Whenever We Feel Like It

the feelings they may or may not be changing:

2012-01-10T10:27:00.000-08:00

on Wednesday, February 15
WHENEVER WE FEEL LIKE IT presents
Norman Finkelstein & Brian Teare
@ 7pm

Kelly Writers House
3805 Locust Walk

& LIVE STREAMING ONLINE via KWH-TV:
http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/tv

Norman Finkelstein teaches modern and contemporary American literature, Jewish American literature, literary theory, and creative writing. His books of poetry include Restless Messengers (University of Georgia Press, 1992), Passing Over (Marsh Hawk, 2007), Scribe (Dos Madres, 2009), and the three-volume serial poem Track (Spuyten Duyvil 1999, 2002, 2005). He has also published five books of literary criticism: The Utopian Moment in Contemporary American Poetry (Bucknell University Press, 1988; 2nd ed., 1993), The Ritual of New Creation: Jewish Tradition and Contemporary Literature (SUNY Press, 1992), Not One of Them In Place: Modern Poetry and Jewish American Identity (SUNY Press, 2001), Lyrical Interference: Essays on Poetics (Spuyten Duyvil, 2003) and On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred In Contemporary American Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2010). Recent poems, essays and reviews have appeared such journals as LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, Contemporary Literature, Cincinnati Review, Rain Taxi and Hambone.

A former National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Brian Teare is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. He is the author of The Room Where I Was Born, Sight Map, the Lambda-award winning Pleasure, and Companion Grasses, forthcoming from Omnidawn in 2013. An Assistant Professor at Temple University, he lives in Philadelphia, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.

the feeling of a celebration:

2011-11-19T07:48:00.000-08:00

on Saturday, December 10
WHENEVER WE FEEL LIKE IT presents
A celebration of Lunar Chandelier Press:
VYT BAKAITIS, LYN BEHRENDT, JOE ELLIOT & KIMBERLY LYONS
@ 3PM

at Jose Pistolas
263 S 15th St

Vyt Bakaitis, a native of Lithuania, has been living in New York City since 1968. A book of his poems City Country appeared in 1991 (Black Thistle Press, NYC), and con/structs, his book of visual poems and photographs, came out in a limited edition in 2001 (Arunas K. Photo+Graphics, NYC). Vyt Bakaitis has also published translations of poetry from several languages, including his anthology Breathing Free: Poems from the Lithuanian. He has also published translations of poetry from several languages, with his versions of the classic Romantics Hölderlin and Mickiewicz included in World Poetry (W. W. Norton, 1998). His translations of the poems of Jonas Mekas were published as There Is No Ithaca (Black Thistle Press), with a foreword by Czeslaw Milosz, and as Daybooks (Portable Press at YoYo Labs). Deliberate Proof, a new collection of poems was published by Lunar Chandelier Press in 2010. A selection of his poems have just been published in the online journal, Eoagh.

Lynn Behrendt grew up in Pearl River, New York, and Chester, Vermont, and graduated from Bard College with a BA in Creative Writing. She is the author of four chapbooks: The Moon As Chance, Characters, Tinder, and Luminous Flux. Her most recent collection of poems is petals, emblems, published by Lunar Chandelier Press in 2010. Recently, she published two limited editions of her writing for Dusie: Acquiensece and This is a Story of Things that Happened. She co-edits the Annandale Dream Gazette, a chronicle of poets' dreams, as well as Peep/Show Poetry, an electronic journal of innovative serial works. She publishes limited edition handmade books under the Lines Chapbooks imprint in Red Hook, New York, where she lives and works as a freelance writer and editor.

Joe Elliot ran a weekly reading series at Biblios Bookstore and Café in NYC for 5 years, starting in the early 90¹s, and helped move the series to the Zinc Bar where it continues. He co-edited two chapbook series: A Musty Bone and Situations, which published authors such as Antje Katcher, Paul Genega, Duncan Nichols, Mitch Highfill, Rich O¹Russa, Douglas Rothschild, Shannon Ketch, Lisa Jarnot, Bill Luoma, Kevin Davies, Marcella Durand, Rick Snyder, and many others. Joe is the author of numerous chapbooks including: You Gotta Go In It¹s The Big Game, Poems To Be Centered On Much Much Larger Sheets Of Paper, 15 Clanking Radiators, 14 Knots, Reduced, Half Gross (a collaboration with artist John Koos), and Object Lesson (a collaboration with artist Rich O¹Russa). Granary Books published If It Rained Here, a collaboration with artist Julie Harrison. His work has appeared in many magazines, including The World, The Poker, Giants Play Well In The Drizzle, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Torque, Hanging Loose, Eoagh, Occo, Boog Lit, and Arras. His long poem, 101 Designs for The World Trade Center, was published by Faux Press¹ e-mag ( (http://www.fauxpress.com/e/full.htm), and a collection of his work, Opposable Thumb, was published by subpress in 2006. His most recent collection of poems, Homework, was published by Lunar chandelier Press in 2010.

Kimberly Lyons’ most recent book of poetry is Phototherapique (Ketalanche Press/Portable Press). A new collection of poems, Rouge, is forthcoming from Instance Press. Her poems have recently appeared in Peep/Show Poetry, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Zen Monster, Aufgabe, Unarmed, New American Writing, and Talisman. Her essay on Bernadette Mayer’s Studying Hunger was published in Aufgabe. Camille Martin wrote recently of Lyons's work in Galectica Resurrects: "her themes of disintegration and disappearance remind us of the temporality of creation: in short, a memento mori at the heart of the phantasmagorical parade." Kimberly Lyons has long been associated with the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and can be found there almost any New Year’s Day at the marathon, selling chili and beer. She is organizing a celebration of the visual work of Basil King to be held in 2012. She is the publisher of Lunar Chandelier Press.

whenever you say when:

2011-11-18T08:00:00.000-08:00

on Wednesday, November 30
WHENEVER WE FEEL LIKE IT presents
Dan Beachy-Quick, Frank Rogaczewski & Laura Goldstein
@ 8pm

Kelly Writers House
3805 Locust Walk

& LIVE STREAMING ONLINE via KWH-TV:
http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/tv

Born in Chicago, Dan Beachy-Quick grew up in Colorado and upstate New York, and now teaches writing and literature at Colorado State University. His most recent book is Circle's Apprentice (Tupelo 2011). He is author of four previous books of poems, North True South Bright (Alice James, 2003), Spell (Ahsahta, 2004), Mulberry (Tupelo, 2006), and This Nest, Swift Passerine (Tupelo, 2008); two chapbooks Mobius Crowns (with Srikanth Reddy: P-Queue, 2008) and Apology for the Book of Creatures (Ahsahta, 2008); and a hybrid-prose companion to Melville's Moby-Dick, A Whaler's Dictionary (Milkweed, 2008).

