October 17th Updates

Friends,

We have two amazing poets in a new, amazing venue for October:


Brenda Iijima is the author of Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus Press) and Around Sea (O Books). If Not Metamorphic was runner up for the Sawtooth Prize and will be published by Ahsahta Press. Also forthcoming is revv. you’ll—ution which will be published by Displaced Press. She is the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs (yoyolabs.com/). Together with Evelyn Reilly she is editing a collection of essays by poets concerning poetry and ecological ethics titled, )((eco (lang)(uage(reader). She is the art editor for Boog City as well as a visual artist. She lives in Brooklyn , New York where she designs and constructs homeopathic gardens.




Poet, critic, and translator G. E. Patterson grew up along the Mississippi River and was educated in the mid-South, the Midwest, the Northeast, and the western United States. His collections of poetry include To and From (Ahsahta Press, 2008), and his first book, Tug (1999), won the Minnesota Book Award. His work has also appeared in several magazines and anthologies, including Bum Rush the Page, Poetry 180, American Letters and Commentary, Fence, Five Fingers Review, nocturnes: (re)view of the arts, Seneca Review, Open City, XcP: Cross Cultural Poetics, and the webzine of the St. Mark's Poetry Project, Poems and Poets. Patterson's awards include fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Cave Canem, the Djerassi Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. After living in the Northeast and on the West Coast, he now makes his home in Minnesota, where he teaches.


Come celebrate their work at our new location, Diamonds Coffee Shoppe. This is my favorite neighborhood spot with a back "vault" to keep our verse safe! Besides for coffee, they've got beer and wine and snacks and the best iced chai in town.

Can't wait to see you there!

Paula

Here's Matt Hart:



Here's Sun Yung Shin:
Here's Karen Carcia:


reading for Imaginary Press last Saturday. It was a really beautiful night. We were so very lucky to have them read their beautiful words about Satan and Todd Rungren and small animals and birds.

Here are some friends and poets mingling around the salon, awaiting the event.
And here are some happy friends and poets savoring the event once it was done.

Do you know what? I have yet to post these photos of last spring's fantastic final reading, when Melanie Figg:



And Rauan Klassnik:



read for Imaginary Press. Was that in the days when the sun stayed up past 8:00pm, or was it their illumination? Hmmm.....