the Poetry Project Podcast

Monday Reading Series

Diana Hamilton‘s first book, Okay, Okay (Truck Books 2012) deals primarily with women crying at work. Three chapbooks came out this year, or will soon enough: 1. Universe (Ugly Duckling Presse), a long poem about examples in moral philosophy, 2. Some Shit Advice (The Physiocrats), in which the speaker provides advice about shitting, and 3. 23 Women to Kiss Before You Die (Make Now Press), a collection of four poems about consent, female sexuality, and the quotidian.

Nicolas Mugavero lives and works in Raleigh, North Carolina. He co-curates orworse.net and orworsepress.net with Chris Sylvester and Shiv Kotecha. He has published books with Troll Thread Press and Gauss PDF. His poetic practice can best be described as one of diminishing returns.

Wednesday Reading Series

Author of over 20 books, Will Alexander works in multiple genres. Aborginal Salt: Early Divinations is a compendium of early work is due out from White Print Inc in Detroit, as well as a 2nd edition of Towards The Primeval Lightning Field to be published by Litmus Press. Winner of a 2013 American Book Award for his book of essays Singing In Magnetic Hoofbeat, he continues to draw in pencil while typing his second book of plays.

Jennifer Moxley (b. 1964) studied literature and writing at UC San Diego and the University of Rhode Island and received her M.F.A. from Brown University in 1994. She is the author of six books of poetry, most recently The Open Secret (Flood Editions 2014), a book of essays, and a memoir. In addition, she has translated three books from the French. In 2005 she was granted the Lynda Hull Poetry Award from Denver Quarterly. Her poem “Behind the Orbits” was included by Robert Creeley in The Best American Poetry 2002. She is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the University of Maine.

Friday Reading Series

Claudia La Rocco’s recent and ongoing interdisciplinary collaborations include projects with the performance company Findlay//Sandsmark, the sound artist Martijn Tellinga and the composer Phillip Greenlief. La Rocco founded thePerformanceClub.org, which won a 2011 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and focuses on criticism as a literary art form. She is a member of the Off the Park poetry press and contributes frequently to the New York Times and ARTFORUM. She is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts’ graduate program in Art Criticism and Writing, and teaches at such institutions as Princeton University, Arizona State University and Movement Research. La Rocco has had residencies at Stanford University, Headlands Center for the Arts and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Process Space on Governors Island. She has performed at such places as Danspace Project (NYC), the Center for New Music (SF), Counterpath Press (Denver) and the Mount Tremper Arts Festival (NY). Badlands Unlimited is publishing her selected writings in fall 2014.

Karinne Keithley Syers is an interdisciplinary artist, participant-historian of the NYC performance community, and creator of things that resemble plays from a distance, including Another Tree Dance (2013), Montgomery Park, or Opulence (2010). She founded and co-edits 53rd State Press, and leaves trails of audio, video, and ukulele covers via her website fancystitchmachine.org.

Penny Arcade is an internationally respected performance artist, writer, political activist, and poet. One of the handful of artists who created contemporary text-based performance art beginning in the 1980s, she has continued to define the art form for nearly three decades. In 2010, Semiotext(e) published Bad Reputation, a book on her performance work that included three performance scripts. Since 1999, she has co-directed The Lower East Side Biography Project, an oral history and video project that celebrates the great spirit of cultural rebellion that has long defined downtown New York.

Friday Reading Series

Sarah McCarry (www.therejectionist.com) is the author of the novels All Our Pretty Songs and Dirty Wings and the editor and publisher of the chapbook series Guillotine.

Sade Murphy was born and raised in Houston, TX. She doesn’t have an accent. She attended the University of Notre Dame and graduated with a Bachelor’s in Studio Art. Her studio practice is focused in book arts, printmaking, silk painting and installation art. In 2011 she received a fellowship from the Pavlis Foundation to complete a month long residency at the Vermont Studio Center. She has published one chapbook of poetry, Abandon Childhood, which most likely cannot be found anywhere. Her poetry has been published in Action Yes, joINT, Revolver, and LIT. She has recently completed her first full length manuscript of poetry, Dream Machine, and plans to apply to MFA programs this fall. She currently lives and works in South Bend, IN as an artist and serves as the Artist in Residence at Dismas House, a community focused on the re-entry of the formerly incarcerated.

