Saturday February 3rd at 7pm
at
Brickbat Books:
The Hugely Popular Series Presents:
Jenn McCreary
Orchid Tierney
Amanda Silberling
Jenn McCreary is a Philadelphia poet. She serves as president
of the board of directors for Small Press Traffic, a San Francisco-based
nonprofit arts organization whose mission is to provide a local and
national platform for experimental writing. She is also the author of
three books of poetry, several chapbooks, and in 2013 was named a Pew
Fellow in the Arts.
Orchid
Tierney is from New Zealand-Aotearoa, currently residing in
Philadelphia. Her chapbooks include Brachiation (Dunedin: GumTree Press,
2012) and The World in Small Parts (Chicago: Dancing Girl Press, 2012),
and a full length sound translation of the Book of Margery Kempe,
Earsay (TrollThread, 2016). Other work has appeared in Bathhouse
Journal, Pacific Literary Review, Empty Mirror and elsewhere. She
co-edits Supplement, an annual anthology on Philadelphia writing.
Amanda
Silberling will graduate from the University of Pennsylvania this
spring and is generally nervous about that. An interdisciplinary
text-based artist, her poems and not-poems have appeared in The Rumpus,
Paper Magazine, Consequence of Sound, Reality Beach, decomP, and others.
Her first film "We're Here, We're Present: Women in Punk" debuted this
summer on VICE. For more info, visit amandasilberling.com.
