The Dollhouse Reading Series

Matthew Guenette is the author of two poetry collections: American Busboy (University of Akron Press, 2011) and Sudden Anthem (Dream Horse Press, 2008). Born in Syracuse, NY, and raised in Newport, NH (birthplace of Sarah Joseph Hale, author of “Mary Had a Little Lamb”!), he currently lives, works, and loses sleep in Madison, WI.

Matthew Guenette is one of our favorite Matthews. Check out his self-interview for The Next Big Thing and get in on the love this Saturday at The Dollhouse #24!

Corey Zeller is the author of Man vs. Sky (YesYes Books, 2013). His work has appeared in Puerto del Sol, Mid-American Review, The Colorado Review, Diagram, The Kenyon Review, Salt Hill, West Branch, Third Coast, The Literary Review, The Paris-American, New Orleans Review, and more (seriously, MANY more).

Corey will be bringing his poems to The Dollhouse #24 all the way from Erie, Pennsylvania, so please RSVP and join us this Saturday!

Leila Wilson is the author of The Hundred Grasses (Milkweed Editions, 2013). Her poems have appeared in A Public Space, Denver Quarterly, Poetry, The Canary, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Friends of Literature Prize from the Poetry Foundation and an Academy of American Poets College Prize. She is a former editor at Chicago Review, and she teaches at University of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Check out this wonderful interview and be sure to RSVP to see her read at The Dollhouse Reading Series #24 this Saturday!

Carrie Lorig is an insta-best friend mainly because she has Mnpls’ back and constantly thinks about what t-shirts could say.

She is the author of the chapbook NODS. (Magic Helicopter Press) and co-author of a chapbook of political erasures w/Nick Sturm called Nancy and The Dutch (NAP). Her poems and collaborations have appeared or are forthcoming in ILK, TYPO, inter|rupture (w/Russ Woods), Jellyfish Magazine, The Denver Quarterly (w/Russ Woods), and elsewhere. She lives in the cold part of Minneapolis, MN, where she co-runs the Our Flow is Hard reading series and is working towards her MFA. 

Lucky you! Carrie will be reading at The Dollhouse on Saturday AND AND AND at Poetry Made of Lemurs on Sunday!

Natalie Shapero is the author of No Object (Saturnalia, 2013). Her poems have appeared in The Believer, The New Republic, Poetry, The Progressive, and elsewhere. She writes and teaches at Kenyon College, where she is a Kenyon Review Fellow.

You can listen to Natalie read her poem “Your Other Heart” here, and we highly recommend this interview at HTMLGiant which includes references to Springsteen, the federal effort to convert the U.S. to the metric system, Abraham Lincoln, dogs covered in blankets, and more.

Please join us this Friday for the brilliant Natalie Shapero at The Dollhouse #23!

Alexis Pope is the author of the chapbook Girl Erases Girl (dancing girl press, 2013). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Washington Square, Columbia Poetry Review, H_NGM_N, Guernica, and iO, among others. She is currently living in Akron, Ohio where she co-curates for The Big Big Mess Reading Series.

Join us this Friday at The Dollhouse #23 to see and hear the wonder that is Alexis Pope!

Hot on the heels of our Dollhouse Special Event is the Dollhouse #23, featuring none other than Ben Clark!

Ben Clark grew up in rural Nebraska and now lives in Chicago, Illinois. He has worked as an English teacher, librarian, tile maker, track coach, and in a microwaveable popcorn factory. He is an assistant editor for Muzzle Magazine, and recently graduated with an MFAW from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has been published in numerous  online and print journals including Salt Hill Journal, Verse Daily, Hobart, A cappella Zoo,  Atticus Review, and Paper Darts. His first full-length collection of poetry, Reasons To Leave The Slaughter, was released by Write Bloody Publishing in 2011. At the moment he is collaborating with Colin Winnette on a book entitled Kate Jury Denton Texas.

He’ll be reading this Friday, May 17, with Alexis Pope and Natalie Shapero! RSVP here and we’ll see you there!

Bill Berkson recently guest-blogged for Harriet, and we think the photo in this post is reason enough to join us on Friday (scroll down to see Bill with John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, Patsy Southgate and Kenneth Koch). Here are some more reasons our very first Special Event is not-to-be-missed:

Bill Berkson was born in New York in 1939. His first book Saturday Night: Poems 1960-61 was published by Tibor de Nagy Editions in 1961. During the 1960s, he worked in various capacities at ARTnews, the Museum of Modern Art, and as associate producer of a show on art for public television. He moved to Northern California in 1970 and during the next decade edited a series of little magazines and books under the Big Sky imprint. He has taught at The New School for Social Research, Yale, in many Poets in the Schools programs, and for twenty-four years at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he is now Professor Emeritus. He is a corresponding editor for Art in America and artcritical and has contributed reviews and essays to such other journals as Aperture, Artforum, and Modern Painters. His recent books of poetry include Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2009); and Lady Air (Perdika, 2010). Other books include a collection of his criticism, The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings: 1985-2003 (Qua Books, 2004); Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981-2006 (Cuneiform Press, 2007); an epistolary collaboration with Bernadette Mayer entitled What’s Your Idea of a Good Time? (Tuumba Press, 2006); and four poems-and-drawings sequences: BILL with Colter Jacobsen; Ted Berrigan with George Schneeman;  Not an Exit with Léonie Guyer; and Repeat After Me with watercolors by John Zurier. A new collection of his art writings, For the Ordinary Artist (BlazeVOX) appeared last year, as did Parties du Corps, a selection of his poetry in French translation (edited by Olivier Brossard) from Joca Seria. A new collection of his poetry, Expect Delays, is due from Coffee House Press in Spring 2014.

RSVP for The Dollhouse Special Event with Bill Berkson and Dora Malech this Friday!

(Photo Credit: Connie Lewallen)

Dora Malech is the author of two books of poems, Say So (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011) and Shore Ordered Ocean (Waywiser Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in publications that include The New Yorker, Poetry, American Letters & Commentary, Poetry London, and Best New Poets, and her work is forthcoming in the anthology The New Census (Rescue Press, 2013). She has served as a Distinguished Poet-in-Residence at Saint Mary’s College of California, in addition to teaching at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Victoria University’s International Institute of Modern Letters in New Zealand, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of fellowships and awards that include a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, a Writer’s Fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Italy, and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.  In addition to writing and teaching, she makes visual art and directs the Iowa Youth Writing Project, a language arts outreach organization.

Please join us at The Dollhouse this Friday to welcome the ever-talented Dora Malech!

(Photo Credit: Joanna Chattman)