Hi everyone,
Although Terese beat me to the punch I'm now posting the official announcement for a reading taking place on Sept. 1, from 4:30 to 6pm, celebrating the launch of
Unsplendid, a new online journal of poetry in received and nonce forms, which I founded with three Johns Hopkins alums as co-editors. I hope that you will be able to come (details below), that you will pass word along to others you think that might be interested in attending, and that you will give our website a gander and let us know what you think!
All best,
Doug
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Unsplendid
an online journal of poetry in received and nonce forms
http://www.unsplendid.com
Launch Reading
Sept. 1, 2007
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Area 405
405 E. Oliver Street (just 4 blocks east of Penn Station)
(directions and map at
http://www.area405.com )
Readings by:
Peter Campion
Terese Coe
Elizabeth Hadaway
Alexander Long
Traci O'Dea
Greg Williamson
Hosted by editors:
Douglas Basford
Jason Gray
Erin Sweeten
Peter Campion teaches at Washington College in Maryland. He's the author of a book of poems,
Other People (University of Chicago, 2005).
Terese Coe's poems and translations have appeared in
Poetry,
Threepenny Review,
Smartish Pace,
Nimrod,
New American Writing,
The Cincinnati Review,
Agenda (UK),
Orbis (UK), and
Poetry Nottingham (UK), among numerous others, and her first collection of poems,
The Everyday Uncommon, won a Word Press publication prize, published in 2005. She was awarded a 2006 residence at Vermont Studio Center and has received three Pushcart nominations and two grants from Giorno Poetry Systems, among other awards.
Elizabeth Hadaway's first book,
Fire Baton, was published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2006. She held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford under the name Leigh Palmer and lives near Baltimore.
Alexander Long's
Vigil was published by New Issues (2006). Co-editor of
A Condition of the Spirit: the Life & Work of Larry Levis (Eastern Washington UP, 2004), Long is also the author of a chapbook,
Six Prose Poems (Brandenburg Press, 2004).
Traci O'Dea's poems have appeared in
Poetry,
The Fiddlehead,
Room of One's Own,
32 Poems, and elsewhere. She lives in Valenciennes, France, where she is teaching English, revising her poetry manuscript, and completing a novel.
Greg Williamson has two books of poetry,
The Silent Partner, published by Story Line Press, and
Errors in the Script, published by Overlook Press. He teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
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[This message has been edited by Douglas Basford (edited August 25, 2007).]