May 10th: Jennifer K Dick, Greg Santos and George Vance

19h15, 10th May at Carr’s Pub & Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont-Thabor, M Tuileries.

THIS EVENT IS SPECIAL! Jen will launch Betwixt, her new chapbook. George will launch A SHORT CIRCUIT, his &#fb01;rst poetry collection. Both are published by the new Paris poetry publisher, corrupt press. Greg will bring along The Emperor’s Sofa, which he made earlier.

Jennifer K. Dick, from Iowa, is the author of Betwixt (corrupt press, 2011), Fluorescence (U. of GA, 2004), the chapbook Retina/Rtine (Estepa Editions, Paris, 2005), & the eBook Enclosures (BlazeVox, 2007). She has work in the trilingual collective Ondulations (Aeneis, 2009) & 6 anthologies, most recently 12 x 12: Conversations in 21st Century Poetry & Poetics (U. of IA, 2009). She lived in Paris for over 14 years where she completed a PhD at Paris III in Comp Lit. She co-curates the IVY Writers Paris reading series” though she has, since fall 2010, been living in Mulhouse, where she is a Matre de Confrences at the Universit de Haute Alsace in American Literature and Civilization. For sample poems, read her BlazeVox ebook Enclosures.

Greg Santos was born and raised in Montreal and received an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School in Manhattan. His poems have appeared in McSweeney’s, Nthposition, The Best American Poetry Blog, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Word Riot, The Feathertale Review, and Poets for Living Waters, among other publications. He lives with his wife and daughter between Montreal, New Haven, and Paris. He is the poetry editor of pax americana and is on the editorial board of the Paris-based journal, Upstairs at Duroc. His debut poetry collection, The Emperor’s Sofa, was published by DC Books in 2010. See his blog at moondoggy.blogspot.com. His poems include Eyewear and My Beloved.

Born in Ohio, George Vance dictated his &#fb01;rst poem to his mother at age 5. Following a long hiatus of prosaic teaching gigs sprinkled with bardly syncopations, he turned full-time to poetry a&#fb05;er tiring of translating verses posted in Metro cars by the RATP in Paris, where he has lived for the last 30 years. He has also resided in Vienna, Aachen, Brussels and the French overseas possession New Caledonia (Kanaky), and now lives in Reims. He has read at numerous Paris venues and his work has been published in Upstairs at Duroc, Pharos, the on-line magazines Ekleksopgraphia, Nth position and Retort, and is a regular contributor to the poetry blog REWORDS. His hybrid poetry volume A SHORT CIRCUIT (including the poem series Bent Time) is now available from corrupt press. Vance continues to work on text/image fusion and street art experiments. His poems include Just a Note and Fowl in Water.