NOW AVAILABLE: G U E S
T #3
edited by Geoffrey Young
the third issue
features new work by:
Elaine Equi
Ron Padgett
Terence Winch
Thomas Fink
Annabel Lee
Michael Lally
Jerome Sala
Lydia Davis
Barry Schwabsky
Clark Coolidge
Tony Hoagland
Tony
Hoagland (In Memoriam)
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Author biographies:
Clark
Coolidge
lives in Petaluma, CA with his wife Susan. Recent books include Life
Forms Here (Pressed Wafer 2016); Selected Poems 1962-1985 (Station Hill 2017);
POET (Pressed Wafer 2018). He continues to play drums with the
free-jazz band Ouroboros.
Lydia Davis’s most recent collection of stories is Can’t
and Won’t (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014). Her translation
of Proust’s Letters to His Neighbor appeared in 2017 from New
Directions, and a collection of her essays will be published by FSG in the fall
of 2019. She is currently preparing a second volume of essays and completing a
translation of stories by the Dutch writer A.L. Snijders.
Elaine Equi lives in New York City
with her husband, the poet, Jerome Sala. Her books include Sentences and Rain, Click and Clone, and Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems (all
from Coffee House Press). A new collection, The Intangibles, is
forthcoming in 2019. She teaches at New York University and in the MFA Program
in Creative Writing at The New School.
Thomas
Fink,
Professor of English at CUNY-LaGuardia, is the author of 9 books of poetry,
most recently Selected Poems & Poetic Series (Marsh
Hawk P, 2016), 2 books of criticism, and 3 edited anthologies. His paintings
hang in various collections. His work appears in The Best American Poetry
2007, selected by Heather McHugh and David Lehman.
Tony Hoagland was the author of seven collections of
poetry, including Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God, What
Narcissism Means to Me, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle
Award, and Donkey Gospel, winner of the James Laughlin Award of the
Academy of American Poets. He was also the author of two collections of essays,
Twenty Poems That Could Save America and Other Essays and Real
Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft. He received the Jackson Poetry
Prize from Poets & Writers, the Mark Twain Award from the Poetry
Foundation, and the O. B. Hardison, Jr. Award from the Folger Shakespeare
Library. He taught for many years at the University of Houston. Hoagland died
in October 2018.
Michael Lally’s thirtieth book came
out in 2018, Another Way To Play: Poems 1960-2017, from 7 Stories Press, with
an introduction by Eileen Myles. Award-winning books include The South
Orange Sonnets (92nd Street Y “Discovery Award”), Cant Be Wrong (PEN
Oakland Josephine Miles Award “For Excellence In Literature”), and It’s Not
Nostalgia (American Book Award). He writes a blog called Lally’s
Alley.
Annabel Lee is the author of Minnesota
Drift (forthcoming from Wry), Basket (Accent Editions), Continental
34s (Vehicle Editions) and At the Heart of the World, translations
of Blaise Cendrars (O Press). As publisher of Vehicle Editions,
in 2018 she co-published, with her daughter Irene Lee, A Book of Signs: The Women’s March, January 21, 2017.
She lives in Brooklyn.
Ron Padgett lives in New York and
spends time in northern Vermont, near Canada. His forthcoming (2019) book of
poems is Big Cabin (Coffee House Press). Other poems
of his were used in Jim Jarmusch’s film Paterson. One of
Padgett’s favorite contemporary poets is George Bowering.
Jerome Sala’s books include Corporations
Are People, Too! (NYQ Books), The Cheapskates (Lunar Chandelier) and
Look Slimmer Instantly (Soft Skull Press). He lives in New York City,
with his wife, poet Elaine Equi. His blog – on poetry, pop culture and everyday
life, is espresso bongo: http://www.espressobongo.typepad.com
Barry Schwabsky’s most recent book of
poetry is Trembling Hand Equilibrium (Black Square, 2015). Other
publications include The Perpetual Guest: Art in the Unfinished Present
(Verso, 2016) and Heretics of Language (Black Square, 2018); forthcoming
is The Observer Effect: On Contemporary Painting (Sternberg, 2019). He
is art critic for The Nation.
Terence Winch’s most recent book of
poems is The Known Universe (Hanging Loose, 2018).
Born and raised in the Bronx, he has lived in the Washington, DC area for many
years. The son of Irish immigrants, he has also played traditional music
all his life and was a founder of the original Celtic Thunder, the acclaimed
Irish band. His most recent recording is a CD called This Day Too: Music
from Irish America (2017).
