THE BURNING CHAIR
Reviews, Reading Series, TYPO News, etc.
Saturday, January 31, 2015
The Burning Chair Readings Spring 2015
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Kyle Schlesinger & James Yeary + C. Violet Eaton, Sara Nicolson, & Rodney Wilhite
Sunday, March 09, 2014
Friday, January 31, 2014
presents
Poetry Orgy at The Nines
Tuesday, February 18, 2014, 9 PM
featuring
Pamela Sue Hitchcock
w/ an orgy of poets and lovers reading original and borrowed poems
(line up TBA)
The Nines
546 W. Center St., Studio B
Fayetteville, Arkansas
FREE!
The Burning Chair Readings, founded in Brooklyn in 2006, now call Fayetteville, Arkansas home and host a variety of literary events in Fayetteville and across the country. For information, find us on Facebook: The Burning Chair Readings or email Matthew Henriksen at matthenriksen@gmail.com.
Pamela Sue Hitchcock is an on-again, off-again student at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where she studies German, creative writing, and translation. Her work is forthcoming in Squaw Valley Review, and her 2013 poetry chapbook is called "Shut Up Damn Moon." She has lived in Eureka Springs since 1987.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
The Burning Chair Readings
presents
An Ozark Small-Press Poetry Festival
Cannibal
&
Bestoned: The New Metaphysick
featuring readings by
Sarah Boyer
Phil Cordelli
Find our Facebook event page at https://www.facebook.com/events/133347926844797.
Sarah Boyer is originally from South Dakota but not lives in Denver, CO.
Phil Cordelli, former smoker, tentatively. Resident-at-large of Denver, CO, newly. Farmer, spearfisher, Kingfisher. Taj Mahal. Trike by Bob Log. What We Do by Doo Rag. 1994 Toad’s Place New Haven CT. Former CT MA NY CA ME. Manual of Woody Plants, Ugly Duck, soon. Soon for you.
Saturday, March 02, 2013
presents
a book (+ book) release event
featuring a poetry reading by
Michael Heffernan
author of
Walking Distance
Lost Horse Press, March 2013
&
The Breaking of the Day
Salmon Poetry, September 2012
Saturday, March 16, 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 Bio
Walking Distance is Michael Heffernan’s eleventh book of poems. His previous titles include The Cry of Oliver Hardy (University of Georgia, 1979; reprint 2007), To the Wreakers of Havoc (Georgia, 1984), The Man at Home (University of Arkansas, 1988), Love’s Answer (Iowa Poetry Prize, 1994), The Night Breeze Off the Ocean (Eastern Washington, 2005), The Odor of Sanctity (Salmon, 2008), At the Bureau of Divine Music (Wayne State University Press, 2011) and The Breaking of the Day (Salmon, 2012). He was born in Detroit in 1942, educated at the University of Detroit and the University of Massachusetts, and has taught poetry in Michigan, Kansas, Washington, Ireland, and, since 1986, at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. His work has been awarded three fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts. He and his wife, Ann, have three sons, a daughter, and a grandson.
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Briante, Greenstreet, & Matuk (2/16/13)
The Burning Chair Readings
Nightbird Books
Author Bios
Local Poet Fest, Volume Two, Issue One (1/26/13)
The Burning Chair Readings
Local Poet Fest
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Baran, Clay, Newton, & Williams (10/6/12)
The Burning Chair Readings
Adam Clay
Saturday, October 6, 8 pm
Nightbird Books
Brown, Earley, Solomon, & Van Dyke (9/8/12)
Saturday, September 8, 8 pm
Author Bios
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Local Poet Fest, Volume One (8/18/12)
The Burning Chair Readings
Local Poet Fest
Saturday, August 18, 8 pm
he can't do.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Ahsahta Press 2009
--Review by Maureen Alsop.
