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Please join us for our reading with Austin Carder and Emily Skillings.

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Emily Skillings

Emily Skillings was born in Brunswick, Maine, and received degrees from The New School (B.A. in Dance and Writing, 2010) and Columbia University School of the Arts (M.F.A. in Poetry, 2017) where she was appointed as a Creative Writing Teaching Fellow. Her first full-length collection, Fort Not, was published by The Song Cave in 2017 and was a finalist for the 2018 Believer Poetry Award. She is also the author of two chapbooks: Backchannel (Poor Claudia) and Linnaeus: The 26 Sexual Practices of Plants (No, Dear/ Small Anchor Press). Recent poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Harper’s, Boston Review, Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, jubilant, Hyperallergic, LitHub, Pleiades, and elsewhere. Her work has been included in both the Pushcart Prize Anthology (2017) and the Brooklyn Poets Anthology (2017). She has taught poetry and interdisciplinary studio courses at Poets House, Columbia University, The New School, and Brooklyn Poets.

Since 2009, Skillings has been an active member of Belladonna* Collaborative, a feminist literary collective, event series, and nonprofit publisher in Brooklyn that promotes the work of experimental women writers. She co-hosts the monthly Brooklyn-based reading series Earshot, which began in 2005 to promote the work of emerging writers alongside established voices. With poet Adam Fitzgerald, she co-curated the exhibit “John Ashbery Collects: Poet Among Things” at Loretta Howard Gallery (2013). Formally trained in ballet and modern dance, she has performed throughout New York City, and her choreography has been presented by NADA New York (2015), Spoke the Hub (2014), Dixon Place (2013), Triskelion Arts (2009), and Jacket 2, who commissioned her dance film “Uptick” in 2012.

Austin Carder

A graduate Coach with InGenius Prep, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has received his Bachelor in English from Yale University, where he also worked at the Yale University Art Gallery and helped edit a journal of literary translation. After graduation, He taught English to French students as a language assistant at a high school in the Paris suburbs while also privately tutoring students for U.S. university entrance exams. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Brown University, and his dissertation considers translation theory and the work of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett, who alternately wrote and translated his own work in (and into) both French and English.

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Please join us for our reading with Kevin Gallagher, Ben Mazer, and Aidan Rooney

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Kevin Gallagher

Kevin Gallagher is a poet, editor, and economist living in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the author of three recent books of poetry: Isolate Flecks, Gringo Guadalupe, and Looking for Lake Texcoco. He is a co-founder and editor of Compost magazine, and co-editor of Greatest Hits: Twelve Years of Compost Magazine (Zephyr). He has guest-edited features on Kenneth Rexroth and Denise Levertov for Jacket. He teaches at Boston University and his latest book on political economy is The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization.

Ben Mazer

Born in New York City in 1964. He was educated at Harvard University, where he studied with Seamus Heaney and William Alfred, and at the Editorial Institute, Boston University, where his advisors were Christopher Ricks and Archie Burnett. He is the author of several collections of poems, including White Cities (Barbara Matteau Editions, 1995), Poems (Pen & Anvil Press, 2010), January 2008 (Dark Sky Books, 2010), New Poems (Pen & Anvil Press, 2013), The Glass Piano (MadHat Press, 2015), December Poems (Pen & Anvil Press, 2016), February Poems (Ilora Press, 2017), and Selected Poems (MadHat Press, 2017). He is the editor of The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom (Un-Gyve Press, 2015), Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (Harvard University Press, 2010), The Uncollected Delmore Schwartz (Arrowsmith Press, 2019), and Landis Everson’s Everything Preserved: Poems 1955–2005 (Graywolf Press, 2006), which won the first Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Foundation. Formerly the editor of The Battersea Review, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is co-editor, with Raquel Balboni, of Art and Letters. He is currently editing The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz for Farrar Straus & Giroux.

Aidan Rooney

He was born in 1965 in Monaghan, Ireland, and educated at Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth, National University of Ireland. A resident of the U.S. since 1987, he lives in Hingham, Massachusetts, and teaches at Thayer Academy. He was awarded the Hennessy Literary  Award for New Irish Poet in 1997, and his collections—Day Release (2000) and Tightrope (2007)—are published by The Gallery Press in Ireland. In 2013, he was awarded the Daniel Varoujan Award from the New England Poetry Club. Widely published in Europe and North America, his work has appeared in various anthologies, Staying Alive (Bloodaxe) and 180 More (Random House) among these. Go There is Aidan Rooney’s first U.S. book publication.