Frank Rogaczewski holds a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago and teaches in the MFA Program at Roosevelt University in Chciago. He is the author of The Fate of Humanity in Verse (American Letters & Commentary 2009). He lives in Berwyn with his wife Beverly Stewart. They are at this very minute walking their dogs—Jasmine and Seamus.

Laura Goldstein's poetry, reviews, and essays can be found in American Letters and Commentary, EAOGH, Requited, Little Red Leaves, How2, Seven Corners, Text/Sound, Rabbit Light Movies, Otoliths, CutBank Reviews, and Moria. She has three chapbooks to date: Facts of Light from Plumberries Press, Ice in Intervals from Hex Press, and Day of Answers from Tir Aux Pigeons. Her next chapbook, Let Her, will be released in spring 2012 from Dancing Girl Press. She currently cocurates the Red Rover reading series and teaches writing and literature at Loyola University.

when the feelings become all the feelings:

2011-10-03T11:04:00.000-07:00

on Wednesday, October 12
WHENEVER WE FEEL LIKE IT presents
Rusty Morrison & Elizabeth Robinson
@ 8pm

Kelly Writers House
3805 Locust Walk

& LIVE STREAMING ONLINE via KWH-TV:
http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/tv

Rusty Morrison's -After Urgency- won Tupelo’s Dorset Prize (forthcoming 2012), -the true keeps calm biding its story- won Academy of American Poet’s James Laughlin Award, Northern California Book Award, Ahsahta’s Sawtooth Prize, the DiCastagnola Award from Poetry Society of America. -Whethering- won the Colorado Prize for Poetry. Book of the Given, has just been published by Noemi Press. Her essays and/or long reviews were (or soon will be) published in Colorado Review, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Evening Will Come, Poetry Flash, Verse, and in the anthologies One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe (Sarabande 2010), Beauty is a Verb (Cinco Punto 2011). She’s Omnidawn’s co-publisher.

Elizabeth Robinson is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently: Three Novels (Omnidawn 2011). Her other recent books are The Orphan & its Relations (Fence Books) and Also Known As (Apogee Press). Robinson was educated at Bard College, Brown University, and the Pacific School of Religion. She has been a winner of the National Poetry Series for Pure Descent and the Fence Modern Poets Prize for Apprehend. The recipient of grants from the Fund for Poetry and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Robinson has also been a MacDowell Colony Fellow. Her work has been anthologized in the Best American Poetry (2002) and American Hybrid, along with many other anthologies. Robinson has taught at the University of San Francisco, the University of Colorado, Boulder, Naropa University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She co-edits EtherDome Chapbooks with Colleen Lookingbill and Instance Press with Beth Anderson and Laura Sims.

call it the feeling you want to call it

2011-09-15T19:33:00.000-07:00

on Saturday, October 1st
WHENEVER WE FEEL LIKE IT presents
Nick Demske, Adam Fell & Paul Legault

@3pm
Jose Pistolas
263 S 15th St

NICK DEMSKE lives in Racine Wisconsin and works there at the Racine Public Library. His self-titled manuscript was chosen by Joyelle McSweeney for the Fence Modern Poets Series Award and published by Fence Books in 2010. He is a founder and editor of the online forum boo: a journal of terrific things and curates the BONK! performance series in Racine. Find reviews, interviews, poems, audio, video and a list of upcoming readings here.

ADAM FELL was born and raised in Burlington, Wisconsin, and holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin where he teaches at Edgewood College. His first book, I Am Not A Pioneer is out from H_NGM_N books.

PAUL LEGAULT was born in Ontario and raised in Tennessee. He holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia and a B.F.A. in Screenwriting from the University of Southern California. He is the author of The Other Poems (Fence Books, 2011) and The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn, 2010). Raised in Tennessee, Paul lives with his husband in Brooklyn, New York, where he works at the Academy of American Poets.

WHENEVER WE FEEL LIKE IT feels like it:

2011-07-12T21:02:00.000-07:00

on Thursday, July 21
WHENEVER WE FEEL LIKE IT presents:

A book launch MARK LEIDNER's BEAUTY WAS THE CASE THAT THEY GAVE ME
forthcoming Fall 2011 from FACTORY HOLLOW PRESS
& copies of the book will be available at the reading!

w/ Mark Leidner, Shannon Burns and Jacob Otting

@8pm
Flying Object
42 West St.
Hadley, MA

MARK LEIDNER is the author of The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover (http://satorpress.com/) and three chapbooks: The Night of 1,000 Murders (Factory Hollow Press), Romantic Comedies (The Chuckwagon), and Willie (minutes BOOKS). He writes about movies at http://poetsonfilm.wordpress.com/. BEAUTY WAS THE CASE THAT THEY GAVE ME (Factory Hollow Press) is his first feature length book.

SHANNON BURNS is the author of Preserving the Old Way of Life (Factory Hollow Press). She is in ball school in Louisville and wants to become a baller in Massachusetts.

JACOB OTTING works at Nancy's Bagel Grounds in Louisville.