If you would like to submit a review or send a review copy query Matthew Henriksen at matt@typomag.com.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Farrah Field & Jared White 6.12.09 Fayetteville
The Burning Chair Readings
present poetry
at an undisclosed location
(at 3996 N. Frontage Road #2)
Farrah Field
&
Jared White
Friday, June 12, 6:30-8pm
FREE w/ refreshments
Bring Your Own Date
(directions below)
Bios
Farrah Field’s first book of poems, Rising, won Four Way Books’ 2007 Levis Prize. Her poems have appeared in many publications including the Mississippi Review, Margie, The Massachusetts Review, Pool, Typo, Harp & Altar, 42Opus, La Petite Zine, Sojourn, Pebble Lake Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Fulcrum, and The Pinch. She lives in Brooklyn and blogs at adultish.blogspot.com.
Jared White was born in Boston, and has lived in Brooklyn for about eight years, during which time he received an MFA in poetry from Columbia, as well as playing a fair amount of music, mostly on the piano. His poems have appeared journals in print (Another Chicago Magazine, Barrow Street, Cannibal, Fulcrum) and online journals (Coconut, Horse Less Review, Word For / Word, Verse). He also published essays on poetry and music, most recently in Harp & Altar, Open Letters, and Poets Off Poetry. He was awarded a University Writing Prize from the Academy of American Poets. A chapbook of poems, entitled Yellowcake, was in Cannibal Books' Narwhal compendium. His very occasional blog, No No Yes No Yes, can be found at jaredswhite.blogspot.com.
Directions
3996 Frontage Road #2 is just off the intersection of Joyce and College. Heading North on College, turn RIGHT on Joyce (heading East), then LEFT (North) on the access road (which is the first road to the left). It is the first building on the Right – red awnings. Faces the access road, but abuts Joyce.
It is across Joyce from the Bank of America. The access road heads toward the back of Barnes and Noble, not south toward Panera.
Info: Contact Matt Henriksen @ frankstanfordfest@gmail.com
Monday, March 23, 2009
The Burning Chair Readings
at Fayetteville Underground
present a night w/ Cannibal Books
featuring poetry from
Carolyn Guinzio
Kevin Holden
M.C. Hyland
Keith Newton
kathryn l. pringle
Amish Trivedi
Joseph P. Wood
Friday, April 10, 6:30-8 pm
Fayetteville Underground
East Square Plaza
1 East Center Street
fayettevilleunderground.com
$5 suggested donation
Cannibal Books publishes hand-sewn literary journals and chapbooks which focus on divergent and emerging poetics. While our products fit into the category of book arts, the focus is entirely on presenting daring work from a broad range of styles. An aesthetic definition cannot define the hunger. Founded in Brooklyn, NY in 2004, Cannibal Books currently nests in Fayetteville, AR.
Visit flesheatingpoems.blogspot.com or query flesheatingpoems AT gmail DOT com.
Author Bios
Carolyn Guinzio is the author of Untitled Wave from Cannibal Books, Quarry (Parlor Press) and West Pullman (Bordighera). Her work has appeared in many journals including Blackbird, Colorado Review, and New American Writing. She lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Read two poems in Typo.
Kevin Holden is the author of Identity from Cannibal Books. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Colorado Review, Ecopoetics, The Harvard Advocate, The Liberal, Parcel and Typo. He is from Rhode Island and lives and teaches in Iowa.
Read an excerpt from Identity in Typo.
MC Hyland is the author of four chapbooks: Residential As In (Blue Hour Press, 2009), The Hesitations (a collaboration with Friedrich Kerksieck and Kate Lorenz, Small Fires Press, 2006), Incantations (reject sheep press, 2006), and Lost Gospels (Ponkapoag Press, 2005). She currently lives in Minneapolis, where she teaches creative writing and letterpress through local nonprofits, and runs DoubleCross Press.
Read “Epistolary” in H_NGM_N.
Keith Newton’s chapbook Sent Forth to Die in a Happy City was published this winter by Cannibal Books. His poems and translations have appeared recently in Harvard Review, Saltgrass, and Open Letters. He lives in Brooklyn, where edits the online magazine Harp & Altar.
