Baran, Clay, Newton, & Williams (10/6/12)

The Burning Chair Readings

present

poetry readings by

Jessica Baran
Adam Clay

Keith Newton

Johnathon Williams

Saturday, October 6, 8 pm

Nightbird Books

205 West Dickson Street

Fayetteville, Arkansas

FREE!

The Burning Chair Readings, founded by Katy and Matthew Henriksen in New York City in 2004, have organized regular and special literary events in several cities and now call Nightbird Books and Fayetteville, Arkansas home.  Readings feature poets of emerging talent and established reputation from Fayetteville and across the country.

Author Bios

Jessica Baran is the author of the poetry collection Remains to be Used (Apostrophe Books, 2010) as well as the chapbook of prose sonnets Late and Soon, Getting and Spending (All Along Press, 2011). Her poetry has appeared in Harp & Altar, BOMB Magazine, Sink Review and the Tusculum Review; her art criticism has appeared in Art in America, Art Papers, and the Village Voice, among other journals. She lives in St. Louis, where she’s the art writer for the Riverfront Times and co-curator of the fort gondo poetry series.

Adam Clay is the author of A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World (Milkweed Editions, 2012) and The Wash (Parlor Press, 2006). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. He co-edits TYPO Magazine and lives in Kentucky.

Keith Newton’s writing has appeared in Denver Quarterly, 1913, Harvard Review, and Typo, among other journals, and his chapbook of poems Sent Forth to Die in a Happy City was published in 2009 by Cannibal Books. He is co-editor of The Harp & Altar Anthology (Ellipsis Press, 2010), a selection of writing from the online magazine Harp & Altar, which he founded in 2006. He lives in Brooklyn.

Johnathon Williams is the author of The Road to Happiness (Anitlever Press, 2012).  He works as a writer and web developer from his home in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He’s a founding editor of the online magazine Linebreak and the co-editor of Two Weeks, a digital anthology of contemporary poetry.

Brown, Earley, Solomon, & Van Dyke (9/8/12)

The Burning Chair Readings

present

poetry readings by

Lily Brown

Tim Earley

Laura Solomon

Tim Van Dyke

Saturday, September 8, 8 pm

Nightbird Books

205 West Dickson Street

Fayetteville, Arkansas

FREE!

The Burning Chair Readings, founded by Katy and Matthew Henriksen in New York City in 2004, have organized regular and special literary events in several cities and now call Nightbird Books and Fayetteville, Arkansas home.  Readings feature poets of emerging talent and established reputation from Fayetteville and across the country.

Author Bios

Lily Brown is the author of Rust or Go Missing, published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2011. Recent poems are out or forthcoming soon in Gulf Coast, Jubilat, Aesthetix, Saltgrass, and The Offending Adam. She is from Massachusetts and currently lives in Athens, GA, where she is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Georgia. 

Tim Earley is the author of two collections of poems, Boondoggle (2005) and The Spooking of Mavens (2010). His work has appeared in Colorado Review, La Petite Zine, Chicago Review, New Orleans Review, jubilat, Conduit, Typo, and many other journals. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi and also teaches in the Fine Arts Work Center’s Online Writing Program. 

Laura Solomon was born in 1976 in Birmingham, Alabama. Her books nclude Bivouac (Slope Editions, 2002), Blue and Red Things (UDP, 2007), and The Hermit (UDP, 2011). Other publications include a chapbook, Letters by which Sisters Will Know Brothers (Katalanché Press 2005) and Haiku des Pierres / Haiku of Stones by Jacques Poullaoueq, a translation from the French with Sika Fakambi (Editions Apogée, 2006). Her poetry has been included in numerous journals and anthologies and translated into several languages. In 2010, she was invited to read Slovenia's international festival Days of Poetry and Wine, and this year received an award from the Poetry Fund. Currently she lives in Athens, Georgia.

