chapter:verse::fiction:poetry

New Website!

2008-09-26T15:01:00.000-07:00

Chapter & Verse has a new website: http://chapterhousereadings.blogspot.com/

This is now the old website - Go to the new website!

September 13: Warsh, Hennessey, Carpenter

2008-08-28T08:23:00.000-07:00

Chapter & Verse awakens again Saturday, September 13th, 2008 at 8:00pm
Come hear Lewis Warsh, Michael Hennessey, and Brian Carpenter.

More info soon!

We'll be back

2008-05-29T08:29:00.001-07:00

Chapter & Verse will return late summer/early fall with a slew of poets and fiction writers, including Jeffrey McDaniel, Lewis Warsh, Kim Gek Lin Short, Alicia Askenase, Thaddeus Rutkowski and many others.

Enjoy your summers everybody.

May 10: Truitt, McCarthy, Kramer

2008-04-30T08:14:00.000-07:00

Come out Saturday, May 10th at 8PM for the last reading of the Spring at Chapterhouse Cafe.

SAM TRUITT was born in Washington, DC, and raised there and in Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of Vertical Elegies: Three Works (UDP, 2008) and the forthcoming Street Mete: A Work in Vertical Elegies (Palm, 2008) as well as Vertical Elegies 5: The Section (U. of Georgia, 2003) and Anamorphosis Eisenhower (Lost Roads, 1998), among other books. Sam Truitt holds an MFA from Brown University and is currently a PhD Candidate at the University at Albany, where he teaches, as he does at the College of St. Rose and Bard College. He lives with his family along the Hudson in a warehouse district.

PATTIE MCCARTHY is the author of bk of (h)rs and Verso, both from Apogee Press. Poems from her recently completed booklength series, Table Alphabetical of Hard Words, have appeared or are forthcoming in the Colorado Review, DUSIE, Foursquare, and The Poker. She teaches literature and creative writing at Temple University and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

SCOTT KRAMER came onto the Philly scene in the early 90s, founding and co-hosting seminal experimental performance series Groove Sessions and co-directing the first City Wide Poetry Festival in 1993. Twice representing Philly poetry in the Philadelphia Music Conference, his was the first poetry uploaded to UPenn electronic journal Crossconnect. Kramer received a Masters with Distinction from the writing program at Northern Arizona University. The 1996 N. Arizona Poetry Slam grand champion, Kramer disappeared from the poetry scene but emerged 10 years later with the novel Come Full Circle Again. His poetics autobiography in-progress can be read at his blog, www.gigapoet.com. This will be his first public reading in over five years.

April 26: Zuzga, Rumble, Bohn

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Saturday, April 26th at 8PM - Come hear the sounds of Jason Zuzga, Ken Rumble, and Shelby Bohn:

JASON ZUZGA’s poetry has appeared in VOLT, LIT, FENCE, Spork, Eoagh, Cue, and elsewhere. He had a residency at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown 2001-2002 and was the James Merrill Poet-in-Residence 2005-2006. He is the nonfiction editor of FENCE. He is currently in the English PhD Program at the University of Pennsylvania and has an MFA in poetry and nonfiction from the University of Arizona in Tucson and a BA from Brown, and he lived in New York for a good while, too. Watch him participate in the recent hallway leg of Dorothea Lasky's Tiny Tour.

KEN RUMBLE is the author of Key Bridge (Carolina Wren Press 2007) and an artist-in-residence at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative. His poems have appeared in Talisman, Alice Blue, the tiny, Parakeet, Fascicle, Coconut, One Less Magazine, Cranky, From the Fishouse, and others. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.

SHELBY BOHN hails from northern Virginia, although she should not be mistaken for a southern belle and firmly believes California is a better place for lovers. She hopes to graduate from Temple University in May and looks forward to spending the next five years as an over-worked, under-appreciated grad student in Pittsburgh. She's a self-proclaimed bookworm and never misses an episode of Jeopardy, even though her true genius is for Wheel of Fortune. She is currently working on a long piece entitled "War Diaries," excerpts of which will appear in Temple University's Hyphen (2008).

