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Offsite Finale with Four Way Review, Construction, New South, and Inch

March 30, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Free
View Venue Website, 807 NE Couch St, Portland, OR 97232 + Google Map

New South, Construction Magazine, INCH, and Four Way Review invite you to an off-site reading to end AWP2019 in Portland.

Sweet, micro-readings from the likes of:

Colleen Louise Barry
Amie Zimmerman
Aliceanna Stopher
J Bailey Hutchinson
Lauren Goodwin Slaughter

Maya Jewell Zeller
Kelly Grace Thomas
Sonia Greenfield
Saddiq M Dzukogi
sam sax
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Keetje Kuipers

Nathan McClain
Meghan Dunn
C.T. Salazar

and more.

This reading is free and open to the public.

About The Readers:

Colleen Louise Barry is an artist and writer living in Seattle, WA. She is the author of three chapbooks, most recently Poultry in Motion (Factory Hollow Press). She runs the interdisciplinary project Mount Analogue. @colleenlouisebarry / @themountanalogue / www.mount-analogue.com

J. Bailey Hutchinson is a poet from Memphis, Tennessee. She is currently completing her MFA at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where she is Poetry Editor for the Arkansas International literary magazine and Assistant Director of the Open Mouth Reading Series. Hutchinson is the winner of New South‘s 2018 Poetry Contest, and her work has appeared in Salamander, LIT magazine, Beloit, Nimrod, and more. She has very strong opinions about pickles and lunchtime. Full publication and contact info is available at www.jbaileyhutchinson.com.

Aliceanna Stopher is an MFA candidate in fiction at Colorado State University where she teaches undergraduate creative writing and works as an Associate Editor for the Colorado Review. She is the winner of the 2018 Crazyhorse CrazyShorts! prize, and received honorable mention for Gulf Coast’s 2018 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose, judged by Laura van den Berg. Her short fiction may be found, or is forthcoming, in Gulf Coast, Crazyhorse, New South, and elsewhere.

Amie Zimmerman lives in Portland, Oregon. Her work has been published, or is forthcoming, in Sixth Finch, DIAGRAM, Salt Hill, Heavy Feather Review, and Puerto del Sol, among others. She has two chapbooks, Oyster (REALITY BEACH) and Compliance (Essay Press), and is events coordinator for YesYes Books.

Nathan McClain’s debut collection is Scale (Four Way Books, 2017). He is the recipient of the 2017 Gregory Pardlo Fellowship from The Frost Place, and a graduate of Warren Wilson’s MFA Program for Writers. A Cave Canem fellow, his poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Callaloo, Ploughshares, Broadsided, The Southeast Review, Tinderbox, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches creative writing at Drew University.

Meghan Dunn lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she teaches high school English. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Narrative, Poetry Northwest, Southern Humanities Review, and The Collagist, among others. She has received scholarships and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the St. Botolph’s Club Foundation, and the Writers’ Room of Boston.

C.T. Salazar is a latinx poet and translator living in Mississippi. He’s the editor-in-chief of Dirty Paws Poetry Review, and the 2017 AWP Intro Journals Poetry Winner. His poems have appeared in 32 Poems, Grist, Tampa Review, Noble Gas QTRLY, Cosmonauts Avenue, The Matador Review, and elsewhere. He’s an MFA candidate and children’s librarian. His first chapbook, This Might Have Meant Fire, is forthcoming from Inch.