Round 1 of 9: Fall, 2007

series coordinator
CAConrad

Jen Coleman: BROOKLYN, NY, USA

Jen Coleman is a Minnesota
poet living in Brooklyn. Her
work has appeared in ixnay,
Chain, Speak Easy and EOAGH
and elsewhere.

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Kendall Grady: GREENCASTLE, IN, USA

Kendall Grady studies
and writes in Greencastle, IN.
In July, Knutschfleck
published her fledgling
chapbook, I Love You. Thanks.
She enjoys olives, ginger,
and other things that are
not food, like Bucuresti. A
gender-neutral restroom
is a happy
restroom.

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Karen Hannah: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA

Karen Hannah is originally from Santa Maria, California. She has lived in Philadelphia, where she received her MA in Creative Writing and Literature from Temple University, and is currently living in Ilsan, South Korea, teaching kindergarten and working as a curricula editor at Koreapolyschool (KPS). Her work can be found in vol.1 of the online journal zbzz (2005), Fulcrum Annual (2004), Small Brushes, Adept Press and Thought Magazine (2002).

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Yuri Hospodar: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

Yuri Hospodar was born in southeastern Pennsylvania in the US. After several escape attempts, he made it to Boston, the city he perhaps considers "home". Over the years he has bounced to Paso Robles, San Francisco, Prague, and back to Boston and SF. He is currently exhausted and trying to stay put for a while in Sydney, NSW, Australia. He's appeared in print and/or online in several mags (Shampoo, Carve, &c) and anthologies (most recently Bay Poetics and EOAGH: Queering Language), and not appeared in many, many others. His only book, To You in Your Closets (Stone Soup Press, 1990) , is long out of print. He is reclusive, disorganised, and a lousy schmoozer, so his other books have been published only, as Ginsberg would say, in Heaven. If you click HERE and HERE you can see more online Yuri links.

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Dorothea Lasky: PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA

Dorothea Lasky was born in St. Louis in 1978. Her first book, AWE, just came out this fall from Wave Books. Her poems have appeared in Crowd, 6x6, Boston Review, Delmar, Phoebe, Filter, Knock, Drill, Lungfull!, and Carve, among others. She is the author of three chapbooks: The Hatmaker's Wife (Braincase Press, 2006), Art (H_NGM_N Press, 2005), Alphabets and Portraits, (Anchorite Press, 2004). She also has the website BIRD IN SNOW. Currently, she lives in Philadelphia, where she edits the Katalanche Press chapbook series (along with poet, Michael Carr) and is pursuing her doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Hoa Nguyen: AUSTIN, TX, USA

Hoa Nguyen is the author of Dark (Mike and Dales), Parrot Drum (Leroy), Let's Eat Red for Fun (Boog), Your Ancient See Through (Subpress), Red Juice (effing) and Poems (Dos Press). You can also see her online at Long House and Fascicle and COCONUT. You can also watch her read on YouTube. She lives in Austin TX where she edits the magazine and book imprint Skanky Possum and curates a reading series with her partner the poet Dale Smith.

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Travis Nichols: SEATTLE, WA, USA

Travis Nichols grew up in Ames, Iowa. A graduate of the University of Georgia and the University of Massachusetts, he now lives in Seattle where he edits the online magazine Weird Deer and writes for the Post-Intelligencer and the Stranger. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Boston Review, The Believer, The Village Voice, Poets & Writers, Stop Smiling, Crowd, Octopus, Factorial, Lungfull and Isn't It Romantic: An Anthology of Love Poems by Younger American Poets, among other places. He can also be found online HERE. In 2007, he co-curated the exhibition Poets on Painters, which opened at the Ulrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Wichita, KS.

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a.rawlings: TORONTO, CANADA

The recipient of the bpNichol Award for Distinction in Writing (2001), a.rawlings is a Canadian poet and multidisciplinary artist. angela has worked with many arts organizations, including The Mercury Press, Lexiconjury Reading Series, Theatre Gargantua, and the TV series Heart of a Poet. With derek beaulieu and Jason Christie, angela co-edited Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry (Mercury, 2005). Her first book, Wide slumber for lepidopterists (Coach House Books, 2006), was featured in The Globe and Mail's top 100 books of 2006; it went on to receive an Alcuin Award for Design and was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Wide slumber was recently translated from page to stage for Harbourfront Centre's Hatch: Emerging Performance Projects in Toronto. Click HERE for more of her online work.

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Logan Ryan Smith: SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA

Logan Ryan Smith lives in San Francisco where he publishes TRANSMISSION PRESS chapbooks. Up until recently he published a poetry mag called small town. In the summer of 2007 the San Francisco Bay Guardian recognized him for his publishing efforts with a "Best of the Bay 2007". His first book, THE SINGERS, was published by Dusie Press Books in the same summer. Other poetry has appeared in New American Writing, Bombay Gin, Spell, string of small machines, Hot Whiskey Magazine, the tiny, Mirage #4/ Period(ical), and elsewhere, as well as in the anthologies Bay Poetics (Faux Press), and The Meat Book (Hot Whiskey). A few online chapbooks can be found at detumescence.com and dusie.org. Click HERE to read his blog.

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