Come hear Lea Graham, Erica Hunt, Tomer Inbar, Timothy Liu, Michael Ruby, Sam Truitt, and Marc Vincenz, with special guest stars Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang, read amid libations without limit. Located within a ten-minute drive of the Convention Center, Stone Barn Brandyworks, a human-scale distillery invested in our people, ingredients, and products, makes craft spirits that capture the essence of the Northwest.
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Matthew Cooperman is the author of, most recently, NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified), w/ Aby Kaupang, (Futurepoem, 2018), as well as Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions, 2016), the text + image collaboration Imago for the Fallen World, w/Marius Lehene (Jaded Ibis, 2013), Still: of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move (Counterpath, 2011) and other books. A Poetry Editor for Colorado Review, and Professor at Colorado State University, he lives in Fort Collins with his wife, the poet Aby Kaupang, and their two children. www.matthewcooperman.org
Lea Graham is the author of two books of poems, From the Hotel Vernon (forthcoming, Salmon Press, 2019) and Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You (No Tell Books, 2011) and three chapbooks. She is the recipient of the Literal Latte Poetry Prize (2018). Graham is an associate professor at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY and a native of Northwest Arkansas.
Erica Hunt works at the forefront of experimental poetry and poetics, critical race theory, and feminist aesthetics. She has written three books of poetry: Arcade, with artist Alison Saar, Piece Logic, and Local History (Roof Books, 1993). Her published and forthcoming essays include “Notes for an Oppositional Poetics” (The Politics of Poetic Form,, ed. Charles Bernstein), “Parabolay” (Boundary 2), and “Roots of the Black Avant Garde” (Tripwire, forthcoming). Hunt’s poems can be found in Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women (ed. Mary Margaret Sloan), Iowa Poetry Review, and the Virago Anthology of Women’s Love Poetry. Hunt has also worked as a housing organizer, radio producer, poetry teacher, and program officer for a social justice campaign. She is currently president of The Twenty-First Century Foundation which supports organizations addressing root causes of social injustice impacting the Black community.
Born in Jerusalem and raised in Brooklyn, Tomer Inbar studied writing at Binghamton University and has an MA in Classical Japanese Literature from Cornell University and law degrees from New York University. He founded and edited Camellia, an experimental literary journal (1989-97), and has published translations of Saibara, a genre of Japanese folk song formalized in the Heian period. Inbar currently is an attorney at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, representing charities and other nonprofit organizations, and lives in Park Slope.
Aby Kaupang is the author of, most recently NOS, disorder not otherwise specified (w. Matthew Cooperman, Futurepoem), Disorder 299.00 (w. Matthew Cooperman, Essay Press), Little “g” God Grows Tired of Me (SpringGun), Absence is Such a Transparent House (Tebot Bach) and Scenic Fences | Houses Innumerable (Scantily Clad Press). She has had poems appear in The Seattle Review, FENCE, La Petite Zine, The Laurel Review, Dusie, Verse, Denver Quarterly, & others. She holds master’s degrees in both creative writing and occupational therapy and lives in Fort Collins where she served as the Poet Laureate from 2015-2017.
Timothy Liu’s latest book is Luminous Debris: New & Selected Legerdemain (1992-2017). Widely published, his accolades include the Norma Farber First Book Award; a Beyond Margins / Open Book Award from PEN America; and a Book-of-the-Year Award from Publishers Weekly. A reader of occult esoterica, he lives in Manhattan and Woodstock, NY.
Michael Handler Ruby is the author of many poetry books, including Compulsive Words (BlazeVOX, 2010), American Songbook (Ugly Duckling, 2013), ebook Close Your Eyes (Argotist Online, 2018) and The Mouth of the Bay (BlazeVOX, 2019). His trilogy in prose and poetry, Memories, Dreams and Inner Voices (Station Hill, 2012), includes ebooks Fleeting Memories (UDP, 2008) and Inner Voices Heard Before Sleep (Argotist, 2011). He is also the author of the echapbooks First Names (Mudlark, 2004) and Titles & First Lines (Mudlark, 2018), and he co-edited Bernadette Mayer’s collected early books, Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words (Station Hill, 2015).
The language artist Sam Truitt is the author of the ten books in the Vertical Elegies series including Heresway (MadHat 2018), Dick: A Vertical Elegy (Lunar Chandelier, 2014), Vertical Elegies 6: Street Mete (Station Hill, 2011), Vertical Elegies: Three Works (UDP, 2008), Vertical Elegies 5: The Section (Georgia, 2003), and Anamorphosis Eisenhower (Lost Road, 1998). He is the co-editor of In|Filtration: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry from the Hudson River Valley; and Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The Early Books of Bernadette Mayer. The director of Station Hill Press, he lives in Woodstock, NY. For more, visit: www.samtruitt.org.
Marc Vincenz is the author of fourteen books of poetry, the latest of which is Here Comes the Nightdust (Salmon Poetry). He is also a multi-lingual translator of many contemporary German, French and Romanian authors. Vincenz has received fellowships and grants from the Swiss Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry and the Literary Colloquium Berlin. He lives in Western Massachusetts in the foothills of Greylock Mountain.
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