*Doors open a little before 8 p.m.*
*The performances will start at 8:30 SHARP*
*There is a Workshop at Flying Object until 7:30*

*it's true: Whenever We Feel Like It now happens in both Philadelphia, PA & Hadley, MA*

The museum of feelings:

2011-06-27T11:11:00.001-07:00

on Sunday, July 10th
WHENEVER WE FEEL LIKE IT presents
Jacob Russell, MC Hyland and Stephanie Anderson

@3pm
Jose Pistolas
263 S 15th St

JACOB RUSSELL lives in South Philly where he writes, plays barroom pool, and grows tomatoes and basil in the little strip of a garden in front of his apartment. His work has been performed by InterAct Theatre and appeared in Criiphoria 2, Conversational Poetry Quarterly, BlazeVox, Scythe, Salmagundi, dcomP Mag, Pindeldeyboz, Clockwise Cat and other literary venues. He’s currently working to complete a second novel and seeking a publisher for a MS of poetry. He manages the literary blog: Jacob Russell’s Barking Dog.

MC HYLAND is the author of Neveragainland (Lowbrow Press, 2010), and chapbooks including Every Night In Magic City (H_NGM_N, 2010), Residential, As In (Blue Hour Press, 2009) and (with Kate Lorenz and Friedrich Kerksieck) the hesitancies (Small Fires Press, 2006). She lives in Minneapolis, where she runs DoubleCross Press and the Pocket Lab Reading Series, and works at Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

STEPHANIE ANDERSON is the author of four chapbooks: A Spot A Scheme (forthcoming from Cinematheque Press), The Nightyard (Noemi Press), The Choral Mimeographs (dancing girl press), and In the Particular Particular (New Michigan Press). She currently lives in Chicago, where she edits the micropress Projective Industries and is poetry editor of the Chicago Review.

MAY MAY KAUFMAN is studying Creative Writing and Film Studies at Agnes Scott College and interning at Kelly Writers House this summer.

when the poems are feelings we like it

2011-06-23T09:46:00.000-07:00

on Saturday, June 25th
WHENEVER WE FEEL LIKE IT presents
Kevin Holden, Anne-Adele Wight & Catilin LaCourse Ryan

@3pm
Jose Pistolas
263 S 15th St

Poet and critic Kevin Holden has visited, talked with, and read poetry to Bard students. He is currently a PhD student in Comparative Literature at Yale. Kevin’s BA in literature at Harvard was followed by an MPhil at Cambridge and an MFA at Iowa, where Kevin was also a visiting assistant professor. Kevin’s interests in queer theory, class, anti-racism, and social justice are combined with interests in avant-garde poetics and translating poetry from Russian and French.

Anne-Adele Wight is a surrealist who experiments with different styles. She is the author of two chapbooks. A third, The Black Dog, Time is forthcoming. Anne-Adele’s work has appeared in American Writing, The Dariens, Mad Poets Review, Philadelphia Writers Conference Anthology Poets, Philadelphia Poets, Shrike, and Tabula Rosa. She has read at many local venues. She is Vice-President of the longest continuous Philadelphia Poetry Series Organization, Poets and Prophets. In her daily life, she works as an editor, living with one husband and two cats.

Caitlin LaCourse Ryan is pretty darn excited to be at a big fancy poetry reading. She goes to Temple where she studies the Earth, works someplace where she makes sandwiches, sings the blues on the sidewalk, and generally writes poetry on post-its or with the magnets on the refrigerator. One day she'll be published and have a better bio. She would like to thank Michelle Taransky for believing in her and Grammy & Poppy for everything.

when the moonstone feels, and we feel, and there are poems there:

2011-05-27T08:13:00.000-07:00

on Thursday, June 16th
WHENEVER WE FEEL LIKE IT presents
Amy McDaniel, Benjamin Winkler & Natalie Lyalin

@7:30 pm
Moonstone Arts Center
110A S. 13th Street

Amy McDaniel is a contributor to HTMLGIANT and teacher/manager for Atlanta’s Solar Anus reading series. Her book Selected Adult Lessons is out from Agnes Fox Press.

Benjamin Winkler is the editor of Splitleaves Press and a member of The Philadelphia Hive, an interdisciplinary arts collective. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Otoliths, Raft Magazine, Eccolinguistics, The Apiary, and Galatea Resurrects.

Natalie Lyalin is the author of Pink and Hot Pink Habitat (Coconut Books 2009) and the chapbook Try A Little Time Travel (Ugly Duckling Presse 2010). She is the co founder and co editor of GlitterPony Magazine and Agnes Fox Press. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at The University of the Arts.

if you feel, feel like this:

2011-05-16T08:08:00.000-07:00

on Saturday, May 21st
WHENEVER WE FEEL LIKE IT presents
Mark Wallace
& Debrah Morkum

@3pm
Jose Pistolas
263 S 15th St

MARK WALLACE is the author of a number of books and chapbooks of poetry, fiction, and criticism. Temporary Worker Rides A Subway won the 2002 Gertrude Stein Poetry Award and was published by Green Integer Books. He is the author of a multi-genre work, Haze, and a novel, Dead Carnival. His critical articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, and along with Steven Marks, he edited Telling It Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990s (University of Alabama Press), a collection of 26 essays by different writers. Most recently he has published a collection of tales, Walking Dreams (2007), and a book of poems, Felonies of Illusion (2008). He teaches at California State University San Marcos.

DEBRAH MORKUM lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she enjoys swaying between the poles of intense socializing and strict, disciplined, poetic hermitage. During her heightened social frenzies, she astutely gathers story material and barbed wire for her poems. During her periods of hermitage, she writes the poems, collects poetic data, stargazes, and meditates the ida pingala. She is a founding member of The New Philadelphia Poets, and her first book, Projection Machine, is out from BlazeVox Books.

another emergency feeling

2011-04-13T13:20:00.000-07:00

on Saturday, April 30th
EMERGENCY FEELING presents
Ryan Eckes
Luke Bloomfield
& Christophe Casamassima

@3pm
Jose Pistolas
263 S 15th St

RYAN ECKES was born in Northeast Philadelphia and now he writes poems. You can find some of his writing on the internet: in the journals Scythe, Fanzine, 60 Watts, the ixnay reader, on his blog, Old News, and other places. He likes to read poems out loud.

