Readings @ The Schlafly Tap
Room
EIGHT
EVENTS l TWENTY READERS l 2005/06 SCHEDULE
All readings begin at 8 PM in the prestigious Club Room. This is a free event.
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September 1, 2005
Geraldine Kim
Geraldine Kim was born in
1983 in West Boylston, Massachusetts. A graduate of New York University, she is currently pursuing an MFA in Fiction and
Poetry at San
Francisco State University. Her work has been published in Dicey Brown and Washington
Square News and her play, Donning
Cheadle, is forthcoming in Fourteen Hills. Her first book, Povel, was the winner of Fence Books’
2005 Modern Poets Series. She enjoys zombie and kung-fu films.
Stephanie Schlaifer
Stephanie Schlaifer is a
sculptor and freelance editor in St. Louis, MO. Her poems have appeared in elevenbulls, Fence and Delmar where she is now the managing
editor. She survived both the Iowa Writers' Workshop and two Iowa winters--no small feat for this stubborn-to-the-core Atlanta native. Although she enjoys life in the Meth capital
of the U.S., she misses living in a region where people know that
pop is something you get for being sassy and soda means Coke. Stephanie is
currently working on a series about weather in the South.
October
6, 2005
Marcus Cafagña
Marcus
Cafagña is the author of two books of poetry, The Broken World (University
of Illinois Press, 1996), a National Poetry Series selection, and Roman
Fever (Invisible Cities Press, 2001). He has also published his poems in
numerous literary journals and anthologies, including AGNI, Boulevard, DoubleTake, Harvard Review, Ploughshares,
Poetry, and Quarterly West.
He teaches in the creative writing program at Missouri State University.
He lives in Springfield with his wife and two cats.
Suzanne Rhodenbaugh
Suzanne Rhodenbaugh won the Marianne Moore Poetry Prize
for Lick of Sense (Helicon Nine Editions, 2001). She'd previously published
four chapbooks, and poems, essays, articles and reviews in a wide range of
venues, including anthologies and such journals as The American Scholar,
The Hudson Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Salmagundi. Born in Florida
to a Georgia family, she's also lived in Washington, D.C., Johnstown, PA,
Bridgeport, CT, Kibbutz Ginegar, Israel, and a raft of other places; and now
lives in St. Louis.
November
3, 2005
Garin Cycholl
Garin
Cycholl teaches writing and literature at
the U of Illinois at Chicago, where he is also one of the co-editors of Near
South. Poems from his “Americans”
series on the photographic work of Robert Frank are forthcoming from the Chicago
Review and Mudlark, which will also publish passages from his
booklength poem, Blue Mound to 161.
He is a minister at Gethsemane United Church of Christ on Chicago’s northwest side.
Chris Glomski
Chris Glomski was born in Pueblo,
Colorado on the last day of 1965. His poems have
appeared in a variety of publications, most recently The Octopus and ACM.
A chapbook, IL LA, was put out by
Noemi Press in 2002. His first collection of poems, Transparencies Lifted from Noon, will be published by the Meeting
Eyes imprint of Spuyten Duyvil Press in the summer of 2005. He lives in Chicago with his wife and three cats.
Chuck Stebelton
Chuck Stebelton is the author
of Circulation Flowers (Tougher Disguises, 2005), and Precious,
an Answer Tag chapbook. He organizes the Myopic Poetry Series, a weekly
series of readings and occasional poets' talks at Myopic Books in Chicago.
William Allegrezza
Editor of moria, Allegrezza regularly shares
thoughts through http://allegrezza.blogspot.com.
His publications include the chapbook, lingo, as well as Temporal
Nomads, an e-book available from xPress(ed).
December
1, 2005
K. Curtis Lyle
K. Curtis Lyle was born in
1944 and grew up in Watts, in South Central Los Angeles, and was a prominent
member of the seminal Watts Writers Workshop. He came to St. Louis in the late '60s to teach at Washington University and became connected with the Black Artists Group
(BAG). Curtis's work has been widely anthologized for decades, but the most
succinct collection of his poetry is Electric Church (Beyond Baroque Press, 2003). Also in 2003, Ikef
Records re-released "The Collected Poem for Blind Lemon Jefferson,"
one of Curtis' collaborations with his dear friend, the late Julius Hemphill,
of BAG and the World Saxophone Quartet.
Marcellus Leonard
Marcellus Leonard is a life
long poet who writes primarily from maturational, family and travel
inspirations. He has taught creative writing for 15 years at the University of Illinois at Springfield. He has published three volumes of poetry: Nubian Cousins: Adventures in Verse, Cardboard Ears: The
Early Poems, and Shake The Thunder
Down. Of learning to handle difficult people you can't get away from,
Marcellus says, "Ain't no point in chopping down
the tree if you have no place to ship the wood."
