Please join us for poetry sparkage at this month's Burlesque Poetry Hour.
Shanna Compton, Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz and
William Allegrezza are taking it off for Lolita and Gilda at Bar Rouge in Washington D.C. Monday, June 25. Reading will begin at 8:00 p.m. in The Dark Room at Bar Rouge.
Shanna Compton's books include
For Girls (Bloof Books, 2007),
Down Spooky (Winnow Press, 2005), and
GAMERS (Soft Skull, 2004). Her poems and essays have recently appeared in
Absent, Tool, Ping-Pong, Dusie, and the Poetry Foundation website. Visit her online at
shannacompton.comGwendolyn Joyce Mintz is a poet and fiction writer. Her work has been published in various online and print journals, eight anthologies as well as on coffee mugs and coffee can labels. She has completed a poetry chapbook, "What I Share With You" and her fiction chapbook, "Mother Love," published by Unlikely Stories Press is currently available.
William Allegrezza grew up in Mississippi, moved to Texas, later Louisiana, but now he lives in Chicago and teaches at Indiana University Northwest. He edits the e-zine
Moria, which publishes experimental poetry and poetics articles, and is the editor-in-chief of
Cracked Slab Books. His poetry, articles, poetry reviews, and translations have been published in many countries, including Australia, Italy, the United States, the Czech Republic, Finland, and the Netherlands. He has published five chapbooks and three books of poetry, including
Ladders in July and In the Weaver's Valley. His book
Fragile Replacements is forthcoming with Meritage Press.