CHRISTOPHE CASAMASSIMA is a founder of Towson ARTS Collective, where he is the Director of Literary Arts and editor of Furniture Press. He also teaches in the English department at Towson University. He has recently completed the Proteus Cycle, which includes The Proteus (Moria Books, 2008), Joys: A Catalogue of Disappointments (BlazeVOX, 2008), Ore (twentythreebooks, 2009), UNTILTED (Moria Books, 2009) and Being/Time (Xerolage, 2010) and Three Suite (BlazeVOX, 2010). In his spare time he repurposes unwanted books and promotes creative literacy through poetry writing and bookmaking workshops. He lives and works in Baltimore, MD.

LUKE BLOOMFIELD lives and writes in New York. He is the editor of the online literary journal notnostrums. He is the author of THE DUFFEL BAG (Factory Hollow, 2011).

EMERGENCY is designed to address several questions we see arising in contemporary North American poetry around issues of emergence and literary community. We've created an ongoing dialogue among working poets on how they think about poetic lineage, theoretical stances, and aesthetic practice. Emergency is curated by Julia Bloch and Sarah Dowling.

WHENEVER WE FEEL LIKE IT is put on by Committee of Vigilance members Emily Pettit and Michelle Taransky. The Committee of Vigilance is a subdivision of Sleepy Lemur Quality Enterprises, which is the production division of The Meeteetzee Institute.

when you need that feeling:

2011-03-12T12:49:00.000-08:00

on Saturday, March 26
whenever we feel like it presents
Poets New to Philadelphia:

Travis MacDonald
JenMarie Davis
Sam Schild
Geoffrey Waterman
Eddie Hopely
John Paetsch
& Gordon Faylor

@3pm
Jose Pistolas
263 S 15th St

to feel like it and to say it:

2011-02-21T12:12:00.000-08:00

on Thursday, March 3
whenever we feel like it presents

ELIZABETH ROBINSON &
RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS
@8 pm

KELLY WRITERS HOUSE
3805 Locust Walk

Elizabeth Robinson's most recent books are The Orphan & its Relations (Fence) and Also Known As (Apogee). Three Novels, a collection of poetry, is forthcoming this year from Omnidawn. Robinson has been a recipient of grants from the Fund for Poetry and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She co-edits EtherDome Chapbooks and Instance Press. With Jennifer Phelps, she is also co-editing an essay collection, Quo Anima, on contemporary women poets and spirituality.

The Collage Poems of Drafts (just published in 2011) and Pitch: Drafts 77-95 (2010) are the newest poetry books by Rachel Blau DuPlessis from Salt Publishing. She is a poet-critic whose other works include The Pink Guitar and Blue Studios. Forthcoming from Iowa is Purple Passages: Patriarchal Poetry and its Ends.

....& earlier in the evening, at 6 pm
JENA OSMAN & EMILY ABENDROTH
Poetry at The Penn Book Center
130 S. 34th Street

these feelings have a sound:

2011-01-26T13:24:00.000-08:00

on Saturday, February 12th
WHENEVER WE FEEL LIKE IT presents
PhillySound & Maggy

PhillySound poets: CAConrad, Frank Sherlock, Michelle Taransky, Ryan Eckes, Pattie McCarthy, Kevin Varrone, Chris McCreary, Jenn McCreary & Mytili Jagannathan

Maggy poets: David Blasco, Adam Fitzgerald, Alina Gregorian, Brandon Kreitler, Paul Legault, Allison Power, Christie Ann Reynolds, Metta Sama & Joe Weil

@3pm
Jose Pistolas
263 S 15th St

PhillySound is a community of poets and friends with shared aesthetics, living within the Philadelphia map.

MAGGY is a poetry journal from NY edited by Adam Fitzgerald, Alina Gregorian and Allison Power.

feelings have been happening and then, this:

2011-01-02T12:11:00.000-08:00

on Saturday, January 22
whenever we feel like it
presents

SAMPSON STARKWEATHER
PAIGE TAGGART
& STEVEN KARL

@Jose Pistolas
263 S 15th St.
3pm

Paige Taggart lives with a boa constrictor in Brooklyn. Her chapbook Polaroid Parade is forthcoming with Greying Ghost Press. She has an e-chapbook, Won't Be A Girl with Scantily Clad Press. Peruse her blog: http://mactaggartjewelry.blogspot.com/

Steven Karl is the author of the chapbooks, (Ir)Rational Animals (Flying Guillotine Press, 2010), State(s) of Flux, a collaboration with the artist, Joseph Lappie (Peptic Robot Press, 2009) and emission/ of, an e-chap forthcoming from H_ngm_n. In one form or another he is involved with Coldfront Magazine, Sink Review, Stain of Poetry Reading Series and Boroughs Writing Workshops. Born in Philly (& forever a Sixers fan) he has lived in many places including Portland, Oregon (go Blazers) and currently Brooklyn, NY(the Knicks are actually "respectable" again).

Sampson Starkweather is from Pittsboro, North Carolina. He is the author of four chapbooks, most recently SELF HELP POEMS by Greying Ghost, a book of "action-poems" whose intent are to cause an effect, in this case to save his best friend's life. He is a founding editor of Birds, LLC, an independent poetry press. He has recently moved from the woods, where he lived alone, to Brooklyn, where he lives with another human-being, sort of.

our feelings will take pictures, we promise:

2010-12-03T07:34:00.000-08:00

on Saturday, December 11
whenever we feel like it
presents

TRISHA LOW
ASTRID LORANGE
STEVE ZULTANSKI
& ROB FITTERMAN

@Jose Pistolas
263 S 15th St.
3pm

Trisha Low s currently a student in philadelphia who appreciates the difference between restraint and restraints. And she's talking about poetry, ok? Low has work forthcoming in Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing edited by Craig Dworkin and Kenny Goldsmith.

Astrid Lorange is a PhD student. She lives in both Sydney and Philadelphia. She has a chapbook forthcoming in Spring.

