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A. Molotkov, John Sibley Williams, Laura Winter
October 7, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
FreeFree Range Poetry presents
A. Molotkov, John Sibley Williams, Laura Winter
Monday, October 7, 2019
Northwest Library
2300 NW Thurman Street
Portland
An open mic will precede featured poets.
Open mic readers limited to two pages of material.
Sign up for open mic at 5:45 pm.
Reading 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm.
A. Molotkov moved to the US from Russia in 1990 and switched to writing in English in 1993. His poetry collections are The Catalog of Broken Things (2016), Application of Shadows (Main Street Rag, September 2018) and Synonyms for Silence (Acre Books/Cincinnati Review, 2019). He has been published by The Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, Antioch Review, Massachusetts Review, Atlanta Review, Bennington Review, Tampa Review, Pif, Volt, 2 River View and elsewhere. Molotkov is a winner of various fiction and poetry contests and an Oregon Literary Fellowship. His translation of a Chekhov story was included by Knopf in their Everyman Series; his prose is represented by Laura Strachan at Strachan lit. He co-edits The Inflectionist Review. Please visit him at AMolotkov.com.
John Sibley Williams is the author of As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Poetry Prize, 2019), Skin Memory (Backwaters Prize, University of Nebraska Press, 2019), Summon (JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize, 2019), Disinheritance, and Controlled Hallucinations. A nineteen-time Pushcart nominee, John is the winner of numerous awards, including the Wabash Prize for Poetry, Philip Booth Award, Phyllis Smart-Young Prize, and Laux/Millar Prize. He serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review and works as a freelance poetry editor and literary agent. Previous publishing credits include: Yale Review, Midwest Quarterly, Southern Review, Sycamore Review, Prairie Schooner, Saranac Review, Atlanta Review, TriQuarterly, and various anthologies.
Laura Winter lives in Portland Oregon. Author of 6 collections, broadsides and performance projects, her book Coming Here to be Alone presents her poems in both English and German. Improvised music is an influential factor in how Laura considers the use of the page and language. She performs with musicians using language as an instrument. Winter’s US-Mexico borderlands collaboration with photographer Terri Warpinski, Liminal Matter: Fences and Liminal Matter: Traces is in numerous special collections such as Stanford University Library, Amherst College and Yale University. Winter occasionally publishes TAKE OUT, a bag-a-zine featuring visual art, writing and music.