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Kate Garklavs’s Chapbook Release
February 23, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
FreeSubmission’s Prose Editor Kate Garklavs crosses genre lines with Diffusely Yours, a new poetry chapbook published by Bottlecap Press. Join Kate, Nathan Wade Carter, and Jennifer Perrine for a night of poetry & prose at Dorsa Brevia. This event is free & open to the public. Light snacks provided. Chaps/books will be available from all authors via cash, Square, or Venmo.
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Kate Garklavs lives and works in Portland, OR. Her work has appeared in Juked, NOO Journal, Tammy, and The Airgonaut, among other places. Her first chapbook (“Diffusely Yours”) was published by Bottlecap Press in August 2018. When she’s not working on her own personal writing, Kate works for a consultancy that advises nonprofits and government agencies on user-centered technology and design.
Nathan Wade Carter (he/him) is a queer, grey-a, non-binary poet, musician, and artist living in Portland, Oregon. His chapbook is ROYGBIV (Ursus Americanus Press, 2017). His poetry can be found in Hobart, Fugue, Gramma Poetry, Poor Claudia, The Fem, and others. He is the editor and founder of SUSAN / The Journal. He writes and performs songs under the name Purrbot. He co-facilitates the generative writing salon Creation Island with Zulema Renee Summerfield. Find him online at nathanwadecarter.com.
Jennifer Perrine is the author of three books of poetry: No Confession, No Mass; In the Human Zoo; and The Body Is No Machine. A fourth book, Again, is forthcoming from Airlie Press in 2020. Jennifer’s recent poetry and fiction appear in Arc Poetry Magazine, Pleiades, Crazyhorse, Literal Latte, and Valparaiso Fiction Review, as well as in Broadsided Press’ special folio, “Bearing Arms: Responding to Guns in American Culture.” Honors include the 2019 Oregon Poetry Community Fellowship from Literary Arts, the 2017 K. Margaret Grossman Fiction Award, and the 2016 Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award. For more information, visit www.jenniferperrine.org.