Steven Zultanski is the author of Pad (Make Now, 2010) and Cop Kisser (BookThug, 2010). He edits and curates variously this and that.

Rob Fitterman is the author of 10 books of poetry including: The Sun Also Also Rises, war the musical, Metropolis XXX: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edge Books), Metropolis 16-29 (Coach House Press), Metropolis 1-15 (Sun & Moon Press), This Window Makes Me Feel (www.ubu.com). Metropolis 1-15 was awarded the Sun & Moon “New American Poetry Award (2000)” and Metropolis 16-29 was awarded the Small Press Traffic “Book of the Year Award (2003)”. With novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa, he co-authored the film What Sebastian Dreamt which was selected for the Sundance Film Festival (2004) and the Lincoln Center LatinBeat Festival (2004). He has been a full-time faculty member in NYU’s Liberal Studies Program since 1993. He also teaches poetry at the Milton Avery School of Graduate Studies at Bard College.

And then, WE ALL FEEL LIKE IT

2010-11-23T09:21:00.000-08:00

on Thursday, December 2
whenever we feel like it
presents

WE ALL FEEL LIKE IT:
a reading by Writers House affiliated poets
TRISHA LOW, HENRY STEINBERG, LEO AMINO,
AMARIS CUCHANSKI, ALLYSON EVEN, FLORENTINA DRAGULESCU,GARETH GLASER, JOHN BANG & PIMRAPEE THUNGKASEMVTHANA
@ 6pm

KELLY WRITERS HOUSE
3805 Locust Walk

& their poems are good feelings we are feeling:

2010-11-01T11:31:00.000-07:00

on Friday, November 12
whenever we feel like it presents:

poetry by
KEVIN VARRONE, CYNTHIA ARRIEU-KING, and CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ
w/ TYLER ANTOINE
@4pm

KELLY WRITERS HOUSE
3805 Locust Walk

Kevin Varrone's most recent collection, g-point almanac: passyunk lost, is just out from Ugly Duckling Presse, as is a companion chapbook, The Philadelphia Improvements. His previous collection, g-point almanac: id est, was published by Instance Press in 2008. Individual poems are available electronically at Duration Press, in Big Bridge, Cross Connect, and [out of nowhere]. He lives in South Philadelphia and teaches at Temple University.

Cynthia Arrieu-King is an assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton College. Her book People are Tiny in Paintings of China is just out from Octopus Books. Her work and reviews will appear this year in Boston Review, Witness, Jacket, etc. She lives near a bunch of casinos and the sea.

Craig Santos Perez, a native Chamorro from the Pacific Island of Guahan (Guam), is the co-founder of Achiote Press and author of two poetry collections: from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Tinfish Press, 2008) and from unincorporated territory [saina] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2010).

Tyler Antoine, 21, is currently a senior English major at Temple University, intending to graduate this spring. Born and raised in southern Delaware, he greatly anticipates the Rapture.

THE BOOK OF FRANK: party! celebration! carnival! farm! restaurant! picnic!

2010-09-21T09:18:00.000-07:00

on Saturday, October 2
whenever we feel like it presents:

CA CONRAD
celebrating the new expanded edition
of The Book of Frank (Wave, 2010)
@2pm

KELLY WRITERS HOUSE
3805 Locust Walk

CACONRAD is the recipient of The Gil Ott Book Award for The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2009). Wave Books will release an expanded edition of The Book of Frank with an introduction by Eileen Myles, this fall. He is also the author of Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), (Soma)tic Midge (Faux Press, 2008), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined (Factory School, 2010). The son of white trash asphyxiation, his childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift.

to feel like this:

2010-09-15T10:04:00.000-07:00

on Sunday, September 26
whenever we feel like it presents:

JON COTNER
ANDY FITCH
& ALEX PHILLIPS
@ 2PM

The Rotunda
4014 Walnut St.

JON COTNER and ANDY FITCH are the authors of TEN WALKS/TWO TALKS (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). They recently completed another collaborative manuscript called CONVERSATIONS OVER STOLEN FOOD. Cotner and Fitch have performed their dialogic improvisations across the United States and internationally. Fitch's book NOT INTELLIGENT, BUT SMART: RETHINKING JOE BRAINARD is forthcoming from Dalkey Archive. Cotner lives in New York City. Fitch is an assistant professor in the University of Wyoming's MFA Program.

ALEX PHILLIPS was born in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1977. He is the poet in residence at Fort Juniper in Cushman Village, Amherst, and is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts. His first book-length poem, CRASH DOME is the first full-length title from Factory Hollow Press.

introducing: the EMERGENCY FEELING

2010-08-31T15:16:00.000-07:00

This September, we are excited to co-sponsor a reading with Sarah Dowling and Julia Bloch's EMERGENCY series:

on Saturday, September 11
EMERGENCY FEELING presents
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
& a draft [beer] party celebrating Pitch: Drafts 77-95 (Salt)

@4pm
Jose Pistolas
263 S 15th St

RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS is an American poet-critic, whose on-going long poem project, begun in 1986, is collected here in Torques: Drafts 58-76, as well as in Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan U.P., 2001) , Drafts 39-57, Pledge, with Draft unnnumbered: Precis (Salt Publishing, 2004) and Pitch: Drafts 77-95 (Salt Publishing, 2010). DuPlessis was awarded a residency at Bellagio in 2007; she was the recipient of a Pew Fellowship for Artists and of the Roy Harvey Pearce/ Archive for New Poetry Prize, both in 2002.

EMERGENCY is designed to address several questions we see arising in contemporary North American poetry around issues of emergence and literary community. We've created an ongoing dialogue among working poets on how they think about poetic lineage, theoretical stances, and aesthetic practice. Emergency is curated by Julia Bloch and Sarah Dowling.

