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THE FIRST HEXAGONAL KAPLAN HARRIS & KEVIN THURSTON ARE MOVING POETRY THING, aka
6 POETS AT BRIDGE STREET, aka
THE FREAKS COME OUT AT NIGHT. COME, FREAKS, COME.
WHEN?---->SUNDAY JULY 20th, 7 PM
DAWN-MICHELLE BAUDE
MARK CUNNINGHAM
RYAN DOBRAN
JUSTIN KATKO
KEVIN THURSTON
STEVEN ZULTANSKI
& probably DOUG LANG too
Dawn Michelle Baude is the author of several volumes of poetry, including The
Flying House (Parlor Press, 2008) and Through a Membrane / Clouds (Gong, 2006).
She is guest editor of the 2008 edition of the international arts magazine, Van
Gogh's Ear (soon to be released). Formally on staff at the American University
of Paris, she returned to the US last fall to become artist-in-residence at The
Storm King School. She is currently completing a travel memoir in DC.
Mark Cunningham lives outside Charlottesville, VA. Otoliths has just brought
out his first book _80 Beetles_, which is just what it sounds like, 80 poems
based beetles. Tarpaulin Sky Press will be bringing out a book titled _Body
Language_, which will consist of two separate collections, one titled _Body_ (on
parts of the body) and one titled _Primer_ (on numbers and letters.
Twochapbooks, _nightlightnight_ (on hours of the day) and _Georgic, with
Eclogues for Interrogators_ are also on the way.
Ryan Dobran lives in Brooklyn, NY where he edits LIFECOACH, a magazine of
poetry, criticism and--in its 3rd formation, to be published in
September--performance and video art. His chapbook, YOUR GUILT IS A MIRACLE, is
forthcoming from Bad Press.
Justin Katko is a poet and publisher. He edits the small press Critical
Documents -- http://plantarchy.us -- which specializes in contemporary poetry
from the UK and the US. His current project is an opera titled The Death of
Pringle, and he is in the electronic writing MFA at Brown University.
By the time you see Kevin Thurston he will be unemployed and barely living in
Washington, DC and barely living in the United States (beyond the barely living
of the people of the United States). Kevin has had work appear in, or published
by, Flim Forum Press (US), the Lost and Found Times (US), Furniture_Press (US),
fHole (Canada), the New Chief Tongue (Canada), Produce Press (Canada) and yt
communications (UK). He co-founded the Buffalo Small Press Fair (with
Christopher Fritton) and curated for Just Buffalo's Small Press Poetry Series.
Steven Zultanski is the author of the chapbooks Homoem (Radical Readout, 2005),
USA = NAZI (Nocturnal Editions, 2008) and Steve's Poem (Lettermachine,
forthcoming). He edits President's Choice magazine, a Lil' Norton publication.
His poetry has appeared in Antennae, FO(A)RM, The Physical Poets, Shiny, and
elsewhere.
all right, then:
BYOB (Bring Your Own Brain)