Gail Scott is an experimental prose writer. Her goal is to write sentences which have the function of poetry. She is the author of the novels The Obituary (Coach House/Nightboat), and My Paris (Dalkey Archive), among others. She is completing a work called Furniture Music, in part an ode to the downtown Manhattan poetry scene. She has taught Creative Writing for a decade at Universite de Montreal and has also worked as a literary translator.
Anne Boyer is the inaugural winner of the Cy Twombly Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2018). Her most recent book is A Handbook of Disappointed Fate (UDP 2018), a collection of essays and fables. Boyer’s other books include The Romance of Happy Workers (Coffee House 2008), My Common Heart (Spooky Girlfriend 2011), and the 2016 CLMP Firecracker award-winning Garments Against Women (U.S., Ahsahta 2015; U.K, Mute 2016). Boyer is now in the final stages of a book called The Undying, forthcoming from FSG in August 2019. She lives in Kansas City, where she is a professor at the Kansas City Art Institute.
April Gibson is a poet, essayist, and educator whose work has appeared in Pluck!, Valley Voices, Tidal Basin, Literary Mama, and elsewhere. She is a fellow of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, The Watering Hole Poetry Retreat, and a VONA/Voices Writing Workshop alum. Her chapbook, Automation (2015), was published by Willow Books as part of their emerging writer series. Her current project is a full-length poetry collection titled The Black Woman Press Conference.
Marcella Durand‘s books include The Prospect, Rays of the Shadow, Le Jardin de M. (The Garden of M.), with French translations by Olivier Brossard, Deep Eco Pré, a collaboration with Tina Darragh, AREA, and Traffic & Weather, written during a residency at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Her translation from French of Michèle Métail’s book-length piece, Earth’s Horizons/Les horizons du sol, was published this year by Black Square Edition
Born in Andhra Pradesh, India, Madhu H. Kaza is a writer, translator, artist and educator based in New York City. She is the co-editor of an anthology, What We Love, and the editor of Kitchen Table Translation, a volume that explores the connection between translation and migration and which features immigrant, diasporic and poc translators. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Chimurenga, Waxwing, Guernica, The New Inquiry, Feminist Spaces, Gulf Coast and more. She directs the Bard Microcollege at Brooklyn Public Library and teaches in the MFA program at Columbia University.
Amina Cain is the author most recently of the short story collection Creature, out with Dorothy, a publishing project, and a forthcoming novel from FSG in 2019. She is also working on a book of essays on the space of reading and writing fiction. Essays and short stories have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, BOMB, n+1, Full Stop, Vice, the Believer Logger, and other places. She lives in Los Angeles.
Michael Lally was born in Orange, NJ 1942. 1959 he began reading poems in coffee houses and bars; first published 1960; military 1962-66; ran for sheriff of Johnson County, Iowa, for Peace and Freedom Party 1968 while at U. of Iowa on GI Bill; 30 books published since 1970; 92nd St. Y Poetry Center’s Discovery Award for The South Orange Sonnets 1972; NEA Poetry grants, 1974 & ’81 (denounced in Congress by Republicans who called the poem “My Life” “pornography” in first attempt to defund the NEA); PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature for Can’t Be Wrong 1997; American Book Award for It’s Not Nostalgia 2000; latest book Another Way To Play: Poems 1960-2017. Civil Rights, anti-war, feminist, and LGBT activist since 1966, also worked as jazz pianist, magazine editor, college teacher, book critic (for The Washington Post, The Village Voice, et. al.); political columnist, night guard, chauffeur, movie and TV actor (White Fang, Deadwood et. al.) screenwriter and script doctor (Drugstore Cowboy, Pump Up The Volume et. al.) Writes the blog “Lally’s Alley” and contributor to “The Best American Poetry Blog.”
Douglas Crase is the author of The Revisionist, named a 1981 Notable Book of the Year in The New York Times and nominated that year for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award in poetry. His recent chapbook The Astropastorals was named a 2017 Book of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement. A collection of his essays and lectures, Lines from London Terrace, was published in February by Pressed Wafer. He is a former MacArthur Fellow and the “Doug” in James Schuyler’s poem “Dining Out with Doug and Frank.”
Anna Gurton-Wachter is a writer, editor and archivist. Her first full length book, Utopia Pipe Dream Memory, is newly out from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2019. Other recent work has appeared in Peach Magazine and Vestiges. For more info visit annagw.com / @anna.as.metaphor
MC Hyland is a PhD candidate in English Literature at New York University, and holds MFAs in Poetry and Book Arts from the University of Alabama. From her research, she produces scholarly and poetic texts, artists’ books, and public art projects. She is the founding editor of DoubleCross Press, a poetry micropress, as well as the author of several poetry chapbooks (most recently THE END PART ONE from Magic Helicopter Press) and the poetry collection Neveragainland (Lowbrow Press, 2010).
Artist Tyler Coburn will present a new monologue, Richard Roe, performed by actress Birgit Huppuch. The monologue is a hydra-headed take on the legal fictions that creep around the margins of selfhood, and that increasingly dictate the terms of economic and political process.
Coburn’s work has been presented at Centre Pompidou, Paris; South London Gallery; Kunsthalle Wien; Kunstverein Munich; SculptureCenter, New York; and in the 11th Gwangju Biennale and in the 10th Shanghai Biennale. Coburn’s latest solo exhibition, Remote Viewer, is on view at Koenig & Clinton, New York from April 20th to June 3rd.
Miguel Gutierrez’s current fascination is thinking about how being a queer Latin-American dance artist relates to the legacy of (predominantly white) abstraction. This will be the conceptual framework for a new group piece for Latinx performers called This Bridge Called My Ass. Other current activities: a cabaret show called SADONNA (sad versions of Madonna songs), running LANDING – an educational and mentoring program at Gibney, touring the Bessie award winning John Bernd project (co-directed with Ishmael Houston-Jones), touring as a musician with Colin Self in Jen Rosenblit and Simone Aughterlony’s Everything Fits in the Room, writing a TV show with his sister about their family, writing a second book, and working as a Feldenkrais Method practitioner. www.miguelgutierrez.org