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,
Kimberly
Alidio :
“continent reverence,” “from Dear Archon”
Kimberly
Alidio
is the author of the poetry books why letter ellipses (selva oscura,
2020), : once teeth bones coral : (Belladonna*, 2020), and after
projects the resound (Black Radish, 2016). Her most recent chapbook is a
cell of falls (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2019). She lives in Tucson,
Arizona, on the ancestral lands of the Tohono O’odham and the Pascua Yaqui
peoples, with her partner, the poet Stacy Szymaszek. Her website is:
kimberlyalidio.com
Lisa
Fishman :
“Truth-telling is possible, thought Laura Riding,” “not ‘using words’,” “the
Five Ways to jump,” “Michael says the poem will speak,” “i’ve been looking for
you,” “There were broken birds,” [from] “Summer 2015,” from Mad World, Mad
Kings, Mad Composition
Lisa Fishman
is the author of seven poetry collections, including the newly released Mad
World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition (Wave Books, 2020). Some of her earlier
books are 24 pages and other poems (Wave, 2015), The Happiness
Experiment (Ahsahta Press), and Dear, Read (Ahsahta). Hybrid work
from a new manuscript in progress appears in 6x6, Denver Quarterly,
and is forthcoming in touch the donkey and elsewhere. A dual
US/Canadian, she lives in Wisconsin and is soon to be dividing her time between
her farm there and the Sault Ste. Marie area. She directs the MFA Program at
Columbia College Chicago.
J.R. Carpenter : an excerpt from This
is a Picture of Wind (2020)
J.R.
Carpenter
is an artist, writer, and researcher working across performance, print, and
digital media. Her web-based work The Gathering Cloud won the New Media
Writing Prize 2016. Her poetry collection An Ocean of Static was highly
commended by the Forward Prizes 2018. Her new collection, This is a Picture
of Wind (Longbarrow Press 2020) is based on a web-app of the same name. A
fellow of the Eccles Centre at the British Library and the Moore Institute at
NUI Galway, she will be Writer in Residence at University of Alberta September
2020 — May 2021. http://luckysoap.com
Gary
Barwin :
“THE BOOK (for derek beaulieu),” “PERMUTATION MACHINE (after Brion Gysin &
William Burroughs),” “WHALE (a fable)” and “PSALM”
Gary Barwin
is a writer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist. His books include For
It is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe: New and Selected Poems, ed.
Alessandro Porco and Ampersandthropocene, a collection of his visuals
based on the ampersand which will appear from Penteract Press in August. He
lives in Hamiltonacorn, Ontario where he holds the David W. McFadden Chair in
Diffuse but Earnest Luminosity at the National Rhyme Institute of Canada.
Rose
Maloukis :
Three poems from Cloud Game with Plums
Rose Maloukis
is a poet and visual artist, with a BFA from Wayne State University, Detroit,
Michigan. She was born and grew up in the United States but has dual
citizenship and resides in Montreal. Her poetry appears in a limited-edition
bilingual artist’s book, From the Middle ~ Sonoritiés du Coeur,
which is held in the collection of both the national and provincial libraries.
She was short-listed for the 2015 Montreal International Poetry Prize and two
poems were published in Matrix Magazine, Issue #105. A winning Second
Place poem has been published in Geist’s 2018 Spring Issue #108. Her chapbook
debut, Cloud Game with Plums, appeared recently with above/ground press.