Woodland Pattern
720 East Locust
Milwaukee
October 16, 2009
Redletter is a reading series featuring local and regional poets and writers on the third Friday of each month, and is curated by Chuck Stebelton. The program begins at 7pm with an open mic hosted by Melissa Czarnik, followed by one or two featured readers. The cost is $3, or $2 for open mic readers.
Nate Graziano, Charles Ries, Micah Ling, and B.J. Best
Nate Graziano lives in Manchester, New Hampshire. For the past decade, he has been teaching English at Pembroke Academy in Pembroke, New Hampshire. In 2007, Teaching Metaphors, a collection of poetry that documents his experiences teaching high school, was published by sunnyoutside. After the Honeymoon (sunnyoutside, 2009) is his third full-length book of poetry.
Charles P. Ries' narrative poems, short stories, interviews, and poetry reviews have appeared in numerous print and electronic publications. He has received four Pushcart Prize nominations for his writing, and is the author of The Fathers We Find: The Making of a Pleasant, humble boy, a novel based on memory and five books of poetry. Forthcoming in 2010 are Girl Friend & Other Mysteries of Love (Alternating Current Press) and I'd Rather Be Mexican (Cervena Barva Press). He lives in Milwaukee, WI.
Micah Ling earned her MA and MFA at Indiana University. She currently teaches writing courses at both Indiana University and DePauw University. She serves as deputy editor for Keyhole Magazine. Micah lives in Bloomington, Indiana with her husband and dog.
B.J. Best is the author of four chapbooks of poetry, including the brand-new State Sonnets from sunnyoutside and the forthcoming Drag: Twenty Short Poems about Smoking from Centennial Press. His first full-length book, Birds of Wisconsin, is forthcoming from New Rivers Press. He teaches at Carroll University in Waukesha, and lives in West Bend with his wife, three cats, and the occasional salamander in their basement. http://bj.desperadopress.com.
October 18th
Poetry reading with K. Silem Mohammad, Jen Hofer, Patrick Durgin
K. Silem Mohammad is the author of the poetry collections Deer Head Nation (Tougher Disguises, 2003); A Thousand Devils (Combo Books, 2004); Breathalyzer (Edge Books, 2008); and The Front (Roof Books, 2009); as well as the chapbooks Hovercraft (Kenning, 2000) and Monsters (Abraham Lincoln, 2006). Mohammad is an associate professor in the Department of Language, Literature, and Philosophy at Southern Oregon University.
Jen Hofer is the editor and translator of Sin Puertas Visibles, an anthology of contemporary poetry by Mexican women which was co-published by University of Pittsburgh Press and Ediciones Sin Nombre in 2003. Her other works include as far as (a+bend press, 1999), "Laws," the July 2001 issue of A.BACUS, and The 3:15 Experiment, in conjunction with Lee Ann Brown, Danika Dinsmore and Bernadette Mayer (The Owl Press, 2001). Her first book of poems, Slide Rule, was published by subpress in 2002. She lives in Los Angeles.
Patrick F. Durgin is the author of Pundits Scribes Pupils (Potes & Poets, 1998), And so on (Texture Press, 1999), Sorter (Duration Press, 2001), Color Music (Cuneiform Press, 2002), Imitation Poems (Atticus / Finch, 2006), and The Route (with Jen Hofer, Atelos, 2007-8). He is editor and publisher of Kenning Editions and maintains the site www.da-crouton.com
October 20th
Offsite bilingual poetry reading with Dolores Dorantes and Laura Solórzano with translator Jen Hofer
Greene Hall, UWM
3347 N. Downer Ave.
Milwaukee
Laura Solórzano is the author, most recently, of Boca perdida (2005), lobo de labio (2001) and Semilla de Ficus (1999). Jen Hofer’s en face translation of lobo de labio was published as lip wolf by Action Books in March 2007. Laura is on the editorial board of the literary arts magazine Tragaluz, and currently teaches writing at the Centro de Arte Audiovisual in Guadalajara. Both Dorantes and Solórzano appeared in the anthology Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women (ed. and trans. Jen Hofer, 2003).
Dolores Dorantes’s most recent books include sexoPUROsexoVELOZ (2004) and Lola (cartas cortas) (2002). A translation of sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre, books two and three of Dolores Dorantes by Dolores Dorantes, have been translated by Jen Hofer and published by Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions. Dorantes was born in Veracruz in 1973 and has lived most of her life in Ciudad Juárez, where socioeconomic violence and politically-charged daily brutalities have informed her work as a poet, journalist, and cultural worker. She is a founding member of the border arts collective Compañía Frugal (The Frugal Company), which counts among its activities publication of the monthly poetry broadside series Hoja Frugal, printed in editions of 4,000 and distributed free throughout Mexico.
Jen Hofer is the editor and translator of Sin Puertas Visibles, an anthology of contemporary poetry by Mexican women which was co-published by University of Pittsburgh Press and Ediciones Sin Nombre in 2003. Her other works include as far as (a+bend press, 1999), "Laws," the July 2001 issue of A.BACUS, and The 3:15 Experiment, in conjunction with Lee Ann Brown, Danika Dinsmore and Bernadette Mayer (The Owl Press, 2001). Her first book of poems, Slide Rule, was published by subpress in 2002. She lives in Los Angeles.
