[brooklyn]

DOSSIER at BPL: Jill Magi, Damon Krukowski, and Catherine Taylor
April 11, 2012, 7:00 pm
at Dweck Center, Brooklyn Public Library

* * * Catherine Taylor, Damon Krukowski and Jill Magi read from their forthcoming and recent books on UDP's Dossier Series: APART, AFTERIMAGE, and SLOT -- CATHERINE TAYLOR is a writer, editor, and teacher. Her writing has appeared in The Colorado Review, Hotel Amerika, Jacket2, Xantippe, Postmodern Culture, Action Yes!, Witness, and elsewhere. Her first book, Giving Birth: A Journey Into the World of Mothers and Midwives (Penguin), won the Lamaze International Birth Advocate Award. A Founding Co-Editor of Essay Press, she received her Ph.D. from Duke University, has twice been a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town, and teaches at Ithaca College. Praise for APART: "[E]edifying, original, and critically rigorous — a poetic and political vibration between "ecstasy, shame, ecstasy, shame." — Maggie Nelson -- DAMON KRUKOWSKI is the author of The Memory Theater Burned (Turtle Point) and 5000 Musical Terms (Burning Deck). Naomi Yang is a photographer and graphic designer. Together they are musicians (Damon & Naomi, Galaxie 500), and publishers (Exact Change). Praise for AFTERIMAGE: "In this deeply personal book about family and displacement, there is no place to rest. The past kicks out the present and the present sends letters to the future. Even writing evicts its tenants. Which is slightly paradoxical, since Krukowski is so good at it." — Jennifer Moxley -- JILL MAGI is the author of Cadastral Map, Torchwood (Shearsman), Threads (Futurepoem), as well as the chapbooks Die for love, furlough (In Edit Mode Press), Confidence and Autonomy (Ink Press), Poetry Barn Barn! (2nd Avenue), Cadastral Map (Portable Press), and numerous small, handmade books. Her essays have been anthologized in The Eco-Language Reader (Portable Press/Nightboat Books) and Letters to Poets (Saturnalia Books), and visual works have been exhibited at the Textile Arts Center, the Brooklyn Arts Council, apexart, and Pace University. In 2011, she was an artist-in-residence at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, and she was a writer-in-residence with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2006-07. Jill runs Sona Books, a chapbook press, and for her small press work she was recognized by Poets & Writers magazine as among the 50 most inspiring authors in 2010. Praise for SLOT: "Partial lyric views interweave with the writings of others, present only as citations in a rigorous and wide-ranging bibliography. SLOT is 'an invitation to study.' Take it up; it is work worth doing." —Jena Osman