde writing confluence. This past September, she moved into a house in Saugerties, NY.

1/30/10

BRETT PRICE, JEREMY HOEVENAAR, & ERICA SCHREINER

Saturday Feb 6th 6pm
Kingston Shirt Factory
77 Cornell Street
Kingston NY

BRETT PRICE
Brett price is the author of the chapbook The Trouble With Mapping (Flying Guillotine Press 2008), and is an editor at Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, and Light Industrial Safety. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

JEREMY HOEVENAAR
Jeremy Hoevenaar is a writer, musician, and non-complainer. His work has appeared in Forklift Ohio, Shifter, and Tantalum. He lives in Brooklyn, NY where he cultivates egg-teeth, and hopes one day to play with his whole arm in the style of bluegrass legend Hollerfoot Thompson.

Erica Schreiner is an experimental video artist, writer, actor, and model from Portland, Oregon. One of her largest projects is her development of her character, Skye, whose world can be viewed at www.thisiskyeswebsite.com.

1/19/10

AMY KING & CARA BENSON

Friday January 29th 6 pm
Bard Hall, Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson NY


AMY KING
Amy King is the author of I'm the Man Who Loves You, Antidotes for an Alibi, Slaves to Do these Things (forthcoming from BlazeVox), and I Want to Make You Safe (forthcoming from Litmus Press). She teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College, and co-curates The Stain reading series in Brooklyn, NY.

CARA BENSON
Cara Benson is editor of the interdisciplinary book Predictions for ChainLinks. Her newest titles include the book (made), which is forthcoming from BookThug, and Protean Parade (Black Radish Books 2010). Her writing has been published in Belladonna Elders Series #7, Imaginary Syllabi, Spell/ing Bound, as well as in Quantum Chaos and Poems: A Manifest(o)ation, which won the 2008 bpNichol Prize. She edits Sous Rature, and teaches poetry in a New York State prison.

12/7/09

COLEEN MURPHY ALEXANDER & DANIEL GILHULY

Friday December 11th 6 pm
Olin 102, Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson NY


Daniel Gilhuly was born in Cos Cob, Connecticut in 1963. He graduated from Columbia University and has a PhD in Filologia Griega from the University of Barcelona, Spain. He is author of 46 poems and numerous novellas. He lives and writes in the Hudson Valley.

Coleen Murphy Alexander grew up in northeastern PA, the youngest of 9 children. She works for the Institute for Writing & Thinking, as well as the Language & Thinking Program for incoming students, at Bard College. She is currently developing and leading poetry workshops in rural elementary schools and community centers in upstate NY. She lives in Catskill with Matt, Iain, Jack, and 8 needy goats.