Tag Team
June 20, 2011 at 8:00pm
Live Mag! in conjunction with Princeton University Press presents TAG TEAM, an exquisite evening of literary throw-downs and arial spins where the poets go to the mat for you. Hosted by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright featuring David Shapiro, with Kristin Prevallet, Joanna Fuhrman, Anthony Carelli and David Henderson.
Tickets $10
Jeff Wright
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright is the author of 11 books of verse including Employment of the Apes, All in All, Drowning Light and Walking on Words. His poetry has also been in numerous magazines and several anthologies. His artwork has been in a dozen group shows and one solo show. He can be found reading, singing and wise-cracking on Youtube. Critical work appears monthly in the Brooklyn Rail.
http://livemagnyc.com
Joanna Fuhrman
Joanna Fuhrman is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Pageant (Alice James Books 2009) and Moraine (Hanging Loose Press 2006.) She is the poetry editor for Boog City and teaches creative writing at Rutgers University and in public schools. A new chapbook, The Emotive Function, is forthcoming from Least Weasel Press.
Anthony Carelli
Anthony Carelli was raised in Poynette, Wisconsin, and studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before completing an MFA in poetry at New York University. His poems have appeared in various magazines, including the New Yorker. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Carnations is his first book.
Davie Henderson
C. Meilicke
Books of poetry include: De Mayor of Harlem; The Low East; Neo-California.
Recent publications in White Rabbit Magazine and Phat’tude.
Ariana Reines
Ariana Reines is the author ot The Cow (Alberta Prize, Fence: 2006), Coeur de Lion (Mal-O-Mar: 2007; Fence: 2011), Mercury (forthcoming Fence: 2011), and the play TELEPHONE, commissioned and produced by The Foundry Theatre in 2009, with two Obies. Volumes of translation include The Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal by Jean-Luc Hennig, and Preliminary Notes Toward a Theory of the YoungGirl by TIQQUN, both for Semiotext(e), and My Heart Laid Bare by Charles Baudelaire, for Mal-O-Mar. She was Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at UC Berkeley in 2009. Her theatre and poems have been featured in the Works+Process series at the Guggenheim Museum and in many anthologies, exhibition catalogs, and periodicals. She’s got a weird blog called YES at http://arianareines.tumblr.com
Bakar Wilson
Bakar Wilson is a fellow of Cave Canem, the prestigious organization nourishing vital new voices in African-American poetry. He has performed his work at the Bowery Poetry Club, Poetry Project, The Studio Museum of Harlem, and The Asian-American Writer’s Workshop among others. His poetry has appeared in several journals, including: The Vanderbilt Review, Stretching Panties, and The Brooklyn Rail. A native of Tennessee, Bakar lives in New York City and is an Adjunct Lecturer of English at Medgar Evers College and Borough of Manhattan Community College.
Kristin Prevallet
Kristin Prevallet is the author of four books of poetry, including I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship and a PEN translation fund award. She teaches Trance Poetics (an ongoing writing and somatic process workshop) and combines integrative methods of hypnosis, energy psychology, and life coaching in her work with clients at her office in Manhattan. Recent poetry and essays are forthcoming in Fourth Genre, Spoon River Review, and the anthology “I’ ll Drown My Book”: Conceptual Writing by Women. Go to www.drunkenboat.com for more information on the call for work on the forthcoming Hypnopoeia folio. www.kayvallet.com