Read “Materialization in a Black Sea” in Typo.
kathryn l. pringle is the author of Right New Biology, just out from Factory School/Heretical Text Series. She is the author of The Stills (Duration Press) and Temper & Felicity are Lovers (TAXT). She is an editor at the literary magazine minor/american, and the co-founder of the minor american reading series. She currently lives in Durham, North Carolina.
Read The Stills at Duration Press (requires Adobe Acrobat).
Amish Trivedi’s electronic chapbooks include Selections from Episode III (Beard of Bees), The Ink Sessions (Scantily Clad), and The Breakers (Absent Magazine). His poems appear in La Petite Zine, Cannibal, Word For/Word, and Backwards City Review. He lives in Iowa City.
Read The Ink Sessions at Scantily Clad Press.
Joseph P. Wood’s first full book of poems, I & We, will be published by CustomWords in 2010. He is also the author of two chapbooks: Travel Writing (Scantily Clad Press) and In What I Have Done & What I Have Failed to Do (Elixir Press). He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Read “Anatomy of a Bullet Wound” in Typo.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
The Burning Chair Readings @ AWP Chicago
present
two nights of readings in Chicago
February 11 & 12, 2009
****
Wednesday, February 11, 6-9 pm
Narwhal & Projective Industries
@ Sonotheque
1444 W. Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL
sonotheque.net
$5
featuring poets
Kazim Ali
Maureen Alsop
Sommer Browning
Thomas Hummel
Thibault Raoult
Jared White
& music from
DA SO DO DA
The Goddamn Shame
****
Thursday, February 12, 6-9 pm
Ahsahta Press & Typo
@ The Empty Bottle
1035 N. Western Ave.
Chicago, IL
emptybottle.com
FREE
Carrie Olivia Adams
Ben Doller
Kathleen Jesme
Forrest Gander
Matt Hart
Brenda Hillman
Alex Lemon
Barbara Maloutas
Rusty Morrison
G.E. Patterson
Marvyn Petrucci
Stephanie Strickland
****
And we’ll be involved w/ these cool kids Friday night:
Friday, February 13th, 7-9:30 pm
No Thousands: A Small Press Reading
Black Ocean, Cannibal Books, Forklift Ohio, Octopus Books, Rope-a-Dope
@ The Empty Bottle
1035 N. Western Ave.
Chicago, IL
emptybottle.com
FREE
Johannes Göransson
Joshua Harmon
Claire Donato
Kevin Holden
Russell Dillon
Alexis Orgera
Dean Young
Eric Baus
Shane McCrae
Sampson Starkweather
Chris Tonelli
Monday, December 29, 2008
"Do Chicago"
presents poets from Ahsahta Press & Typo
Carrie Olivia Adams
Ben Doller
Kathleen Jesme
Forrest Gander
Brenda Hillman
Alex Lemon
Barbara Maloutas
Rusty Morrison
G.E. Patterson
Marvyn Petrucci
Stephanie Strickland
Thursday, February 12, 2008, 6-9 pm
The Empty Bottle
1035 N. Western Ave.
Chicago, IL (Home of your Chicago Cubs!)
Poets
Carrie Olivia Adams, author of Intervening Absence, works in publishing in Chicago, where she is also Poetry Editor for Black Ocean. Her poems and criticism have appeared in such journals as DIAGRAM, Cranky, Lilies and Cannonballs, No Tell Motel, Backwards City Review, and Verse. She is also the author of the chapbook A Useless Window.
Ben Doller (né Doyle) is author of FAQ: from Ahsahta Press. His first book of poems, Radio, Radio, was selected by Susan Howe as winner of the 2000 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. He has taught in West Virginia, Iowa, Ohio, and California. Wherever he lives, he lives with his wife, Sandra Doller (née Miller) and their boxador, Ronald Johnson.
Kathleen Jesme is the author of The Plum-Stone Game, published by Ahsahta Press this month. She has written two previous collections of poetry: Motherhouse, winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize, and Fire Eater. She lives in Minnesota.
