Phoebe Reeves reading poems suffused with nature.
Mike C. reading his absurdly hilarious prose.
See what you missed? Like what you see? Come join us in January!
Friday, December 10, 2010
Scenes from our December Reading
Phoebe Reeves reading poems suffused with nature.
Mike C. reading his absurdly hilarious prose.
See what you missed? Like what you see? Come join us in January!
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
December 9th Reading
Please join us for the next Bon Mot/ley reading December 9th at 7PM. As usual, our reading will take place at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center located at 3711 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45220. Please note that we'll be meeting in a classroom on the 2nd floor. Check out our reader's bios below.
Michael Czyzniejewski is the author of Elephants in Our Bedroom, released by Dzanc Books in 2009. He teaches at Bowling Green State University, where he serves as Editor-in-Chief, with Karen Craigo, of Mid-American Review. He is 2010 NEA Fellow in Literature.
Karen Craigo teaches English at Bowling Green State University. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Cimarron Review, amongst others, and she recently received an Individual Artists Award from the Ohio Arts Council. Her chapbook, Stone for an Eye, won the 2004 Wick Chapbook Competition. She serves as Editor-in-chief, with Michael Czyzniejewski, of Mid-American Review.
Phoebe Reeves teaches at Clermont College in Batavia, Ohio, where she is Director of the Writing Certificate, and Faculty Adviser to the student newspaper, The Lantern, and the new on-line literary journal, East Fork. Her chapbook, The Lobes and Petals of the Inanimate, was published by Pecan Grove Press in 2010, and her poems have recently appeared in, or are forthcoming from, cream city review, Quarterly West, DIAGRAM, The Los Angeles Review, and The Tampa Review.
Michael Czyzniejewski is the author of Elephants in Our Bedroom, released by Dzanc Books in 2009. He teaches at Bowling Green State University, where he serves as Editor-in-Chief, with Karen Craigo, of Mid-American Review. He is 2010 NEA Fellow in Literature.
Karen Craigo teaches English at Bowling Green State University. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Cimarron Review, amongst others, and she recently received an Individual Artists Award from the Ohio Arts Council. Her chapbook, Stone for an Eye, won the 2004 Wick Chapbook Competition. She serves as Editor-in-chief, with Michael Czyzniejewski, of Mid-American Review.
Phoebe Reeves teaches at Clermont College in Batavia, Ohio, where she is Director of the Writing Certificate, and Faculty Adviser to the student newspaper, The Lantern, and the new on-line literary journal, East Fork. Her chapbook, The Lobes and Petals of the Inanimate, was published by Pecan Grove Press in 2010, and her poems have recently appeared in, or are forthcoming from, cream city review, Quarterly West, DIAGRAM, The Los Angeles Review, and The Tampa Review.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Scenes from Bon Mot/ley's November Reading
Michael Earl Craig rocking us with poems about acupuncture, fake philosophers, and horses.
Katy Lederer waxing po-eloquent about office politics and money.
Seth Michael Berg edifying us.
And as always, we had time to meet/greet/imbibe with our poets. Come join us next time!
Friday, October 22, 2010
November Reading
Please join us on November 11th, 7PM, at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center located at 3711 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45220. Check out our readers' bios below.
Michael Earl Craig is the author of three collections of poetry: Thin Kimono (Wave Books, 2010), Yes, Master (Fence Books, 2006) and Can You Relax in My House (Fence Books, 2002). He received a BA in English Literature from the University of Montana, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts. His poems have been published in various print and online journals, including Provincetown Arts, The Iowa Review, The Believer, HoboEye, Octopus Magazine, FENCE, jubilat, and Denver Quarterly, as well as anthologized in Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems (Verse Press, 2004) and Poems About Horses (Everyman’s Library Pocket Series, 2009). He lives in Livingston, Montana, where is a Certified Journeyman Farrier, shoeing horses for a living.
