"An Actual Kansas" Reading Series: Shanna Compton, Jennifer Knox, Danielle Pafunda
When: Saturday, April 5, 2008, 7 p.m.
Where: 6 Gallery, 716 1/2 Mass., Lawrence
Cost: Free
Age limit: All ages
Description: Celebrate National Poetry Month with Bloof Books and "An Actual Kansas" Series.
About the authors:
Jennifer L. Knox was born in Lancaster, California, where absolutely
anything can be made into a bong. Her poems have appeared in the
anthologies The Best American Poetry (1997, 2003 and 2006), Great
American Prose Poems: From Poe to Present, Free Radicals: American
Poets Before Their First Books, and The Best American Erotic Poems:
From 1800 to the Present. She has taught poetry writing at New York
University and Hunter College, and is available for children's parties and tradeshow booth demonstrations. For even more specious information, see http://www.jenniferlknox.com.
Danielle Pafunda is the author of Pretty Young Thing (Soft Skull,
2005), and the chapbook A Primer for Cyborgs: The Corpse (Whole
Coconut Chapbook Series, forthcoming). Her poems have been chosen
three times for Best American Poetry (2004, 2006, and 2007). Other
poems and reviews have appeared in such publications as American
Letters & Commentary, Conjunctions, the Georgia Review, and
TriQuarterly. She is coeditor of the online journal La Petite Zine, a
doctoral candidate in the University of Georgia's creative writing
program, and Spring 2008 Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College
Chicago. See http://daniellepafunda.blogspot.com for more information.
Shanna Compton is the author of For Girls (& Others), Down Spooky, and
several chapbooks, as well as the editor of GAMERS: Artists, Writers &
Programmers on the Pleasures of Pixels. Her poems and essays have
appeared widely in magazines such as No Tell Motel, MiPoesias, Verse,
the tiny, McSweeney's, Absent, Coconut, Spork, and Court Green, and in
anthologies including The Best American Poetry 2005, The Bedside Guide
to No Tell Motel, Bowery Women, Digerati, and Exchange Values Vol. 2.
The former Associate Publisher of Soft Skull Press, she has taught
poetry and publishing at the New School and Bowery Arts & Sciences,
and is the founding editor of the DIY Poetry Publishing Cooperative.
For more information, see http://www.shannacompton.com.
Event posted Feb. 8, 2008
Last updated March 31, 2008
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