Forrest Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Eye Against Eye, Torn Awake, and Science & Steepleflower, all from New Directions, Gander also writes novels (As a Friend), essays (A Faithful Existence) and translates. His most recent translations are Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems of Coral Bracho, No Shelter: Selected Poems of Pura Lopez-Colome, and, with Kent Johnson, two books by the Bolivian wunderkind Jaime Saenz: The Night and Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems of Jaime Saenz. With poet C.D. Wright, Gander lives in Rhode Island, where he is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Brown University.
Matt Hart is the Editor-in-Chief of Forklift, Ohio and the author of Who's Who Vivid (Slope Editions) and three chapbooks: Revelated (Hollyridge Press), Sonnet (H_NGM_N Books) and Simply Rocket (Lame House Press). His work has appeared in many print and online journals, including Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, Jubilat, and Octopus. He is, as always, still trying to find a way to get Polyphemus, Todd Rundgren and Haruki Murakami into his bio permanently. Travel is his rock band.
Brenda Hillman’s seven collections of poetry—White Dress, Fortress, Death Tractates, Bright Existence, Loose Sugar and Cascadia, Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005)—are from Wesleyan University Press; she has also written three chapbooks: Coffee, 3 A.M. (Penumbra Press), Autumn Sojourn (Em Press), and The Firecage (a+bend press). Hillman has edited an edition of Emily Dickinson’s poetry for Shambhala Publications and, with Patricia Dienstfrey, has co-edited The Grand Permisson: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (2003). A recipient of numerous awards, Hillman has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area; she is married and has a daughter.
Alex Lemon is the author of the poetry collections Hallelujah Blackout (Milkweed Editions), Mosquito (Tin House Books 2006), At Last Unfolding Congo (horse less press) and the memoir Happy (Scribner 2010). A play will be published by cinematheque press in 2010. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including Esquire, Best American Poetry 2008, AGNI, BOMB, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Open City, Pleiades and Tin House. He was awarded a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2006 Minnesota Arts Board Grant. He co-edits LUNA: A Journal of Poetry and Translation with Ray Gonzalez and is a frequent contributor to The Bloomsbury Review.
Barbara Maloutas is the author of the Whole Marie, winner of the 2008 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, selected by C.D. Wright. Her previous books include In a Combination of Practices (New Issues, 2004) and Practices (New Michigan Press/Diagram, 2003). In 2007 Beard of Bees (Chicago) published an online chapbook, Coffee Hazilly; Segue published a series of poems and an essay on writing them. She teaches book structures and book arts at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.
Rusty Morrison’s the true keeps calm biding its story won the 2008 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, selected by Rae Armantrout, Claudia Rankine, and Bruce Smith. It also won The Ahsahta Press 2007 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, selected by Peter Gizzi, and the 2007 Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, selected by Susan Howe. Rusty Morrison’s first poetry collection, Whethering, won the Colorado Prize for Poetry (Center for Literary Publishing 2004), selected by Forrest Gander. She is a contributing editor for Poetry Flash and co-publisher of Omnidawn.
A veteran of the slam-poetry scene, G.E. Patterson was a featured poet-performer in New York’s Panasonic Village Jazz Fest. He is also the author of two poetry collections, Tug (Graywolf Press) and To and From (Ahsahta Press). His writing can be found in several magazines and anthologies, including Blues Poetry, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Poetry 180, Isn’t It Romantic, American Letters and Commentary, nocturnes: (re)view of the arts, Open City, Provincetown Arts, Seneca Review, Swerve, Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics, and St. Mark’s Poetry Project’s Poets and Poems. After living for several years in the Northeast and on the West Coast, G.E. Patterson now makes his home in Minnesota, where he teaches.
Marvyn Petrucci is the author of Pardon Me, Madam from Cannibal Books. His poems have appeared in Typo, Black Warrior Review, The Connecticut Review, Natural Bridge, Southern Humanities Review and Third Coast. He teaches English at Auburn University.
Stephanie Strickland’s fifth book of poems, Zone : Zero (book + CD), was published in September by Ahsahta Press. Her latest collaborative hypermedia work, slippingglimpse, was introduced in Paris and shown this year at the Zaoem poetry festival in Ghent. She teaches experimental poetry and e-lit at many colleges and universities, most recently the University of Utah, and is working on a book-length series of poems, “Huracan’s Harp.”