Seth Michael Berg earned his MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University in 2003 and since has been bouncing around the country teaching, tending bar, sculpting, writing, and occasionally snowshoeing. His poems and fiction can be found in Connecticut Review, Lake Effect, Word Riot, JMWW, 13th Warrior Review, Chiron Review, BlazeVOX, Pike Magazine, Disappearing City Literary Review, and Dark Sky Magazine, among others. Muted Lines From Someone Else's Memory is his debut collection and the winner of Dark Sky Books 2009 book contest. Berg lives in Minneapolis with his photographer wife, Ashley, their supernatural son, Oak, and their Saint Bernard, Icarus. When not working, Berg can most likely be found indulging his addiction to hot sauce or slowing down somewhere in a forest.
Katy Lederer is the author of the poetry collections Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and The Heaven-Sent Leaf (BOA Editions, 2008), as well as the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2003, Amazon included on its list of Best Memoirs of 2003, and Esquire Magazine named one of its eight Best Books of the Year 2003. Her poems and prose have appeared in Mike and Dale's Younger Poets, The Boston Review, Typomag, Jacket, The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Coconut, and elsewhere. She has been anthologized in Body Electric (Norton), From Poe to the Present: Great American Prose Poems (Scribner), State of the Union (Wave Books), and Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days (Iowa UP). Educated at the University of California at Berkeley and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow, she serves as a Poetry Editor of FENCE Magazine and is on the advisory boards of FENCE Magazine/FENCE Books and the Millay Colony for the Arts.
Michael Earl Craig is the author of three collections of poetry: Thin Kimono (Wave Books, 2010), Yes, Master (Fence Books, 2006) and Can You Relax in My House (Fence Books, 2002). He received a BA in English Literature from the University of Montana, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts. His poems have been published in various print and online journals, including Provincetown Arts, The Iowa Review, The Believer, HoboEye, Octopus Magazine, FENCE, jubilat, and Denver Quarterly, as well as anthologized in Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems (Verse Press, 2004) and Poems About Horses (Everyman’s Library Pocket Series, 2009). He lives in Livingston, Montana, where is a Certified Journeyman Farrier, shoeing horses for a living.
Seth Michael Berg earned his MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University in 2003 and since has been bouncing around the country teaching, tending bar, sculpting, writing, and occasionally snowshoeing. His poems and fiction can be found in Connecticut Review, Lake Effect, Word Riot, JMWW, 13th Warrior Review, Chiron Review, BlazeVOX, Pike Magazine, Disappearing City Literary Review, and Dark Sky Magazine, among others. Muted Lines From Someone Else's Memory is his debut collection and the winner of Dark Sky Books 2009 book contest. Berg lives in Minneapolis with his photographer wife, Ashley, their supernatural son, Oak, and their Saint Bernard, Icarus. When not working, Berg can most likely be found indulging his addiction to hot sauce or slowing down somewhere in a forest.
Katy Lederer is the author of the poetry collections Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and The Heaven-Sent Leaf (BOA Editions, 2008), as well as the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2003, Amazon included on its list of Best Memoirs of 2003, and Esquire Magazine named one of its eight Best Books of the Year 2003. Her poems and prose have appeared in Mike and Dale's Younger Poets, The Boston Review, Typomag, Jacket, The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Coconut, and elsewhere. She has been anthologized in Body Electric (Norton), From Poe to the Present: Great American Prose Poems (Scribner), State of the Union (Wave Books), and Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days (Iowa UP). Educated at the University of California at Berkeley and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow, she serves as a Poetry Editor of FENCE Magazine and is on the advisory boards of FENCE Magazine/FENCE Books and the Millay Colony for the Arts.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Oct. 14th Reading: A Pictorial
A few photos to entice you to our next Bon Mot/ley Reading....
Erin Keane channeling the tattooed lady from her collection Death Defying Acts.
Keith Banner detailing the humorous and poignant rise and fall of a Midwestern drag queen.
F. Daniel Rzicznek reading poems heavily influenced by nature on a day heavily influenced by the season of "fall."
And, if that's not enough, we always have...wine & chats with our readers!
Erin Keane channeling the tattooed lady from her collection Death Defying Acts.
Keith Banner detailing the humorous and poignant rise and fall of a Midwestern drag queen.
F. Daniel Rzicznek reading poems heavily influenced by nature on a day heavily influenced by the season of "fall."
And, if that's not enough, we always have...wine & chats with our readers!
