series II

FALL09!

saturday, november 21, 8pm

featuring ::

WALTER E. BUTTS, MANCHESTER, NH

NH POET LAUREATE

Walter E. Butts, the 2009-2014 New Hampshire Poet Laureate. He is the author of eight poetry collections, including Sunday Evening at the Stardust Café, winner of the 2006 Iowa Source Poetry Book Prize, and the chapbooksSunday Factory (Finishing Line Press, 2006) andWhat to Say if the Birds Ask (Pudding House, 2007). The recipient of two Pushcart Prize nominations, he teaches in the low-residency BFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College.

MICHAEL ANTONUCCI, BRATTLEBORO, VT

Michael Antonucci’s creative and scholarly work can (or will soon) be found in publications includingArkansas Review,African-American Review,Callaloo,Cortland Review,Byline,Cold Mountain Review,Near South, and VIA. A selection from his longer poem “BAKER BOWL” was included in The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century(CRACKED SLAB, 2007). He is part of the Jimmy Wynn Ensemble, a Chicago collaborative writing experiment and currently working on a series of poems called “Halogen Martyrs.” His favorite element is Hassium.

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READING01 :: SUMMER09 :: AUGUST 1

james shea :: chicago, il

James Shea is the author of Star in the Eye, selected for the 2008 Fence Modern Poets Series and named as a Favorite Book of 2008 by the Chicago Sun-Times. His poems have appeared in various journals, including American Letters and Commentary, Colorado Review, Boston Review, jubilat, and Verse. His translations of Japanese poetry can be found in The Iowa Review, Circumference, and Gin’yu. A former research fellow at Utsunomiya University in Japan, he received an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in poetry at Columbia College Chicago.

douglas piccinnini :: brooklyn, ny

Douglas Piccinnini lives and works in Brooklyn, NY where he curates the crowd reading series. His work has appeared in Lana Turner, Boog City, Verse, Jacket and other journals.

mary-catherine jones :: henniker, nh

Her work has appeared, or will appear, in Poetry International, elimae, Scapegoat Review and the WebDelSol for a critical essay, Poetry as Prayer: The Vertical Address as Considered in Three Distinct Voices. She will be Artist-in-Residence at Hopkinton Independent School, Hopkinton, NH in 2010. Her commercial work for clients like Target, Aveda and Southwest Airlines has appeared in numerous awards shows and design annuals like Communication Arts, How and Print.