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Hosts
The Burning Chair Readings began in the East Village of New York City and Brooklyn in 2004 and ran regularly for four years until setting up shop in Fayetteville, Arkansas in 2008. The Burning Chair orchestrated the Fran Stanford Literary Festival in Fayetteville in October 2008 and have plans in the works for future festivals focusing on alternative and southern literature as well as independent publishing and book arts.
Ahsahta Press was founded in 1974 at Boise State University; in 2000, Janet Holmes was named director and editor. The press seeks out poetry with an innovative twist and the kind of attention to language that pushes beyond craft into art; it produces books whose design takes on these high standards as well. The name "Ahsahta" comes from the Mandan word for a Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, and was first recorded by the Lewis and Clark expedition in Idaho.
Typo was founded in Fayetteville, Arkansas by Adam Clay and Matthew Henriksen in 2002. The online-only poetry magazine, which publishes established and emerging poets, is available at typomag.com.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Frank Stanford Literary Festival
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Goose Up!
The Burning Chair Readings
present
Goose Up!
Poetry!
at East Coast Aliens
Saturday, May 17th, 3-8pm
Doors 2:30 pm, $6
Ana Božičević
John Coletti
Kate Greenstreet
Sarah Gridley
Katy Henriksen
Shannon Jonas
Jennifer Kronovet
Mark Lamoureux
Timothy Liu
Chris Martin
Jess Mynes
Cate Peebles
Christopher Rizzo
Matthew Rohrer
Frank Sherlock
Joanna Sondheim
Shanxing Wang
Rebecca Wolff
w/ projections by
Stephen Hilger
& music from
The Hadacol
East Coast Aliens
216 Franklin St
btwn. Green & Huron
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
G to Greenpoint Ave (exit at India St)
B61/B43/B42
eastcoastaliens.com
typomag.com/burningchair
flesheatingpoems.blogspot.com
harpandaltar.com
saltgrasscontents.blogspot.com
tightjournal.blogspot.com
John Coletti is the author of The New Normalcy (BoogLit 2002), Physical Kind (Yo-Yo-Labs 2005), and Street Debris (Fell Swoop 2005), a collaboration with poet Greg Fuchs with whom he also co-edits Open 24 Hours Press. He currently is the editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter.
Kate Greenstreet is the author of case sensitive (Ahsahta Press, 2006) and three chapbooks, Learning the Language (Etherdome Press, 2005), Rushes (above/ground press, 2007), and This is why I hurt you (Lame House Press, April 2008). Her second book, The Last 4 Things, will be out from Ahsahta in 2009. Her poems can be found in journals like Cannibal, Fascicle, and Handsome. New work is forthcoming in Filling Station, Practice, and The Columbia Review.
Sarah Gridley is Poet in Residence and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Case Western Reserve University. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Montana in 2000, where she was a Richard Hugo scholar and won the 1999 Merriam Frontier Award for excellence in creative writing. The University of California Press published her book Weather Eye Open in 2005. She has recently completed a new poetry manuscript, whose poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Fourteen Hills, NEO, Harp & Altar, Crazy Horse, jubilat, Denver Quarterly, New American Writing, and Chicago Review.
Katy Henriksen was born and raised in the Arkansas Ozarks. She is the design editor of the poetry journal Cannibal, which she creates with her husband Matt Henriksen in their tiny railroad apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. She also helps run The Burning Chair Readings. Her music and culture writing may be found in Venus Zine, The Brooklyn Rail, Paste, Publishers Weekly, Puremusic.com, Rust Buckle, and elsewhere. Four of her poems are forthcoming in Tight.
Shannon Jonas is the author of Compathy (Cannibal Books, 2007) and lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Jennifer Kronovet is the author of Awayward (BOA Editions, 2009), selected by Jean Valentine as the winner of the Poulin Prize. Kronovet is the co-founder and co-editor of CIRCUMFERENCE, a journal of poetry in translation. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Colorado Review, Harp & Altar, Ploughshares, A Public Space, and other journals. She was born and raised in New York City, and has lived in Chicago, St. Louis, and Beijing.