January 5, 2006 –
The Five Aarons
Aaron Belz
Series
curator, emceeing the event.
Aaron Kiely
Aaron Kiely is 34, lives in New York, grew up in Boston. He has a poetry book coming out from Ugly Duckling
Presse in Brooklyn. He is currently working on a cover of "Holding
Back The Years" by Simply Red and is looking for
a recording contract. He is thrilled to be part of this series.
Aaron Kunin
Aaron Kunin writes poetry,
criticism, and novels. Folding
Ruler Star, a collection of small poems about shame, is just out from Fence
Books. He lives in California,
where he is an assistant professor of negative anthropology at Pomona College
Aaron McCollough
Aaron McCollough's third book
of poems, Little Ease, is forthcoming
from Ahsahta Press in 2006. His previous books include Double Venus (Salt, 2003) and Welkin (Ahsahta, 2002). His poems
have been published in or are forthcoming from various journals including FENCE, The New Review, The Canary,
Verse, Conduit, The Tiny, Colorado Review, and Bird Dog. He currently lives and teaches in Ann Arbor, MI.
Aaron Tieger
Aaron Tieger's poems have
appeared or will appear in 6x6, Can We Have Our Ball Back, The Hat, Pettycoat Relaxer, Fulcrum
Annual, and elsewhere. His newest chapbook, After Rilke, is due out in Fall 2005 from
Anchorite Press. He lives in Ithaca,
NY, where he is a member of the SOON Collective. He is
the editor of CARVE Poems and is still trying to learn to ollie.
February 2, 2006
Patrick Herron
Patrick Herron (http://proximate.org/bio/) is the author
of The American Godwar Complex (BlazeVOX). His writing has recently
appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Jacket, Fulcrum, in the
anthology 100 Days (Barque Press), and in the Tokyo Metropolitan Art
Museum. Patrick
is the creator of proximate.org (http://proximate.org),
a web site that has been featured in the electronic collection of New York City’s New Museum of Contemporary Art. He lives in North Carolina, where he organizes the Carrboro Poetry Festival (http://carrboropoetryfestival.org).
Joe Esser
Joe Esser is the author of The
Book of Punch Lines (Yoo-Hoo Press, 1993), and his poems have appeared in
the Independent Review and
SPSM&H. Owner of a small web development outfit by day (though
embarking any day now on a new career as prolific poet and brewer of beer), he
is also the hands-down laziest founding member of the Hoobellatoo multimedia
documentary endeavor and its sister ersatz record label, Skuntry. He lives in Wayne,
NJ.
Kent Shaw
Founder and director of the
award-winning Underwood Poetry Series, Kent Shaw is unruly and pretentious, or
maybe that's just his emails. Hmm. He teaches poetry
and writing at Washington University, and his work has been published in Pleiades, Natural Bridge, Laurel Review,
and other journals.
March 2, 2006
William Fuller
William Fuller
is the author of Sadly
(Flood Editions, 2003), byt (O
Books, 1989), The Sugar Borders (O
Books, 1993) and Aether (GAZ, 1998),
as well as a number of chapbooks published in the US and UK. The
Chicago Tribune has referred to Fuller's "dense, elliptical meditations"
with "luminous images that consistently marry the cerebral and the
sensual." His new book, Watchword,
will be published by Flood Editions early in 2006. He lives in Winnetka, Illinois.
John Tipton
John Tipton had an itinerant
childhood in Indiana, Florida,
Oklahoma, Louisiana,
and Illinois. After a three-year stint in the U.S. Army, he
attended the University of Chicago on the G.I. Bill and earned an AB in philosophy. His first book-length
collection of poetry, Surfaces,
was published by Flood Editions in 2004. He currently lives in Chicago where he curates the Chicago Poetry Project, a series
of readings at the Chicago Public Library.
April 6, 2006
Jane Mead
Jane Mead is the author of The Lord and the General Din of the World,
(Sarabande Books,1996) and House of Poured-Out Waters (University of Illinois, 2001). She is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award, a
Completion Grant from the Lannan Foundation, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
She teaches in the low-residency program at New England College and The Iowa Summer Writing Festival, and manages a
ranch in Northern California.
Carl Phillips
Carl Phillips is the author of seven books of poems,
including The Rest of Love, finalist for the National
Book Award, and The Tether, winner of the Kingsley Tufts
Poetry Award. His new book, Riding Westward, comes out
this spring.
For more information, contact Aaron Belz (aaron@belz.net).