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Bon Mot/ley Hiatus

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The Bon Mot/ley Reading Series is currently on a short hiatus. Check back for details about future readings.

Scenes from August 2011

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The weather finally cooled, the poets remained, as usual, wonderfully cool.

Qiana Townes

Karen George

Charles Gabel

August 11th, 2011 Reading

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Please join us at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center (3711 Clifton Ave.) on Thursday, August 11th at 7PM. We'll be joined by the following poets:

Qiana Towns earned a MFA from Bowling Green State University, and a MA from Central Michigan University where she served as poetry editor for the online literary journal Temenos. Her work has appeared in Tidal Basin, Milk Money, and is currently featured at poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com. She is a Cave Canem fellow and Assistant Editor for Willow Books and Reverie: Midwest African American Literature.
A poem by Qiana is here at No Tell Motel.

Karen George's poetry chapbook, Into the Heartland, was released by Finishing Line Press in May 2011. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Single Hound, Ontologica, Still: The Journal, Thumbnail Magazine, Blood Lotus, Vestal Review, The Barcelona Review,and The Cortland Review. She has been awarded grants from The Kentucky Foundation for Women, The Kentucky Arts Council, was selected by Lee Smith as co-winner of The Janice Hhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifolt Giles Award, and won the 2011 Carnegie Center's Next Great Writers Contest. She holds an MFA in Writing from Spalding University, and teaches writing at The University of Cincinnati's Communiversity. http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifShe's completed a collection of short stories for which she's seeking representation, and is working on a collection of poetry. A poem by Karen is here in The Cortland Review.

Charles Gabel is the author of the chapbook Pastoral (Strange Machine Books). Charles was born in Cincinnati, and he has since lived in Washington, DC, Chicago, IL, and most recently Boise, ID, where he is currently working on a translation of Virgil's Eclogues. He studies and teaches at Boise State University. A poem by Charles here at 751 Magazine.

Scenes from July 14th Reading

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Jeff Hipsher explains Walgreens to us.

Adam Day gives voice to a badger.

Pauletta Hansel channels a teenage girl.

Thanks to all new and old friends of Bon Mot/ley. We hope you join us for the next reading: August 11th!

July 14th, 2011 Reading

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Please join us at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center (3711 Clifton Ave.) on Thursday, July 14th at 7PM. We'll be hearing from the following poets:

Adam Day's chapbook, Badger, Apocrypha was published by the Poetry Society of America in 2011. He is the recipient of a 2011 Pushcart Prize, and has been nominated for a 2011 PEN Emerging Writers Award. His work has appeared in the The Kenyon Review, Boston Review, AGNI, APR, Guernica, and elsewhere, and included in Best New Poets 2008. He coordinates The Baltic Writing Residency in Latvia, is an editor for the literary journals, Memorious and Catch Up, and is Writer-in-Residence at Earlham College.

Pauletta Hansel’s poetry collections include Divining (WovenWord Press, 2002) What I Did There (Dos Madres Press, 2011includes the 2007 chapbook First Person) and The Lives We Live in Houses (Forthcoming, Wind Publications, Fall 2011). Her work has been featured recently in journals including ABZ Journal, Southern Women’s Review, Still: The Journal, The Mom Egg, and Appalachian Journal, and anthologized in Motif: Come What May and Boomtown: the Queens MFA Tenth Anniversary Celebratory Anthology. She works as Co-Director of Grailville Retreat and Program Center in Loveland, OH, where she also facilitates poetry programs, and leads various writing classes and workshops around the region. She is a current editor of Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, the literary publication of Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative. Pauletta received her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte in 2011.

Jeff Hipsher is the founding member of the artist collective The Gold County Paper Mill. His work has previously appeared in or is forthcoming from Fork Lift Ohio, iO Poetry, Caketrain, elimae, The Alice Blue Review and others. In 2010 he received an honorable mention in Sarabande's Flo Gault Poetry Prize. He is the head editor of Catch Up ( www.catch-up.us ), a journal of comics and literature.

