a
series of video recordings of contemporary poets reading from their work,
prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent cancellations, shut-downs and
isolations; a reading series you can enjoy in the safety of your own protected
space,
Rob
Manery :
“As They Say (for Peter Culley)”
Rob
Manery
is the author of It's Not As If It Hasn't Been Said Before (Tsunami
Editons) and The Richter-Rauzer Variations (above/ground press). He
lives in Vancouver (the territory of the Coast Salish peoples) where he edits Some
magazine.
Eléna
Rivera :
“Movement in the Lower Region”
Published
by the Chicago Review, Issue 63:03/04, Winter/Spring 2020
Read
on March 31, 2020, 5:15 PM in New York City
Eléna
Rivera
was born in Mexico City and raised in Paris, France. Her third full-length
collection of poetry Scaffolding (2017) was published by Princeton
University Press in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. She received a
National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Translation and was a
recent recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony (2020).
www.elenarivera.net
Beatriz
Hausner :
an excerpt from “The Dream of Theodora”
Beatriz
Hausner
has published several poetry collections, including The Wardrobe Mistress, Sew Him Up, and Enter the Raccoon. Her books have been published internationally
and translated into several languages, most recently Greek. Hausner is a
respected historian and translator of Latin American Surrealism, with recent
essays published in The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism in 2019. Her
translations of César Moro and the poets of Mandrágora, as well as of others,
have exerted an important influence on her work. Hausner’s history of advocacy
in Canadian literary culture is also well known: she has worked as a literary programmer
in Toronto, her hometown, was Chair of the Public Lending Right Commission and
is currently President of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada. Her
latest poetry book Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart has just been released by Book*hug Press.
Peter
Midgley :
“you cannot write this down,” “let us not think of them as barbarians,” “words
melt in his mouth” and “a history of dust”
Peter Midgley
is an editor from Edmonton. He writes in English and in Afrikaans, and
translates poetry from several languages. His latest collection, let us not
think of them as barbarians, is shortlisted for the Stephan G. Stephansson
Award for Poetry.
Lydia
Unsworth :
“Seasoning”
Lydia Unsworth
has published two collections of poetry: Certain Manoeuvres (KFS Press,
2018) and Nostalgia for Bodies (2018 Erbacce Poetry Prize), and two
pamphlets (above / ground press and Ghost City Press). Her latest pamphlet YIELD
(KFS Press) and debut novel Distant Hills (Atlatl Press) are
forthcoming in 2020. Recent work can be found in SPAM, Bath Magg
and Blackbox Manifold. Twitter: @lydiowanie