Maryrose Larkin was originally scheduled to appear at this event,
but unfortunately she had to withdraw.
Allison Cobb
Allison Cobb is the author of the poetry collection Born2 (Chax Press) about growing up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, (birthplace of the atomic bombs) and the just-published Green-Wood, a work of poetic nonfiction (Factory School). She lived for many years in Brooklyn, New York, where she worked for an environmental organization. She now lives in Portland.
In Green-Wood, Allison Cobb wanders Brooklyn’s famous nineteenth century Green-Wood Cemetery and discovers that its 500 acres – hills and ponds, trees and graves – mirror the American landscape: a place marked by death but still pulsing with life. Through the lens of Green-Wood, the book explores the history of the American landscape, changing attitudes toward the land, and the impacts of private property, industrial poisons, and war. This is history and poetry, a testament to what survives and an elegy for what is lost–the long dead, the landscape itself, but especially those who died in the twin towers and in the United States’ ongoing wars.
Jen Coleman
Jen Coleman is a Portland poet transplanted from Minnesota by way of Wisconsin, DC and then New York. She’s the author of the chapbook Propinquity, and her work has appeared in many excellent journals including Chain, Ixnay and Tangent. She has co-edited the former literary journal Pom-Pom and co-hosted the In Your Ear reading series in DC.
Today there is a sore tendon,
a front of the shin pain,
a shin sin in the sin a shine
of splintering rage. Today there is
a mushroom in the crook of a tree,
a mushroom that grows on the outside
or a fungus that is an eat from the inside
kind of fungus — or it is a rye sandwich
and tomorrow a Thursday to remember,
a Thursday up there with the best
of the great breakfast Thursdays,
the ham and egg breakfast Thursdays,
the egg on a roll
and a packet of salt
Thursdays in the kitchen
of Manhattan.
Lindsay Hill
Lindsay Hill was born in San Francisco and is a graduate of Bard College.
His published books include Avelaval (Oyez, Berkeley), Archaeology (St. Luke’s, Memphis), Kill Series (Arundel Press, Los Angeles) NdjenFerno (Vatic Hum, San Francisco) and Contango (Singing Horse Press, San Diego). Lindsay lives in Portland, OR with his wife, the painter Nita Hill, and their two children, Ian and Helena.
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