Scenes from June 2011

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The room was hot, so we left thing natural with open windows and low light.

Melissa Barrett, reading wise.

Sean Patrick Hill, reading halo.

Tyrone Williams, reading ablaze.

June 9th, 2011 Reading

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Please join us on May 12th, 2011 at 7PM at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center, located at 3711 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45220. See our excellent readers' bios below:

Tyrone Williams is the author of a prose eulogy, Pink Tie, which is also a meditation on Midwestern masculinity. His books of poetry are The Hero Project of the Century (2009), On spec (2008) and c.c. (2002). A new book, Howell MI, is forthcoming from Atelos Books.

Sean Patrick Hill is the author of The Imagined Field (Paper Kite Press) and Interstitial (BlazeVOX Books). Last year he received a Zoland Fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, and is currently an MFA candidate at Warren Wilson College. He lives in Kentucky.

Melissa Barrett is the recent author of False Soup, a veg-friendly cookbook from Forklift, Ink. Her poems have received honors from Tin House, Indiana Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, and Gulf Coast, and can be found in recent issues of No Tell Motel, Front Porch, Spooky Boyfriend, Sotto Voce, and H_NGM_N. “Pilot,” her collaboration with filmmaker Pete Luckner, debuted at Video Dumbo last fall. She teaches reading and writing at Columbus Collegiate Academy, an inner-city charter school that was named the best school in the nation for student academic gain.

Scenes from May 2011 Reading

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Though it was hot, we are poets, thus we soldiered on.

Peter Davis

Michael Schiavo

May 12th, 2011 Reading Details

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Please join us on May 12th, 2011 at 7PM at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center, located at 3711 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45220. See our excellent reaaders' bios below:

Peter Davis' books of poetry are Hitler's Mustache and Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!. He edited Poet's Bookshelf: Contemporary Poets on Books that Shaped Their Art and co edited Poet's Bookshelf II with Tom Koontz. His poems have appeared in journals like Court Green, Jacket, Spooky Boyfriend, No Tell Motel, Forklift, Ohio, and Action, Yes. Four poems from Poetry! Poetry! Poetry! appear in the 2010 edition of The Best American Poetry. His music project, Short Hand, is available through his website, artisnecessary.com. He lives in Muncie, Indiana with his sweet wife and sweet kids and teaches at Ball State University.

Michael Schiavo is the author of The Mad Song (Shires Press, 2008; out of print) as well as forthcoming chapbooks from horseless press and Forklift, Ink. His poetry and nonfiction have appeared in such places as THE YALE REVIEW, TIN HOUSE, McSWEENEY'S INTERNET TENDENCY, THE BELIEVER, LIT, THE NORMAL SCHOOL, NO TELL MOTEL, FORKLIFT, OHIO, SIXTH FINCH, JUBILAT, THE AWL, and the online anthology POETS FOR LIVING WATERS. He edits the The Equalizer, an occasional PDF poetry anthology. The first series was released in October 2010. He is also at work on a new print 'zine called GONDOLA, which he hopes to begin publishing this year. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Connecticut in Humanistics, and his MFA from the Bennington College Writing Seminars in 2002. He has worked as a dishwasher, barista, adjunct professor, freelance newspaperman, bookseller, underwriter's assistant, overnight stock boy, and is currently unemployed, like you. He lives in Vermont.

Dave Harrity's chapbook--Morning and What Has Come Since (Finishing Line Press, 2007)--was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Kentucky Literary Award. His work has appeared in many journals and magazines including Copper-Nickel, Ruminate Magazine, The Los Angeles Review, and The Portland Review. He has worked as a teacher much of his career in a variety of settings--as a high school teacher, freelance tutor and writing coach, and college professor. Most recently he has worked at Asbury Seminary, where he conducted a three-part lecture and workshop series on Religious Imagination, Bellarmine University teaching English and Theology, and as the Poetry Manuscript Consultant at The Carnegie Center of Lexington, KY. Currently, he writes and teaches in Louisville while juggling a charmed life at home with his wife and children.

