[Brooklyn, NY]

Marina Blitshteyn, Anelise Chen, Steven Karl, Matt Reeck, Matthew Rohrer, Ken L. Walker
September 16, 2011, 7:00 pm
at Unnameable Books

Please join No, Dear for a reading at Unnameable Books honoring some of the fine poets published in past issues over the past few years. With an incredible line-up including: Marina Blitshtevn, Anelise Chen, Steven Karl, Matt Reeck, Matthew Rohrer and, Ken L. Walker! Marina Blitshteyn is the author of Russian for Lovers (Argos Books). Her poetry has appeared in Anamesa, Fawlt Magazine, Wag's Revue, and CollaboratElaborate online, among others. She is currently a writing instructor and consultant at Columbia University. Anelise Chen is writing a series called "So Many Olympic Exertions." Poetry & fiction from this series has appeared in Gigantic, Everyday Genius, and No Dear. Her articles have appeared in the PEN America blog, The Rumpus, and other places. Steven Karl is the author of the chapbooks, emissions/ of (H_NGM_N), (Ir)Rational Animals (Flying Guillotine Press) and State(s) of Flux (Peptic Robot Press).  He has poems forthcoming in Forklift, OH, Pax Americana, and EOAGH. He is the News Editor for Coldfront Magazine, poetry editor for Sink Review, and a co-curator of Stain of Poetry.  He lives in Brooklyn, NY. Matt Reeck has published three chapbooks and was selected by Susan Howe as the 2010 BOMB magazine poetry prize winner. He was a finalist for the 2011 Nightboat Poetry Prize and a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award in Playwriting. His poetry, translations and essays have been published in various magazines and appeared this summer in American Letters & Commentary and Bombay Gin. Ken L. Walker still hands a Kentucky driver's license to police officers and bouncers when they ask for identification. He led, and hopes to continue to lead, a poetry workshop at the GMDC facility on Rikers Island. He's published poems and criticism in Lumberyard, Crab Orchard Review, the Boxcar, the Poetry Project Newsletter, Catch-Up, the New Yorker online, and Rain Taxi. He is the features editor for Coldfront magazine and has a real penchant for pickles, donuts, bourbon, and soul music. Matthew Rohrer is the author of A Hummock in the Malookas (which won the 1994 National Poetry Series Open Competition), Satellite, A Green Light (short listed for the 2005 Griffin International Poetry Prize), Rise Up and A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse 2009). With Joshua Beckman he wrote Nice Hat. Thanks. and recorded the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He’s appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing, has been awarded the Avery Hopwood Prize for poetry and a Pushcart Prize, and has been widely anthologized. A chapbook-length action/adventure poem They All Seemed Asleep was recently published by Octopus Books. He teaches in the creative writing program at NYU and lives in Brooklyn.