[Brooklyn, NY]

UDP Holiday Book Party
December 11, 2015, 7:30 pm
at The Boiler

A celebration of new books, featuring readings by Callie Garnett, Cathy Eisenhower, Karen Weiser, Kevin M.F. Platt, and Ramsey Scott, plus a post-reading dance party. Callie Garnett, a writer and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Iowa, was born and raised in Brooklyn. Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is her first published collection. Cathy Eisenhower lives and works as a therapist in Washington, DC, and is the author of Language of the Dog-heads (Phylum 2001), clearing without reversal (Edge 2008), and would with and (Roof 2009). She is co-translating the selected poems of Argentine poet Diana Bellessi and co-curated the In Your Ear Reading Series for several years. Her work has recently appeared in The Recluse, Aufgabe, West Wind Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and Fence. distance decay is her latest book. Karen Weiser is the author of To Light Out (UDP), Dear Pierre (Well Greased Press), Placefullness (UDP), and Pitching Woo (Cy Press). She was recently awarded a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation residency, a Process Space residency through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. She is currently working on the libretto for an opera ("You Who Made the Heavens Incline") about one of the first great composers, Kassia, a 9th century Byzantine nun, in addition to writing a young adult fantasy novel. She lives in New York City where she teaches and writes on 19th century American Literature. Kevin M. F. Platt is chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. His scholarly work is focused on Russian poetry, culture and history. His translations of Russian poetry have appeared in World Literature Today, Jacket2, Fence, Common Knowledge, and other journals. He was the editor and lead translator of Modernist Archaist: Selected Poems by Osip Mandelstam. Ramsey Scott teaches at Brooklyn College, CUNY. His essays, poems, and fiction have appeared in various print and online publications, including The Southwest Review, The Seneca Review, The Massachusetts Review, Shampoo, Tarpaulin Sky, Confrontation, and Mirage #4/Period(ical). The Narco-Imaginary (Essays Under the Influence) is his first book.