April 12: Hassen, Devaney, Earnest

2008-04-05T12:39:00.000-07:00

Come get some poetry Saturday, April 12th at 8PM from

HASSEN, who writes experimental poetry and creates multimedia work, including photography, audio, video, encaustics and specific, queer gestures. She uses the word queer in the traditional sense, re-claiming the term as a means of self-empowerment that has nothing whatever, or very little, anyway, to do with her sexuality or hairdo. Chapbooks include Salem, Sky Journal from Land, Sky Journal from Sea. Her poems have appeared in Frequency Audio Journal, Skanky Possum, Big Bridge, Dusie and elsewhere. You can read her work at hassens.blogspot.com

THOMAS DEVANEY, the author of A Series of Small Boxes (Fish Drum, 2007) and The American Pragmatist Fell in Love (Banshee, 1999). Projects with Institute of Contemporary Art (Phila.) include “New Invisible Cities” for “The Puppet Show” exhibition (2008) and "The Empty House" tour at the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site for "The Big Nothing" exhibit (2004). Recent work has appeared in The Sienese Shredder, jubilat, and The American Poetry Review. He is editing a feature section on George Oppen for Jacket 38 entitled “Oppen at 100.” He is a Senior Writing Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Read some work here, listen to some here, and visit his blog.

JAIME ANNE EARNEST, a sleep-deprived graduate student at the Drexel University College of Medicine in the school of Public Health. She writes poetry in Epidemiology seminars. She answers to (in descending order of likely response): James, Jay, mamacita, sexy, J-dogg, Jame, JJ, Miss Earnest, and yo bitch. She is a native Philadelphian (but she gets around), hates the dirty Jerz and everyone in/from it (except Kyle), and is committed to evidence based medicine, human rights (except for New Jersey), social justice, poetry, singing under the El, and cats. She believes love is the primary principle by which to live, and knows that if you crumble cool ranch Doritos into Wawa macaroni salad, you'll never regret it.

March 29: Skaja, McCoskey, Bowen

2008-03-23T21:08:00.000-07:00

Saturday, March 29th come hear three poets from Temple University's Creative Writing Program:

LIA McCOSKEY grew up outside of Detroit, MI in a brown wood and brick house surrounded by oak trees. She dearly misses the sound of tree frogs and crickets. She is concerned and intrigued by hybrid poetry, and how poetry reacts and interacts with history. She can be reached at: mccoskey@temple.edu

JEREMIAH RUSH BOWEN lives in Philadelphia. He is currently at work on three book-length poems: Sense, a meditation on sentition, sententia, and homynyms; The Heavenly City, a reversal of hell, parody of rationalism, and narration of aporia; and Consolation, a dialogue between philosophy and poetry about chance and will.

EMILY SKAJA lives in Philadelphia.

Feb 23: Bloch & Abendroth

2008-02-15T21:00:00.000-08:00

Saturday, February 23 it's Julia Bloch and Emily Abendroth at Chapterhouse!

JULIA BLOCH's poetry has appeared recently in the anthologies Bay Poetics (Faux Press) and Pocket Myths: The Odyssey, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, and in the journals Cue, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Double Room, and Sidebrow. Her chapbook Problem-Solving Outline was published by Bigfan Press; she has a new chapbook of sonnets forthcoming from Katalanché Press. She co-curates the Emergency reading series for new poetries at the Kelly Writers House. You can listen to her work here.

EMILY ABENDROTH's recent work can be found in Encyclopedia, horse less review, Perspectives in Anarchism, and Pocket Myths: The Odyssey. Her chapbook toward eadward forward is forthcoming this Spring from horse less press and an extended excerpt from her site-specific exploration "Muzzle Blast Dander" will be appearing in the third volume of the Chain Links book series. She lives and works in Philadelphia where she co-curates the Moles Not Molar Reading Series with Justin Audia.

Feb 9: Raha, Belluomini, Collins

2008-02-04T06:33:00.000-08:00

Three writers for us this Saturday, February 9th at Chapterhouse - show begins 8pm - See you then!

