The Burning Chair Readings
presents
An Ozark Small-Press Poetry Festival
celebrating newly-released issues of two Fayetteville-based hand-bound literary journals
Cannibal
&
Bestoned: The New Metaphysick
featuring readings by
Thomas Andes
Kaveh Bassiri
Anselm Berrigan
Joseph Bradshaw
Sarah Boyer
Lily Brown
Cody-Rose Clevidence
Phil Cordelli
Tim Earley
C. Violet Eaton
Farrah Field
Graham Foust
Whit Griffin
Matthew Henriksen
Ryan Mitchell
Katie Nichol
Sara Nicholson
Laura Solomon
Eszter Takacs
Tim Van Dyke
Jared White
April 26 & 27,
7-10 pm
Nightbird Books
205 West Dickson Street
Fayetteville, Arkansas
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. For complete
event listings and author information, visit burningchair.blogspot.com.
Tom Andes’ writing has appeared or is forthcoming in News
from the Republic of Letters, Santa Clara Review, Housefire,
Spork, Mantis, Bateau, Harp and Altar, 3:AM
Magazine, elimae, Pif, Everyday Genius, and the Rumpus,
among other publications. A hand-sewn chapbook, “Life Before the Storm and
Other Stories,” appeared in a limited run from Cannibal Books in 2010. His
story “The Hit,” which first appeared in Xavier Review, was
recently anthologized in Best American Mystery Stories 2012.
He lives New Orleans.
Kaveh Bassiri’s poetry won the Bellingham
Review’s 49th Parallel Award and is published in Best New
Poets 2011, Virginia Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry
Journal, and Mississippi Review.
Anselm Berrigan’s books include Notes from
Irrelevance (Wave), Free Cell (City Lights), and Zero Star Hotel
(Edge). He is working on a chapbook, “Sure Shot,” due out later this spring
from the Brooklyn based press Overpass. A long somewhat screwed up poem titled Primitive
State will be published as a book by Edge books some time down the road. He
is the Poetry Editor for The Brooklyn Rail (brooklynrail.org), former
Artistic Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, and co-editor of The
Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan. He lives in New York City, where he grew
up, and juggles teaching jobs and odd writing gigs for a living.
Sarah Boyer is originally from
South Dakota but not lives in Denver, CO.
Joseph Bradshaw started writing poetry when a friend
lent him Leslie Scalapino’s The Front Matter, Dead Souls. In 2011
Shearsman published his book In the Common Dream of George Oppen.
His new work is in new issues of Elective Affinities, Cannibal,
Aufgabe, Bright Pink Mosquito, Sink Review, and
James Yeary’s c_L newsletter. Chapbooks are forthcoming from Potlatch
Discordian Network and Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.
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.
Cody-Rose Clevidence lives in Arkansas
sometimes. You can find their little silver chapbook book “everything
that is beautiful is edible” from flowers & cream press and later, beast
feast from ahsahta (2014).
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.
Tim Earley is the author of two collections of poems,
Boondoggle (Main Street Rag, 2005) and The Spooking of Mavens
(Cracked Slab Books, 2010). His work has appeared in Chicago Review, jubilat,
Colorado Review, Cannibal, New Orleans Review, Conduit,
Bestoned, and many other journals and anthologies. A limited edition chapbook,
“Catfish Poems,” is forthcoming later this year from Delete Press. The
recipient of two Writing Fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in
Provincetown, he teaches at the University of Mississippi and in the Fine Arts
Work Center’s Online Writing Program.
C. Violet Eaton is the editor of Bestoned, a
journal of new metaphysical verse. As Dowser, he occasionally dispatches small
editions of ‘hill drone’ recordings from Arkansas, where he also sells used
& rare books.
Farrah Field is the author of two books of poetry: Rising
(2009) and Wolf and Pilot (2012), both published by Four Way Books. She
is also the author of the chapbook “Parents” (2011) from Immaculate Disciples
Press and her poems were selected by Kevin Young for The Best American Poetry
2011. Farrah and Jared White are
together the owners of a small press bookstore, Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop,
co-curators of an event series, Yardmeter Editions, and parents of a baby,
Roman Field White.
Graham Foust is the author of five books of poetry,
the most recent of which is To Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems.
His poems, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared in The
Nation, Conjunctions, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, Boston
Review, American Letters and Commentary, A Public Space, Gulf
Coast, New Ohio Review, Verse, Fence, and
many other publications. With Samuel Frederick, he has translated three
books by the late German poet Ernst Meister, including In Time’s Rift,
which was published in the fall of 2012. He works at the University of
Denver.
Whit Griffin is the author of Pentateuch (Skysill,
2010) and The Sixth Great Extinction (Skysill, 2012). His
third collection, A Far-Shining Crystal, is forthcoming from
Cultural Society. Recent poems are forthcoming in Brawling Pigeon, Boog
City and LUNGFULL!. Along with Andrew Hughes he edits Bright
Pink Mosquito. He lives in Memphis.
Matthew Henriksen’s first book, Ordinary Sun, emerged
from Black Ocean in 2010. He edited a
feature of Frank Stanford’s previously unpublished poems and fiction in Fulcrum
#7 and hosted the Frank Stanford Literary Festival in Fayetteville in
2008. He co-edits Typo, an
online poetry journal, and, with his wife, Katy Henriksen, founded The Burning
Chair Readings and Cannibal when living in Brooklyn. He currently sells used books at the Dickson
Street Bookshop.
Ryan Mitchell lives in New Orleans, yet the Ozark
Mountains remain her home. She is excited to be published in Cannibal among
other Ozark poets. She currently works for The New Orleans Review
as Editor’s Assistant. Her work has appeared in New Orleans’ Review’s
online site, and in Otis Nebula.
Katie Nichol is a fourth-year student in the MFA program at the
University of Arkansas. She really likes to bake cakes.
Sara Nicholson’s poems can be found in Cannibal and Bestoned:
The New Metaphysick. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and
lives not on a mountain in, but in the mountains of, Arkansas.
Laura Solomon’s books include Bivouac (Slope
Editions, 2002), Blue and Red Things (Ugly Duckling Presse,
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). In 2010, she was invited to Slovenia’s international poetry festival,
Days of Poetry & Wine, and last year was a recipient of an award from the
Fund for Poetry. She has lived recently in Paris, Philadelphia, and Verona, Italy,
but currently may be found in Athens, Georgia, where she performs with the band
pacificUV, whose new album After The Dream You Are Awake will
be released this May from Mazarine Records.
Eszter Takacs is a Hungarian-born poet. Her poems have
appeared in Full of Crow,
elimae, ILK Poetry, Birdfeast, Mixed Fruit, Barn Owl Review,
DIAGRAM, and Phoebe.
She is currently an MFA candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant at the
University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, to where she recently relocated from
Los Angeles. She also plays the flute and fiddles with cameras.
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.
Jared White is the author of two chapbooks,
“Yellowcake,” published by Cannibal Books in 2009, and “This Is What It Is Like
to Be Loved by Me,” just published by Bloof Books this March. A third chapbook,
“My Former Politics,” is forthcoming from H-NGM-N Books. His poems and other
writings have appeared in Harp & Altar, Sink Review, and We
Are So Happy To Know Something. Jared and Farrah Field are together
the owners of a small press bookstore, Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, co-curators
of an event series, Yardmeter Editions, and parents of a baby, Roman Field
White.
