Zinc Bar Reading Series
Poetry. Sundays at 6:30 p.m. at the Zinc Bar, 82 W. 3rd St.
Join us on Sunday, February 7, 2010, for readings by:
Michelle Taransky
Stacy Szymaszek
Dara Wier
with a special performance by:
Sheila Donovan!
6:30 p.m. sharp start time
See you there!
Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=466984840391&ref=mf
Bios:
Sheila Donovan is a Brooklyn based performance artist, originally from Hudson, Massachusetts. She is a founding member of the Laboratory Theater Company; a company also based in Brooklyn which creates original experimental theater works. Donovan sings, plays violin and drums in the band Amolvacy with members of Volcano the Bear and the No Neck Blues Band. Amolvacy’s releases include the LP’s Hohokus (2007) and Alalula (2009), and they are currently mixing their third album. She also sings and drums in the punk duo called Womb Sharks and is working on a solo release for a music project she calls Sheila XVI and the Creepy Brains.
Stacy Szymaszek is the author of the books Emptied of All Ships (Litmus Press, 2005) and Hyperglossia (Litmus Press, 2009), as well as numerous chapbooks including Orizaba: A Voyage with Hart Crane (Faux Press, 2008), Stacy S.: Autoportraits (OMG, 2008), and from Hart Island (Albion Books, 2009). she is the current Artistic Director of the Poetry Project. Visit her author page here : http://www.litmuspress.org/szymaszek.html or her PennSound page here: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Szymaszek.php.
Michelle Taransky’s first book, “Barn Burned, Then,” was selected by
Marjorie Welish for the 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize. Taransky lives in
Philadelphia where she works at Kelly Writers House and teaches poetry
at Temple University.
Dara Wier’s newest book is SELECTED POEMS out this fall from Wave Books. She’s also the author of REVERSE RAPTURE and VOYAGES IN ENGLISH. Along with Guy Pettit and Emily Pettit she publishes and edits poetry chapbooks and broadsides for Factory Hollow Press. She teaches workshops and form & theory seminars for the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. New poems and prose can be found in notnostrums, Fou, The Nation, American Poetry Review, Superstition Review, Fairy Tale Review, Bat City Review, Maggy, Scythe, LIT, Circumference, The Blue Letter, Conduit, and elsewhere.