WHENEVER WE FEEL LIKE IT is put on by Committee of Vigilance members Emily Pettit and Michelle Taransky. The Committee of Vigilance is a subdivision of Sleepy Lemur Quality Enterprises, which is the production division of The Meeteetzee Institute.

our feelings will be called ships on this day:

2010-08-07T16:21:00.000-07:00

on Saturday, August 28 whenever we feel like it presents
JENNIFER KARMIN
PATTIE McCARTHY
& CARLOS SOTO ROMAN
@4pm

JOSE PISTOLAS
263 S 15th St

JENNIFER KARMIN is the author of aaaaaaaaaaalice from Flim Forum Press. Karmin curates the Red Rover Series and is co-founder of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. A proud member of the Dusie Kollektiv, she is the author of the Dusie chapbook Evacuated: Disembodying Katrina. Walking Poem, a collaborative street project, is featured online at How2. She is the Community Aesthetician for Les Figues Press at Give A Fig. In Chicago, Jennifer teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the public schools. She earned her BA in the Poetics Program at the University of Buffalo and MFA in the Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

PATTIE McCARTHY is the author of Table Alphabetical of Hard Words, Verso, and bk of (h)rs, all from Apogee Press. She received her M.A. in Creative Writing—Poetry from Temple University. Her work has appeared recently in many journals, including Colorado Review, Dusie, EOAGH, Fanzine, ixnay reader, Lungfull!, The Poker, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and The Tangent. She has taught literature and writing at Queens College of the City University of New York, Loyola University Maryland, and Towson University. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Temple University.

CARLOS SOTO ROMAN was born in Valparaíso, Chile. He is the author of La Marcha de los Quiltros (The Mongrel’s march,1999), Haiku Minero (Miner Haiku, 2007) and Cambio y Fuera (Over and Out, 2009). He resides in Philadelphia and is a member of The New Philadelphia Poets.

When A Supermachine Feels Like It

2010-04-13T19:37:00.000-07:00

on Saturday, April 17
whenever we feel like it presents
NATHANIEL OTTING
DOUGLAS PICCININI
GENYA TUROVSKAYA
& CHISTIAN HAWKEY
w/ DANIEL SHURLEY
@ 2pm
THE ROTUNDA
4014 Walnut Street
Philadelphia PA 19104

Genya Turovskaya is the author of Calendar (UDP 2002), and The Tides (Octopus Books 2007). Her poetry and translations of contemporary Russian poets have appeared in Chicago Review, Conjunctions, A Public Space, Octopus, jubilat, and other publications. Her translation of Aleksandr Skidan’s Red Shifting was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2008. She has been the recipient of various awards and fellowships including a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a Montana Artist Refuge Fellowship, the Witter Bynner Translation Residency at Santa Fe Art Institute, and a Fund for Poetry grant. She holds an MFA from Bard College and lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she is the Associate Editor of the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse.

Christian Hawkey is the author of three books of poetry. His first book, The Book of Funnels, appeared in 2004 and won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His second book, a chapbook called HourHour, includes drawings by the artist Ryan Mrowzowski, and it was published by Delirium Press in 2005. Citizen Of, his third book, was released by Wave Books in the spring of 2007, and it received enthusiastic reviews from numerous magazines and online journals, including Time Out New York, Octopus, Sillman’s Blog, and the New Yorker. His poems have appeared in Conjunctions, Volt, Denver Quarterly, Tin House, Crowd, BOMB, Chicago Review, Best American Poetry, and Conduit, and his art criticism has appeared in frieze and Meatpaper. He has received awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Poetry Fund, and in 2006 he received a Creative Capital Innovative Literature Award. In 20008 he was a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Fellow. He is currently an Associate Professor at Pratt Institute, where he teaches the practice of writing poetry in the Writing Program.

Douglas Piccinnini’s writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Antioch Review, The Cultural Society, EOAGH, Jacket, Lana Turner, mid)rib, The Poetry Project Newsletter, So and So, Verse and West Wind Review. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and curates the CROWD Reading Series.

Nathaniel Otting is a sub-sub librarian for Minutes Books and The Robert Walser Society of Western Massachusetts.

SUPERMACHINE is a Brooklyn based poetry reading series and literary journal from the dreams of Ben Fama with contributing editors Shonni Enolow & James Copeland, and reading series co-curator Michael Barron.

Now You Know How We Feel:

2010-03-11T07:35:00.001-08:00

on Saturday, March 27
whenever we feel like it presents
SRIKANTH REDDY &
DANIEL KHALASTCHI
w/ KAEGAN SPARKS
@ 4pm
Kelly Writers House
University of Pennsylvania
3805 Locust Walk
Philadelphia PA 19104

Srikanth Reddy's first collection, Facts for Visitors, received the Asian American Literary Award for Poetry in 2005. His second book, Voyager, is forthcoming from the University of California Press in 2011. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the doctoral program in English at Harvard University, Reddy is currently an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.

Daniel Khalastchi is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His poems have appeared/are forthcoming in a variety of journals, including Denver Quarterly; jubilat; 1913; Forklift, Ohio; Ninth Letter; GutCult; and Thermos, among others. A recent fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Daniel is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University. His first collection of poetry, The Maturation of Man, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press.

Kaegan Sparks is a senior in the college. She curates KWH Art at the Writers House and works with the Common Press at Penn. Kaegan has held internships over the past two summers at ICA Philadelphia, Dia:Beacon, Parkett Publishers, and The Kitchen in New York City. She studies contemporary poetry at Penn, and writes poems on occasion. She is currently working on a hybrid creative-critical piece on the intricacies of dialogue forms in poetry.

(original drawing by Jennifer Rothfuss)

Myung Mi Kim Feels Like It, Too!

