Thursday, September 2, 7pm

New Location!

at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts
in the Open Book Building
1011 Washington Ave. S., First Floor

Sarah Fox is a doula and an instructor of Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota, where she's currently pursuing an MFA in Poetry. Her book Because Why was published by Coffee House Press, and recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Conduit, ElevenEleven, Action Yes, Spout, Rain Taxi, and Tammy. She also writes for the blog Montevidayo (montevidayo.com). She and her partner John Colburn live in Northeast Minneapolis where they grow entheogenic plants and co-imagine a future Center for Visionary Poetics.

Kira Henehan was born in New York and grew up in various locales around the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean. Her work has been published in Fence, jubilat, Chelsea, Conjunctions, and Denver Quarterly, among others. She has also received a Pushcart Prize and been included in A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years anthology. Henehan attended San Francisco State University and Columbia University, and now lives in New York City. Her first novel, Orion You Came And You Took All My Marbles, was recently published by Milkweed Editions.

David Dodd Lee is the author of seven books of poems, most recently The Nervous Filaments (Four Way Books 2010), Sky Booths in the Breath Somewhere: The Ashbery Erasure Poems (BlazeVox 2010) and Orphan, Indiana (University of Akron Press, forthcoming Fall 2010). He teaches at Indiana University South Bend, where he is also editor in chief of 42 Miles Press.

Eric Lorberer has published poems in dozens of literary magazines, from American Poetry Review to VOLT, and won a SASE/Jerome Fellowship for his poetry. His essay "The Ashbery Bridge: Poetry and Public Space" was named a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2008. He edits Rain Taxi Review of Books and runs the Rain Taxi Reading Series and the Twin Cities Book Festival.

Louise Mathias is the author of Lark Apprentice, which won the New Issues Poetry Prize and was published by New Issues Press in 2004, as well as the chapbook Above All Else, the Trembling Resembles a Forest, which Martha Ronk chose for the Burnside Review Chapbook Prize (2010). She splits her time between Joshua Tree, California, and rural Indiana. Read three of her poems here.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Join us at the Rogue Buddha Gallery (357 13th Ave. Northeast) from 7-9 for poetry, conversation, and a celebration of Pocket Lab's first birthday. This little reading series is growing up...

Readers:

Stephanie Anderson is the author of the chapbooks In the Particular Particular (New Michigan Press), The Choral Mimeographs (dancing girl press), The Nightyard (forthcoming, Noemi Press), and A Spot A Scheme (forthcoming, Cinematheque Press). She edits Projective Industries and lives in Chicago. Read her poems, "Following the Slideshow, I Let the Starling" and "In the Fall the Threshers Came," here.

BJ Love is the author of Michigander (Greying Ghost) and the forthcoming We are Two Bastards (Indivia). Additionally, he is an MFA candidate in the Writer's Workshop at Iowa. Read his poem, "Of birds, binoculars & grade school anatomy," here.

Matt Mauch grew up in small Midwestern towns between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, in the snow and wind-chill belt. He is the author of Prayer Book (forthcoming from Lowbrow Press) and the chapbook The Book of Modern Prayer (Palimpsest Press). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in DIAGRAM, The Journal, Willow Springs, The Squaw Valley Review, The Los Angeles Review, Sonora Review, and elsewhere. The editor of Poetry City, USA, Volume 1 (forthcoming from Lowbrow Press), Mauch teaches writing and literature in the AFA program at Normandale Community College, and also coordinates the reading series there. Read his poem, "Lesser Gods," here.

Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen received her MFA in Creative Writing at Mills College where she was awarded the Mary Merrit Henry Prize in Poetry and the Ardella Mills Literary Composition Prize in Creative Non-Fiction. Her work has been published in several journals and anthologies and she has performed at numerous venues including Kearny Street Workshop’s APAture 8 & 9, San Francisco’s Litcrawl and Writers with Drinks. In addition to writing, Anh-Hoa is the founder of Pomelo Press, and creates self-published and hand bound artists books and is a photographer, printmaker and performer. Read her poem, "Breath of Wonder," here.

