DAY 7 * PAUL MAZIAR * VALERY LARBAUD *

PAUL MAZIAR READS VALERY LARBAUD. VALERY LARBAUD was born in Vichy, Allier, the only child of a pharmacist. His father died when he was 8, and he was brought up by his mother and aunt. His father had been owner of the Vichy Saint-Yorre mineral water springs, and the family fortune assured him an easy life. He travelled Europe in style. On luxury liners and the Orient Express he carried off the dandy role, with spa visits to nurse fragile health.

Poèmes par un riche amateur, published in 1908, received Octave Mirbeau's vote for Prix Goncourt. Three years later, his novel Fermina Márquez, inspired by his days as a boarder at Sainte-Barbe-des-Champs at Fontenay-aux-Roses, had some Prix Goncourt votes in 1911.

He spoke six languages including English, Italian and Spanish. In France he helped translate and popularise Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walt Whitman, Samuel Butler, and James Joyce, whose Ulysses was translated by Auguste Morel (1924-1929) under Larbaud's supervision. (from Wiki)

Paul Maziar's reads his poem here. first book was one of experimental prose, juxtaposed with the typographic, photographic designs of visual artist Maust. His first book of poems, Last Light of Day, was printed by Portland’s Publication Studio, and his brand new chapbook of poems, Little Advantages, will be released by Couch Press this winter. Paul co-curates a monthly reading series called The Switch, and his reveries and drawings can be found at andsotobegin.tumblr.com.

DAY 6 * DEBORAH POE * TSERING WANGMO DHOMPA *

DEBORAH POE READS FROM SIGNS Deborah Poe is the author of the poetry collections the last will be stone, too (Stockport Flats), Elements (Stockport Flats), and Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords), as well as a novella in verse, Hélène (Furniture Press). Photo credit: Déborah Heissler.

DEBORAH POE READS Tsering Wangmo Dhompa's poem "Entry" from Rules of the House.Tsering Wangmo Dhompa’s parents fled Tibet in 1959. Raised by her mother in Tibetan communities in Dharamsala, India, and Kathmandu, Nepal, Dhompa earned a BA and an MA from Lady Shri Ram College in New Delhi, an MA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks In Writing the Names(2000) and Recurring Gestures (2000). She has published the full-length collectionsRules of the House (2002), In the Absent Everyday (2005), and My Rice tastes like the lake (2011), which was a finalist for the Northern California Independent Bookseller’s Book of the Year Award for 2012.  Tsering's non-fiction book on Tibet is forthcoming from Penguin, India in 2013.   (from Poetry Foundation)

DAY 5 * SAWAKO NAKAYASU * LILY HOANG *

SAWAKO NAKAYASU has published some books and won some awards. She has two kids, a supportive husband, and an electric bicycle.

Poem by Sawako Nakayasu: “Apple Speed” –read by the author and forthcoming from The Ants (Les Figues Press, 2014)

LILY HOANG has published some books and won some awards. She edits for presses and journals. She teaches in the MFA program at New Mexico State University.

Poem by Lily Hoang: “The Poets”  (read here by Sawako Nakayasu) published in The Evolution Revolution (Les Figues Press, 2010).

DAY FOUR * SOPHIE ROBINSON * DENISE RILEY *

SOPHIE ROBINSON READS POETRY

Sophie Robinson is a contemporary English poet. Her creative and critical work has been published in Pilot, How2, Dusie, and the anthologies Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century and The Reality Street Book of Sonnets.

SOPHIE ROBINSON READS

 WHEREEVER YOU ARE BE SOMEWHERE ELSE 

BY DENISE RILEY

Denise Riley was born in 1948 in Carlisle and lives in London. Formerly Writer-in-Residence at the Tate Gallery, London, she lectures abroad widely as well as in Britain. Besides poetry, she has written books of philosophy and feminist theory, including War in the Nursery (1983), 'Am I That Name?’ (1988) andThe Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony (2000), and she edited Poets on Writing (1992).

