on Monday, March 31, 2014
at The Deja Brew Cafe & Pub, Wendell, MA
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.
Open mic starts at 7:30 p.m.
Sliding scale admission: $1 – $5
 Photo by Alan Bernheimer David Abel is a poet, artist, editor, and teacher, and the proprietor of Passages Bookshop. Three new books were released in the summer of 2012: Float, a collection of collage texts spanning twenty-five years (Chax Press); Tether, a chapbook of poems (Barebone books); and Carrier, a hypergraphic visual sequence (c_L Books). Other recent publications include the collaborative artist’s books While You Were In and Let Us Repair (disposable books, with Leo & Anna Daedalus). With Sam Lohmann, he publishes the Airfoil chapbook series, and from 2002–12 he published twenty-four issues of the free broadside series Envelope. He has devised more than thirty performance, film, theater, and intermedia projects in the past decade, both solo and with a wide range of collaborators. A founding member of the Spare Room reading series, now in its thirteenth year, he also teaches writing, most recently at the Multnomah Arts Center, where from 2009–12 he was the coordinator of the Literary Arts program. An inaugural Research Fellow of the Center for Art + Environment of the Nevada Museum of Art, and a founding member of 13 Hats, a collective of visual artists and writers, he recently curated the exhibitions Chax Press: Publishing Poetics for PNCA and Object Poems for 23 Sandy Gallery. He lives in Portland, Oregon. |
 Michelle Valois lives in Florence, Massachusetts with her partner Katharine; their three children, Noah, Ari, and Esther; and a cat named Moxie. Her writing has appeared in Tri-Quartlery, The Massachusetts Review, Brevity, Fourth Genre, The Baltimore Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Slipstream, Map Literary, The North American Review, and others. She earned an M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and has received writing grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She teaches writing and humanities at Mount Wachusett Community College. |
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