Monday Reading Series

Talk Series: Hans Ulrich Obrist on Etel Adnan

Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968, Zurich, Switzerland) is Co-director of the Serpentine Galleries, London. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris. Since his first show “World Soup” (The Kitchen Show) in 1991 he has curated more than 250 shows. Obrist’s recent publications include A Brief History of Curating, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating But Were Afraid to Ask, Do It: The Compendium, Think Like Clouds, Ai Weiwei Speaks, Ways of Curating, along with new volumes of his Conversation Series.

Etel Adnan was born in Beirut in 1925. She is a poet, essayist, and visual artist. In 2003, MELUS, the journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, called Adnan “arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab-American author writing today.” She currently lives in Paris, France. Her complete bio can be read on her website.

Wednesday Reading Series

Jena Osman‘s books of poetry include Corporate Relations (Burning Deck Press), Public Figures (Wesleyan University Press), The Network (Fence Books), An Essay in Asterisks (Roof Books) and The Character (Beacon Press). For 12 years she co-edited the magazine Chain with Juliana Spahr, and now they co-edit the ChainLinks book series together. Osman teaches in the MFA Creative Writing program at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Maged Zaher is the author of IF REALITY DOESN’T WORK OUT (SplitLevel Texts, 2014); THANK YOU FOR THE WINDOW OFFICE (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012); THE REVOLUTION HAPPENED AND YOU DIDN’T CALL ME (Tinfish Press, 2012); and PORTRAIT OF THE POET AS AN ENGINEER (Pressed Wafer, 2009). His collaborative work with the Australian poet Pam Brown, FAROUT LIBRARY SOFTWARE, was published by Tinfish Press in 2007. His translations of contemporary Egyptian poetry have appeared in Jacket Magazine, Banipal, and Denver Quarterly. He has performed his work at Subtext, Bumbershoot, the Kootenay School of Writing, Evergreen State College, and The American University in Cairo. Maged is the recipient of the 2013 Stranger’s Genius award in literature.

Monday Reading Series

Mark Johnson lives in Philadelphia. He hosts a reading series at his book and record shop, Hiding Place. Recent publications include Dream of a Like Place (SUS Press), rful (Lulu), and Gruon BS (Make Now). His first full-length is due out from Make Now in the fall of 2014.

Claire Wilcox is a writer based in New York City. Recent works of poetry and criticism have appeared in/on BOMBlog, 98edition’s Makhzin, and No Dear. She is a recent graduate of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. Her first chapbook Change, Changes & .01 and Change is available from Sus Press in Australia and the US.

Friday Reading Series

Chelsea Hodson, a 2012 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow, is currently writing a book of essays. She is the author of two chapbooks: Pity the Animal (Future Tense Books, 2014), and Beach Camp (Swill Children, 2010). Her essays have been published in Black Warrior Review, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Sex Magazine, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Jackie Wang is a queer poet, essayist, filmmaker, performer, and prison abolitionist based out of Cambridge, MA. Her work has been published in LIES, Action Yes, Pank, Delirious Hem, DIAGRAM, The Brooklyn Rail, October, the Semiotext(e) Whitney Biennial Pamphlet Series, and other worthy outlets. She is currently working on a book or two. If you summon her, she will come: [email protected]. Follow her on twitter @LoneberryWang.

Laura Sims is the author of three books of poetry: My god is this a man, Stranger, and Practice, Restraint (Fence Books); her fourth collection, Staying Alive, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2016. She edited Fare Forward: Letters from David Markson, a book of her correspondence with the celebrated experimental novelist (powerHouse Books), and has also published five chapbooks of poetry. Her work was included in the anthology, The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century, and individual poems have recently appeared in: Black Clock, Colorado Review, Talisman, and Denver Quarterly. Sims has been a featured writer for the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet blog, and has been a co-editor of Instance Press since 2009. She teaches literature and creative writing at NYU-SCPS and lives with her family in Brooklyn.