Come hear Kristin Dykstra, Joe Elliot, Tomer Inbar, Michael Ruby, Eirik Steinhoff and Sam Truitt enter and intone the poetic continuum! See below bios:
Kristin Dykstra writes about people, places, and culture, with a special interest in motions and intersections amongst the Americas. She is the translator of many book-length collections of Latin American literature, including a set of bilingual editions published by the University of Alabama Press in 2014–2016, featuring Cuban authors Reina María Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Flores, Angel Escobar, and Marcelo Morales. In 2018 Dykstra guest-edited a dossier dedicated to Flores (1962–2016) in The Chicago Review. With Kent Johnson, Dykstra is co-editor of Materia Prima, an anthology showcasing poetry by Amanda Berenguer (Uruguay) for Ugly Duckling Presse. She is the principal translator of The Winter Garden Photograph, a collection by Rodríguez forthcoming with the same publisher.
Joe Elliot is the author of numerous chapbooks of his own, including: You Gotta Go In It’s the Big Game, Poems to be Centered on Much Much Larger Pieces of Paper, 15 Clanking Radiators, 14 Knots, Reduced, Half Gross (a collaboration with artist John Koos), and Object Lesson (a collaboration with artist Rich O’Russa). Granary Books published If It Rained Here (a collaboration with artist Julie Harrison). His long poem, 101 Designs for the World Trade Center, was published by Faux Press as an e-book in 2003. Collections of his work include Opposable Thumb (subpress, 2006), Homework (Lunar Chandelier, 2010), and Idea for a B Movie (Free Scholars Press, 2016). For many years, Joe made a living as a letterpress printer. He now teaches English at Edward R. Murrow High School, and lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Anne Noonan, and their three sons.
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.
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).
Eirik Steinhoff lives in Olympia, WA, where he teaches interdisciplinary classes like “Words/Woods” and “Gateways for Incarcerated Youth” at The Evergreen State College. He is the editor of A Fiery Flying Roule (including his Afterword) and co-edits Black Box: A Record of the Catastrophe. His essays have appeared in Arcade, Chicago Review, Counter-Signals, Floor, postmedieval, and elsewhere. In the late 20th century he was a librarian at the Reuters News Photo archive. In 2009 his translations from Petrarch’s Rime Sparse appeared as Fourteen Sonnets from Albion Books.
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.
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