DANIEL R. COLLINS is a poet, musician and documentary filmmaker currently living in Media, Pennsylvania. His poetry stems from his close connection with the wilderness, drawn from his childhood experiences in rural Maine, and is informed by his travels underground and overground through the blurred alleys, mountain passes, highways and byways of this strange world. His book of go and why was published in 2007 by Plan B Press. He has performed poetry and music at venues all over the East Coast. Listen to some of his music here.

MICHELE BELLUOMINI's second book of poetry, Crazy Mary (Plan B Press), explores marginalized characters in Philadelphia, including `Crazy Mary', an eccentric who appears around town displaying her peculiarities and giving insights, through behavior, to life. Belluomini's work has appeared in numerous journals, including American Writing and NOW! (then): The Eternal Now Poetry Anthology. She has been a recipient of a Leeway Foundation "Window of Opportunity" award for travel to Mexico to collect Huichol Indian mythology and folklore. She is a literature librarian at the Free Library of Philadelphia, where she helps coordinate the "Monday Poets" poetry series.

MARIA RAHA is the author of Cinderella’s Big Score: Women of the Punk & Indie Underground, published by Seal Press in 2005. Her work has also appeared in Young Wives’ Tales, published by Seal Press in 2001, and in the Feminist Press anthology The W Effect: Bush’s War on Women in 2004. She is the managing editor of the NYC-based art and music journal Swingset and author of the blog Stick It Up Yr Ashcroft. Her second full-length book will be published in the fall. If anyone has a good idea for a title, please let her know.

Jan 26: Laila, Yearous-Algozin, Higdon

2008-01-21T17:30:00.000-08:00

This Saturday, January 26 at 8PM - Come hear poets Hailey Higdon and Joey-Yearous Algozin and fiction writer Tarannum Laila and have some delicious Chapterhouse coffee.

HAILEY HIGDON harbors an irrational distrust of New Yorkers. At sixteen, she had an irrational love of the rock opera The Who's Tommy. Her recent work, The Palinode Project can be read and accessed on the blog: www.palinodeproject.blogspot.com. She is originally from Nashville, Tennessee and arrived in Philadelphia two and a half years ago by way of: Bennington, Vermont, Ronan, Montana, Marina Del Rey California, Grahamstown, South Africa, Boston, and Madison, Wisconsin.

JOEY YEAROUS-ALGOZIN was born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin. He currently lives in Philadelphia and attends Temple University. There was a time when he could do a front handspring.

TARANNUM LAILA is a second year student at Temple University's Creative Writing Program. She is currently working on multiple projects. Her stories, essays, and articles have appeared in the most widely circulated national dailies in Bangladesh. She has translated for Plume and was a finalist for Glimmer Train's short fiction award.

Dec 15: ixnay reader release party!

2007-12-05T18:54:00.000-08:00

Saturday, December 15 at 8PM - Come celebrate ixnay press's release of the 3rd volume of the ixnay reader. Poets Christophe Casamassima and Stan Mir will read their work, which is featured in the new volume.

STAN MIR was raised in Rochester, NY. Currently, he lives in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. The poems appearing in the ixnay reader volume three are from a manuscript called The Rhino of Our Dreams; other selections may be read online in Fascicle #3 and Word For/Word #12. His work has also appeared, or is forthcoming, in Gut Cult, Octopus, Damn the Caesars, Fence, LVNG, and The Poker. You can listen to (and watch) him read in Dorothea Lasky's bathroom.

CHRISTOPHE CASAMASSIMA is the proprietor and editor of Furniture Press in Baltimore, and the editor of Ambit: Journal of Poetry & Poetics. He has recently published poems in American Letters & Commentary, Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry, the Denver Review, and 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry. He also has chapbooks available from [limited editions] (qui/etude and Mythography), above/ground press (Septology), and King of Mice Press (The Sarah Quatrains). He is currently a board member of the Towson Arts Collective and finishing his Masters at Towson University. Read an interview with Casamassima here.