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
October Reading--1st of the 2010-2011 Season: Updated Location & Time!
Please join us on October 14th, 2010 at 5PM on the second floor of the Clifton Cultural Arts Center for the first Bon Mot/ley Reading of the 2010-2011 season. As you'll notice from the bios below, we're expanding our poetry focus to encompass fiction. We hope you'll enjoy the multi-genre expansion!
This season, readings will continue to be help at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center located at 3711 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45220.
Erin Keane is the author of two collections of poetry, Death-Defying Acts (WordFarm, 2010) and The Gravity Soundtrack, (WordFarm, 2007). She is the drama critic for The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, where she also writes about books, arts, and pop culture. A graduate of the Spalding University MFA in Writing program and a recipient of the Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council, Keane teaches Pop Music in American Literature at Bellarmine University, creative writing in National University's MFA program, and workshops for the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts.
Keith Banner, a social-worker for people with disabilities and a writer, lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. He teaches creative writing part-time at Miami University and has published two works of fiction, The Life I Lead (Knopf, 1999), a novel, and The Smallest People Alive (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2005, a book of short stories. He has published numerous short stories and essays in magazines and journals, including American Folk Art Messenger, Other Voices, Washington Square, Kenyon Review, Nerve, and Third Coast. He received an O. Henry prize for his short story, “The Smallest People Alive,” and an Ohio Arts Council individual artist fellowship for fiction. The Smallest People Alive was named one of the best books of the year by Publisher’s Weekly. He is also the cofounder of Visionaries & Voices, and Thunder-Sky, Inc., two non-profit arts organizations.
F. Daniel Rzicznek’s books of poetry include Divination Machine (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press 2009) and Neck of the World (Utah State University Press 2007). Recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2010, he is coeditor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice, forthcoming from Rose Metal Press in 2010. He lives and teaches in Bowling Green, OH.
We hope to see you at the October reading!
Bon Mot/ley Co-curators
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
July Reading
Please join us Thurs., July 15, at 7 p.m. for the Bon Mot/ley Reading Series, featuring Neelanjana Banerjee, Ellen Elder, and Aryanil Mukherjee. It’s the last reading of the 2009/2010 season, and we’d love to see you there.
Neelanjana Banerjee is a writer, editor and teacher based in San Francisco. She is a co-editor of Indivisible: An Anthology of South Asian American Poetry (University of Arkansas Press, 2010) – the first anthology to feature American poets with roots in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in The Literary Review, The Asian Pacific American Journal, A Room of One’s Own, Nimrod, Desilit Magazine and the anthology Desilicious (Arsenal Press, 2004). She is the Books and Lit editor for Hyphen, an Asian American arts and culture magazine, and spent the last year teaching creative writing to high school students with the San Francisco WritersCorps.
Most recently, Ellen Elder was a runner-up in the annual Poetry Center of Chicago Juried Reading Contest. She has degrees from The University of Chicago, Miami University, and The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she received a PhD in English. She spent her childhood summers growing up in Ireland and is a native Cincinnatian. Her fiction was nominated for the 2006 Best New American Voices and her poetry can be found online at Exquisite Corpse and DMQ Review and is forthcoming The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems (Red Hen Press). She also writes memoir.
Aryanil Mukherjee is a Bengali language poet who also writes in English (mostly by means of transcreation). He has authored six books of poetry in two languages and three collections of essays and hybrid-prose. Second gen. editor of Kaurab literary mag & webzines. Aryanil grew up in Kolkata, India and has lived in Cincinnati since 1999. He works as an engineering mathematician.
The Bon Mot/ley Reading Series takes place in the Clifton Cultural Arts Center on the second Thursday of each month. The CCAC is located at 3711 Clifton Ave., and you can learn more about the center here: www.cliftonculturalarts.org. Readings are free and open to the public.
Audio files of previous readings are also available on our reading series blog: www.bonmotley.blogspot.com.
We hope to see you Thursday, and we thank you for your continued support of the series. Stay tuned for news about the 2010/2011 season.
