Friday's Multifarious Array

This Friday, May 15, 7pm

Karen Leona Anderson is the author of Punish honey, coming
out this January from Carolina Wren Press. She has an MFA from the
University of Iowa and a PhD from Cornell University, where she wrote
a dissertation on poetry and science. She currently lives in Maryland,
where she is an assistant professor at St. Mary's College of
Maryland.


Yona Harvey is a swish escaping the net. She rises in the light of
blue curtains & sleeps with one ear open. She is a Cave Canem Fellow,
maybe she is the water from which she pulls her baby son. Her work has
appeared in Poem Memoir Story, Gulf Coast, Callaloo, Ploughshares, and
Gathering Round: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade. ÊShe
should keep better track of her volunteeringÑcarpooling, book sharing,
telling the stories of Martin Luther King, Jr. She currently teaches
in the Creative Writing Program at Carnegie Mellon University in
Pittsburgh, where she lives with her husband and two children. Next
year, she'll probably go swimming in Tokyo.


Matvei Yankelevich, is the author of a long poem, *The Present Work*
(Palm Press, 2006) and the forthcoming book *Boris by the Sea*
(Octopus, 2009). His writings and translations have appeared in Boston
Review, Damn the Caesars, Fence, Open City, Circumference, Harpers and
The New Yorker. His translation of *Today I Wrote Nothing: The
Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms* (Overlook, 2007) has received
praise from the Times Literary Supplement, The New York Times, and
elsewhere. He is a co-translator of *OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian
Absurdism* (Northwestern University, 2006) and his translation of
Vladimir Mayakovsky's poem "Cloud in Pants" is included in *Night
Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky* (Farrar, Strauss &
Giroux, 2008). He teaches Russian Lit. at Hunter College and edits the
Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse.


Jenn Morea is a poet, writer, and educator. She has worked as a
teaching artist in the Chicago Public Schools since 1996 and has
edited more than twenty-five anthologies of writing by Chicago youth,
including dream in yourself (Tia Chucha Press, 1997). Morea teaches
with Project AIM at the Center for Arts Partnerships/Columbia College
Chicago and with Young Chicago Authors. Her poems may be found in the
online journals High Chair, Slope, and Wicked Alice.