Matvei Yankelevich, Lewis Freedman, & Zack Pieper

MATVEI YANKELEVICH
LEWIS FREEDMAN
ZACK PIEPER

Saturday, April 24th
7PM
900 S 5th St
5th & Walker
Enter on Walker. Door now marked LOBBY for yr convenience.
$5 goes to the readers.

MATVEI YANKELEVICH is a translator of things Russian, and a writer of things English. He is the translator and editor of TODAY I WROTE NOTHING: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook, 2007). He is a co-translator of OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism (Northwestern UP, 2006). His own writing has appeared in various journals, and he is the author of a long poem, THE PRESENT WORK, presented as a chapbook by Palm Press [http://www.palmpress.org], as well as the book, Boris by the Sea, published by Octopus Books. He teaches at Hunter College and the School of the Arts at Columbia University. He is an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse.

LEWIS FREEDMAN recently found himself in Madison, WI and then quickly founded, along with Andy Gricevich, the _______-Shaped Reading Series. He is the author of The Third Word (reviewed glowingly by Eddie Berrigan in the Poetry Project Newsletter) and most recently CATFISH PO' BOYS, a glorious and messy mash-up of typed and handwritten poems, published by Minutes Books. Read of him here: http://divinemagnet.blogspot.com/2009/10/faculties-of-yes-on-poems-of-lewis.html

ZACK PIEPER, who you probably know from his various musical projects (Trusty Knife & Farms in Trouble), has also been a prolific reader and writer of the poems since, like, forever. With at least one chapbook, one rock opera, and several records under his belt, Pieper's gonna bring it, y'all.

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DANA WARD - DUSTIN WILLIAMSON - JESS MYNES - JOHN COLETTI

7PM, April 8, 2010 at the Old Saffran Manse, 900 S. 5th St Milwaukee WI

(Please note the new time so you're not late!)

It was hard to find a picture of the Fab Four all together let me tell you! And even harder to get them to reunite. But we did it!

Dana Ward is the author of The Drought, published in 2009 from Open 24 Hours Press. He lives in Cincinnati where he curates the Cy Press Reading Series, one of the other awesome house reading series currently going. You can hear Dana at his new PennSound pagehttp://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Ward-Dana.php; and you can listen to Cy Press Readings at this page: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Cy-Press.php.

Dustin Williamson is the author of Gorilla Dust, Cab Ass'n, among other books, and since 2004 has published authors under the Rust Buckle imprint. He brought out John Coletti's first perfect bound book Mum Halo in 2009. Dustin also curates the Monday Night Reading Series at The Poetry Project at St Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery.

Jess Mynes is the author Sky Brightly Picked, released in 2009 from Skysill Press. Jess publishes Fewer & Further Press, and also curates the All Small Caps Reading Series in Wendell, Massachusetts, where he lives and owns a Hot Tub Poetry Time Machine.

John Coletti is the author of Mum Halo published, as noted above, by Mr. Williamson's Rust Buckle Books in 2009. John is the former editor of the Poetry Project Newsletter and current "awesome fuck-up". John is also the proud papa of a newly minted PennSound page: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Coletti.php.