DAY 12* LAURA RIDING * ELIZABETH TREADWELL *

ELIZABETH TREADWELL READS
LAURA RIDING

RIDING'S (1901-1991) works include The Close Chaplet (1926), Progress of Stories (1935), The Lives of Wives (1939), and The Word “Woman” (1993).

ELIZABETH TREADWELL'S (1967-  ) works include Eve Doe (1997),
Chantry (2004), Birds &Fancies (2007), and Virginia or the mud-flap girl (2012). TREADWELL READS her own poem, Sophiakin.

DAY 11 * METTA SAMA * KHADIJAH QUEEN *

METTA SAMA READS KHADIJAH QUEEN

KHADIJAH QUEEN is the author of Conduit (Black Goat/Akashic 2008), and Black Peculiar (Noemi Press 2011). Her digital chapbook, I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men and What I Had On, was just released from Sibling Rivalry Press. She has a day job and a teenager, so therefore cherishes the holiness of naps and can't take herself too seriously.khadijahqueen.com

METTA SAMA read her own work here. She is the author of Nocturne Trio (YesYes Bøøks 2012) and South of Here (New Issues Press 2005 (published under Lydia Melvin)). Her poems, fiction, creative non-fiction, & book reviews have been published or forthcoming in Blackbird, bluestem, Drunken Boat, The Drunken Boat, Esque, hercricle, Jubilat, Kweli, The Owls, Pebble Lake Review, Pyrta, Reverie, Sententia, Vinyl, among others.

DAY 10 * STACY DORIS * SARAH ROSENTHAL *

SARAH ROSENTHAL READS fledge from STACY DORIS AND FROM HER OWN WORK

In 1962, STACY DORIS was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She received her AB in literature and society from Brown University and an MFA in English and creative writing from the University of Iowa. Her books include Knot (University of Georgia Press, 2006), Cheerleader's Guide to the World: Council Book (Roof Books, 2006), Conference (Potes & Poets, 2001), Une Année à New York avec Chester (P.O.L., 2000), Paramour (Krupskaya, 2000), La vie de Chester Steven Wiener ecrite par sa femme (P.O.L., 1998), Kildare (Segue Foundation, 1994). About Doris's work, the poet Jackson Mac Low has said, "Doris's treatment of her themes and forms is radically different from poem to poem and most contemporary practice." She taught at several colleges and universities including the University of Iowa and Hunter College. Doris passed away in 2012.

 (from Poets.org)

SARAH ROSENTHAL is the author of Manhatten (Spuyten Duyvil, 2009) and the chapbooks The Animal (Dusie, 2011), How I Wrote This Story (Margin to Margin, 2001), sitings (a+bend, 2000), and not-chicago (Melodeon, 1998). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals including Sidebrow, Zen Monster, textsound, dusie, and Fence, and is anthologized in Building is a Process / Light is an Element: essays and excursions for Myung Mi Kim (P-Queue, 2008), Bay Poetics (Faux, 2006), The Other Side of the Postcard (City Lights, 2005) hinge (Crack, 2002), and Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, and Stories for Children (Black Radish, forthcoming). Her essays and interviews have appeared in journals such as Jacket, Denver Quarterly, Rain Taxi, Otoliths, and New American Writing. She serves on the California Book Awards poetry jury and manages programs for the Developmental Studies Center.

DAY 9 * ANNA AKHMATOVA * TARA REBELE *

ANNA AKHMATOVA (1889-1966) is considered one of Russia's greatest twentieth century poets. This poem is from her first book, Evening, published in 1912. 

TARA REBELE'S book, And I'm Not Jenny, was published by Slope Editions and her poems

have appeared in Poetry International,

Handsome, Shearsman,Volt, and How2, among

other places. She has performed her live works in cities nationwide and has exhibited her new media works in international festivals, galleries, and universities. She is Director of the low-residency MFA Creative Writing Program at New England College. Rebele reads her poem, Our Remnants.


Akhmatova/Rebele COMBO

DAY 8 * SEAN BONNEY * JAYNE CORTEZ *

SEAN BONNEY READS JAYNE CORTEZ

 JAYNE CORTEZ was an African-American poet, activist, small press publisher and spoken-word performance artist whose voice is celebrated for its political, surrealistic and dynamic innovations in lyricism and visceral sound. 

SEAN BONNEY READS HIS POEM (after SAPPHO) SEAN BONNEY lives in London, UK, and would prefer not to. His books include "Happiness" and "The Commons". "Letters Against Enchantment" will be published next year. He is currently conducting experiments in alchemy and insurrection."

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)