When there is a weasel there is a feeling:

on Saturday, May 19th
WHENEVER WE FEEL LIKE IT presents
A celebration of Least Weasels:
SUSAN LANDERS, JENN MCCREARY, CHRISTOPHER FUNKHOUSER & KAREN RANDALL
@ 3PM

at Jose Pistolas
263 S 15th St.

Susan Landers is the author of 15: A Poetic Engagement with the Chicago Manual of Style (Least Weasel, 2011), 248 mgs, a panic picnic (O Books 2003), and Covers (O Books 2007). She edited the early aught journal Pom2. Recent poems have appeared in Elective Affinities, Try Magazine, and The Recluse. She lives in Brooklyn.

Jenn McCreary is the author of :ab ovo:, published by Dusie Press in 2009. She is also the author of the chapbooks: errata stigmata (Potes & Poets Press) & four o’clock pocket chiming (Beautiful Swimmer Press), the e-chapbook: Maps & Legends: (Scantily Clad Press), and a doctrine of signatures (Singing Horse Press).  She lives with the writer Chris McCreary & their twin sons in Philadelphia, where she co-edits ixnay press with Chris. Her Least Weasel chapbook is :Odyssey and Oracle:.

Christopher Funkhouser and Amy Hufnagel’s collaborations have appeared in The New River, Trickhouse, and Drunken Boat; they recently performed together at Interrupt Studio II (Brown University). Funkhouser is author of New Directions in Digital Poetry (Continuum, 2012), and the chapbook Electro þerdix (Least Weasel, 2011), in which Hufnagel’s images are featured.

Karen Randall is the proprietor of Propolis Press, producer of Least Weasel Chapbooks, & author The Extruded Gilgamesh. Her poetry has been published by EOAGH, TextSound, and Würm. She lives in Western Massachusetts.

In the futurity lounge of feelings, there is:

WHENEVER WE FEEL LIKE IT presents
Marjorie Welish
@ 7pm

Kelly Writers House
3805 Locust Walk

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

MARJORIE WELISH is the author of The Annotated “Here” and Selected Poems, Word Group, Isle of the Signatories, and In the Futurity Lounge / Asylum for Indeterminacy (Spring 2012), all from Coffee House Press. The papers delivered at a conference on her writing and art held at the University of Pennsylvania were published in the book Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish (Slought Books). In 2009, Granary Books published Oaths? Questions?, a collaborative artists’ book by Marjorie Welish and James Siena which was the subject of a special exhibition at Denison University Museum, Granville, Ohio, and part of a two-year tour of artists’ books throughout the United States. Her honors include the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Fellowship from Brown University, the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Poetry Fellowship at Cambridge University, and two fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has held a Senior Fulbright Fellowship, which has taken her to the University of Frankfurt and to the Edinburgh College of Art. She is now Madelon Leventhal Rand Distinguished Lecturer in Literature at Brooklyn College.

the feelings they may or may not be changing:

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:

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:

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:

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

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.