Norma Cole & Will Owen (8/5/09)

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Norma Cole is a poet, painter and translator. Her most recent book is Where Shadows Will, Selected Poems 1988-2008 (City Lights). Other books include Spinoza in Her Youth (Omnidawn) and Scout (Krupskaya). She has translated Danielle Collobert, Anne Portugal, & Fouad Gabriel Naffah. Cole has been the recipient of a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award, Gertrude Stein Awards, as well as awards from The Fund for Poetry. "Poetics of Vertigo," Cole’s George Oppen Memorial Lecture, won the Robert D. Richardson Non-Fiction Award. Canadian by birth, Cole migrated via France to San Francisco where she has lived since 1977.


Will Owen, a recent Evergreen graduate, has published poems, translations, and collaborative reactions in Peaches and Bats, Slightly West and a side, & Crawlspace's Scrawl. Since last October, Will has been enthusing a bleak landscape through Gallery 1412's poetry reading series and related evenings.

THANKS to WAYWARD MUSIC SERIES and NONSEQUITUR for co-sponsoring this event.

Stacy Szymaszek & Don Mee Choi (7/1/09)

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Stacy Szymaszek is the author of Emptied of All Ships (Litmus, 2005) as well as many chapbooks, most recently Orizaba: A Voyage With Hart Crane (Faux, 2008), and from Hyperglossia (Hot Whiskey, 2008). Stacy S: Autoportraits which features her self-portraits with texts written in response by Lisa Jarnot, Renee Gladman, Kevin Killian and others was also published in 2008 by OMG!. The complete Hyperglossia will be published by Litmus Press in spring of 2009. She is the editor of Gam and the Artistic Director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church.




Don Mee Choi was born in South Korea and came to the U.S. via Hong Kong. Her poems have recently appeared in Action Yes, Fence, La Petite Zine, and Tinfish. Her first book of poems, The Morning News Is Exciting, will bepublished by Action Books, fall of 2009. Her translations include When the Plug Gets Unplugged (Tinfish, 2005), Anxiety of Words (Zephyr, 2006), and Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers (Action Books, 2008).

Jim McCrary & Paul Nelson (6/3/09)

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Jim McCRARY has lived in and around and off and on Lawrence, Kansas for 40 years. His book All That (the collected chapbooks) is recently available from Many Penny Press. Publications include limited editions of the following titles: Hotter than and now; Holbox; My Book and Being Frida Kahlo, and Mayaland.

McCrary studied under David Bromige at California State University-Sonoma. Four earlier books of poetry include: Coon Creek (Cottonwood Books, 1970), Edible Pets, (Tansy Books, 1987), West of Mass (Tansy Books, 1991). He is editor of Smelt Money, and has received a Phoenix Award.


Paul NELSON is founder of the non-profit Global Voices Radio and co-founder of the Northwest SPokenword LAB (SPLAB!). His new book, A Time Before Slaughter, is forthcoming from Apprentice House.

Author: Organic Poetry (Oct. ‘08, VDM Verlag, Germany.) Poems/Essays in: Golden Handcuffs Review, Jacket Magazine, Fulcrum, OlsonNow Blog, The Argotist, Raven Chronicles, elsewhere. During 26 years in radio, interviewed Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Anne Waldman, Robin Blaser, Sam Hamill, Wanda Coleman, Eileen Myles, Jerome Rothenberg, George Bowering & others. He writes one American Sentence every day.

Beverly Dahlen & Ezra Mark (5/6/09)

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Beverly Dahlen, a native of Portland, Oregon, has lived in San Francisco for many years. Her first book, Out of the Third, was published by Momo’s Press in 1974. Two chapbooks, A Letter at Easter (Effie’s Press, 1976) and The Egyptian Poems (Hipparchia Press, 1983) were followed by the publication of the first volume of A Reading in 1985 (A Reading 1—7, Momo’s Press). Since then, three more volumes of A Reading have appeared. Chax Press published A Reading 8—10 (1992); Potes and Poets Press: A Reading 11—17 (1989); Instance Press: A Reading 18—20 (2006). Chax Press also published the chapbook A-reading Spicer & Eighteen Sonnets in 2004. A forthcoming issue of Crayon will publish poetry and her essay on beauty.

Ezra Mark writes between things. He is author of the prose work Intention, with Retention forthcoming. Current projects are Slow Motion (completing the arc of the previous two books) and Clairefontaine. He lives and works in Seattle.

Thanks to the Wayward Music Series and nonsequitur for co-sponsoring this event.