Thursday, July 2, 7pm – Poetry
A Splitleaves Affair – Hosted by Benjamin Winkler
Sueyeun Juliette Lee lives in Philadelphia, where she edits Corollary Press, a chapbook series devoted to multi-ethnic experimental writing. Her books include That Gorgeous Feeling (Coconut Books) and Underground National (Factory School). She is also a contributing editor to EOAGH and The Constant Critic.
Sarah Dowling is the author of Security Posture, which was published as the winner of the 2009 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Her work has appeared in journals such as EOAGH, P-Queue, and West Coast Line, and is included in the anthology I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women, forthcoming from Les Figues Press. Sarah is international editor at Jacket2 and a doctoral candidate at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Lonely Christopher is an American poet, fiction writer, dramatist, and filmmaker. He is the author of the poetry volume Into (with Christopher Sweeney and Robert Snyderman) and the fiction collection The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse. Currently he is directing his first feature length film, MOM, which he also wrote.
Michael Leong is the author of e.s.p. (Silenced Press, 2009), a collection of poetry; I, the Worst of All (BlazeVox [books], 2009), a translation of the Chilean poet Estela Lamat; The Lung of the Poet (Splitleaves Press, 2011), a limited edition broadside; and several chapbooks including TheArchivist’s Cloudy Quotient (Beard of Bees Press, 2010) and Midnight’s Marsupium (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2010), which was an Editor’s Pick of 2010 by Stride Magazine. His next full-length collection, Cutting Time with a Knife, will be published by Black Square Editions/The Brooklyn Rail, and his next chapbook, The Philosophy of
Decomposition/Re-Composition as Explanation, will be published by Delete Press. He is a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University and lives in New York City.