Kindly,
Kristi Maxwell & Michael Rerick
Series Curators
Neelanjana Banerjee is a writer, editor and teacher based in San Francisco. She is a co-editor of Indivisible: An Anthology of South Asian American Poetry (University of Arkansas Press, 2010) – the first anthology to feature American poets with roots in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in The Literary Review, The Asian Pacific American Journal, A Room of One’s Own, Nimrod, Desilit Magazine and the anthology Desilicious (Arsenal Press, 2004). She is the Books and Lit editor for Hyphen, an Asian American arts and culture magazine, and spent the last year teaching creative writing to high school students with the San Francisco WritersCorps.
Most recently, Ellen Elder was a runner-up in the annual Poetry Center of Chicago Juried Reading Contest. She has degrees from The University of Chicago, Miami University, and The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she received a PhD in English. She spent her childhood summers growing up in Ireland and is a native Cincinnatian. Her fiction was nominated for the 2006 Best New American Voices and her poetry can be found online at Exquisite Corpse and DMQ Review and is forthcoming The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems (Red Hen Press). She also writes memoir.
Aryanil Mukherjee is a Bengali language poet who also writes in English (mostly by means of transcreation). He has authored six books of poetry in two languages and three collections of essays and hybrid-prose. Second gen. editor of Kaurab literary mag & webzines. Aryanil grew up in Kolkata, India and has lived in Cincinnati since 1999. He works as an engineering mathematician.
The Bon Mot/ley Reading Series takes place in the Clifton Cultural Arts Center on the second Thursday of each month. The CCAC is located at 3711 Clifton Ave., and you can learn more about the center here: www.cliftonculturalarts.org. Readings are free and open to the public.
Audio files of previous readings are also available on our reading series blog: www.bonmotley.blogspot.com.
We hope to see you Thursday, and we thank you for your continued support of the series. Stay tuned for news about the 2010/2011 season.
Kindly,
Kristi Maxwell & Michael Rerick
Series Curators
Sunday, May 23, 2010
June Reading
Please join us Thurs., June 10, at 7 p.m. for the Bon Mot/ley Reading Series, featuring Farrah Field, Jared White, and Cynthia Arrieu-King. We will head over to Fries Café after the reading and invite all to join us.
Farrah Field’s poems have appeared in many publications including the Mississippi Review, Typo, Harp & Altar, La Petite Zine, and Ploughshares and are forthcoming in Mantis and Cannibal. Rising, her first book of poems, won Four Way Books’ 2007 Levis Prize. She lives in Brooklyn where she co-hosts a reading series called Yardmeter Editions. She blogs at http://adultish.blogspot.com.
http://sixthfinch.com/field1.html
http://www.lapetitezine.org/Farrah.Field.htm
Jared White’s poems and essays have appeared or will appear in journals such as Action Yes, Barrow Street, Cannibal, Coconut, Fulcrum, Harp & Altar, Laurel Review and Open Letters. A chapbook, YELLOWCAKE, was part of the hand-sewn anthology, NARWHAL, from Cannibal Books. He lives in DUMBO, Brooklyn, where he co-hosts poetry readings at Yardmeter Editions.
http://www.foame.org/Issue5/poems/white.html
http://www.mipoesias.com/Poetry/white_jared.html
Cynthia Arrieu-King is an assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton College. Her book People are Tiny in Paintings of China is forthcoming from Octopus Books. Her poems and other work will come out this year in Boston Review, Witness, Jacket, Harp and Altar, and Forklift Ohio. Marilyn Chin sent her to Kundiman when she visited the University of Cincinnati in 2006.
http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2010/05/untitled-cynthia-arrieu-king.html
http://www.typomag.com/issue13/arrieu-king.html
The Bon Mot/ley Reading Series takes place in the Clifton Cultural Arts Center on the second Thursday of each month. The CCAC is located at 3711 Clifton Ave., and you can learn more about the center here: www.cliftonculturalarts.org. Readings are free and open to the public.
Audio files of previous readings are also available on our reading series blog: www.bonmotley.blogspot.com.
We hope to see you there, and we thank you for your continued support of the series.
