Don't miss the poetical peep show with Lolita and Gilda at Bar Rouge in Washington D.C.
Gina Myers, Dustin Williamson, Shafer Hall and
Henry Israeli will be taking it off on Monday, March 27th. Reading will begin at 8:00 p.m. in The Dark Room at Bar Rouge.
Bring your cold hard cash to own a piece of these poets.
Gina Myers' chapbook
Fear of the Knee Bending Backwards is forthcoming from
H_NGM_N. Her poems have appeared in
CARVE, The Canary, Cannibal, No Tell Motel, & elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn where she co-edits
the tiny with Gabriella Torres.
Dustin Williamson is from Milwaukee, but has recently moved to Brooklyn. When not stealing office supplies from the construction company where he works, he edits the Rust Buckle chapbook series. Recent work has appeared in
Lungfull!, Cannibal, Dodo Bird, Dusie, and the
Harley-Davidson trade magazine, Hog Heaven. A chapbook,
Gorilla Dust, is forthcoming (in that nebulous forthcoming sort of way) from Open 24 Hour Press. More importantly, according to the "Local News" section of
Fascicle, he throws "notorious parties."
Henry Israeli's books include
New Messiahs (Four Way Books: 2002) and
Fresco: the Selected Poetry of Luljeta Lleshanaku (New Directions: 2002)—which he edited and co-translated. He has been awarded fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Canada Council on the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Toronto Arts Council, as well as a residency at the MacDowell Colony. His poetry and translations have appeared in numerous journals, including
Grand Street, The Iowa Review , Quarterly West, Tin House, Fence, Verse and elsewhere. Henry Israeli is also the founder of Saturnalia Books and the Literary Editor of
Dragonfire, an online journal.
Shafer Hall is a Texan, bartender, and poet living in Brooklyn. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in
Jubilat, the Indiana Review, McSweeney's, and elsewhere. He is the curator of the Frequency Reading Series, and he is a senior editor of
Painted Bride Quarterly.