Tim Van Dyke grew up in Colombia, South America, until guerilla warfare forced him back to the United States. Since then, he has worked in several insane asylums. In 2011, Lavender Ink published his first book, Topographies Drawn with a Divine Chain of Birds, and he has a chapbook, “Fugue Engine,” published by Cannibal Books.  He also recently published an e-book, Light on the Lion's Face: A Reading of Baudrillard’s Seduction, with Argotist.  His work has appeared in Fascicle, Typo, Octopus Magazine, 9th Street Laboratories, and elsewhere. 

Local Poet Fest, Volume One (8/18/12)

The Burning Chair Readings

present

Local Poet Fest

with short readings by eight local poets

Roger Barrett

Willi Goehring

Catherine Hotaling-Donnelly

Katie Nichol

Geoff Oelsner

E. Milton Vaught

Jessica Weisenfels

Rodney Wilhite

Saturday, August 18, 8 pm

Nightbird Books

205 West Dickson Street

Fayetteville, Arkansas

We suggest attendees bring a coffee mug, wine glass, or $3 as a donation to help stock Nightbird Books’ new coffee and wine bar.

Come celebrate locally-grown poetry of diverse styles in a laid-back atmosphere.  Beverages with and without alcohol will be available for purchase.

The Burning Chair Readings, founded by Katy and Matthew Henriksen in New York City in 2004, have organized regular and special literary events in several cities and now call Nightbird Books and Fayetteville, Arkansas home.  Look for future monthly readings at Nightbird Books that will bring some of the most exciting emerging poets to share their work here in Fayetteville.

Roger Barrett self published 8 issues of the zine Arm Chair Water Boy before they were doomed to the infoshops of imagination. You can find his other zines—Love God and You are Dead, For Victoria Forgetting, and We’re More River Piss than Grounded Kid by asking someone in their 20’s to ask someone in their 30’s. Random poems appear in Art Amiss chapbooks here and there. A failed stand-up comedian, a lousy hitchhiker, a regular college dropout, and a singer in the unsuccessful punk rock bands Kings of New England, Blood Eagle, The Counterlife, and currently in Escapists, there are so many things that
he can't do.

Willi Goehring was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas, but has spent the last ten years in Western Illinois before moving to Arkansas. He received a BA at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois and is in pursuit of an MFA in poetry at the U of A. In addition to writing poems, he likes to sing when he can.

Catherine Hotaling-Donnelly is a non-traditional student of English/Creative Writing about to graduate from the University of Arkansas and has had numerous articles and columns published in the Ozark Gazette, The White River Valley News, The Northwest Arkansas Times and the Fayetteville Free Weekly.  She has been on the board or has held offices in community groups such as Poets Northwest and The Ozark Poets & Writers Collective.  Donnelly has won numerous poetry and writing contests and has had her poetry published in the Lamplighter Review and @Urban Magazine.  She has lived on both coasts before getting landlocked in Arkansas.  She currently lives in a Civil War farmhouse on four acres with her husband and sons, two cats, a pug and twenty-nine chickens.

Katie Nichol is a fourth-year student in the MFA program at the University of Arkansas. She really likes to bake cakes. 

Geoffrey Oelsner is a poet, a singer/songwriter, and a psychotherapist. He has lived in Fayetteville, Arkansas in the Ozarks bioregion since 1979. His wife, Leslie Berman Oelsner, is also his musical partner.  Native Joy: Poems Songs Visions Dreams is Oelsner’s first full-length book of poems. He presents his poetry and original songs in not-for-profit benefit performances, accompanied by harmonium, dulcimer, autoharp, guitar, and banjo.

Arkansas-born-and-raised E. Milton Vaught has accepted that after living in Fayetteville for the past 16 years, she is now a “local.” She is currently pursuing her second degree in English/Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas. Most of the time, she feels as though she is living On the Grid. 

Jessica Weisenfels is a poet of necessity. She provides shelter to outcasts and animals while mothering two daughters and a neighborhood of other people’s children and pursuing an English degree and affordable health care.

Rodney Wilhite is originally from Oklahoma and is an MFA candidate at University of Arkansas.