Kindly,
Kristi Maxwell & Michael Rerick
Series Curators
Farrah Field’s poems have appeared in many publications including the Mississippi Review, Typo, Harp & Altar, La Petite Zine, and Ploughshares and are forthcoming in Mantis and Cannibal. Rising, her first book of poems, won Four Way Books’ 2007 Levis Prize. She lives in Brooklyn where she co-hosts a reading series called Yardmeter Editions. She blogs at http://adultish.blogspot.com.
http://sixthfinch.com/field1.html
http://www.lapetitezine.org/Farrah.Field.htm
Jared White’s poems and essays have appeared or will appear in journals such as Action Yes, Barrow Street, Cannibal, Coconut, Fulcrum, Harp & Altar, Laurel Review and Open Letters. A chapbook, YELLOWCAKE, was part of the hand-sewn anthology, NARWHAL, from Cannibal Books. He lives in DUMBO, Brooklyn, where he co-hosts poetry readings at Yardmeter Editions.
http://www.foame.org/Issue5/poems/white.html
http://www.mipoesias.com/Poetry/white_jared.html
Cynthia Arrieu-King is an assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton College. Her book People are Tiny in Paintings of China is forthcoming from Octopus Books. Her poems and other work will come out this year in Boston Review, Witness, Jacket, Harp and Altar, and Forklift Ohio. Marilyn Chin sent her to Kundiman when she visited the University of Cincinnati in 2006.
http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2010/05/untitled-cynthia-arrieu-king.html
http://www.typomag.com/issue13/arrieu-king.html
The Bon Mot/ley Reading Series takes place in the Clifton Cultural Arts Center on the second Thursday of each month. The CCAC is located at 3711 Clifton Ave., and you can learn more about the center here: www.cliftonculturalarts.org. Readings are free and open to the public.
Audio files of previous readings are also available on our reading series blog: www.bonmotley.blogspot.com.
We hope to see you there, and we thank you for your continued support of the series.
Kindly,
Kristi Maxwell & Michael Rerick
Series Curators
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
May Reading
Please join us Thurs., May 13, at 7 p.m. for the Bon Mot/ley Reading Series, featuring Amy King, Ana Božičević , and Rob Schlegel. We will head over to Fries Café after the reading and invite all to join us.
Amy King is the author of I'm the Man Who Loves You, Antidotes for an Alibi, and Slaves to Do These Things (Blazevox), along with the forthcoming I Want to Make You Safe (Litmus Press). She teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. For information on the reading series Amy co-curates in Brooklyn, NY, please visit The Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series (http://stainofpoetry.com) and http://amyking.org for more.
Ana Božičević was born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1977. She emigrated to NYC in 1997. Stars of the Night Commute (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2009) is her first book of poems and is currently a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. Her fifth chapbook, Depth Hoar, will be published by Cinematheque Press in 2010. With Amy King, Ana co-curates The Stain of Poetry reading series in Brooklyn, and is co-editing an anthology, The Urban Poetic, forthcoming from Factory School. She works at the Center for the Humanities of The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Rob Schlegel is the author of The Lesser Fields (Center for Literary Publishing), winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Handsome, Octopus, Volt, MAKE issue 8 and elsewhere. He was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, and has lived in California, Montana, and Iowa.
The Bon Mot/ley Reading Series takes place in the Clifton Cultural Arts Center on the second Thursday of each month. The CCAC is located at 3711 Clifton Ave., and you can learn more about the center here: www.cliftonculturalarts.org. Readings are free and open to the public.
Our next reading will be in June, featuring Cynthia Arrieu-King (a UC alum), Jared White, and Farrah Field.
Audio files of previous readings are also available on our reading series blog: www.bonmotley.blogspot.com.
We hope to see you there, and we thank you for your continued support of the series.
Kindly,
Kristi Maxwell & Michael Rerick
Series Curators
Amy King is the author of I'm the Man Who Loves You, Antidotes for an Alibi, and Slaves to Do These Things (Blazevox), along with the forthcoming I Want to Make You Safe (Litmus Press). She teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. For information on the reading series Amy co-curates in Brooklyn, NY, please visit The Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series (http://stainofpoetry.com) and http://amyking.org for more.