Scenes from April 2011 Reading

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If you missed this reading, I'm really sorry. These pictures will hardly suffice.

Matt Hart.

Cathy Wagner.

Join us for the next Bon Mot/ley May 12!

April 14th Reading

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Please join us on April 14th, 2011 at 7PM at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center, located at 3711 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45220. We're excited to have two poets we love to hear reading for us, hear them too:

Matt Hart is the author of the poetry collections Who's Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006) and Wolf Face (H_NGM_N BKS 2010). A third full length collection, Light-Headed, will be published by BlazeVOX in the spring of 2011, and a fourth collection Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless will be published by Typecast in 2012. A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety, he lives in Cincinnati where he teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

Catherine Wagner's latest book is My New Job (Fence 2009). Earlier publications include Miss America and Macular Hole (both from Fence) and a dozen chapbooks, recently Bornt (Dusie) and Hole in the Ground (Slack Buddha). New poems in Abraham Lincoln, Poor Claudia, 1913, New American Writing and Lana Turner. She lives in Oxford, Ohio, and teaches at Miami University. More at Archive of the Now and Penn Sound.

Scenes from March 2011

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Oddly enough, it snowed just so L.S. Klatt's poems would have the perfect setting for their exploration of what happens when you find an octopus in the snow.

Chad Sweeney fed us modern day parables and channeled his ancestor Juan Sweeney for a little bilingual reading.

Next Month 4/14: Cathy Wagner and Matt Hart. Do. Not. Miss. It!

March 10th Reading

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Please join us for an exceptional reading experience on March 10th, 2011 at 7PM at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center, located at 3711 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45220. We've got two poets heading over from Michigan just for your pleasure:

L. S.Klatt, was born and raised in Cincinnati. After earning degrees from Wittenberg University, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and St. John's College, he graduated from the University of Georgia in 2003 with a PhD in English. His poems have appeared in many magazines,including The Believer, Boston Review, Colorado Review, field, Drunken Boat, jubilat, Verse, Chicago Review, Columbia Poetry Review, SycamoreReview, Denver Quarterly, West Branch, The Cincinnati Review, BellinghamReview, Northwest Review, New Orleans Review, Parthenon West, and Slope. His first book, Interloper, won the 2008 Juniper Prize for Poetry and was published by theUniversity of Massachusetts Press in 2009. His second collection, Cloud of Ink, won the 2010 Iowa Poetry Prize and comes out this month from theUniversity of Iowa Press. He is also the author of an essay on Walt Whitman entitled "The Electric Whitman," which appeared in The Southern Review. He teaches American literature and creative writing at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Chad Sweeney is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Parable of Hide and Seek (Alice James, 2010) and Wolf Milk: Lost Poems of Juan Sweeney, a bilingual edition forthcoming from Forklift Books. His translation (with Mojdeh Marashi) of the Selected Poems of Iranian Poet H.E. Sayeh will appear later this year from White Pine Press. Chad's poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2008, American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Verse Daily, and Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac. He edits Parthenon West Review with David Holler and is a visiting assistant professor at Kalamazoo College in Michigan.

Scenes from our January 13, 2011 Reading

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Traci Brimhall

Adam Clay

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January 13th Reading

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Please join us for the next Bon Mot/ley reading January 13th at 7PM. As usual, our reading will take place at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center located at 3711 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45220. We'll be in Room 212, on the second floor. Check out our reader's bios below.

Adam Clay is the author of The Wash. His second book, A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. He co-edits Typo Magazine, curates the Poets in Print Reading Series at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, and teaches at Western Michigan University.

Traci Brimhall is the author of Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press), winner of the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Slate, Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. She was the 2008-09 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and currently teaches at Western Michigan University, where she is a doctoral associate and Kings/Chavez/Parks Fellow.

