Refeudiatious Reading Series Presents

JARED STANLEY
CATHERINE THEIS
JESSICA SAVITZ

SAT., SEPT 25th
730PM
900 S 5th St
5th & Walker
Enter on Walker. Door now marked LOBBY for yr convenience.
$5 goes to the readers.


Jared Stanley lives in Merced County, California and is the author of many things, such as: Book Made of Forest (Salt), How the Desert Did Me In (The Song Cave), The Outer Bay (Trafficker Press), and I Something Scott Inguito You (Scantily Clad Press). He edits, along with Catherine Meng and Lauren Levine, the rad magazine Mrs. Maybe. His poems have, or should have, appeared everywhere. Here are some.

Catherine Theis's newest chapbook is The Fraud of Good Sleep from Sun Sun Sun. And previously the co-author of In Fortune (dusie kollectiv) with Jared Stanley and Lauren Levin. Read here. She lives in Chicago.

Jessica Savitz is the author of the chapbook FIRE IS THE STATUE WITH THE YOUNG FACE (SUN SUN SUN) and the brand new book HUNTING IS PAINTING just hours away really from being published by &Now Books and Lake Forest College. Also lives in Chicago. Here is a poem from her new book as it appeared in the aforementioned Mrs. Maybe. Full circle, y'all.

Brandon Downing & Macgregor Card

Salacious Banter Reading Series
BRANDON DOWNING & MACGREGOR CARD
Jackpot Gallery
835 E Center St.
Friday, May 14th
7pm
$5 goes to the readers


MACGREGOR CARD is a poet, translator and bibliographer living in Jackson Heights, NYC. His first collection, Duties of an English Foreign Secretary, is just out from Fence (December 2009). A new chapbook, The Archers, is forthcoming from Song Cave. With Andrew Maxwell he was co-editor of The Germ: A Journal of Poetic Research, from 1997-2005. He teaches poetry at Pratt Institute and is an associate editor of the MLA International Bibliography.

BRANDON DOWNING is a photographer, collagist, filmmaker and poet. A longtime member of the Flarf Collective, his books include Lake Antiquity: Poems 1996-2008 (Fence, 2009), The Shirt Weapon (Germ Monographs, 2002), and Dark Brandon (Faux Press, 2005). A feature-length collection of his short films, Dark Brandon: Eternal Classics, was released on DVD in 2007, with a further installment expected in 2010. Photographic work can be seen at www.brandondowning.org, while recent video projects can often be found at www.youtube.com/user/bdown68. He lives in New York City.

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.

87 Years Of Salacious Banter!

Help us kick off our month-long celebration of all things Salacious Banter-y, and the 2010 reading season, and like, Spring with:

Rod Smith
Mel Nichols

Saturday, March 27
7pm
Green Gallery East
1500 Farwell Ave
Milwaukee WI 53202

--PLEASE NOTE THE LOCALE--

Rod Smith is the author of Deed, Music or Honesty, In Memory of My Theories, and more. Here is a link to his page at Electronic Poetry Center. http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/smithr/smith-bio.html.

Mel Nichols is the author of Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon, and Bicycle Day. Here is a link to a work that appeared in the Flarf and Conceptual Writing issue of Poetry. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=237048

And in the offing:

Dustin Williamson, John Coletti, Jess Mynes, Dana Ward -- April 8
Matvei Yankelevich, Lewis Freedman, Zack Pieper -- April 24
BOTH OF THESE ARE TAKING PLACE AT THE OLD SAFFRAN MANSE AT 900 S. 5TH ST. AT 7PM

Brandon Downing & Macgregor Card--May 14th TBA

Saturday December 12th 8pm

Eric Unger
Michael Slosek
Luke Daly

900 S 5th St
5th & Walker
Enter on Walker. Door now marked LOBBY for yr convenience.
$5 (or as close to $5 as you can muster) goes to the readers.



Ok, ready? Eric, Michael and Luke all live in Chicago and, along with Barrett Gordon, make up the Chicago faction of House Press. Eric, Michael, Luke and Barrett edit the magazine String of Small Machines. Eric edits edited the magazine Spell. Michael and Luke publish the arrow as aarow chapbook series. All three will have new books out.


