Filip Marinovich, Tenney Nathanson, and Lee Ann Brown

Zinc Bar Reading Series welcomes Tenney Nathanson, Filip Marinovich, and Lee Ann Brown.

Tenney Nathanson is the author of the collection Erased Art (Chax Press, 2005) and the book-length poems Home on the Range (The Night Sky with Stars in My Mouth) (O Books, 2005) and Ghost Snow Falls through the Void (Globalization) (Chax Press, 2010), as well as of the critical study Whitman’s Presence: Body, Voice, and Writing in Leaves of Grass (NYU, 1992). He’s currently at work on another book-length poem, Minnesota China Guatemala Haiti: Ghost Snow Falls through the Void (Unwinding). In 1996 he helped found the Tucson poetry and arts collective POG, and in 2008 he co-founded Tucson’s Desert Rain Zen Group. He directs the PhD program in Literature and teaches American poetry and, from time to time, creative writing in the English Department at the University of Arizona.

Filip Marinovich is the author of Zero Readership (UDP 2008) and And If You Don’t Go Crazy I’ll Meet You Here Tomorrow (UDP 2011). He wrote and directed the plays Skin Around The Earth, Throne Room Snow, and The Karma Bookshop for his theater company Comet Party. His work has been published in Brooklyn Rail, EOAGH, Aufgabe, Village Zendo Journal, and 6×6. He is a poet living on earth for the moment.

Lee Ann Brown is Assistant Professor of English at St. John’s University in New York City. A poet and filmmaker, her books include Polyverse and The Sleep That Changed Everything. She is also the founder and editor of the small press Tender Buttons.