October  22
Readings: Merril Feitel, Antonya Nelson, Dan Brady, Tony Mancus

November 18
Readings: Sandra Doller, Ben Doller, Nicole Tong
Music: Stripmall Ballads

December 16
Readings: Jennifer Atkinson, David Kinloch (from Scotland!),
Dolsy Smith, Reese Kwon

[co-sponsored by Cheryl's Gone]

September 1st, 7 pm

Swartz
Hall
Doxsee

Gallery 31
Corcoran College of Art
500 17^th St. NW
Washington DC

Julie Doxsee is the author of two poetry collections: Objects for a Fog Death (Black Ocean 2010) and Undersleep (Octopus Books 2008). She holds a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Denver (2007) and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  Currently she lives and writes in Istanbul on the European shores of the Bosphorus, where since 2007 she has been teaching creative writing, academic writing, and literature courses at Koç University, a private university near the Black Sea.

Jordan Swartz is a photographer & writer who has temporarily set his bags down in Washington DC. He is constantly in search of tiny details & new adventures.

Joe Hall’s first book of poems Pigafetta Is My Wife (Black Ocean Press 2010) has appeared on the Small Press Distribution Best Seller List and is a Poetry International Notable Book of the Year. His poetry and fiction have appeared in Gulf Coast, HTML Giant, Barrelhouse, The Boog Portable Reader, Zone 3 and elsewhere. With Wade Fletcher he co-organizes the DC area reading series Cheryl’s Gone. He no longer lives in a trailer park.

We’re thrilled to announce the lineup for our August reading…

featuring poetry from
Kim Gek Lin Short (Tarpaulin Sky Press)
Brian Fitzpatrick

and fiction by Rion Amilcar Scott

with musical guest TBA

8pm sharp!

Just a quick update that we’re in the process of finalizing our August reading and booking the Fall schedule. We should have August details up in the next few days, and the Fall schedule shortly after. For now, here’s a sneak preview of the August reading…

Thursday, August 19th — with Kim Gek Lin Short (awesome Philly poet) and others TBA

Hope to see you there!

We’ll be taking July off, but Cheryl’s Gone will be back in August. The poet Kim Gek Lin Short will be coming down from Philly, and we’ll have others added and announced soon, so be sure to check back for info on that and our entire Fall schedule.

See you in August!

Thursday June 17 – 8pm
featuring: Leslie Bumstead, Moriah Purdy, Stephen Hunt

Leslie Bumstead is the author of Cipher/Civilian, published in 2005 by Edge Books. Poems have appeared in The Portable Boog, Hotel Amerika, /nor, and the anthology Not For Mothers Only (Fence Books, 2007). She lives in Takoma Park, MD.

Moriah L Purdy currently lives in northern Virginia just outside of Washington, DC, though she considers herself “from” New England. She has an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University where she held a fellowship in her final year and served as the Poetry Editor for Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art, Graduate Assistant Director of the University Writing Center, and composition and literature instructor. Her poems have been exhibited in several galleries as a part of a collaborative project with the ceramicist Stephanie Rozene, and have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as Marginalia, and DIAGRAM.

Stephen Elliot Hunt is a local writer and musician. He received a B.A. in English from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1999 and an M.A. in Writing from Johns Hopkins University in 2007. He has written one novel and numerous short stories. Stephen has played music with such D.C. and Baltimore acts as Grandma’s Mini, Haiku Barflies, Project Applesauce, The Sillyheads, and he currently plays with We Stole Your Drummer.

Elisa Gabbert, Christopher Salerno, Chris Tonelli, & Julie Enszer

Elisa Gabbert is the poetry editor of Absent and the author of Thanks for Sending the Engine (Kitchen Press) and The French Exit (Birds LLC). With Kathleen Rooney, she has co-authored several collaborative poetry collections, including Don’t ever stay the same; keep changing (Spooky Girlfriend Press) and That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (Otoliths). Recent poems can be found in Denver Quarterly, The Laurel Review, Puerto del Sol, and Salt Hill.

