AWP is saved! Join us for poetry and libations at Portland’s Base Camp Brewing Company, featuring none other than: Emily Skillings, Jay Deshpande, Marina Blitshteyn, John James, Samantha Zighelboim, Elizabeth Gross, Jerika Marchan, Graham Barnhart, and Toby Altman.
Friday, March 29
Base Camp Brewing Co
930 SE Oak St
Portland, OR 97214
6:30 PM
Free and open to the public.
EMILY SKILLINGS is the author of the poetry collection Fort Not (The Song Cave, 2017), which Publishers Weekly called a “fabulously eccentric, hypnotic, and hypervigilant debut,” as well as two chapbooks, Backchannel (Poor Claudia) and Linnaeus: The 26 Sexual Practices of Plants (No, Dear/ Small Anchor Press). Recent poems can be found in Poetry, Harper’s, Boston Review, Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Hyperallergic, LitHub, and jubilat. Skillings is a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative, a feminist poetry collective, small press, and event series. She received her MFA from Columbia University, where she was a Creative Writing Teaching Fellow in 2017, and has taught creative writing at Yale University, Parsons School of Design, Poets House, and through Brooklyn Poets.
JAY DESHPANDE is the author of Love the Stranger and The Rest of the Body (both from YesYes Books). His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Narrative, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from Kundiman, Civitella Ranieri, Saltonstall Arts Colony, and the Key West Literary Seminar, and is currently a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford.
MARINA BLITSHTEYN is the author of Two Hunters, her first full-length collection, published by Argos Books this year with a CLMP Face-Out grant. Prior chapbooks include Russian for Lovers, Nothing Personal, $kill$ (read ‘skills’), and most recently Sheet Music. She lives and works in NYC.
JOHN JAMES is the author of The Milk Hours, selected by Henri Cole for the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize and forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. His poems appear in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, Best American Poetry 2017, and elsewhere. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in English at the University of California, Berkeley.
ELIZABETH GROSS is a poet/translator/teacher/artist in New Orleans. this body/that lightning show, her first poetry collection, was selected by Jericho Brown for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection of the Word Works Press (2019). DEAR ESCAPE ARTIST, a chapbook in collaboration with artist Sara White, came out from Antenna in 2016. She teaches interdisciplinary humanities for the Honors Program at Tulane University.
JERIKA MARCHAN was born in Manila, Philippines and raised in the American South. A graduate of Louisiana State University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she lives in New Orleans. Her debut collection SWOLE (Futurepoem, 2018) was the June 2018 poetry best seller on Small Press Distribution and was named a Must-Read Race and Culture Book of the Summer by Colorlines magazine.
SAMANTHA ZIGHELBOIM is the author of The Fat Sonnets (Argos Books, 2018). She is a 2017 NYFA/NYSCA Fellow in Poetry, a recipient of a Face Out grant from CLMP, and the co-recipient of the 2016 John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation from The Poetry Foundation. Samantha’s poems, translations and essays have appeared in POETRY, Boston Review, LitHub, The Guardian, and PEN Poetry Series, among others. She lives in New York City, and teaches creative writing and literature at Rutgers University and The New School.
GRAHAM BARNHART is the author of The War Makes Everyone Lonely forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press Phoenix Poets series. A US Army veteran, he is a recipient of The Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award and the Chad Walsh Poetry Prize. His work has recently appeared in, or is forthcoming from 32 Poems, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Diode, Hobart, and others. He is currently a Wallace Stegner Poetry Fellow and lives in Oakland, CA.
TOBY ALTMAN is the author of Arcadia, Indiana (Plays Inverse, 2017) and several chapbooks, including Every Hospital by Bertrand Goldberg (Except One), winner of the 2018 Ghost Proposal Chapbook Contest. His poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Jubilat, Lana Turner, and other journals and anthologies.
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