5.10.2011

SATURDAY ♦ MAY 14 ♦ 7PM



Ish Klein is the author of the poetry books Moving Day and Union! published by Canarium Press. A compilation of her recent videos, entitled Success Window, has been released by Poor Claudia of Portland, Oregon. She's from Long Beach, New York but now lives in Amherst, MA with the writer Greg Purcell. Together they record the poetry podcast called No Slander.


Greg Purcell's poetry has appeared in Fence, Open City, The Brooklyn Rail and The Agriculture Reader, and has been anthologized in A Best of Fence: The First 9 Years. He lives in Amherst, and with Ish Klein he records The No Slander Podcast.


Matt Hart is the author of the poetry collections Who's Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006), Wolf Face (H_NGM_N BKS 2010), and Light-Headed (BlazeVOX, 2011). A fourth collection Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless will be published by Typecast in 2012. He lives in Cincinnati, where he is a co-founder and editor of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety and the Poet-in-Resistance at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.


Guy Pettit lives in Northampton, MA. He has a chapbook, Love Me or Love Me NO1, published by minutes BOOKS. Currently, he directs Flying Object Center for Independent Publishing⎯non-profit bookstore, gallery and letterpress, which he founded in 2010. He is a co-editor for Factory Hollow Press and the online journal notnostrums.


Ben Mirov grew up in Northern California. He is the author of Ghost Machine (Caketrian, 2010) and the chapbooks Vortexts (SUPERMACHINE, 2011), I is to Vorticism (New Michigan Press, 2010), Collected Ghost (H_NGM_N, 2010).