A summery poetry reading with Jackie Clark, Joshua Ware, Jeff Alessandrelli, Trey Moody and Amy Lawless.
Amy Lawless is the author of two books of poems including My Dead (Octopus Books). Her next poetry collection Broadax is being published by Octopus Books in December. An audio chapbook from Broadax is out on Black Cake Records. I Cry, a book co-authored with Chris Cheney, is forthcoming from Pioneer Press, a new press out of Pioneer Works. Some of her poems have recently appeared or are fo...
A summery poetry reading with Jackie Clark, Joshua Ware, Jeff Alessandrelli, Trey Moody and Amy Lawless.
Amy Lawless is the author of two books of poems including My Dead (Octopus Books). Her next poetry collection Broadax is being published by Octopus Books in December. An audio chapbook from Broadax is out on Black Cake Records. I Cry, a book co-authored with Chris Cheney, is forthcoming from Pioneer Press, a new press out of Pioneer Works. Some of her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in jubilat, Hot Metal Bridge, Best American Poetry 2013, and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day: 365 Poems for Every Occasion. She has been interviewed about her work in Interview Magazine the Otherppl Podcast with Brad Listi. She received a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and currently teaches writing in New York and New Jersey. She grew up in Boston and lives in Brooklyn.
Jeff Alessandrelli is the author of the full-length collection THIS LAST TIME WILL BE THE FIRST. Other work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Gulf Coast, Boston Review and five chapbooks. The name of Jeff’s dog is Beckett Long Snout. The name of his micro-press is Dikembe Press.
Jackie Clark lives in Jersey City and is the author of Aphoria (Brooklyn Arts Press) and most recently Sympathetic Nervous System (Bloof). She is the editor of Song of the Week for Coldfront Magazine and can be found online at nohelpforthat.com.
Trey Moody was born in San Antonio in 1982. He is the author of Thought That Nature (Sarabande Books, 2014), selected by Cole Swensen for the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry.
Joshua Ware lives in Denver, CO. His first book, Homage to Homage to Homage to Creeley, won the 2010 Furniture Press Poetry Prize and was published in 2011. His work has appeared widely.