Gary L. McDowell is the author of American Amen (Dream Horse Press, 2010), winner of the 2009 Orphic Prize for Poetry. He's also the author of They Speak of Fruit (Cooper Dillon, 2009) and co-editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice (Rose Metal Press, 2010). His poetry and prose have appeared in various literary journals, including The Bellingham Review, Colorado Review, The Indiana Review, Mid-American Review, New England Review, and Quarterly West. He lives in Portage, MI with his wife and two kids.

Scenes from our December Reading

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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!

December 9th Reading

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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.

Scenes from Bon Mot/ley's November Reading

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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!

November Reading

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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.

Oct. 14th Reading: A Pictorial

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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!

October Reading--1st of the 2010-2011 Season: Updated Location & Time!

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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!

Ruth Williams & Matt McBride
Bon Mot/ley Co-curators

July Reading

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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

June Reading

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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

May Reading

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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

March Reading

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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

February Reading

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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

January Readers

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Please join us at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center at 7 p.m. on Jan. 14 to hear Jen Tynes, Josh Butts, and Noah Falck read.

Jen Tynes edits horse less press and is the author or co-author of Heron/Girlfriend (Coconut Books), See Also Electric Light (Dancing Girl Press), The Ohio System (w/ Erika Howsare, Octopus Books), and The End of Rude Handles (Red Morning Press). a chapbook, Pins & Needles, is forthcoming from Cinematheque Press.

Joshua Butts is an alum of the Ph.D. program in English and Comparative Lit at the University of Cincinnati. His chapbook, To Learn to Fingerpick Guitar was published in 2006 by Pudding House. His poems have appeared in Quarterly West, The Hat, Shampoo and The Adirondack Review.

Noah Falck is the author of three chapbook collections, Homemade Engines from a Dream (Pudding House, 2007), Measuring Tape for the Midwest (Pavement Saw, 2008) and most recently Life As A Crossword Puzzle, which won the 2009 Open Thread Chapbook Award. His work has appeared in Bat City Review, Gulf Coast, Copper Nickel, Kenyon Review, and LIT. He teaches elementary school in Dayton, Ohio.

2010 Readings

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All readings start at 7 p.m. at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center (www.cliftonculturalarts.org). Readings take place on the second Thursday of the month.

January 14: Jen Tynes, Josh Butts, and Noah Falck

February 11: Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Lesley Jenike, and Jaswinder Bolina

March 11: Christine Hume, Richard Greenfield, and Julie Carr

April: No Reading

May 13: Ana Božičević, Amy King, and Rob Schlegel

June 10: Farrah Field, Jared White, and Cynthia Arrieu-King

Upcoming Readings

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All readings start at 7 p.m. at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center (www.cliftonculturalarts.org).

Nov. 20: Allison Titus, Andrew Grace, and Matt McBride
[Please note, this reading is on the third Friday of the month, unlike our regular readings, which are on the second Thursday of the month.]

Allison Titus's first book, Sum of Every Lost Ship, is forthcoming from CSU Press. Her chapbook, Instructions from the Narwhal, won the first annual Boom Chapbook contest from Bateau Press. She lives in Richmond, VA with her husband and their three dogs.

Andrew Grace’s 3rd book of poems, Sancta, is forthcoming from Ahsahta Press in 2012. He was a 2006-8 Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, Poetry Daily, TriQuarterly, Iowa Review,and the Crab Orchard Review among others. His second book Shadeland recently won the 2008 Ohio State University Press / The JournalAward for Poetry. He lives in Hyde Park with his wife Tory and his daughter Lily.

Matt McBride received his MFA from Bowing Green State University where he was the recipient of a Devine fellowship. His chapbook, The Space between Stars, was released by Kent State’s Wick Poetry press in 2007. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming from Alice Blue, Cranky, Dark Sky Magazine, Marginalia, Packingtown Review, Past Simple, Phoebe, Poet Lore, and The Toledo City Paper. Currently he is a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati and works as a poetry reader for Memorious Magazine.

