Cole Heinowitz & Paul Stephens

Thursday April 16th 7:30 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson NY

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Cole Heinowitz received her BA from the University of California, San Diego in 1995 and her PhD from Brown University in 2003. She is the author of two books of poetry, Daily Chimera (Incommunicado Press 1995) and The Rubicon (The Rest Press 2008), and the chapbook, Stunning in Muscle Hospital (Detour Press, 2002). Her poems have appeared in journals including The Poker, The Brooklyn Rail, Canwehaveourballback, HOW2, 6X6, Factorial!, and Mirage 4 Period(ical). She is also the author of a number of critical articles on Romantic poets such as Lord Byron, Robert Southey, Felicia Hemans, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld. Her book-length study, Rewriting Conquest: Spanish America and British Romanticism is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press.

Paul Stephens teaches literature at Bard College, and recently earned a PhD in English from Columbia. He is currently completing two books, The Rhetoric of Literary Experiment and Minima Temporalia: Reflections from Diminishing Time. Earlier this year he presented collaborative writing and photomontage with Robert Weston at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Recent or forthcoming publications in Social Text, /nor, Rethinking Marxism, and Open Letter. For the 2009-2010 academic year, he was chosen for a junior faculty fellowship in poetics at Emory University.

MELANIE KLEIN, KEITH O'NEILL & DAN SHAPLEY

Friday March 13th 7 pm

The Bunker

DIRECTIONS *HERE*

*Live music will follow, with refreshments at the bar.*

Melanie Klein lives in Poughkeepsie, NY and teaches at Dutchess Community College. She holds an M.A. in English from California State University, and an M.F.A. in Sculpture from Stanford University. She writes, makes things, and lives each day.

Keith O'Neill is an Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at Dutchess Community College, where he teaches literature, composition, and creative writing. He received his Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Georgia. His poems have been published at McSweeney's, and he is currently working on a dystopian novel set in the near future.

Dan Shapley is the editor of The Daily Green, a website promoting environmentalism and green living for regular people. He also writes poems. He lives in Port Ewen and New York City.

JENNIE NEIGHBORS & DAVID GRUBER

Thursday February 12th at 7pm

Bard Hall, Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson NY

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Jennie Neighbors: her new book, Between the Twilight and the Sky was recently published by Parlor Press.

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David Gruber: his new book, Sleepers’ Republic is now out from Astrophil Press.