The summer heat forces
Evie Shockley, Ken Rumble and
Fred Pollack to take it off for Lolita and Gilda at Bar Rouge in Washington D.C. Monday, June 26th. Reading will begin at 8:00 p.m. in The Dark Room at Bar Rouge.
Evie Shockley is the author of a chapbook,
The Gorgon Goddess (2001); a book of her poetry,
a half-red sea, is forthcoming this fall (both with Carolina Wren Press). She also has published poems, short fiction, and critical essays in
African American Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, MiPoesias, Crab Orchard Review, Fascicle, Hambone, HOW2, nocturnes (re)view, Poetry Daily, Rainbow Darkness, and many other journals and anthologies. Shockley is a Cave Canem fellow and was awarded a residency at the Hedgebrook Retreat for Women Writers in 2003. She teaches African American literature and creative writing at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
Ken Rumble's first book,
Key Bridge, will be published by Carolina Wren Press in the Spring of 2007. A long poem about the history and geography of Washington, DC, sections of it have been published in journals such as
Cutbank, Octopus, Wherever We Put Our Hats, Talisman, Carolina Quarterly, Cranky, and others. He is the director of the Desert City Poetry Series.
Fred Pollack is the author of two book-length narrative poems,
The Adventure (1986) and
Happiness (1998), both published by Story Line Press. His poems and essays have appeared in
Hudson Review, Southern Review, Fulcrum, Salmagundi, Poetry Salzburg Review, Die Gazette (Munich),
Representations and elsewhere. Most recently, his work has appeared in
The Hat, Orbis (UK),
Naked Punch (UK; print and Web), and several online journals:
Snorkel, Hamilton Stone Review, Diagram, Words-Myth, Can We Have Our Ball Back ? and
The New Hampshire Review. He is an adjunct professor of creative writing at George Washington University, Washington, DC.
