Please join us in Portland for a night of poetry and revelry, with readings by Nomi Stone, Kai Carlson-Wee, John James, Hafizah Geter, Aaron Coleman, Emily Barton Altman, Rob Schlegel, and Cassie Donish!
Saturday, March 30
Crush Bar
6:00-7:30 PM
NOMI STONE is a poet and an anthropologist, and the author of two poetry collections, Stranger’s Notebook (TriQuarterly 2008) and Kill Class (Tupelo 2019). Winner of a Pushcart Prize, Stone’s poems appear recently in POETRY, American Poetry Review, The New Republic, The Best American Poetry, Tin House, New England Review, and elsewhere. Kill Class is based on two years of fieldwork she conducted within war trainings in mock Middle Eastern villages erected by the US military across America.
KAI CARLSON-WEE is the author of Rail (BOA Editions, 2018). His work has appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, Best New Poets, New England Review, and The Southern Review. His photography has been featured in Narrative Magazine, and his poetry film, Riding the Highline, has screened at film festivals across the country. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he lives in San Francisco and is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.
JOHN JAMES is the author of The Milk Hours, selected by Henri Cole for the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize (Milkweed, 2019). His poems appear in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, Best American Poetry 2017, and elsewhere, and his work has been supported by the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, the Academy of American Poets, and Georgetown University’s Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is pursuing a PhD in English at UC Berkeley.
Born in Zaria, Nigeria, HAFIZAH GETER‘s poetry and prose have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Narrative Magazine, Gulf Coast, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, McSweeney’s and Longreads, among others. She is an editor for Little A from Amazon Publishing and serves on the poetry committee for the Brooklyn Book Festival.
AARON COLEMAN is the author of Threat Come Close (Four Way Books, 2018) and his chapbook, St. Trigger, was selected by Adrian Matejka for the 2015 Button Poetry Prize. A Fulbright Scholar and Cave Canem Fellow, Aaron’s poems have appeared in journals including Boston Review, Callaloo, and New York Times Magazine. Aaron is currently a PhD student in Comparative Literature at Washington University St. Louis, studying 20th-century poetry of the African Diaspora in the Americas.
EMILY BARTON ALTMAN is the author of two chapbooks, “Bathymetry” (Present Tense Pamphlets, 2016), and “Alice Hangs Her Map” (forthcoming from dancing girl press, 2019). Recent poems appear in Bodega, The Journal Petra, Dream Pop Press, Ghost Proposal, and elsewhere. She co-produces the poetry podcast Make (No) Bones and co-edits the journal pulpmouth. She is a recipient of a Poets & Writers Amy Award and received her MFA from New York University. She is currently pursuing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver.
ROB SCHLEGEL is the author of three, award-winning poetry collections. The most recent, In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps, was selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the 2018 Iowa Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Bennington Review, Boston Review, Lana Turner, Poetry, and elsewhere. With the poets Daniel Poppick and Rawaan Alkhatib, he co-edits The Catenary Press.
CASSIE DONISH is the author of the poetry collections The Year of the Femme (University of Iowa Press, 2019), selected by Brenda Shaughnessy as winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and Beautyberry (Slope Editions, 2018). Her nonfiction chapbook On the Mezzanine (2019) was selected by Maggie Nelson as winner of the Gold Line Press Chapbook Competition. Her writing has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Best New Poets, Colorado Review, jubilat, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review Online, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, and she currently teaches classes at the University of Missouri in Columbia, where she’s pursuing a PhD in literature and creative writing.
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