a series of video recordings of contemporary poets reading from their work, originally 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,
Janice Lee : 3 untitled poems from Separation Anxiety (forthcoming August 2022, CLASH Books)
Janice Lee is a Korean-American writer, teacher, spiritual scholar, and shamanic healer. She is the author of 7 books of fiction, creative nonfiction & poetry, most recently Imagine a Death (Texas Review Press, 2021) and Separation Anxiety (CLASH Books, 2022). A roundtable, unanimous dreamers chime in, a collaborative novel co-authored with Brenda Iijima, is also forthcoming in 2022 from Meekling Press. An essay (co-authored with Jared Woodland) is featured in the recently released 4K restoration of Sátántangó (dir. Béla Tarr) from Arbelos Films. She writes about interspecies communication, plants & personhood, the filmic long take, slowness, the apocalypse, architectural spaces, inherited trauma, and the Korean concept of han, and asks the question, how do we hold space open while maintaining intimacy? Incorporating shamanic and energetic healing, she teaches workshops on inherited trauma, healing and writing, and practices in several lineages, including the medicine tradition of the Q’ero, Zen Buddhism (in the tradition of Plum Village and Thich Nhat Hanh), plant & animal medicine, and Korean shamanic ritual (Muism). She currently lives in Portland, OR where she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Portland State University.
Dan Rosenberg : “Cause and Effect,” “Is It Astronomy or Astrology” and “The Stapler”
Dan Rosenberg’s most recent book, Bassinet, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2022. His work has won the American Poetry Journal Book Prize and the Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest, and recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, Conduit, and Poem-a-Day from the Academy of American Poets. Rosenberg teaches literature, creative writing, and translation theory at Wells College in Aurora, NY. Find him at DanRosenberg.us
Randy Lundy : “Thinking of Nothing,” Field Notes for the Self (2020)
Randy Lundy is an Irish, Norwegian, and Cree member of the Barren Lands First Nation in northern Manitoba. He is the author of four award-winning books of poetry, most recently Field Notes for the Self (2020) and Blackbird Song (2018), both from the University of Regina Press. He currently teaches in the English Department at the University of Toronto, Scarborough and is Series Editor of the Oskana Poetry & Poetics series at University of Regina Press.
Aaron Kreuter : “Shifting Baseline Syndrome,” “Catasrophists Anonymous,” and “Bonetown”
Aaron Kreuter is the author of the short story collection You and Me, Belonging (2018) and the poetry collection Arguments for Lawn Chairs (2016). His writing has appeared in places such as Grain Magazine, The Puritan, The Temz Review, and The Rusty Toque. Kreuter lives in Toronto and is a postdoctoral fellow at Carleton University. Shifting Baseline Syndrome is his second book of poems.
Alison Calder : “At 50,” “In the ‘70s” and “The Future”
Alison Calder
grew up in Saskatoon. Her poetry has won two Manitoba Book Awards and been a
finalist for both the Gerald Lampert Award and the Pat Lowther Award.
Synaptic is her third collection. She now lives in Winnipeg, where she
teaches Canadian literature and creative writing at the University of Manitoba.