DEBORAH POE & MAX WINTER

Friday September 24th 6pm

Olin 102, Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson NY

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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.

KATE SCHAPIRA & "TOWN"

Friday April 2nd 6 pm

Olin 102, Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson NY

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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.

Audio of Celia Bland and Reb Livingston Reading

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

REB LIVINGSTON & CELIA BLAND

Friday March 12th 5:30 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson NY

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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.

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

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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.

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.

AMY KING & CARA BENSON

Friday January 29th 6 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson NY

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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.

COLEEN MURPHY ALEXANDER & DANIEL GILHULY

Friday December 11th 6 pm

Olin 102, Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson NY

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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.

ANN LAUTERBACH & MICHAEL IVES

Friday November 20th 6 pm

Bard Chapel, Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson NY 12504

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ANN LAUTERBACH

Her biography can be found at the SUNY Buffalo Electronic Poetry Center.

Michael Ives lives in the Hudson Valley. His work with the language/performance trio, F'loom, was featured on National Public Radio and in various international anthologies of sound poetry. He is the author of The External Combustion Engine, from Futurepoem Books. His poetry and prose have appeared in numerous magazines and journals both in the US and abroad. He has taught at Bard College since 2003.

A sample of Michael Ives' poems can be found at Jacket Magazine #13.

MARY BURGER & LEE ANN BROWN

The Bard Roving Reading series is happy to announce the start of its second season!

Friday November 6th 6:30 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson NY

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MARY BURGER

Mary Burger's latest book A Partial Handbook for Navigators is about spending time in different kinds of places (Interbirth Books). Her recent catalog essay 'But What If the Object Began to Speak?', studies objects in places in artist Amy Trachtenberg's permanent installation 'Groundwork' (Oro Editions). Mary lives in Oakland and works at a landscape architecture firm in San Francisco, focusing on public park water conservation, greenway development, and related urban/environmental reintegrations.

LEE ANN BROWN

Lee Ann Brown was born in Japan and grew up in North Carolina. She is the author of numerous volumes of poetry including The Sleep That Changed Everything (Wesleyan), and Polyverse (Sun & Moon), and a song cycle, The 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, as well as the recent Sop Doll! A Jack Tale Noh, co-written with Tony Torn, recently seen at Howl Festival, starring Felix Bernsetin as "Jack," and Julie Patton as "Cat-Witch." She also teaches at St. John's University in NYC, and edits Tender Buttons press. With her family and friends, she is creating the French Broad Institute in Marshall, NC, a mountain hideout for artistic practice and performance.