Event: The Hugely Popular Poetry Series : Hailey Higdon & Marion Bell

Saturday Feb. 2nd at 7pm

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The Hugely Popular Poetry Series Presents: 

Hailey Higdon
Marion Bell

Hailey Higdon is originally from Nashville, Tennessee. She is the author of several chapbooks including A Wild Permanence (Dancing Girl, 2018), Rural (Drop Leaf, 2017), The State in Which (Above/Ground, 2013), Packing (Bloof Books, 2012) and How to Grow Almost Everything (Agnes Fox, 2011). Hard Some, her first full-length collection, is recently available from Spuyten Duyvil Press. She currently lives and works in Seattle. Find her online at haileyhaileyhailey.com.

Marion Bell is a poet who lives in Philadelphia. Her first book, Austerity, is coming out from the new Philly-based Radiator Press in January 2019. You can also find some of her writing in the Slow Poetry in America newsletter. She is a Capricorn/ Gemini rising and Scorpio moon. She is also a social work student working in community mental health. She is interested in psychotherapy, depression, liberation, queer kinship, disability, lesbians and making a different world.

Event: The Hugely Popular Poetry Series!

Saturday May 5th at 7pm

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The Hugely Popular Series Presents: 

 

Mark Scroggins

Jessica Smith

Stan Mir 

 

 

Mark Scroggins

Mark Scroggins's volumes of poetry are ANARCHY (2003), TORTURE GARDEN: NAKED CITY PASTORELLES (2011), and RED ARCADIA (2012); PRESSURE DRESSING is forthcoming. He has published two volumes of essays and reviews, critical monographs on the British fantasist Michael Moorcock and the American poet Louis Zukofsky, and a full-length critical biography of Zukofsky. He is currently editing a selection of the erotic poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Jessica Smith

Jessica Smith, Founding Editor of Foursquare and name magazines and Coven Press, teaches at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the author of numerous chapbooks including TRAUMA MOUTH (Dusie 2015) and THE LOVER IS ABSENT (above/ground press, 2017) and two full-length books of poetry, ORGANIC FURNITURE CELLAR (Outside Voices 2006) and LIFE-LIST (Chax Press 2015).

Stan Mir

Stan Mir is the author of two books of poetry, SONG & GLASS (Subito, 2010) and THE LACUSTRINE SUITE (2011). His poetry and criticism has appeared in Asian American Literary Review, Hyperallergic Weekend, Jacket2, and Seedings. He lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Temple University. 

Event: The Hugely Popular Poetry Series Returns!

Saturday February 3rd at 7pm

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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.

Event: The Hugely Popular Poetry Series: Joanna C. Valente, Chris McCreary, Matthew Landis

Saturday, September 23rd at 7pm

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The Hugely Popular Poetry Series: 

Joanna C. Valente, Chris McCreary, Matthew Landis 

Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. They are the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Sexting the Dead (Unknown Press, 2017) & Xenos (Agape Editions, 2016), and is the editor of A Shadow Map: Writing by Survivors of Sexual Assault (CCM, 2017). They received their MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Joanna is the founder of Yes, Poetry and the managing editor for Civil Coping Mechanisms and Luna Luna Magazine. Some of their writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Brooklyn Magazine, Prelude, BUST, Spork Press, and elsewhere. Joanna also leads workshops at Brooklyn Poets. joannavalente.com / Twitter: @joannasaid / IG: joannacvalente


 

Chris McCreary's most recent book is [ neüro / mäntic ] (Furniture Press 2014). A chapbook of poems co-written w/ Mark Lamoureux, Dictionnaire Infernal, is forthcoming from Empty Set Press.

Matthew Landis in Philadelphia. He is a poet, a musician, and a scholar. He is a member of the World/Inferno Friendship Society. He has two cats. He almost died once. Ask him about it sometime. He co-wrote RAINN with Amy Silbergeld and has a book forthcoming based on the 1st draft of the Blade Runner script. It's called So You Want to Build a Bridge? Keep an eye out