Lucas Pingel received his MFA from the University of Minnesota in 2009. He has published two chapbooks, most recently, All Types of Breath Included from Further Adventures Press. His poetry has also appeared or is forthcoming from The North American Review, Cant, Ellipsis, and The William and Mary Review. Read excerpts from his chapbook, The Storm That Killed the Tree, here.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Don't make the monkeys angry. Come to the Rogue Buddha Gallery. We'll be waiting.

Mark Ehling is a writer living in Minneapolis. His short fiction has appeared nationally--in magazines such as Utne Reader, Denver Quarterly and The New Orleans Review--and his short film, "How to Live Better," is currently screening at local festivals and at the Walker Art Center's Film + Video bay. Visit his blog here.

colleen mccarthy writes poems that conceive of women's power as a renewable resource, welling up in the shadow of the nuclear reactor, and fueled by the subversion of names like hysteric or sorceress. she's developing a course that integrates yoga and poetry writing to empower students towards inner change and community activism, and has been invited to pilot her program this summer at the San Francisco chapter of 826 Valencia, a popular free writing workshop for youth. colleen will earn her certification as a yoga instructor this july, and her mfa from the university of minnesota next may. her poems have appeared in dear camera.

Kevin O’Rourke is an MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota, where he served as the poetry editor of Dislocate 5. New work can be found in Tammy, 580 Split, and at 300 Reviews.com.

William Reichard is a writer, editor, and educator. His fourth collection of poems, Sin Eater, will be published by Mid-List Press in April 2010. His previous collections include This Brightness (2007) and How To (2004) both from Mid-List Press, and An Alchemy in the Bones (1999) from New Rivers Press. Reichard has published a chapbook, To Be Quietly Spoken, with Frith Press, and he revised and edited the award-winning memoir, The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's: A Gay Life in the 1940's, by the late Ricardo Brown, published my the University of Minnesota Press.

Nate Slawson edits the online magazine dear camera and designs books for Cinematheque Press. He is the author of the chapbooks a mixtape called Zooey Deschanel (Line4, 2009) and The Tiny Jukebox (H_NGM_N Books, 2009). Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in diode, H_NGM_N, Typo, Forklift Ohio, Cannibal, DIAGRAM, and other places.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

7 pm at the Rogue Buddha Gallery: James Cihlar, Adam Clay, Chloe Joan Lopez, Bronwen Tate, and Elizabeth Workman. You won't want to miss this one--trust us.

Writer bios:

James Cihlar’s book of poems, Undoing, was published by Little Pear Press of Seekonk, MA, in 2008. His poems have appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, Quercus, Bloom, Minnesota Monthly, The James White Review, Briar Cliff Review, Verse Daily, and in the anthologies Aunties (Ballantine 2004), Regrets Only (Little Pear Press), and Nebraska Presence (Backwaters Press). The recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship for Poetry and a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, Cihlar lives in St. Paul.

Adam Clay is the author of The Wash. His second book, A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. He co-edits Typo Magazine, curates the Poets in Print Reading Series at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, and teaches at Western Michigan University.

Originally from New Mexico, Chloe Joan Lopez holds an A.B. in physics from Harvard University and an M.A. from the Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University. She was the winner of the 2009 Red Hen Press Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award, a finalist for the 2006-2007 Writing Fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the 2008 Andres Montoya First Book Prize, and was recognized in 2006 by the Artist's Grant program of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her work has appeared in Los Angeles Review, can we have our ball back?, Spoon River Poetry Review, Mississippi Review, and other journals, and a chapbook, Quodlibet, is now available from New Michigan Press. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Bronwen Tate is the author of the chapbooks Souvenirs (Dusie 2007), Like the Native Tongue the Vanquished (Cannibal Books 2008) and Scaffolding (Dusie 2009). She is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Stanford University, where she edits Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism and Translation. She blogs about cooking and knitting at Bread and Jam for Frances.

