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THURSDAY | 28 SEPTEMBER 2006 | 4:30PM
ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS & MATVEI YANKELEVICH

Matvei Yankelevich is the editor of the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse, and co-edits 6×6, a poetry periodical. He is the co-translator, with Eugene Ostashevsky, of An Invitation For Me To Think, the selected poems of Alexander Vvedensky, forthcoming from Green Integer; and of Russian Absurdism: OBERIU, an anthology forthcoming from Northwestern University Press. His own writing has appeared in various little magazines and his critical work on Russian-American poets appears on Octopus Magazine. A chapbook of his long poem, The Present Work, was published by the Los Angeles-based Palm Press in summer 2006. He teaches Russian Literature at Hunter College in New York City.

Anna Moschovakis has been an editor and designer with Ugly Duckling Presse since 2002, helping to produce books and chapbooks by emerging writers, translations, and the poetry periodical, 6x6. Her translations of Henri Michaux, Claude Cahun, Blaise Cendrars, Théophile Gautier and others have been published by Fence, nest, and New York Review Books Classics. She is the autor of two chapbooks, The Blue Book (Phylum Press, 2005) and Dependence Day Parade (Sisyphus, 2006), and her first book, I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone, is just out this fall from Turtle Point Press. She currently teaches in the Comparative Literature department of Queens College.

THURSDAY |  05 OCTOBER 2006 | 4:30PM
ROBERT GRENIER

Robert Grenier is the author of many books, including Dusk Road Games (1966), Sentences (1978), and Phantom Anthoms (1986). He was founding co-editor of the influential little magazine This (1971-1974) and was the editor of Robert Creeley's Selected Poems (Scribners, 1976). His recent work is as much visual as verbal, involving multicolor "drawn" poems in special (and not always reproducible) formats. Visit his author page at EPC here.

WEDNESAY | 18 OCTOBER 2006 | 4:30PM
BOB PERELMAN

Bob Perelman's first book Braille, a series of "improvisations" inspired by William Carlos Williams, was published in 1975. His many works since then include The First World (1986), Face Value (1988), Captive Audience (also 1988), and Virtual Reality (1993). In 1999, his selected poems were published by Wesleyan under the title Ten to One. Perelman edited Writing/Talks (1985), and is the author of several scholarly volumes, including The Trouble with Genius (1994) and The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History (1996). He is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Visit his author page at EPC here.

THURSDAY | 02 NOVEMBER 2006 | 4:30PM
CHRISTINA MILLETTI & DIMITRI ANASTASOPOULOS

Christina Milletti is the author of The Religious & Other Fictions, just out from Carnergie Mellon UP this fall. Her writing has appeared in several journals and anthologies, such as The Alaska Review, The Chicago Review, The Greensboro Review, and The Cincinnati Review, as well as Harcourt's Best New American Voices and Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops. She earned an MFA at Brown University and is now an Assistant Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY where she directs the Exhibit X Fiction Series. She is currently at work on her next novel, Choke Box.

Dimitri Anastasopoulos teaches creative writing at the University of Rochester and is the author of A Larger Sense of Harvey, a novel, and has published short fiction in 3rd Bed, Sudden Stories: An Anthology of Minuscule Fiction, Black Warrior Review, Rafters, and Willow Springs.

THURSDAY | 30 NOVEMBER | 4:30PM
CELEBRATION OF SYLVESTER POLLET'S BACKWOODS BROADSIDES

The Backwoods Broadsides Chaplet Series has been a steady source of great poetry since its inception in 1994. With the publication of the hundredth, and final, pamphlet this past summer, the series achieved the goal set for it by editor and publisher Sylvester Pollet. Join us today as we hear from Backwoods Broadside authors, near and far, in celebration of poetry and of Sylvester Pollet's remarkable contribution to it!

THURSDAY | 07 DECEMBER 2006 | 4:30PM
BRIAN EVENSON

Brian Evenson is the author of Altmann's Tongues (1994), Prophets and Brothers (1997), Dark Property: An Affliction (2002), The Wavering Knife (2004; winner of an International Horror Guild Award for best story collection), and The Open Curtain (forthcoming this October). He has translated work by Christian Gailly, Jean Frèmon and Jacques Jouet, and has received an O. Henry Prize as well as an NEA fellowship. He is the Director of the Literary Arts Program at Brown University. Visit his home page here.

The New Writing Series is sponsored by the English Department at the University of Maine with support from the Lloyd H. Elliott fund, the National Poetry Foundation, and grants from the Cultural Affairs Committee. For more information, contact Steve Evans at steven dot evans at maine dot edu or call 207-581-3822.