Journal Porn: Lit Mags You’d Sleep With

An offsite reading from five of the best designed journals on the planet. Free entry and a (Belgian-esque) beer selection on tap. Buy the editors a beer and they may just kiss you.

WITH:
1913 a journal of forms
6×6
Lumberyard
Trickhouse
Versal

AND:
Lee Ann Brown
Katie Byrum
Julia Cohen
James Copeland
Brandon Downing
Lucy Ives
Joanna Klink
Matthew Lippman
Sawako Nakayasu
Elizabeth Frankie Rollins

The Black Squirrel’s in walking distance of the conference, in Adams Morgan between La Fourchette and the Amsterdam Falafelshop.

http://www.blacksquirreldc.com/

And here are some bios:

Lee Ann Brown is a poet and cross-disciplinary artist. Her poetry books include The Sleep That Changed Everything and Polyverse which included earlier chapbooks such as a museme originally published by Boog Literature, and Crush, published by Leave Books. She loves to sing and play with her daughter Miranda, as well as collaborate with her husband, Tony Torn, with whom she has started The French Broad Institute of Time and the River in Marshall, NC. During the school year she lives in NYC, gives and goes to lots of poetry readings and teaches poetry at St. John’s University.

Katie Byrum is a Capricorn from Kentucky. Her current obsessions include: houses, barriers, asymptotes, octopi, Muriel Rukeyser, maps, and the multiple meanings of the word ‘fixed’. Her work has appeared/is forthcoming from Gulf Coast and the Little Anthology from Argos Books. She lives in Brooklyn in a house with a Hindu temple in the basement.

Julia Cohen is the author of 10 chapbooks and a full-length book, Triggermoon Triggermoon. Her work is out or forthcoming in jubilat, Colorado Review, and Octopus. She’s the poetry editor of Saltgrass and the associate editor of the Denver Quarterly.

James Copeland is the author of the chapbooks Why I Steal, The Pigeon, and To My Plants. Poems have appeared in No Dear, Fence, 6×6, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he is Managing Director at Ugly Duckling Presse.

Brandon Downing is a poet and visual artist originally from California. His books of poetry include The Shirt Weapon (Germ Monographs, 2002) and Dark Brandon (Faux Press, 2005), while a
monograph of his collages from1996-2008, Lake Antiquity, was released by Fence Books in 2010. In 2007 he released a feature-length collection of collaged digital shorts, Dark Brandon: Eternal Classics, with a 2nd volume forthcoming in 2011. A longtime member of the Flarf Collective, He lives in New York City, where he currently co-curates the Poetry Time Reading Series at SpaceSpace.

Lucy Ives is a writer and PhD student living in New York. She is the author of a long poem, Anamnesis (Slope Editions, 2009). A second collection, Essays, is forthcoming from Emergency Press in April 2011. She currently co-curates the Queens-based reading series Poetry Time and is looking forward to a new role as poetics consultant at the journal Triple Canopy.

Joanna Klink is the author of three books of poetry: They Are Sleeping, Circadian, and Raptus, just out from Penguin. Her poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including Chicago Review and Boston Review. She received an M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and now teaches on the poetry faculty at the University of Montana. The recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, she is currently on leave as the Briggs-Copeland Poet at Harvard.

Matthew Lippman is the author of two poetry collections, Monkey Bars (Typecast Publishing, 2010) and The New Year of Yellow, winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize and published by Sarabande Books (2007). He is the recipient of a Michener Poetry Fellowship and a New York Fine Arts Grant. He teaches English and Creative Writing to high school students at Beaver Country Day School in the greater Boston area, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.

Sawako Nakayasu was born in Japan and has lived mostly in the US since the age of six. Her most recent books are Texture Notes (Letter Machine, 2010), Hurry Home Honey (Burning Deck, 2009), and a translation of Kawata Ayane’s poetry, Time of Sky//Castles in the Air (Litmus Press, 2010). Her translation of Takashi Hiraide’s For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut (New Directions, 2008) received the 2009 Best Translated Book Award from Three Percent.

Elizabeth Frankie Rollins has published in Conjunctions, Cincinnati Review, Green Mountains Review, Tarpaulin Sky, The New England Review, and The Bellevue Literary Review, among others. She is the author of The Sin Eater, a chapbook, Corvid Press, 2004. She has received a Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and a NJ Prose Fellowship. She lives, teaches, and writes in Tucson, AZ, which is also home to Casa Libre en la Solana, where many Trickhouse Live! and other spectacular literary events are held.

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