DAY THREE * PATTIE McCARTHY * ELIZABETH BISHOP *

PATTIE McCARTHY READS THE END OF MARCH by ELIZABETH BISHOP

ELIZABETH BISHOP  (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. Flores Raras, a movie about Bishop's life focusing on her period in Brazil was released in 2013.














PATTIE McCARTHY READS HER OWN POEM,  'The Description & Natural History of the Coasts of North America'

Pattie McCarthy is the author of six books of poems & the mother of three children. The Description & Natural History of the Coasts of North America was written in August 2013, when she was in residency with her husband, Kevin Varrone, & their family, at the Elizabeth Bishop House in Great Village, Nova Scotia.

DAY TWO * KYLE SCHLESINGER * ROBERT CREELEY *

KYLE SCHLESINGER READS WHAT I THINK BY ROBERT CREELEY

ROBERT CREELEY (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. Robert Creeley was born in Arlington, Massachusetts, on May 21, 1926. He attended Harvard University from 1943 to 1946, taking time out from 1944 to 1945 to work for the American Field Service in Burma and India. In 1946 he published his first poem, in the Harvard magazine Wake. In 1949 he began corresponding with William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound. The following year he became acquainted with the poet Charles Olson. In 1954, as rector of Black Mountain College (an experimental arts college in North Carolina), Olson invited Creeley to join the faculty and to edit the Black Mountain Review. In 1960 Creeley received a Master's Degree from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Through the Black Mountain Review and his own critical writings, Creeley helped to define an emerging counter-tradition to the literary establishment—a postwar poetry originating with Pound, Williams, and Zukofsky and expanding through the lives and works of Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Edward Dorn, and others.

Robert Creeley published more than sixty books of poetry in the United States and abroad, including If I Were Writing This (New Directions, 2003), Just in Time: Poems 1984-1994 (2001), Life & Death (1998), Echoes (1994), Selected Poems 1945-1990 (1991), Memory Gardens (1986), Mirrors (1983), The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982), Later (1979), The Finger (1968), and For Love: Poems 1950-1960 (1962).  (from poets.org)

KYLE SCHLESINGER READS HIS OWN POEM, THIS PASSING THOUGH

KYLE SCHLESINGER is a book artist, fine press publisher, and poet.  He has several books of poetry, including  THE PINK, Kenning Editions, 2007,  Hello Helicopter, BlazeVOX, 2007 and  Moonlighting, Cuneiform Press, 2005.

*ONE* MARTHE REED * DAWN LUNDY MARTIN *

MARTHE REED is the author of three books:(em)bodied bliss (Moria Books 2013), Gaze (Black Radish Books 2010) and Tender Box, A Wunderkammer (Lavender Ink 2007). A fourth book, Pleth, a collaboration with j hastain, will appear September 2013 from Unlikely Books; a fifth will be published by Lavender Ink (2014). She has also published four chapbooks as part of the Dusie Kollektiv; a fifth forthcoming from above / ground press. Her poetry has appeared in New American Writing, Golden Handcuffs Review, New Orleans Review, HOW2, MiPOesias, Fairy Tale Review, Exquisite Corpse, BlazeVOX, and The Offending Adam, among others. An essay on Claudia Rankine’s The Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue appears in American Letters and Commentary. She is Co-Publisher of Black Radish Books. 
MARTHE REED READING AWAKENING

MARTHE REED READING FROM DISCIPLINE BY DAWN LUNDY MARTIN

DAWN LUNDY MARTIN earned a B.A. from the University of Connecticut, an M.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State University, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Martin's first full-length collection, A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering (University of Georgia Press, 2007), was selected by Carl Phillips for the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Her second collection, Discipline, won the 2009 Nightboat Books Poetry Prize, chosen by Fanny Howe (Nightboat Books, 2011). She is also the author of two chapbooks, The Undress (Belladonna Books, 2006) and The Morning Hour (Poetry Society of America, 2003), which was selected by C. D. Wright for the Poetry Society of America's National Chapbook Fellowship.