Through the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Elisabeth Workman has served as a poet-in-residence, conducting workshops in schools throughout rural Pennsylvania. More recently, she taught writing and rhetoric to international students in the Middle East. Her work has appeared in fourW, Absent, Abraham Lincoln, diode, GlitterPony, and West Wind Review, among others. Her chapbooks include a city_a cloud, Opolis, and the forthcoming Maybe Malibu, Maybe Beowulf. She's the recipient of a 2009 Jerome Emerging Writer Award, and a 2010 MSAB Artist Initiative Grant.

Thursday Jan. 7

Please join us at the Rogue Buddha Gallery (357 13th Ave., Northeast Minneapolis) at 7 pm to hear these fabulous readers:

Amara Hartman grew up in Minneapolis. She spends a lot of time thinking and imagining--sometimes to her detriment, often to her benefit.

Brad Liening is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. His poetry has appeared in over a dozen online and print journals, including H_NGM_N, Swink, Forklift, and Fou. He's a poetry editor at InDigest Magazine and he helps run Hell Yes Press, a DIY press that publishes poetry chapbooks and zines. He lives in Minneapolis.

Juliet Patterson’s first book, The Truant Lover, was a selected by Jean Valentine as the 2004 winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and was a finalist for a 2007 Lambda Literary Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines including American Letters & Commentary, Indiana Review, Redivider, Swerve, and Verse. She edits poetry for Konundrum Literary Engine Review and teaches through the College of St. Catherine and Hamline University.

Nate Pritts is the author of The Wonderfull Yeare (forthcoming from Cooper Dillon) and two previous books of poems - Sensational Spectacular (BlazeVOX, 2007) and Honorary Astronaut (Ghost Road Press, 2008). A collaboration with painter Keith Gamache, Flutter By, is forthcoming from Cinematheque Press. He teaches poetry at the Downtown Writers Center/YMCA in Syracuse, NY.

Musical guest:

Eliza Blue, trained as a classical violinist, took up the fiddle after falling in love with folk music and soon began writing songs of her own. Guitar came next, and then mandolin and banjo. Her lush voice and intimate performance style have drawn comparisons to Margo Timmins, Gillian Welch, and Leonard Cohen. Recently, Eliza has shared the stage with: Roma di Luna, Billy Bragg, Kelly Joe Phelps, The Watson Twins, Fiona McBain of Ollabelle, and Charlie Parr. When not on the road, Eliza lives in Minneapolis with her two dogs, Micah and Lily.


In addition to our awesome musical guest, this reading will feature another treat: the Pocket Lab Chapbook Shop. Look for poetry chapbooks by local presses, as well as by Pocket Lab authors. Thanks to Rachel Moritz for her offer to shop-keep!

A word from our sponsors...

I'd like to take a minute to give a big thank-you to our sponsor (and my employer), France 44. They've agreed to donate wine to the series--and all the yummy cheeses come from their fantastic cheese stores, which are not only full of delicious cheeses, but also charming and lovely people. Thanks, France 44!

November 5: it's on!

Writer bios:

Kristoffer Diaz is a 2009-2010 Jerome Playwriting Fellow. His play The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity had its world premiere at Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater in September, and will be produced here in Minneapolis by Mixed Blood in April.

Brian Laidlaw is a poet and songwriter from San Francisco.  After several years of touring and rambling, he is currently working toward an M.F.A. in poetry at the University of Minnesota.

Rachel Moritz is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Night-Sea (2008) and The Winchester Monologues (2005), both from New Michigan Press. Her poems have been published in American Letters and Commentary, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, HOW2, Indiana Review, 26, typo, and Verse Daily. Among her awards are a 2008 SASE/Jerome grant, and a 2005 fellowship from the Minnesota State Arts Board. She edits poetry for Konundrum Literary Engine Review and publishes WinteRed Press, a Minneapolis-based micropress of innovative poetry.

Matt Rasmussen’s poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Cimarron Review, Mid American Review, MARGIE, New York Quarterly, Natural Bridge, Dislocate, and Water~Stone Review. He is currently a Bush Artist Fellow and has received grants and residencies from the Jerome Foundation, SASE, The Corporation of Yaddo, and The Anderson Center in Red Wing, MN. His chapbook, Fingergun, was published in 2006 by Kitchen Press.