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January 14: Jen Tynes, Josh Butts, and a third reader TBA

February 11: Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Lesley Jenike, and Lily Brown

March 11: Christine Hume, Richard Greenfield, and Julie Carr

April: No Reading

May 13: Ana Božičević, Amy King, and a third reader TBA

June 10: Farrah Field, Jared White, and Cynthia Arrieu-King

Reader Bios

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OCTOBER 8th READERS (Jillian Weise, Micah Ling, Nate Pritts, and Nathan Graziano)

Jillian Weise is just back from a Fulbright to Argentina where she worked with Darwin's notebooks and helped translate Bob Dylan's first novel into Spanish. Her books are The Amputee's Guide to Sex and The Colony, a novel forthcoming this spring. Recent poems are featured on PBS's Poetry Everywhere and in TIn House. Since leaving Cincinnati, she has been teaching workshops and seminars at Clemson University. She hopes you will crash the Clemson Literary Festival in April.

Micah Ling is the author of the collection Three Islands, which is forthcoming from sunnyoutside press. She earned her MFA at Indiana University. Her poems have appeared in Harpur Palate, Flyway, Fifth Wednesday and others. Her chapbook, Thoughts on Myself, was published by Finishing Line Press. She teaches writing and literature classes at Indiana University and at Butler University. She also serves as Deputy Editor for Keyhole Magazine. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

Nate Pritts is the author of two full length books of poetry - Sensational Spectacular and Honorary Astronaut - with a third, The Wonderfull Yeare, due in early 2010. The founder & editor of H_NGM_N, Nate teaches poetry at the Downtown Writers Center/YMCA in Syracuse, NY.

Nathan Graziano lives in Manchester, New Hampshire with his wife and two children. He is the author of Teaching Metaphors (sunnyoutside, 2007), Not So Profound (Green Bean Press, 2004), Frostbite (Green Bean Press, 2002) and seven chapbooks of poetry and fiction. His work has appeared in Rattle, Night Train, Freight Stories, The Coe Review, The Owen Wister Review, and others. His third book of poetry, After the Honeymoon, will be published in fall 2009 by sunnyoutside press. For more information, visit his website:
www.nathangraziano.com.

NOVEMBER 20th READERS
*Please note, this reading is on the third Friday of the month rather than our usual second Thursday*

Allison Titus's first book, Sum of Every Lost Ship, is forthcoming from CSU Press. Her chapbook, Instructions from the Narwhal, won the first annual Boom Chapbook contest from Bateau Press. She lives in Richmond, VA with her husband and their three dogs.

Mathias Svalina is the author of numerous chapbooks & the full length book Destruction Myth from the CSU Poetry Center. He is a coeditor of Octopus Magazine & the small press Octopus Books. He lives & teaches writing in Denver.

Matt McBride received his MFA from Bowing Green State University where he was the recipient of a Devine fellowship. His chapbook, The Space between Stars, was released by Kent State’s Wick Poetry press in 2007. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming from Alice Blue, Cranky, Dark Sky Magazine, Marginalia, Packingtown Review, Past Simple, Phoebe, Poet Lore, and The Toledo City Paper. Currently he is a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati and works as a poetry reader for Memorious Magazine.

2009/2010 Readings @ the Clifton Cultural Arts Center

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Sept. 10: Laura Sims, Shelly Taylor, and Ruth Williams

Oct. 8 at 7 p.m.: Jillian Weise, Nathan Graziano, Nate Pritts, and Micah Ling

Nov. 20 at 7 p.m. [PLEASE NOTE: This reading is on the third Friday of the month rather than our usual second Thursday]: Allison Titus, Matt McBride, and Mathias Svalina

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January 14 at 7 p.m.: Cynthia Arrieu-King, Jen Tynes, and Sandra Simonds

February 11 at 7 p.m.: Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Lesley Jenike, and Lily Brown

March 11 at 7 p.m.: Christine Hume, Richard Greenfield, and Julie Carr

More 2010 readings to be announced.