Eric Unger is here: http://www.housepress.org/authors/unger/unger.html

Michael Slosek is here: http://www.housepress.org/authors/slosek/slosek.html

Luke Daly is here: http://www.housepress.org/authors/daly/daly.html

Now less Halloweeny for yr convenience. The reading is on THURSDAY Oct. 29th! Please come on THURSDAY!

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Chris Martin
Ted Mathys

Thursday October 29th, 8pm
900 S 5th St
5th & Walker
Enter on Walker. Door now marked LOBBY for yr convenience.


Chris Martin is a rapper, teacher, and editor of Puppy Flowers, an online magazine of the arts. He holds an MA in poetry, performance, and education from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. He lives in Brooklyn.

Ted Mathys is the author of The Spoils (Coffee House Press, 2009) and Forge (Coffee House Press, 2005). Originally from Ohio, he lives in Boston.

Please arrive by 8:00. Food & drinks are possible but feel free to BYO too!

Judith Goldman
Brandon Brown
Friday October 9, 8pm
900 S 5th St
5th & Walker
Enter on Walker. Door now marked LOBBY for yr convenience.

Judith Goldman is the author of Vocoder (Roof Books 2001) and DeathStar/Rico-chet (O Books 2006), as well as a chapbook, "The Dispossessions" (Atticus/Finch (forthcoming June 2009)). Her work appears or will appear in recent issues of Wig, Parameter, 580 Split, onedit, model homes, and cannot exist. She was a coeditor in the Krupskaya Collective from 2002 through 2004 and coedits the annual anthology War and Peace with Leslie Scalapino (#4 due out in June). Currently, she teaches as a professor and Harper Schmidt Fellow in the arts humanities core and the creative writing department at the University of Chicago; at her home in Chicago, she has started an inter-arts performance series combining music, sound art, visual art and installation, and performance poetry.

Brandon Brown is from Kansas City, Missouri. Poems recently in Brooklyn Rail, Try!, Sprung Formal, West Wind Review. His friends have published chapbooks. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (Cy Press) 908-1078 (Transmission), Camels! (Taxt) and the forthcoming Wondrous Things I Have Seen (Mitzvah Chaps). In 2008 and 2009 he co-curated the (New) Reading Series at 21 Grand in Downtown Oakland.

WAGNER

WARD

WILLIAMS

WWW, Y'ALL.

Catherine Wagner

Dana Ward

Tyrone Williams

Sunday, September 6th 8pm

900 S 5th St

5th & Walker

Enter on Walker. Door now marked LOBBY for yr convenience.

Catherine Wagner's latest book, My New Job, is forthcoming from Fence. Her other books are Macular Hole and Miss America (both Fence). Recent chapbooks include Articulate How (Big Game Books/Dusie, 2008), Hole in the Ground (Slack Buddha, 2008) and the forthcoming Bornt (Dusie). She teaches at Miami University in Ohio.

Dana Ward is the author of Goodnight Voice (arrow as arrow, 2008), The Wrong Tree (dusie e-chap, 2007), Roseland (Editions Louis Wain, 2009) and The Drought (Open 24 Hours, 2009). He edits Cy Press and curates a house reading series where lives in Cincinnati.
Dana is the poet so nice we asked him to read twice.

Tyrone Williams teaches literature and theory at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of two books of poetry, c.c. (Krupskaya Books, 2002) and On Spec (Omnidawn Publishing, 2008). He also has several chapbooks out, including AAB (Slack Buddha Press, 2004), Futures, Elections (Dos Madres Press, 2004)and Musique Noir (Overhere Press, 2006). Recent poems are in or forthcoming from Critiphoria, Laurel Review and The Nation. He is currently writing a book of poems for the innovative writing press, Atelos Books.

Farrah Field
Jared White

Thursday July 23rd 8pm







Salacious Banter Sweatbox
900 S. 5th St. (5th & Walker)
Enter on Walker (door now marked
LOBBY for your convenience)

There will be some food and drink, but feel free to BYOB.

