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Altman, Toby 2016

Wednesday, September 14, 2016
with Maggie Queeney
City Lit Books


ok, excuse me while I ode myself—or what’s left of me: lilac and fog, the founding act of bliss. Once I merged my delicate fingers with the internet—but its engine erupts aromatic paste, worn as prophylactic against the plague. Very soon I will be the silence of vespers

– Toby Altman, “ENVOY (about the author)”

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 And pilgrim who sings holy body less
and rents himself, all to the earnest earth,
how opens he, and open learns
borders and blank, the shape of breath. 

– Toby Altman, “untitled”

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Toby Altman is the author of Arcadia, Indiana (Plays Inverse, 2017) and six chapbooks, including Every Hospital by Bertrand Goldberg (Except One), winner of the 2018 Ghost Proposal chapbook contest. His poems can be found in Colorado Review, jubilat, Lana Turner, and other journals and anthologies. He earned a PhD in English at Northwestern University.

Magers, Dan 2016

Wednesday, August 10, 2016
with Mairead Case and Holly Amos
Mars Gallery

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To have for yourself such boundless love
that you give up writing forever.
The future is in the stars. Pain spelled like the color.

– Dan Magers, “Spiritual Grave Year”

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Read this interview with Dan Magers from Southeast Review:

http://southeastreview.org/dan-magers/

Welling up in my hands are emotions,
and I awakened in her wake,
and I almost saw heaven then.

– Dan Magers, “[Welling up in my hands are emotions]”

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Watch Dan Magers read his work at Berl’s Poetry Shop:

Dan Magers @ Berl’s Poetry Shop

Dan Magers reads at the release party for Steven Karl’s first book of poetry Dork Swagger, out now from Coconut Books 2013. http://coconutpoetry.org/bookcatalog.htm Dan Magers is co-founder and co-editor of Sink Review, an online poetry journal as well as founder and editor of Immaculate Disciples Press, a handmade chapbook press focused on poetry and visual arts collaborations.

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Case, Mairead 2016

Wednesday, August 10, 2016
with Holly Amos and Dan Magers
Mars Gallery

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A girl, she’s Tiny. She is beautiful and she knows it, not from arrogance or magazines but because she trusts herself. This is hard, not cute.

– Mairead Case, “Tiny”

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Read this interview with Mairead Case from Bookslut:

http://www.bookslut.com/features/2015_09_021260.php

We had a small bed so there was room for the keyboard. While I wrote he wore headphones so I just heard clicks. After writing I’d bring a book to bed and he’d take the headphones off. One song on loop. Sometimes I was sleepy so don’t remember anything else.

– Mairead Case, “Nine sounds fifty words, after Firth”

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Watch Mairead Case read some of her work:

Mairead Case reads at Tuesday Funk #55

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Amos, Holly 2016

Wednesday, August 10, 2016
with Mairead Case and Dan Magers
Mars Gallery

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I won’t look anyone
in the eye
for three days. Because I am human
I want to compare the train
to a metal cage

– Holly Amos, “I See The X-Ray of the Rescue with 50 BBS in Him”

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Read this interview with Holly Amos from H_NGM_N:

“The Next Big Thing” Interview: Holly Amos

The lovely & oft-cardigan-ed Stephen Danos was tagged for “The Next Big Thing,” a self-interview for writers with recent or forthcoming books. Then Stephen tagged me to answer some questions about my…

And home is a projection of what my mind sees. All wisps. The black pocket we call memory: that which seeks light only to contain it.

– Holly Amos, “The Sky Got Caught In My Hair, If Only Theoretically”

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Watch Holly Amos discuss her work:

Notable Native: Holly Amos

Holly Amos knew from a young age that she wanted to write. She has written everything from journals to her own novel. Now the editorial assistant at Poetry magazine, the Columbia alumna shares her love for the profession and discusses where she hopes to be in the future.

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Holly Amos, the assistant editor of Poetry, published her first full-length collection Continual Guidance of Air in 2016. Her humor writing and poetry has appeared in a variety of publications, including Little Old Lady; Points in Case; Forklift, Ohio; and Prairie Schooner.

Coval, Kevin 2016

Wednesday, July 20, 2016
with Jac Jemc
Innertown Pub

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i’d drive down and back
in my mom’s Dodge for the latest
volumes of sound. i’d stutter
and stop and begin again. Lonesome
and on fire. none. no one i knew
rapped. 

