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Five Old Pals: Ed Skoog, John Beer, Jac Nelson, Ryan Mills & Alex Dannemiller
Old Pal editor Karolinn Fiscaletti hosts five readers on Saturday, February 13th from 6:30 to 8:00 PST. Register in advance at tinyurl.com/5hsdo61j
Ed Skoog is the author of four books of poems, most recently Travelers Leaving for the City (Copper Canyon Press, 2020).
John Beer is the author of The Waste Land and Other Poems (Canarium Books, 2010), winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, a chapbook, Lucinda (Spork Press, 2013), and the full-length verse novella of Lucinda, published by Canarium Books in 2016. He is also the editor of a selection of Robert Lax’s poems, published by Wave Books in 2013. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Jac Nelson is a multimedia poet living between the lands of the Coast Salish people (at Puget Sound) and of the Dakota people (at the Minnesota River). Their work begins with art and artist as ethical questions that emerge from inherited context: ancestry, knowledge/ways, land, trauma, coercion, and decision activate their aesthetic search for multigenerational healing and connection. Jac continues to learn about, engage with, and transform the ways they benefit from white supremacy. Recent work is in Black Warrior Review, Fanzine, Old Pal, Blackbox Manifold, and forthcoming in jubilat.
Ryan Mills is a letter carrier and NALC shop steward in Portland, OR as well as an editor of Old Pal Magazine.
Alex Dannemiller is originally from Cincinnati, OH. His work appears in Literary Orphans, Propeller, and Portland Review. He obtained an MFA from Portland State University, an MA from Ohio University, and a BA from Miami University, also in Ohio. He currently teaches writing at PSU, curates the resource Literary Portland (LitPDX), and is a co-editor of Old Pal.