Mark Lamoureux is a poet, critic and translator who lives in Astoria, NY. His work has appeared in numerous publications, both in print and online. He is an associate editor for Fulcrum Annual. He is the author of three chapbooks: City/Temple (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003), 29 Cheeseburgers (Pressed Wafer, 2004) and Film Poems (Katalanche Press, 2005).
Timothy Liu is the author of six books of poems, most recently For Dust Thou Art. Two new books are forthcoming, Bending the Mind Around the Dream's Blown Fuse (Talisman House, 2008) and Polytheogamy (Saturnalia Press, 2009). His journals and papers are archived in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. Liu is currently an Associate Professor at William Paterson University and on the Core Faculty at Bennington College’s Writing Seminars; he lives in Manhattan.
Chris Martin is the author of American Music. His new book, Becoming Weather, is trying to become published. His newer book, On Song, is an ongoing investigation of song’s ontological use from the Caveman Days until Tonight. He is the editor of Puppy Flowers, an online magazine of the arts, and resides near the Prospect Park Zoo with a beautiful lady and her cat.
Jess Mynes is the author of Birds for Example, Coltsfoot Insularity (a collaboration with Aaron Tieger), In(ex)teriors, and Full on Jabber (a collaboration with Christopher Rizzo). He is the editor of Fewer & Further Press. In 2008, his If and When (Katalanche Press), Sky Brightly Picked (Skysill Press), Recently Clouds, and a second edition of In(ex)teriors (Anchorite Press) will be published. He lives in Wendell, MA where he co curates a reading series, All Small Caps. His poems have appeared in numerous publications.
Cate Peebles lives in Brooklyn and works at the literary agency, Sobel Weber Associates, in Manhattan. Her poems have appeared in, or are forthcoming from, Tin House, Octopus, La Petite Zine, MiPOesias, Capgun, and others. She co-edits the on-line poetry magazine, Fou.
Christopher Rizzo is a writer and publisher who lives in New York. Over the years, his work has appeared in Art New England, The Cultural Society, Cannibal, Dusie, H_NGM_N, and Spell among other magazines. Christopher has also authored several chapbooks, such as Claire Obscure (Katalanche Press, 2005), Zing (Carve Editions, 2006), and The Breaks (Fewer & Further Press, 2006). Full on Jabber, a collaborative work written with poet Jess Mynes, was released by Martian Press in 2007. Christopher also edits Anchorite Press, an independent poetry publisher of innovative work. He is a doctoral candidate in English at the University at Albany.
Matthew Rohrer is the author of five books of poetry, most recently RISE UP, published by Wave Books. He teaches in the creative writing program at NYU and lives in Brooklyn.
Frank Sherlock is the co-author of the newly released Ready-to-Eat Individual with Brett Evans.
Joanna Sondheim’s chapbooks, The Fit and Thaumatrope, were published by Sona Books in 2004 and 2007, respectively. Recent work appears in Unsaid magazine.
Shanxing Wang was born in Jinzhong, Shanxi province, China, in 1965. He moved to the U.S. in 1991 to pursue a PhD in mechanical engineering at University of California at Berkeley. While an assistant professor of engineering at Rutgers University, he began taking writing courses at Rutgers and later the Poetry Project, and subsequently received a Zora Neale Hurston Scholarship to attend the summer writing program at Naropa University in Colorado in 2003. His first book Mad Science in Imperial City (Futurepoem Books, 2005) won the 2006 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. His current thinking and struggling focuses on intersections of poetry/poetics with physics/mathematics, history, visual arts, and continental philosophy. He is also a competitive table tennis player and a table tennis coach. He lives and writes in Queens and he has a blog: shanxingwang.blogspot.com.
Rebecca Wolff is the author of Manderley, Figment, and The King (forthcoming 2009). She is the publisher and editor of Fence, Fence Books, and The Constant Critic, and is a fellow of the New York State Writers Institute, with which Fence is affiliated. She lives in Athens, New York.