Farrah Field’s first book of poems, Rising, won Four Way Books’ 2007 Levis Prize. Her poems have appeared in many publications including the Mississippi Review, Margie, The Massachusetts Review, Pool, Typo, Harp & Altar, 42Opus, La Petite Zine, Sojourn, Pebble Lake Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Fulcrum, and The Pinch. She lives in Brooklyn and blogs at adultish.blogspot.com.

Jared White was born in Boston, and has lived in Brooklyn for about eight years, during which time he received an MFA in poetry from Columbia, as well as playing a fair amount of music, mostly on the piano. His poems have appeared journals in print (Another Chicago Magazine, Barrow Street, Cannibal, Fulcrum) and online journals (Coconut, Horse Less Review, Word For / Word, Verse). He also published essays on poetry and music, most recently in Harp & Altar, Open Letters, and Poets Off Poetry. He was awarded a University Writing Prize from the Academy of American Poets. A chapbook of poems, entitled Yellowcake, was in Cannibal Books' Narwhal compendium. His very occasional blog, No No Yes No Yes, can be found at jaredswhite.blogspot.com.


Ja

GET YR SWEAT ON

STACY SZYMASZEK & SARAH BUCCHERI

Tuesday July 7th 8pm

Salacious Banter Sweatbox
900 S. 5th St. (5th & Walker)
Enter on Walker (door now marked
LOBBY for your convenience)

There will be some food and drink, but feel free to BYOB.

Everyone knows and loves STACY SZYMASZEK. But if you happen to be one of the uninitiated, we'll save you a googling:
Stacy Szymaszek is the Director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York City. Her work has appeared in Lvng, Aufgabe, antennae, Crayon, Xcp, 26 and online at The Cultural Society. She has also been featured online by Chicago Postmodern Poetry and Here Comes Everybody. She is the author of Some Mariners (EtherDome Press, 2004), Mutual Aid (gong press, 2004), There Were Hostilities (repair, 2005) and Pasolini Poems (Cy Press, 2005). She grew up in Milwaukee, WI.


Also beloved and beknown is SARAH BUCCHERI.
Sarah Buccheri was born and raised in suburban Chicago. After a stint in New York City, she now resides in Milwaukee, Wis. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College and a master’s degree in film from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Aside from her film and video work, Sarah is a performer and collaboratively produces regular performance art evenings at Darling Hall, one of Milwaukee’s finest underground art spaces. She has performed at The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Galapagos Art Space, and at a variety of venues across the U.S. Most recently, she toured with a new show titled EPHKLATCHEMERAL, a collaborative performance that premiered at Baltimore’s 5th Annual Transmodern Festival 2008.

Stacy will be celebrating the release of her new book HYPERGLOSSIA, just out from Litmus Press. Bring yr checkbook, dummy.

Matt Henriksen
Mike Hauser

Thursday, May 14th 8:00pm

900 S. 5th St.
(5th & Walker. Enter on Walker. One block south of National)
$5 suggested donation

As usual, there will be some food and drink, but really, feel free to bring your own.


Matthew Henriksen has two chapbooks forthcoming in 2009--Another Word from DoubleCross Press and Only Grows from Cue Editions--and compiled a selection of Frank Stanford's unpublished poetry and fiction to appear in Fulcrum Annual. He co-edits Typo and publishes Cannibal Books at his current home in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

This is his:

No Reality But the Ruined Idea of a God We Speak To

Gnat caught in the breath of a dismantled catechism

on a cracked pew in a cathedral by the sea,

restore with your nothing wings

the way to where I left my shoes.

No imagination but in your tiny, ruptured eyes

which may as well see no thing,

before a brain which cannot count,

behind the inverted cradle of my hands,

which in a moment or two

will dispatch what I forget.

Mike Hauser is our Charles Olson. He grew up in rural Wisconsin, and now lives in the near-Downtown area of Milwaukee. His books area Dirty Movies Late At Night (Rust Buckle Press), crets crets crets (Rust Buckle Press), Close Gauge Petcock, and Psychic Headset (Mitzvah Chaps). His poems have appeared in Rust Buckle, Gam, Burdock, Abraham Lincoln, The Hat and more. When he is not windsurfing, summering on the Cape, or taking a young Italian lover, he co-curates the Salacious Banter Reading Series with Karl Saffran. But you already knew all that.