2010-02-18T13:00:00.000-08:00

on Monday, March 1
whenever we feel like it presents
MYUNG MI KIM
@ 6pm
Kelly Writers House
University of Pennsylvania
3805 Locust Walk
Philadelphia PA 19104
co-sponsored by: Asian American Studies, SASGov and the Talk Poets

Myung Mi Kim is a Professor of English and a core faculty member of the Poetics Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Kim has also served as Distinguished Visiting Poet at St. Mary's College, Moraga, California, and as Visiting Professor at Oberlin College. Kim was awarded The Multicultural Publisher's Exchange Award of Merit for Under Flag (Kelsey Street Press, 1991). She also received a fellowship at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, awards from the Fund for Poetry, a Daesan Foundation Translation Grant, and the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity. Myung Mi Kim is the author of Penury (Omnidawn, 2009), Commons. (University of California Press, 2002), DURA. (Sun & Moon, 1999), The Bounty. (Chax Press, 1996, 2000), and Under Flag (Kelsey Street Press, 1991, 1998, and 2008). The anthologies in which her work has appeared include American Poets in the 21st century: The New American Poetics, Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women, Premonitions: Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry, Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women. and other collections. And, Kim's collaborations include Spelt,. with the poet Susan Gevirtz. A collaboration with the poet, visual artist, and translator, Norma Cole, appeared in big bridge #12. The composer John Zorn commissioned her to write a bilingual Korean/English text which can be heard on Zorn's New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands. Most recently, she completed a commission from the Friends of the University Libraries, State University of New York at Buffalo, for their annual broadside.

(original drawing by Jennifer Rothfuss)

WE ALL FEEL LIKE IT

2009-11-28T13:34:00.000-08:00

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on Thursday, December 3
whenever we feel like it presents
WE ALL FEEL LIKE IT
w/ Rivka Fogel
Rebekah Caton
Kimberly Eisler
Lily Applebaum
Chris Milione &
Lindsey Todd

@ 6pm
Kelly Writers House
University of Pennsylvania
3805 Locust Walk
Philadelphia PA 19104

Rivka Fogel is a junior and English major with a concentration in Creative Writing. The Behrman Scholar at the Kelly Writers House, she is the Executive Editor of the Kedma Journal and serves on the Penn Review editorial board. Her poems have been published in Peregrine and in Penn student journals, and her art was featured in this year's Arts in the City Year Crawl. She writes on art for the SoHo-based blog Art Observed, and has an eternal love of polka dots.

Rebekah Caton is a senior at the University of Pennsylvania majoring in English and graduating in exactly two weeks. She likes to read and write poems & hopes to be in Africa (exact location TBA; Peace Corps is all about suspense, apparently) by this time next year.

Kimberly Eisler is a professional stock trader, living in New York. She is the author of Trading for a Living, Come Into My Trading Room and Entries & Exits, best-selling and well known among traders. First published in 1993, these books have been translated into Sign Language, Icelandic, the Moravian dialect of Czech, HTML, and Cuneiform. She also wrote Rubles to Dollars — a book about the transformation of Russia. Dr. Eisler was born in Leningrad and grew up in Estonia, where she entered medical school at the age of 16. At 23, while working as a ship’s doctor, she jumped a former Soviet Union ship in Africa and received political asylum in the United States. Eisler is also a pioneer of mechanical ventilation of asphyxiation victims. She was the first person to manufacture nitrous oxide for commercial use in her Trenton, New Jersey facility.

Lily Applebaum is new to poetry-writing and uses zeugma whenever possible, and works judiciously as a research assistant for Al Filreis and on her poetry in a secret Word document (yes, the journal is a red herring). She has also been a student of Writers House Director Jessica Lowenthal and of Charles Bernstein. Lily is hoping to declare a double major in English and Environmental studies, and spent the summer working as a nature teacher to many elementary school children and five leopard frogs. She is interested in repetition, nouns of direct address, demonstrative pronouns, and transition words. You there, don't be surprised that this is her next sentence. Conclusively, she is interested in repetition.

Chris Milione is a junior in the College, majoring in English. Enjoys long walks on the beach, picnics under oak trees, and popular songs rewritten to parody the literary canon. Has an intense dislike for pronouns. Incessantly attempts to hone his ability to speak with a convincing foreign accent--so far, he hasn't convinced a single person.

Lindsey Todd is not witty, not graceful, not hip, not scholarly, can't cornrow (contrary to popular assumption), hates arguing politics, can't stand the smell of tomato sauce, and abhors liars. Lindsey is curious, loquacious, occasionally cynical, adventurous, idealistic, culinarily inclined, clumsy, generous, friendly, loves small furry animals, legitimately adores school, has faith in humanity, and really wishes Nickelodeon was still worth watching.

In October, Who Wouldn't?

2009-09-16T09:02:00.000-07:00

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on Saturday, October 24
Andrew Zawacki and Joshua Harmon
w/ Sanaë Lemoine
@ 4pm
Kelly Writers House
University of Pennsylvania
3805 Locust Walk
Philadelphia PA 19104

Andrew Zawacki is the author of three poetry books—Petals of Zero Petals of One (Talisman House), Anabranch (Wesleyan), and By Reason of Breakings (Georgia)—and of the chapbooks Arrow’s shadow (Equipage); Georgia (Katalanché, 2009), co-winner of the 1913 Prize; Roche limit (tir aux pigeons); Bartleby’s Waste-book (Particle Series); in motion from the Meridian, a collaboration with artist Jennifer Schuberth (Dusie Kollektiv); and Masquerade (Vagabond). His work has appeared in Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande), Walt Whitman hom(m)age, 2005/1855 (Turtle Point), The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (Iowa), Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner), and other anthologies. He teaches at the University of Georgia.

Joshua Harmon is the author of Scape (Black Ocean), a book of poems, and Quinnehtukqut (Starcherone Books), a novel. His work has appeared in many journals, including Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, jubilat, TriQuarterly, and Verse. A graduate of Marlboro College and Cornell University, he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and the Dutchess County Arts Council.

Sanaë Lemoine is a junior in the College. She was born in Paris. She is half-French half-Japanese. When she was four she moved to Australia where she developed a liking for walking barefoot. She returned to France at age eleven. Growing up, she would relentlessly demand that her parents tell her stories. Thankfully her mother has an inexhaustible imagination and great patience. Now Sanaë writes her own ones...