– Kevin Coval, “molemen beat tapes”

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Read this interview with Kevin Coval from the Chicago Tribune:

Louder Than a Bomb about to blow up

A noted Chicago poet named Carl Sandburg once wrote, “I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on the way,” and so there sat one evening last week a somewhat less well-known Chicago poet named Kevin Coval, who is certainly on his way.If everything falls into place over the next months and […]

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Jemc, Jac 2016

Wednesday, July 20, 2016
with Kevin Coval
Innertown Pub

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This the longing
Housed beneath my shoulder blades
Therefore
My lungs became like this for me:
small and unsteady. 

– Jac Jemc, “Wound”

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Read this interview with Jac Jemc from The Austin Review:

http://theaustinreview.org/blog/2014/5/13/an-interview-with-jac-jemc-author-of-my-only-wife

the catenary course of depression
like italics forced the opposite
if you get depressed remember
you have a body

– Jac Jemc, “Subterranean Triptych”

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Watch Jac Jemc read her work at Notre Dame University:

Jac Jemc Reading on September 9, 2015

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Thompson, Kush 2016

Thursday, June 30, 2016
with H. Melt
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art

Friday, March 25, 2016
with Ben Clark 
Comfort Station Logan Square

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This, we tiptoe.
This, we flower in euphemism.
The street has swallowed itself into border. Into railroad track.
This, where the bus line ends.

– Kush Thompson, “This, Here”

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Watch Kush Thompson’s feature on ChiTeen Lit Fest:

the hand I use for nothing, butterflied
open in a veiled room. she walks to the end
of my palm and says she sees no children
and so many.

– Kush Thompson, “Witch’s Milk”

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Watch Kush Thompson’s TEDxWindyCity talk:

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Melt, H. 2016

Thursday, June 30, 2016
with Kush Thompson
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art

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Straight America, I hear you
on the radio, on the streets
advertising gaycations
and gay friendly apartments.

– H. Melt, “The Plural, The Blurring”

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Read this interview with H. Melt from The Offing Magazine:

Guest Editor Profile: H. Melt – The Offing

Q&A with H. Melt

i feel home
at both places
home meaning
misrecognition. 

– H. Melt, “Ode to the Gay Sex Shop”

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Watch H. Melt read some of their work:

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Henderson, Tim “Toaster” 2016

Thursday, May 19, 2016
with Helene Achanzar
Beauty & Brawn Art Gallery and Think Space

Read this interview with Tim “Toaster” Henderson from SF Weekly:

http://www.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2012/12/21/the-write-stuff-tim-toaster-henderson-on-running-toward-the-disturbing

Read this article about Tim “Toaster” Henderson:

Tim Toaster Henderson and the Art of the Slam

In September P&W-supported poet Tim Toaster Henderson was the featured performer at Coast Slam in Fort Bragg, California. First-time slam judge Gene Lock blogs about the event (with a little help by series director Christina Perez).A poetry slam, we now know, has rules. Poems are orally presented, in front of a microphone.

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Toaster “Mondays” – ALL DEF POETRY: INKSLAM 2014 | All Def Poetry

Today’s featured artist is TOASTER. Evolving from a partnership between the Greenway Arts Alliance and Da’ Poetry Lounge (the nation’s longest running open mic poetry event), InkSlam is LA’s premiere spoken word festival. This year All Def Digital was there to capture the gifted poets that graced the stage.

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Subscribe to Button! New video daily: http://bit.ly/buttonpoetry Minnesota folks! Don’t miss Button Poetry Live: http://on.fb.me/1NIPy8q Every first Monday at CAMP Bar in downtown Saint Paul. Toaster, featuring at Button Poetry Live, February 2016. Follow Button on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/SG5Xm0 About Button: Button Poetry is committed to developing a coherent and effective system of production, distribution, promotion and fundraising for spoken word and performance poetry.

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Achanzar, Helene 2016

Thursday, May 19, 2016
with Tim “Toaster” Henderson
Beauty & Brawn Art Gallery and Think Space

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In the land I was born,
there is an island in the middle of a river.
There is a name for the amount
of beauty required to launch a ship.

– Helene Achanzar, “Meaning Light”

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Listen to this podcast with Helene Achanzar here:

S1 Ep 02: Helene Achanzar (Lighthouses & Buffy) by The Lit Fantastic (Podcast)

Helene Achanzar is a Kundiman fellow who has earned awards from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc. She is a freelance writer who has written for Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Vice Media. Helene will be beginning her MFA studies at University of Mississippi this fall.

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Helene Achanzar is a John and Renée Grisham fellow from the University of Mississippi, where she also served as senior editor of the Yalobusha Review. She is also a Kundiman fellow and has received awards from The University of Iowa Writer’s House and Philippine American Writers and Artists.

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