Saturday, August 4, 2012

1850 W. Belle Plaine Avenue Apt. 3, Chicago, IL 60613

Featuring John Gallaher, Tony Trigilio, Daniela Olszewska, & Andrew Terhune!

Flyer designed by Ryan Spooner.

John Gallaher is the author of the books of poetry, Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls, The Little Book of Guesses, and Map of the Folded World, as well as the free online chapbook, Guidebook from Blue Hour Press, and, with with the poet G.C. Waldrep Your Father on the Train of Ghosts, BOA, 2011. His next book will be the book-length essay-poem In a Landscape, coming out in 2015 from BOA. Other than that, he's co-editor of The Laurel Review and GreenTower Press. Check out his blog here: http://​jjgallaher.blogspot.com/

Tony Trigilio's books include the poetry collections Historic Diary (BlazeVOX, 2011) and The Lama's English Lessons (Three Candles, 2006), and the chapbooks With the Memory, Which is Enormous (Main Street Rag, 2009) and Make a Joke and I Will Sigh and You Will Laugh and I Will Cry (e-chap, Scantily Clad Press, 2008). With Tim Prchal, he co-edited Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870-1930 (Rutgers Univ. Press, 2008). He is a member of the Core Poetry Faculty at Columbia College Chicago and co-edits Court Green.

Daniela Olszewska is the author of four collections of poetry: cloudfang : : cakedirt (Horse Less Press, 2012), Citizen J (Artifice Books, forthcoming), True Confessions of An Escapee From The Capra Facility For Wayward Girls (Spittoon Press, forthcoming), and How To Feel Confident With Your Special Talents (co-written with Carol Guess) (Black Lawrence Press, forthcoming). She sits on Switchback Books' Board of Directors and serves as Associate Poetry Editor of H_NGM_N and Another Chicago Magazine.

Andrew Terhune is originally from Memphis, Tennessee. He is the author of the chapbook Helen Mirren Picks Out My Clothes (greying ghost press) and his poems have recently appeared in Bateau, West Wind Review, Meridian, and Sixth Finch. He was a finalist for the 2012 Colorado Prize in Poetry. Find him online at: http://​www.andrewterhune.com/