[Pittsburgh, PA]

UDP in Pittsburgh: Alexis Almeida, Kate Colby, Nathaniel Farrel, Phil Metres, Laura Solomon, Ed Steck, Cathy Wagner
April 28, 2019, 7:00 pm
at Brillbox

Alexis Almeida is a poet and translator. She is the author of Half-Shine (Dancing Girl Press) and the chapbook I Have Never Been Able to Sing (UDP). Her translation include Roberta Iannamico’s Wreckage (Toad Press), Marina Yuszczuk’s Single Mother (Spork Press), and many more.

Kate Colby is the author of six books of poetry including three books with Ugly Duckling Presse: I Mean (2015), The Return of the Native (2011), and Unbecoming Behavior (2008). Her newest book is The Arrangements (Four Way Books).

Nathaniel Farrell is the author of UDP books Newcomer – a personae poem narrated by an anonymous soldier and set in an undefined military campaign – and Lost Horizon – a long poem inspired by the American mall, interstate landscapes and suburban pastorals.

Laura Solomon is the author of Bivouac (Slope Editions), Blue and Red Things (UDP), and The Hermit (UDP). Other publications include a chapbook, Letters by which Sisters Will Know Brothers (Katalanché Press) and Haiku des Pierres / Haiku of Stones by Jacques Poullaoueq, a translation from the French with Sika Fakambi (Editions Apogée).

Phil Metres is the author of ten books, including Instants (UDP), Shrapnel Maps, the essay collection The Sound of Listening, the poetry books Sand Opera and Pictures at a Exhibition, and a translated collection of Arseny Tarkovsky’s poetry, I Burned at the Feast.

Ed Steck is the author of the new UDP book An Interface for a Fractal Landscape, The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation (UDP), Three Communicative Modes (UDP), The Rose (with Adam Marnie, Hassla), and many others.

Catherine Wagner‘s collection of poems include Nervous Dance (City Lights), My New Job (Fence), Macular Hole(Fence), Miss America (Fence), and a dozen chapbooks. An anthology she co-edited with Rebecca Wolff, Not for Mothers Only, was published by Fence in 2007.

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