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Upcoming Salacious Banter(ish) Events:

Thursday May 21st

Salacious Banter aka the Saffran Manse hosts the Burdock #6 Release Reading
more info coming soon

FRANK'S BRUISED MANDARIN TOUR

CA CONRAD
MAGDALENA ZURAWSKI
AARON KUNIN

MONDAY, MARCH 9TH
FUN STARTS 7ish
READING STARTS 8ish

As usual, there'll be some food and drinks around but feel free to BYOB.

900 S 5th St.
5th & Walker (one block south of La Perla)
Enter under awning on Walker.
MILWAUKEE

Suggested Donation $5/ €3.96/£3.50

CAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia where he lives and writes with the PhillySound poets www.PhillySound.blogspot.com. His latest book The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2009) received The Gil Ott Book Award. He is also the author of Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), (Soma)tic Midge (FAUX Press, 2008), and two forthcoming books, advanced ELVIS course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED: Philadelphia Poems (Factory School Press, 2009). He invites you to visit him online at www.CAConrad.blogspot.com


Aaron Kunin is a poet, critic, and novelist. He is the author of a
collection of small poems about shame, Folding Ruler Star (Fence, 2005); a chapbook, Secret Architecture (Braincase, 2006); and a novel, The Mandarin (Fence, 2008). Another collection, The Sore Throat and Other Poems, is forthcoming. He is assistant professor of negative anthropology at Pomona College and lives in Los Angeles.


Magdalena Zurawski was born in Newark NJ and grew up in Edison NJ, but Providence RI feels like home because that's where she started writing and meeting writers and thinking of herself as a writer. Currently, she lives in Durham, NC, where she is studying 19th-century American literature at Duke. The Bruise, out now from Fiction Collective Two, is the winner of the 2006 Ronald Sukenick prize for innovative fiction. It is her first book.

Tour Schedule at http://fbman888.blogspot.com/

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John Coletti
Arlo Quint

Saturday February 7 8pm
900 S. 5th St.

why, the reading's in Milwaukee, of course...
come early for fun & frivolity but bring some of your own too.

John Coletti is the author of books such as Physical Kind, from Boku Books and Portable Press at Yo Yo Labs, and recently Same Enemy Rainbow, from Fewer & Further Press. He edits the Poetry Project Newsletter and lives in Brooklyn. He co-edits Open 24 Hours Press with Greg Fuchs.

Arlo Quint works at the The Poetry Project at St Marks in the Bowery, and is the author such books as Photogenic Memory, from Lame House Press, and Days On End, from Open 24 Hours Press. We believe him to be a church-going lad.

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Lewis Warsh
John Koethe

Thursday, November 13
8pm

900 S 5th St
5th & Walker
Walker's Point
Milwaukee
Food and drinks provided
Suggested donation: 5 dollars


Lewis Warsh has been a luminary on New York’s writing scene for 40 years. With Anne Waldman, he co-edited Angel Hair Books and Press, an important catalyst in the "mimeo revolution" of the 1960s and publisher of Alice Notley, Philip Whalen, Bernadette Mayer and Ron Padgett among others. The Angel Hair Anthology, brought out by Granary Books in 2001, was also co-edited with Waldman. Since 1977 he has edited United Artists Books.

Previous works of poetry, fiction and autobiography include Inseperable: Poems 1995-2005, Touch Of The Whip and The Maharajah's Son. Of the poetry collection, The Origin Of The World, Robert Creeley wrote: “Given the complexity of this world and all the myriad people who are in it, these poems are poignantly articulate experiments, which reach out endlessly, day or night, so as to feel another is still there too. If one could ever doubt, Lewis Warsh proves again that the world exists, even after all is said and done.” Here's a link to his website: http://www.lewiswarsh.org/


John Koethe has been placed by many critics in the tradition of Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery. Robert Huddleston wrote this of his work: "he can show us as few other contemporary poets can into an oneiric world of magnificent austerity."

Some of his books are The Late Wisconsin Spring, Falling Water, North Point North and his latest Sally’s Hair published in 2007 from Harper-Collins. He has taught Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee since 1973. More Koethe’s page at The Poetry Foundation Website.

