Reading 2: Friday, February 17, 2012 at 7 PM:
Adrian Matejka
Sally Van Doren
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Adrian Matejka is the author of The Devil’s Garden (Alice James Books 2003), Mixology (Penguin USA 2009), and The Big Smoke (Penguin USA),forthcoming in 2013. He is the recipient of two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards and fellowships from Cave Canem and the Lannan Foundation. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry 2010, Ploughshares, and Poetry, among other journals and anthologies. He teaches at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and co-directs the River Styx at Duff’s Reading Series.
Sally Van Doren’s book, Sex at Noon Taxes (LSU Press 2008), won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her next collection, Possessive, is forthcoming from LSU Press in fall 2012. Her poem, “Preposition,” is featured as an animated film in the Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Everywhere. Excerpts from her epic poem, “The Sense Series” were the text for a multi-media performance at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. A graduate of Princeton University (BA) and University of Missouri-St. Louis (MFA), she has taught at Washington University in St. Louis and in the St. Louis Public Schools. She curates the Sunday Poetry Series for the St. Louis Poetry Center.
Readings are sponsored in part by All Along Press.
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Reading 1: Friday, November 11, 2011 at 7 PM:
Chris Martin
Ted Mathys
Mary Austin Speaker
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Chris Martin is the author of American Music (Copper Canyon 2007) and Becoming Weather (Coffee House 2011). He was the editor of Puppyflowers and is the editor of Futurepost, a response blog for Futurepoem books. After stops in San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Brooklyn, he currently lives in the oldest freestanding house in Iowa City with his wife, the poet Mary Austin Speaker.
Ted Mathys is the author of The Spoils (2009) and Forge (2005), both from Coffee House Press. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and his poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, BOMB, Fence, Conjunctions, Jubilat, and elsewhere. Originally from Ohio, he now lives in St. Louis and works in environmental advocacy.
Mary Austin Speaker is the author of the chapbooks, In the End There Were Thousands of Cowboys, Abandoning the Firmament (Menagerie Editions 2009 and 2010), and The Bridge (Push Press 2011). New work has recently appeared in Boog City Reader, Bright Pink Mosquito, Pleiades, Big Bell, 20012, La Fovea, Highchair, New Orleans Review and is forthcoming in Mrs. Maybe. She teaches writing and works as a freelance book designer in Iowa City, where she lives with her husband, Chris Martin.
