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 von Gribley the Elder
While the city celebrates watermelons only one
mile away, Chop Suey Books will honor the poem
in a special reading scheduled for Sunday, August
10th from 2-4. Present will be Sommer Browning
(originator of Chop Suey's von Gribley Reading
Series), Mathias Svalina (former employee of
Carytown Books and VCU MFA recipient), Julie
Doxsee (Canadian!), and Julia Cohen (likes watermelons?).
Of course, this reading will be free and open to the
public.Julie Doxsee, born in London, Ontario she is a professor of writing and literature at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. Her poems have appeared recently in over thirty-five national and international journals, including Aufgabe, Fourteen Hills, and Tarpaulin Sky. Forthcoming publications include the book Objects for a Fog Death (Black Ocean, 2008/2009) and two chapbooks: You Will Build a City Out of Rags (Whole Coconut 2007) and New Body a Seafloor Body (Seeing Eye Books 2008). The chapbooks The Knife-Grasses (Octopus Books), and Fog Quartets (horse less press) and her debut book Undersleep (Octopus Books 2008) are now available. Mathias Svalina is a co-editor of Octopus Magazine & Books. He is the author of the chapbooks Why I Am White (Kitchen Press, 2007), Creation Myths (New Michigan Press, 2007) & The Viral Lease (Small Anchor Press, 2008). He is the co-author of the collaboratively written chapbooks Or Else What, Asked the Flame, with Paula Cisewski (SC Press, 2008), and When We Broke the Microscope (Small Fires Press, 2007) & Chugwater (Transmission Press, 2008), which were both written with Julia Cohen. His first full-length book, Destruction Myth is forthcoming from Cleveland State University Press in 2009. Sommer Browning writes poems and catalogs books in New York City. Her chapbook, Vale Tudo, was published this year with horse less press. You can read her poems in Forklift, Ohio, word for / word, The New York Quarterly and soon in LIT. She misses Richmond; please visit her here: http://www.asthmachronicles.blogspot.com/ Julia Cohen is the poetry editor of the journal Saltgrass. She has three chapbooks available and two forthcoming: "The History of a Lake Never Drowns" from Dancing Girl Press and "Chugwater" (with Mathias Svalina) from Transmission Press. Poems of hers have been published in Denver Quarterly, Bird Dog, Spinning Jenny, and Conjunctions. You can visit her blog at www.onthemessiersideofneat.blogspot.com. |
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