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Brenda Iijima
Brandon Downing

Saturday, October 18
7:30ish
Reading starts at 8ish

900 S 5th. Fifth & Walker (Enter on Walker) Walker's Point Milwaukee
As usual, some food and drink will be provided, but feel free to BYOB. Suggested Donation is $5. Please come even if you don't have $5, but try to have $5.

Brenda Iijima’s publications include Around Sea (O Books), Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus Press), If Not Metaphoric (Ashanta Press), and recently Rabbit Lesson (Fewer & Further Press). She lives in Brooklyn and edits Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.

Brandon Downing’s publications include The Shirt Weapon (Germ Monographs), Dark Brandon (Faux Press), and Dark Brandon, a DVD. Photographic work can be viewed at http://www.brandondowning.org/. He lives in New York City.

Questions, concerns: flabscoresbig@yahoo.com

Dustin Williamson &
Ara Shirinyan

August 10th @ 6:30
(Reading will start at approximately 7:30)

900 S 5th.
Fifth & Walker
Walker's Point
Milwaukee

As usual, some food and drink will be provided, but feel free to BYOB.
Suggested Donation is $5.
Please come even if you don't have $5, but try to have $5.


Many of you will remember Dustin Williamson from his time here, when he served as Milwaukee Poetry's Premiere Boyish Provocateur. He now lives in Brooklyn where he occasionally rarely publishes books under the Rust Buckle imprint and spent much of the spring curating the Zinc Bar Reading Series. His chapbooks are Cab Ass'n (Lame House Press), Gorilla Dust (Open 24 Hours), Heavy Panda (Goodbye Better), and the newish Exhausted Grunts from Cannibal Books. Work can be found online at Dusie (http://www.dusie.org/williamson.html) and Rock Heals! (http://www.rockheals.com/archives/2008/01/weighted_down_b.html).

Ara Shirinyan was born in the former Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia and now lives in Los Angeles, California. He co-curates readings at the quickly legendary LA club The Smell and, with his Make Now Press (makenow.org), publishes diverse works of poetry including three books from Kenneth Goldsmith and several written under Oulipian constraints. He is the author of Syria is in the World (Palm Press) and the just published Your Country Is Great (Afghanistan-Guyana) from Futurepoem Books. His Speech Genres 1-2 is available as part of UBUWEB's Publishing the Unpublishable Series here (pdf): http://www.ubu.com/ubu/unpub/Unpub_024_Shirinyan_Speech-Genres.pdf. If that's not enough, check out mp3's from his band Godzik Pink via Kill Rock Stars/5 Rue Christine: http://www.5rc.com/discography/ger013/index.htm.

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Previously On...

Michael Carr (Top Row, Last Person on the Right)
Somebody take pictures next time!

Dana Ward

Jess Mynes

Salacious Banter Reading Series
Thursday, June 26th

Jess Mynes
Michael Carr
Dana Ward

Food & Drinks @ 6:30
(some will be provided, but please bring your own)
Reading @s close to 7:30
as good taste and decorum allow.

900 S 5th St.
(5th & Walker / Enter on Walker)
Milwaukee

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Jess Mynes lives in Wendall, MA (that's Massachusetts, folks!) where he edits Fewer & Further Press and runs the all small caps reading series. Chapbooks include Birds for Example, Coltsfoot Insularity (w/ Aaron Tieger), In(ex)teriors, and Full on Jabber (w / Christopher Rizzo). Several more are forthcoming. Poems are in Shampoo (here & here), The Cultural Society, and loads of other places as well.

Michael Carr, along with Dorothea Lasky, publishes chapbooks under the Katalanché Press moniker. He edited last year's blockbuster The Book of Prophecies by John Wieners and is part of the Boston Poetry Collective. His chapbooks include Platinum Blonde and Softer White.

Dana Ward edits Cy Press from his home in Cincinnati. OMG Press recently published For Paris in Prison, a collaboration with Matthew Hughes Boyko (no word on whether or not she got it). Two chapbooks, The Imaginary Lives of My Neighbors and The Wrong Tree, are available online in pdf format from Duration Press and Dusie Press, respectively. Visit rabbitlightmovies.com to see him in action.