Please join us for poems and spice and everything nice at this month's Burlesque Poetry Hour.
Theo Hummer, Scott Glassman and
Jehanne Dubrow are taking it off for Lolita and Gilda at Bar Rouge in Washington D.C. Monday, July 30. Reading will begin at 8:00 p.m. in The Dark Room at Bar Rouge.
Theo Hummer has taught English in a Czech cigarette factory, freshman comp at Cornell University, and creative writing at Auburn Maximum Security Men’s Prison. She co-curates the SOON poetry reading series in Ithaca, New York, and is writing a dissertation on formal experiment, performance, and the linguistic production of race in twenty-first century American poetry. Her poems have appeared in
Sentence, Vox, the Indiana Review, and on the
Verse website, and in 2006 Anchorite Press published her first chapbook,
The Parrot Bride.
Scott Glassman lives in New Jersey and is the author of chapbooks
Exertions (Cy Gist Press, 2006) and
Surface Tension (Dusie, 2006) with Mackenzie Carignan. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in
Jubilat, The Tiny, Iowa Review, 580 Split, CutBank, and others. He has been the curator of the INVERSE Reading Series in Philadelphia and is currently developing a self-improvement seminar that incorporates eastern wisdom and western psychology. His website is
http://scottglassman.com.
Jehanne Dubrow was born in Italy and grew up in Yugoslavia, Zaire, Poland, Belgium, Austria, and the United States. She is a Ph.D. candidate in creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is currently as a Sosland Foundation Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Her work has appeared in
Poetry, The Hudson Review, Gulf Coast, The New England Review, and
Poetry Northwest. A chapbook of Holocaust poetry,
THE PROMISED BRIDE, will be published by Finishing Line Press later this summer.
