Carver/Hoevenaar/Hutchinson/Leavitt/Rabkin/Toder at Third Factory

UDP presents an evening of poetry, performance, and works on paper at Third Factory, featuring:Jane Carver, Jeremy Hoevenaar, Will Hutchinson, Gracie Leavitt, Francis Weiss Rabkin, and Emily Toder.*Jane Carver lives in Brooklyn. She is a co-founder of the performance series Low Stakes at Hunter College and is currently composing an orchestral work to honor Ortrun Pohler, a pioneer in the field of Internal Fixation (the implantation of Titanium orthotics in horses, humans and dogs).*Jeremy Hoevenaar is the author of Cold Mountain Mirror Displacement (American Books, 2013) and Adaptations of Pelt and Hoof (H_NGM_N, 2012). Recent work can also be found in the publications Poems by Sunday and 1913 A Journal of Forms.*Will Hutchinson currently lives and works in Missoula Montana. He studied at The Art Academy of Cincinnati where he received his BFA in Drawing in 2007. He came to Montana to complete his MFA in sculpture at The University of Montana which was received in 2012. Will is currently an adjunct faculty member at UM Western in Dillon Montana. He spends his summers working in the woods as a wild land firefighter which informs much of his current work. www.willhutchinson.org*Gracie Leavitt is the author of Monkeys, Minor Planet, Average Star (Nightboat Books) and the chapbook Gap Gardening (These Signals Press). Poetries and translations have appeared in journals such as 6×6, Conjunctions, Lana Turner, and Poems by Sunday as well as the anthologies The Ill-Tempered Rubyist and Why I Am Not a Painter, while articles can be found in Flaunt Magazine and Intercourse Magazine. Previously she collaborated with international artists to debut her original play PITCH at La Mama E.T.C. She was born in Massachusetts, grew up in Maine in a log cabin her parents built, and has made a home in Brooklyn.*Francis Weiss Rabkin is a writer and performance maker interested in multidisciplinary theater drawing from poetry, dance, visual art, and academic contexts. Their plays and collaborations have been presented in Philadelphia, Chicago, and in New York at HERE Arts, Dixon Place, Bushwick Starr, and the Segal Theatre at the CUNY Grad Center. They are honored to have received residencies at Naropa University, the Wassaic Project, and the Millay Colony. Rabkin’s latest work, a collaboration with musician/poet Leslie Allison, will have a residency at The Drama League of New York this April.*Emily Toder is the author of Science (Coconut Books, 2012) and the chapbooks No Land (Brave Men Press, forthcoming 2014), Brushes With (Tarpaulin Sky, 2010), and I Hear a Boat (Duets, 2010). Her next collection, Beachy Head, is due out from Coconut in 2014. A graduate of the MFA Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, she also holds degrees in Literary Translation and Library Science. She lives in Brooklyn. For more information on this event, see the Facebook event here.