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,
Shaindel
Beers :
Parts 1 and 2 of “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Pelican” from Secure Your
Own Mask
Shaindel Beers
is author of the poetry collections A Brief History of Time (Salt
Publishing, 2009), The Children’s War and Other Poems (Salt, 2013), and Secure
Your Own Mask (White Pine Press, 2018). Her poetry, fiction, and creative
nonfiction has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is currently
an instructor of English at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton,
Oregon, in eastern Oregon’s high desert, and serves as poetry editor of Contrary.
Mari-Lou
Rowley : “Suicide
Psalms 18 & 46” and “Survival Psalms” (Suicide Psalms, Anvil Press 2008)
Mari-Lou Rowley has encountered a
timber wolf, come between a black bear and her cub, interviewed an Italian
astronaut, found over 66 four-leaf clovers, and published nine collections of
poetry. Her most recent books are Unus Mundus (Anvil
Press 2013) and Transforium
(JackPine Press 2012) in collaboration with visual artist Tammy Lu. NumenRology is forthcoming from Anvil Press in Spring
2021. Her work has appeared internationally in literary, arts and
science-related journals including the
Journal
of Humanistic Mathematics (US)
and Aesthetica Magazine’s
(UK) Creative Works Competition, and is forthcoming in Golden Handcuffs
Review. She is a Joseph Armand Bombardier Scholar, currently in the throes
of finishing her PhD dissertation on social media, neurophenomenology and
empathy.
Grant
Loveys : “Talk
to Me”
Grant Loveys’s
Our Gleaming Bones Unrobed was The Globe and Mail Readers’ Pick
for the best poetry collection of 2012. He lives in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland
and Labrador.
Amanda
Deutch :
“Weight of Home,” “Sonnet for a Broken Washer” (read by Maggie, the Monster)
Amanda Deutch
is a poet and interdisciplinary artist. Her poems have been published in the New
York Times, The Rumpus, Cimarron Review, and Oversound,
among others. The author of six chapbooks, her most recent chapbooks are: bodega
night pigeon riot (above/ground press, 2020) and Surf Avenue & 29th
Street, Coney Island (Least Weasel Press, 2018). She has been a
writer-in-residence at The Betsy Writer’s Room (Miami) and Footpaths to
Creativity (Azores). Deutch is the Founder and Executive Director of Parachute
Literary Arts, a Coney Island-based community arts non-profit.
Adrienne
Gruber :
“Questions” and “Haikus for Baby Blues”
Adrienne Gruber
is the author of three books of poetry, Q & A (Book*hug), Buoyancy
Control (Book*hug) and This is the Nightmare (Thistledown Press),
and five chapbooks. Her chapbook Mimic was awarded the bp Nichol
Chapbook Award in 2012. Adrienne lives in Vancouver with her partner and two
daughters.