Revisit August's Reading with Your Ears

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Readings by Eric Baus, Gina Myers and Dana Ward are now available on PennSound. Thanks, Michael!

Please join us for the Sept. 10 reading featuring Laura Sims, Shelly Taylor, and Ruth Williams.

October's readers are Jillian Weise and sunnyoutside press authors' Nathan Graziano and Micah Ling.

Fall Readings

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September 10: Laura Sims, Shelly Taylor, and Ruth C. Williams

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Please join us Thurs., Aug. 13, at 7 p.m. for the Bon Mot/ley Reading Series, featuring Eric Baus, Gina Myers, and Dana Ward.

Eric Baus was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1975. His publications include Tuned Droves (Octopus Books, 2009), The To Sound (Verse Press, 2004; Winner of the 2002 Verse Press, selected by Forrest Gander), and the chapbooks The Space Between Magnets (Diaeresis), A Swarm In The Aperture (Margin to Margin), and Something Else The Music Was (Braincase Press). He edits Minus House chapbooks, and currently lives in Denver.

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Gina Myers lives in Saginaw, MI, where she edits Lame House Press and serves as Reviews Editor for H_NGM_N. Her most recent chapbook is Behind the R (ypolita press 2008), and her first full-length collection, A Model Year, was just published by Coconut Books.

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Dana Ward is the author of a couple of books that just came out in 2009—Roseland (Editions Louis Wain) & the Drought (Open 24hrs). He lives in Cincinnati, edits Cy Press, & works as an advocate for adult literacy at the Over-the-Rhine Learning Center.

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.

We hope to see you there,
Kristi Maxwell & Michael Rerick
Series Curators

Listen

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If you weren't able to attend our first reading at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center (or if you need a second helping), listen to it online on

PennSound.

Thanks, Michael Hennessey!

Kickoff

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Please join us Thurs., July 9, at 7 p.m. for the Bon Mot/ley Reading Series’ inaugural reading, featuring Bruce Covey, Michael Hennessey, and Ashley VanDoorn.

Bruce Covey's fourth book of poems, Glass Is Really a Liquid, will be published in the fall of 2009 by No Tell Books. He lives in Atlanta, GA, where he teaches at Emory University, edits Coconut Poetry (www.coconutpoetry.org), and curates the What's New in Poetry reading series.

http://jacketmagazine.com/32/covey2.shtml

http://www.fascicle.com/issue02/main/issue02_frameset.htm

Michael S. Hennessey is the Managing Editor of PennSound (http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/) and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati. Born and raised in Philadelphia, he earned his MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. His debut chapbook, Last Days in the Bomb Shelter (17 Narrower Poems) was published in 2008.

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Hennessey.html

Ashley VanDoorn's poems can be found in the following journals: American Letters & Commentary, The Canary , Seneca Review, WebConjunctions, Gulf Coast, Northwest Review, No Tell Motel, Typo, Coconut, Word For/Word, Shampoo, and glitterpony. She currently lives in Atlanta, GA.

http://www.lapetitezine.org/Ashley.VanDoorn.htm

http://www.typomag.com/issue08/vandoorn.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.

The next reading will be Thurs., Aug. 13, with Eric Baus, Gina Myers, and Dana Ward.

We hope to see you there,
Kristi Maxwell & Michael Rerick
Series Curators

About Bon Mot/ley

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The Bon Mot/ley Reading Series began as Readings at the Painted Lady in 2008. The series is curated by Kristi Maxwell and Michael Rerick and happens the second Thursday of the month at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center in Cincinnati's Gaslight District.

Reading Series Summer Schedule

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July 9 (FIRST READING AT THE CLIFTON CULTURAL ARTS CENTER)
Ashley VanDoorn
Bruce Covey
Michael Hennessey

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August 13
Gina Myers
Eric Baus
Dana Ward