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Now available! Observable Readings, 2006-2007—No. 6 in the series—includes poems by Michael Castro, Eugene Redmond, Ray Hsu, François Luong, Gabriel Gudding, Piotr Gwiazda, Robyn Schiff, Robin Behn, Robin Beth Schaer, Jen Hofer, Jen Bervin, Jen Chapis, Jen Coleman, Jennifer MacKenzie, Jennifer Robinson, Jennifer Woods, Jen Gaby, Jen Scappettone, Jennifer Denrow, Jenny Mueller, Jon Woodward, John Gallaher, Wayne Miller, David Clewell, and Joy Katz.
No. 5 in the series is To The Sun at Anchor by Minnesota poet Gabriel Gudding (rhymes with "pudding"), author of two full-length books, A Defense of Poetry (Pitt Poetry Series, 2002) and Rhode Island Notebook (Dalkey Archive Press, 2008). To The Sun at Anchor is one of Gabe's tenderest, funniest poems yet.
Readings @ The Tap Room, 2005-2006—No. 4 in the series—includes poems by Stephanie Schlaifer,
Marcus Cafagña,
Suzanne Rhodenbaugh,
Garin Cycholl,
Chris Glomski,
Chuck Stebelton,
William Allegrezza,
K. Curtis Lyle,
Marcellus Leonard,
Aaron Kiely,
Aaron Kunin,
Aaron McCollough,
Aaron Tieger,
Patrick Herron,
Joe Esser,
Kent Shaw,
William Fuller,
John Tipton,
Jane Mead, and
Carl Phillips.
No. 3 is Cole Swensen's Ghosts Are Hope. Cole participated in Observable Readings in Fall, 2004, and mesmerized the audience. Read more about her here.
"Quite honestly, I think Cole Swensen is a genius and her work, among that of my immediate contemporaries, is absolutely vital to me."
No. 2 in the Observable series, Readings @ The Contemporary, 2004-2005, anthologizes shorter works from each of the poets who read last season: Carl Dennis, Julie Dill, Rodney Jones, Cole Swensen, Stephanie Young, Jocelyn Emerson, Roberto Harrison, Tom Hunley, Stephanie McKenzie, Daniel Nester, Kirby Olson, Stefene Russell, Robyn Schiff, Nick Twemlow, and Devin Johnston.
SOLD OUT! Aaron Belz's Plausible Worlds, No. 1 in the series, is also available in a $20 "special edition" of 50 hand-sewn and numbered copies (four of these remain). He is the author of The Bird Hoverer (BlazeVOX, 2007) and Direction (forthcoming from Persea Books). For a review of this chapbook, see Ron Silliman's blog.
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