11.4:crescent city books @ 6pm_nola
11.5: blood jet reading series @7pm_nola
11.6: healthcare gallery special triple book release
with Ben Lowenkron's Bone River Hymnal @ 7pm _br
11.8: la festival of words + artwalk/earthseed party_ grand coteau_lafayette
11.14: underpass reading series @ 7pm_br
11.15:prospect 3+ reading (chase bldg. suite 102) @ 5pm_br
Michelle Greenblatt is the Poetry and Music Editor for Unlikely Stories: Episode IV and
previously served as Co-Editor of Poetry for the now-defunct AND PER SE AND. A two-time Pushcart
Prize nominee, she has been published in literary journals such as Poetry Magazine, Sugar Mule, Free Verse, Altered Scale, Sawbuck, Hamilton Stone Review,
Moria, Shampoo, Coconut Poetry, BlazeVOX, X-stream, Counterexample Poetics, Word
for/ Word, and Otoliths. Her
first solo book, brain:storm, was
published by Anabasis Press. More recently, she has focused on collaborative
works, such as Ghazals with Sheila E.
Murphy (Cricket Press, 2007) and Dark
Hope with Vernon Frazer (Argotist E-Books, 2011). She lives in South
Florida with her beloved, Kyle.
Benjamin S. Lowenkron's home is the river. Born and
raised in Virginia by the Potomac, he moved beside the James and the
York to attend the College of William and Mary, and now lives with the
Mississippi in Louisiana where he received his MFA from LSU and
currently teaches at Baton Rouge Community College.
Vincent
Cellucci
wrote An Easy Place / To Die (CityLit
Press, 2011) and edited the exceptional poetry anthology Fuck
Poems (Lavender Ink, 2012). Come back river, his first chapbook, a bilingual
Bengali-English translation collaboration with the poet and artist Debangana
Banerjee is recently available from Finishing Line Press. A Ship
on the Line, a battleship-collaboration with poet Christopher Shipman is also recently released from Unlikely
Books.
Christopher Shipman is the author of Human-Carrying Flight Technology (BlazeVOX, 2012), I Carved Your Name (Imaginary Friend Press, 2012), a chapbook co-authored with DeWitt Brinson, Super Poems (Kattywompus Press, 2012), and the collaborative poetry and art book with paintings by Benjamin Cockfield, Romeo's Ugly Nose (Allography Press, 2012). Christopher's forthcoming books include a chapbook of short prose pieces The Movie My Murderer Makes (The Cupboard, 2014), and a new full-length collection Cat Poems: Wompus Tales and a Play of Despair (forthcoming from Kattywompus Press).