Ana Božičević was born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1977. She emigrated to NYC in 1997. Stars of the Night Commute (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2009) is her first book of poems and is currently a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. Her fifth chapbook, Depth Hoar, will be published by Cinematheque Press in 2010. With Amy King, Ana co-curates The Stain of Poetry reading series in Brooklyn, and is co-editing an anthology, The Urban Poetic, forthcoming from Factory School. She works at the Center for the Humanities of The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Rob Schlegel is the author of The Lesser Fields (Center for Literary Publishing), winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Handsome, Octopus, Volt, MAKE issue 8 and elsewhere. He was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, and has lived in California, Montana, and Iowa.
The Bon Mot/ley Reading Series takes place in the Clifton Cultural Arts Center on the second Thursday of each month. The CCAC is located at 3711 Clifton Ave., and you can learn more about the center here: www.cliftonculturalarts.org. Readings are free and open to the public.
Our next reading will be in June, featuring Cynthia Arrieu-King (a UC alum), Jared White, and Farrah Field.
Audio files of previous readings are also available on our reading series blog: www.bonmotley.blogspot.com.
We hope to see you there, and we thank you for your continued support of the series.
Kindly,
Kristi Maxwell & Michael Rerick
Series Curators
Sunday, February 21, 2010
March Reading
Please join us Thurs., March 11, at 7 p.m. for the Bon Mot/ley Reading Series, featuring Julie Carr, Richard Greenfield, and Christine Hume.
Julie Carr is the author of four books of poetry, most recently 100 Notes on Violence (winner of the Sawtooth Poetry Prize) and Sarah—of fragments and lines (winner of the National Poetry Series) . She also writes about Victorian poetry.
Richard Greenfield is the author of A Carnage in the Lovetrees (University of California Press). Omnidawn published his second book, Tracer, in 2009. His poetry has appeared in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Electronic Poetry Review, Five Fingers Review, Fourteen Hills, Lit, Soft Targets, Volt, and others. He is co-editor of Apostrophe Books, a small press of poetry, which began publishing books in 2007. He teaches in the creative writing program at New Mexico State University.
Christine Hume is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Shot (Counterpath, 2009). She is coordinator of the interdisciplinary Creative Writing Program at Eastern Michigan University. Every Sunday at 8 p.m. (EST), she hosts Poetry Radio, which features contemporary and historic sound art, performance art, sound poetry, collaborations between writers and musicians, student work, audio narratives, and sound poetry.
The Bon Mot/ley Reading Series takes place in the Clifton Cultural Arts Center on the second Thursday of each month. The CCAC is located at 3711 Clifton Ave., and you can learn more about the center here: www.cliftonculturalarts.org. Readings are free and open to the public.
Our next reading will be in May, featuring Ana Božičević, Amy King, and Rob Schlegel.
Audio files of previous readings are also available on our reading series blog: www.bonmotley.blogspot.com.
We hope to see you there.
Kindly,
Kristi Maxwell & Michael Rerick
Series Curators
Julie Carr is the author of four books of poetry, most recently 100 Notes on Violence (winner of the Sawtooth Poetry Prize) and Sarah—of fragments and lines (winner of the National Poetry Series) . She also writes about Victorian poetry.
Richard Greenfield is the author of A Carnage in the Lovetrees (University of California Press). Omnidawn published his second book, Tracer, in 2009. His poetry has appeared in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Electronic Poetry Review, Five Fingers Review, Fourteen Hills, Lit, Soft Targets, Volt, and others. He is co-editor of Apostrophe Books, a small press of poetry, which began publishing books in 2007. He teaches in the creative writing program at New Mexico State University.
Christine Hume is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Shot (Counterpath, 2009). She is coordinator of the interdisciplinary Creative Writing Program at Eastern Michigan University. Every Sunday at 8 p.m. (EST), she hosts Poetry Radio, which features contemporary and historic sound art, performance art, sound poetry, collaborations between writers and musicians, student work, audio narratives, and sound poetry.