What We Feel Like This September

2009-07-27T08:39:00.000-07:00

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on Saturday, September 12
Dara Wier and Ben Kopel
read poetry
w/ James La Marre
@ 2pm
Kelly Writers House
University of Pennsylvania
3805 Locust Walk
Philadelphia PA 19104

Dara Wier was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Wave Books just published her Selected Poems. Other recent books include Remnants of Hannah and Reverse Rapture (awarded the Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives Book Award). Wier's poems can be found in Pushcart, Best American Poetry, Norton, Soft Skull and various other anthologies, and in American Poetry Review, Conduit, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, slope, Turnrow, New American Review, and Volt. She's a member of the poetry faculty and director of the MFA program for poets and writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and co-director of the Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action. With Guy Pettit and Emily Pettit, she edits and publishes chapbooks and broadsides for Factory Hollow Press.

Ben Kopel is a Baton Rouge, LA native and holds degrees from Louisiana State University and the University of Iowa. He is currently continuing his education at University of Massachusetts Amherst. He enjoys movies about summer jobs and thinks there should be more movies about lonesome hitmen.

James La Marre is an east coast native cultured in Salt Lake City and currently resides in Philadelphia. An undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania, James works at the Kelly Writers House and spent the past summer interning at the Ugly Duckling Presse in Brooklyn. He likes having things to look forward to.

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This Fall

2009-07-17T13:19:00.000-07:00

During Fall 2009, WHENEVER WE FEEL LIKE IT will host readings at Kelly Writers House on Saturday afternoons featuring poets DARA WIER and BEN KOPEL; and ANDREW ZAWACKI and JOSH HARMON.

More details soon.

We Feel Like It

2009-02-02T08:31:00.000-08:00

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on Saturday, March 21
Heather Christle and Natalie Lyalin
read poetry
w/ Cecilia Corrigan
@ 4pm
Kelly Writers House
University of Pennsylvania
3805 Locust Walk
Philadelphia PA 19104

Natalie Lyalin is the author of the forthcoming book "Pink and Hot Pink Habitat" (Coconut Books). She is the co-editor of GlitterPony magazine. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two cats.

Heather Christle grew up in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Her poems have recently appeared in Boston Review, 6X6, Fou, and No: a journal of the arts. Octopus Books will publish her first poetry collection, "The Difficult Farm," later this year. She lives, studies and teaches in Western Massachusetts.

Cecilia Corrigan is a poet and a Penn undergrad.

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And, We Feel Like It

2008-04-20T08:08:00.000-07:00

on Saturday, May 3
Eric Elshtain & Matthias Regan
read poetry
@ 7 pm
The Writers' House
111 Church St.
Iowa City IA 52245

Eric Elshtain is the editor of Beard of Bees Press.

Matthias Regan is a founding member of the Critical Aesthetic Freedom Foundation (CAFF) & co-editor of Rubba Ducky Press. His chapbooks include The Most of It, Utility, Codebookcode, Huckabee Goes Electric, Another Sharp Turn (w/ Topher Hemann) & Death Blossoms. To receive future books for free write to him at: CAFF Collective PO Box 269164 Chicago IL 60626 or Caffcollective@gmail.com

We Feel Like It, Again

2008-01-11T15:59:00.000-08:00

On Sunday, February 24
Mark Leidner & Shannon Burns
read poetry
@ 7 pm
Frank Conroy Reading Room
Dey House
507 N Clinton St
Iowa City IA 52245

Mark Leidner is from Tifton, a small town in south Georgia. His poems have appeared in SKEIN, Apostrophe Cast, and La Petite Zine, and his chapbook, The Night of 1,000 Murders, was just released by Factory Hollow Press. He currently lives in Iowa City and teaches at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, IA.

Shannon Burns is the author of the chapbook, Preserving the Old Way of Life. She was born in Springfield, Missouri and lived near there for 21 years. Now she lives with her mother and her brother in Louisville, Kentucky where she is a student at the University of Louisville.

We Feel Like It

2007-09-18T10:22:00.001-07:00

On Sunday, November 4th
Dorothea Lasky & Caryl Pagel
read poetry
@ 7 pm
Frank Conroy Reading Room
Dey House
507 N Clinton St
Iowa City IA 52245

Dorothea Lasky was born in St. Louis in 1978. Her poems have appeared in Crowd, 6x6, Boston Review, Delmar, Phoebe, Filter, Knock, Drill, Lungfull!, and Carve, among others. Her first book, Awe, was just released by Wave Books. She is a graduate of the MFA program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and also has been educated at Harvard University and Washington University. She has taught poetry and visual art at Heath Elementary School, The New England Institute of Art, and Munroe Center for the Arts. Currently, she lives in Philadelphia, where she edits the Katalanche Press chapbook series (along with poet, Michael Carr) and is pursuing her doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania.

Caryl Pagel's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Octopus Magazine, Coconut, Parcel, New Orleans Review, Tarpaulin Sky, and Denver Quarterly. She is from Chicago, where she attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, worked for the Illinois Arts Council, and co-founded the Powell's North Reading Series. She currently lives in Iowa City where she works for the Iowa Summer Writing Festival.

Whenever We Feel Like It

the feelings they may or may not be changing:

the feeling of a celebration:

whenever you say when:

when the feelings become all the feelings:

call it the feeling you want to call it

WHENEVER WE FEEL LIKE IT feels like it:

The museum of feelings:

when the poems are feelings we like it

when the moonstone feels, and we feel, and there are poems there:

if you feel, feel like this:

another emergency feeling

when you need that feeling:

to feel like it and to say it:

these feelings have a sound:

feelings have been happening and then, this:

our feelings will take pictures, we promise:

And then, WE ALL FEEL LIKE IT

& their poems are good feelings we are feeling:

THE BOOK OF FRANK: party! celebration! carnival! farm! restaurant! picnic!

to feel like this:

introducing: the EMERGENCY FEELING

our feelings will be called ships on this day:

When A Supermachine Feels Like It

Now You Know How We Feel:

Myung Mi Kim Feels Like It, Too!

WE ALL FEEL LIKE IT

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In October, Who Wouldn't?

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What We Feel Like This September

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This Fall

We Feel Like It

And, We Feel Like It

We Feel Like It, Again

We Feel Like It

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