The garments fly this holiday season. Please join Gilda and special guest host Lisette in tempting
Laurel Snyder, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Rod Smith and
Mel Nichols to take it off on Monday, November 26th. Reading will begin at 8:00 p.m. in The Dark Room at Bar Rouge.
Laurel Snyder is the author of a collection of poems,
The Myth of the Simple Machines, as well as a chapbook,
Daphne & Jim: a choose your own adventure biography in verse. She also writes books for children and she blogs at
http://jewishyirishy.com.
Hugh Behm-Steinberg is the author of
Shy Green Fields. His poetry has appeared in such places as
CROWD, VeRT, Volt, Spork, Slope, Dirt, Swerve, Cue, Aught and
Fence. He teaches in the graduate writing program at California College of the Arts and is the editor of
Freehand, a new journal of handwritten work.
Mel Nichols lives in Washington, DC, and teaches writing at George Mason University. Her chapbooks are
Day Poems (Edge Books 2005) and
The Beginning of Beauty, Part 1: hottest new ringtones, mnichol6 (Edge 2007), based on the daily blog project at
thebeginningofbeauty.blogspot.com.
Rod Smith's latest collection,
Deed, is just out from the University of Iowa Press. He is also the author of
Music or Honesty,
Poèmes de l'araignée (France),
In Memory of My Theories,
The Boy Poems,
Protective Immediacy, and
New Mannerist Tricycle with Lisa Jarnot and Bill Luoma. A CD,
Fear the Sky, came out from Narrow House Recordings in 2005. Smith's work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies including
Anthology of New (American) Poets, The Baffler, The Gertrude Stein Awards, Java, New American Writing, Open City, Poésie, Poetics Journal, Shenandoah, and
The Washington Review. He edits
Aerial magazine, publishes Edge Books, and manages Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC. Smith is also editing, with Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris,
The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley, for the University of California Press.