The Bon Mot/ley Reading Series takes place in the Clifton Cultural Arts Center on the second Thursday of each month. The CCAC is located at 3711 Clifton Ave., and you can learn more about the center here: www.cliftonculturalarts.org. Readings are free and open to the public.
Our next reading will be in May, featuring Ana Božičević, Amy King, and Rob Schlegel.
Audio files of previous readings are also available on our reading series blog: www.bonmotley.blogspot.com.
We hope to see you there.
Kindly,
Kristi Maxwell & Michael Rerick
Series Curators
Friday, January 29, 2010
February Reading
Please join us Thurs., Feb. 11, at 7 p.m. for the Bon Mot/ley Reading Series, featuring Jaswinder Bolina, Lesley Jenike, and Joshua Marie Wilkinson.
Jaswinder Bolina is the author of Carrier Wave, winner of the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry, selected by Lyn Hejinian. His more recent work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Reivew, Ploughshares, and other journals.
Lesley Jenike's first book of poems Ghost of Fashion is now available from CustomWords Press. Her poems have appeared or will appear soon Poetry, Quarterly West, The Journal, Drunken Boat, diode, Sou'Wester, Pool, Gulf Coast, and others. She'll be working on her new full-length play project at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts this spring. A UC alum, she's currently Assistant Professor of English at Columbus College of Art and Design.
Joshua Marie Wilkinson was born and raised in Seattle. He is the author of four books, most recently The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth (Tupelo 2009). Two new projects are due out in 2010: Selenography (a collaboration with the Polaroids of Tim Rutili to be published by Sidebrow Press) and Poets on Teaching (an edited collection of 99 essays from 101 poets) forthcoming from University of Iowa Press. He lives in Chicago and Athens, Georgia.
The Bon Mot/ley Reading Series takes place in the Clifton Cultural Arts Center on the second Thursday of each month. The CCAC is located at 3711 Clifton Ave., and you can learn more about the center here: www.cliftonculturalarts.org. Readings are free and open to the public.
In March, the readers are Christine Hume, author of Musca Domestica, Alaskaphrenia, and, most recently, Shot; Richard Greenfield, author of A Carnage in the Love Trees and Tracer; and Julie Carr, recent winner of the National Poetry Series Open Competition and the Sawtooth Poetry Prize.
Audio files of previous readings are also available on our reading series blog: www.bonmotley.blogspot.com.
We hope to see you there.
Kindly,
Kristi Maxwell & Michael Rerick
Series Curators
Jaswinder Bolina is the author of Carrier Wave, winner of the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry, selected by Lyn Hejinian. His more recent work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Reivew, Ploughshares, and other journals.
Lesley Jenike's first book of poems Ghost of Fashion is now available from CustomWords Press. Her poems have appeared or will appear soon Poetry, Quarterly West, The Journal, Drunken Boat, diode, Sou'Wester, Pool, Gulf Coast, and others. She'll be working on her new full-length play project at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts this spring. A UC alum, she's currently Assistant Professor of English at Columbus College of Art and Design.
Joshua Marie Wilkinson was born and raised in Seattle. He is the author of four books, most recently The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth (Tupelo 2009). Two new projects are due out in 2010: Selenography (a collaboration with the Polaroids of Tim Rutili to be published by Sidebrow Press) and Poets on Teaching (an edited collection of 99 essays from 101 poets) forthcoming from University of Iowa Press. He lives in Chicago and Athens, Georgia.
The Bon Mot/ley Reading Series takes place in the Clifton Cultural Arts Center on the second Thursday of each month. The CCAC is located at 3711 Clifton Ave., and you can learn more about the center here: www.cliftonculturalarts.org. Readings are free and open to the public.
In March, the readers are Christine Hume, author of Musca Domestica, Alaskaphrenia, and, most recently, Shot; Richard Greenfield, author of A Carnage in the Love Trees and Tracer; and Julie Carr, recent winner of the National Poetry Series Open Competition and the Sawtooth Poetry Prize.
Audio files of previous readings are also available on our reading series blog: www.bonmotley.blogspot.com.
We hope to see you there.
Kindly,
Kristi Maxwell & Michael Rerick
Series Curators
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