Really happy to
have & host
these incredible poets
and friends in the same room
together.
On the first Sunday in June, please
come hear readings by these four good spirits - and
do bring drinks if you desire.
David Abel -- Editor and teacher, Portland, Oregon; proprietor of Passages Bookshop & The Text Garage. Just out: Float (Chax Press), Tether (Bare bone books), & Carrier (c_L Books). Copublisher, with Sam Lohmann, of Airfoil chapbooks, and publisher of Envelope broadsides. Founding member of Spare Room reading series and 13 Hats (collaborative of eleven Portland writers and visual artists); also inaugural Research Fellow of the Center for Art + Environment of the Nevada Museum of Art. In November 2011, curated the exhibition Object Poems; online catalogue atwww.23sandy.com.
Joseph Bradshaw is somewhere between the flap of a wing and the slap of a thing. He has released several chapbooks (Shearsman Books) and critical reviews (Rain Taxi), largely with an inverted cornea situated at the cross streets of George Oppen and C-Town. He is my best friend; and I, Matt Marble, wrote this biography.
Nathaniel Otting is a sub-sub librarian for the Robert Seydel Society of Eastern Switzerland. The Wrong Book is forthcoming in 1913. If you're attending this reading, send an email with your name to walserandco@gmail.com, and he'll make a book for you.
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Stacy Szymaszek is the author of the book-length collections Emptied of All Ships (2005) and Hyperglossia (2009), both published by Litmus Press. Her chapbooks include Pasolini Poems (Cy Press, 2005), Orizaba: A Voyage with Hart Crane (2008), Stacy S.: Autoportraits (2008), from Hart Island (2009), and others. A new work austerity measures is forthcoming from Fewer & Further Press. Szymaszek is artistic director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in New York City, and serves as a mentor in Queer Art Mentorship.
