[Milwaukee]

Laynie Browne, Afaa Michael Weaver, Matvei Yankelevich
October 23, 2015, 7:00 pm
at Woodland Pattern

Woodland Pattern Book Center is excited to host a reading with Afaa Michael Weaver, Laynie Browne & Matvei Yankelevich. Laynie Browne is the author of twelve collections of poetry and two novels. Her most recent collections of poems include _P R A C T I C E_ (SplitLevel 2015), _Scorpyn Odes_ (Kore Press 2015) and _Lost Parkour Ps(alms)_, in two editions, one in English, and another in French, from Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havré (2014). Her work appears in _The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry_ (2013) as well as in _Ecopoetry: A Contemporary American Anthology_ (Trinity University Press, 2013). Her honors include: a 2014 Pew Fellowship, the National Poetry Series Award, the Contemporary Poetry Series Award, and two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative American Poetry. She is co-editor of _I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women_ (Les Figues Press, 2012) and is currently editing an anthology of original essays on the Poet’s Novel. She teaches at University of Pennsylvania and at Swarthmore College. Forthcoming books include _Deciduous Letters to Invisible Beloveds_ (Essay Press) and _Amulet Sonnets_ (LRL Textile Series). Afaa Michael Weaver is the author of twelve books of poetry, including _The City of Eternal Spring_ (Pitt Poetry Series, 2014) and _The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985-2005_ (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007). He’s editor of _These Hands I Know: African American Writers on Family_ (Sarabande Books, 2002). Weaver is the recipient of an NEA fellowship, a Pew fellowship, and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship, and was awarded the 2014 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for _The Government of Nature_ (Pitt Poetry Series, 2013). He teaches at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, and Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. Matvei Yankelevich is the author of the poetry collection _Alpha Donut_, and a novella in fragments, _Boris by the Sea_. A long poem, _Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt_, will be released in Fall 2015, from Black Square Editions. He is the translator of Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms, and co-translator of the National Translation Award-winning An Invitation for Me to Think by Alexander Vvedensky. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He edits the Eastern European Poets Series for Ugly Duckling Presse, and teaches at Columbia University's School of the Arts, Queens College, and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. More info here.