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Please join us for our reading with Indran Amirthanayagam, Sara Cahill Marron, and Dick Lourie.

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About Indran Amirthanayagam

Poet, essayist, and translator Indran Amirthanayagam was born in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). He was raised in Sri Lanka, London, and Honolulu. Amirthanayagam has authored numerous poetry collections, including The Elephants of Reckoning (1993), Ceylon, R.I.P. (2001), The Splintered Face (2008), Uncivil War (2013), and Coconuts On Mars (2019). He writes, translates, and publishes poetry and essays in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Haitian Creole.

About Sara Cahill Marron

Sara Cahill Marron, a relocated New York poet and author living in Washington D.C., is the author of Reasons for the Long Tu’m (Broadstone Books, 2018), Nothing You Build Here, Belongs Here (Kelsay Books 2021), and Call Me Spes (MadHat Press 2021). She is the Associate Editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly. Her work has been published widely in literary magazines and journals such as Lunch Ticket, West Trade Review, Dark Matter, Chagrin River Review, Foliate Oak, Gravel, Crab Fat Magazine, Gravitas, Atlas + Alice, The Write Launch, Cordella, FLARE the Flagler Review, Newtown Literary, South Florida Poetry Journal, Golden Walkman and others. Links to read her work can be found under the Recent Publications tab. Sara hosts virtual readings for Beltway Poetry Quarterly with her partner in poetry, Indran Amirthanayagam. She periodically is available for editing projects and specializes in creative fiction and poetry.

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About Dick Lourie

He is the author of the poetry collections Calls on the Dream Telephone (1968), Stumbling (1974), Anima (1978), Ghost Radio (1998), and If the Delta Was the Sea (2009), a collection of poems based on the history and music of Clarksdale, Mississippi, home of the Sunflower Blues and Gospel Festival, where Lourie has performed with international blues star Big Jack Johnson. He has also released two CDs based on the poems in his books —combining his sax playing and spoken word with a blues band—titled Ghost Radio Blues (2000) and If the Delta Was the Sea (2014). His poem “Forgiving Our Fathers” was featured in the movie Smoke Signals.

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Please join us for our reading with Forrest Gander.

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About Forrest Gander

Born in the Mojave Desert in Barstow, California, Forrest Gander grew up in Virginia and spent significant years with the poet CD Wright, in San Francisco, Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico, Eureka Springs, AR, and Providence, RI. With CD Wright, he has a son, the artist Brecht Wright Gander. Forrest holds degrees in both geology and English literature. He lives now in northern California with the artist Ashwini Bhat.

Gander’s book Be With was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize. Concerned with the way we are revised and translated in encounters with the foreign, his book Core Samples from the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Gander has collaborated frequently with other artists including photographers Sally Mann, Graciela Iturbide, Raymond Meeks, and Lucas Foglia, glass artist Michael Rogers, ceramic artists Rick Hirsch and Ashwini Bhat, artists Ann Hamilton,Tjibbe Hooghiemstra, dancers Eiko & Koma, and musicians Vic Chesnutt and Brady Earnhart, among others.

The author of numerous other books of poetry, including Redstart: An Ecological Poetics and Science & Steepleflower, Gander also writes novels (As a Friend; The Trace), essays (A Faithful Existence) and translates. His most recent translations are Alice Iris Red Horse: Poems of Gozo Yoshimasu, Then Come Back: the Lost Neruda Poems and Fungus Skull Eye Wing: Selected Poems of Alfonso D’Aquino. His most recent anthologies are Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin American (selected by Raúl Zurita) and Panic Cure: Poems from Spain for the 21st Century.

Gander’s books have been translated and published in more than a dozen other languages. He is a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and has received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim, Whiting, and Howard Foundations. In 2011, he was awarded the Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellowship. Gander was the Briggs-Copeland poet at Harvard University before becoming The Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University where he taught courses such as Poetry & Ethics, EcoPoetics, Latin American Death Trip, and Translation Theory & Practice. He is a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets and an elected member of The Academy of Arts & Sciences.

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