Christopher Salerno is the author of “Whirligig,” and a new book, “Minimum Heroic,” selected by Dara Wier for the 2009 Mississippi Review Poetry Award. His poems can be found in journals such as The Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Jubilat, American Letters and Commentary, Black Warrior Review, Octopus, Free Verse, Asheville Poetry Review, and The Bedside Guide Anthology. He is co-curator of Raleigh’s So and So Series, and co-editor of So and So Magazine. Currently, he teaches Writing at North Carolina State University.

Chris Tonelli co-curates The So and So Series and is the author of four chapbooks, most recently No Theater (Brave Men Press) and For People Who Like Gravity and Other People (Rope-A-Dope Press, forthcoming). His first full-length collection, The Trees Around, can be pre-ordered now from Birds, LLC, and new work can be found in The Laurel Review and Fou. He teaches at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where he lives with his wife Allison and their son Miles.

Julie R. Enszer’s first book of poetry, Handmade Love, was published in 2010 by A Midsummer Night’s Press. A chapbook, Sisterhood, is forthcoming in summer 2010 from Seven Kitchens Press. She has her MFA from the University of Maryland and is working on a PhD in Women’s Studies. Her poetry has previously been published in Iris: A Journal About Women, Room of One’s Own, Long Shot, the Web Del Sol Review, and the Jewish Women’s Literary Annual. She is a regular book reviewer for the Lambda Book Report and Calyx.

Cheryl’s Gone Reading Series – April Edition

Elizabeth Arnold
Dan Gutstein
Christy Zink
Maureen Andary

Elizabeth Arnold has received a Whiting Award and fellowships from the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation. She recently learned that she has won an Amy Lowell travelling scholarship for 2010-11. Her three books of poems are The Reef (University of Chicago Press,1999), Civilization (Flood Editions, 2006), and Effacement (Flood Editions, 2010). Arnold is on the MFA faculty at the University of Maryland. She lives in Hyattsville, Maryland.

non/fiction is Dan Gutstein’s first collection. His writing has appeared in more than 60 publications, including Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Ninth Letter, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, and Best American Poetry, as well as aboard metrobuses in Virginia. He has received awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, University of Michigan, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and other groups. He works at Maryland Institute College of Art, and prior to MICA, served as Visiting Assistant Professor in creative writing at George Washington University.

Christy J. Zink is an assistant professor in the University Writing Program at George Washington University. Her work has appeared in the American Literacy Review, the Washington Post, and in the anthology Electric Grace. She was a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and leads community writing workshops in Washington, DC.

Maureen Andary is a cabaret folk artist from Washington, DC, and one-half of the duo The Sweater Set. Learn more, and listen, at http://www.maureenmusic.com/

Elizabeth Arnold
Dan Gutstein
Christy Zink
Maureen Andary (of the Sweater Set)

Join us in celebrating Susan Tichy’s new “Gallowglass”

Susan Tichy is the author of four books, including A Smell of Burning Starts the Day (Wesleyan University Press) and The Hands in Exile (Random House), which was selected for the National Poetry Series. Ahsahta Press published the best-selling Bone Pagoda in 2007, and the recently released Gallowglass. Her poems have appeared widely in the US and Britain, and have been recognized by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and by numerous other awards. She teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at George Mason University in Virginia, and otherwise makes her home in a ghost town in the Colorado Rockies.

Sergio Waisman is the author of the novel ‘Leaving’ (2004) and of the book of literary criticism ‘Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery’ (2005). Waisman has also translated six books of Latin American literature, including ‘The Absent City’ by Ricardo Piglia, for which he received an NEA Translation Fellowship Award in 2000. His latest translation is ‘The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution’ by Mariano Azuela. Sergio Waisman is currently Associate Professor Spanish and International Affairs at The George Washington University.

Will Schutt is a poet and translator from New York City. He earned his BA from Oberlin College and his MFA from Hollins University, where he was a teaching fellow and editorial assistant at The Hollins Critic. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as Faultline, FIELD, Harvard Review and The Southern Review. In 2003, he co-founded Verso, a culture and arts magazine based in Siena, Italy, where he was a contributing editor and translator until 2007. He guest edited the “Focus” section of the summer 2008 issue of A Public Space, which featured a selection of his translations of contemporary Italian fiction. He is also the recipient of the 2008 Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets.