[Atlanta, GA]

Laura Solomon & Natalie Lyalin @ SKEIN group reading.
August 4, 2011, 7:00 pm
at Abernathy Arts Center Gallery

SKEIN Magazine, a small, mostly hand-made journal of poetry and very short fiction, founded in 2003 in Athens, GA and now nestled in Marietta hosts a group reading with past and future contributors at Atlanta's Abernathy Arts Center Gallery. Laura Solomon was born in 1976 in Birmingham, Alabama. Her books include Bivouac (Slope Editions, 2002), Blue and Red Things (UDP, 2007), and The Hermit (UDP, 2011). Other publications include a chapbook, Letters by which Sisters Will Know Brothers (Katalanché Press 2005) and Haiku des Pierres / Haiku of Stones by Jacques Poullaoueq, a translation from the French with Sika Fakambi (Editions Apogée, 2006). Her poetry was recently included in the anthology Poets on Painters (Witchita State Press 2007), has appeared in magazines across North America and Europe and has been translated into ten languages. Most recently she has lived in Paris, Philadelphia, and Verona, Italy. Natalie Lyalin was born in Leningrad and currently lives in Philadelphia. She is the author of Pink & Hot Pink Habitat (Coconut Books, 2009) and a graduate of the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the co-founder and co-editor of GlitterPony Magazine.