December 1: Chapter & Verse # 20

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This Saturday, December 1st at 8pm it's the 20th chapter of Chapter & Verse, which began way back in June 2006. Come hear poetry & fiction from these three terrific writers:

STACY SZYMASZEK was born in Milwaukee, WI in 1969. She is currently the Artistic Director at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery. Her chapbooks include Mutual Aid (gong, 2004), Pasolini Poems (Cy Press, 2005) and There Were Hostilities (release, 2005). She is the author of Emptied of All Ships and the forthcoming Hyperglossia (both with Litmus Press). She is the editor of Gam, is a contributing editor for Fascicle, coeditor of Instance Press, and was one of the editors of the “Queering Language” issue of EOAGH. New works featuring both her writing and self-portraits are forthcoming from Faux Press and OMG Press. Read some new work here. Read an interview with Anne Waldman here.

FRANK SHERLOCK is the author of Wounds in an Imaginary Nature Show (Night Flag Books), Spring Diet of Flowers at Night (Mooncalf Press), ISO (furniture press) and 13 (Ixnay Press). Forthcoming chapbook publications include Daybook of Perversities & Main Events (Cy Gist Press), Over Here (Katalanché Press) and a collaborative poem with Brett Evans, entitled Ready-to-Eat Individual. He is alive in Philadelphia. Listen to him on PENNsound and read him on EOAGH.

ABBI DION was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has lived in Minneapolis, Bologna (ITALY) and Philadelphia. She enjoys riding bikes, playing BrickBlaster, and brainstorming titles for her book. She loves champagne. For her favorite line(s) from literature (as well as Steve's and Brandon 's) please see: Stay Up Super Late.

Nov 17 @ 8pm: Audia, Ross, Kremer

2007-11-09T16:38:00.000-08:00

If you want to hear three excellent poets read their work, come to the Chapterhouse Cafe Saturday, November 17 at 8pm. You might end up in a movie, too.

SASSY ROSS is an MFA student at New York University. She is the Managing Editor of Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters and is currently teaching creative writing to undergraduate students at NYU. You can read her work here and here.

MATTHEW KREMER was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. He now lives in California and studies rhetoric in the master's program at Humboldt State University.

JUSTIN AUDIA has recently read his poems on LIVE at the Writers’ House in the company of fellow contibutors to Pocket Myths: The Odyssey and at Betalevel Gallery in Los Angeles as part of a program called Flyways: Literary Migrations. He lives in Philadelphia, where he co-curates the Moles Not Molars series.

Oct 27 @ 8pm: Cory, Lasky, Herbert

2007-10-22T20:08:00.000-07:00

This Saturday is doubly monumental - not only do we celebrate the 75th birthday of Sylvia Plath - but Betsy Herbert, Dorothea Lasky and Jim Cory perform at the Chapterhouse Cafe!

JIM CORY has been active in the Philadelphia poetry scene for more than a quarter century. He's published 7 chapbooks of poems, most recently Facts in the Case of E.A.P. (or) Low Road to El Dorado, and his work his appeared in many journals, including Exquisite Corpse, Contact II, Chiron Review, Wormwood Review, Mudfish, Skidrow Penthouse, Poetry Flash, James White Review, Gay and Lesbian Review and, more recently, Ducky Magazine, the attic that is desire and Unpleasant Event Schedule, as well as others. His story, "A Perfect Couple," was the winner of the first Richard Hall Memorial Short Story Award, given by the Lambda Literary Foundation. He is a Yaddo and Pennsylvania Arts Council fellow and lives in Center City.

DOROTHEA LASKY was born in St. Louis, MO in 1978. Her first full-length collection, AWE, has just come out this fall from Wave Books. She has authored several chapbooks and her poems have appeared in Crowd, 6x6, Boston Review, Delmar, Phoebe, Filter, Knock, Drill, Lungfull!, and Carve, among others. Currently, she lives in Philadelphia, where she studies education and co-edits the Katalanche Press chapbook series. She is also doing a Tiny Tour! Check out the Tiny Tour!

BETSY HERBERT is a writer and performer who lives in Philadelphia. She performed comedy improv for 5 years and wrote a solo show, Sleep Study, which she performed at Walnut Studio 5 Theatre. She creates new work with the dance theatre company Workshop for Potential Movement.

First City Review BBQ & Reading Fundraiser

2007-10-16T17:08:00.000-07:00

This Saturday, October 20th at 3pm

Come to the residence of 1014 N. Orianna St (Orianna @ St. John Neumann, Northern Liberties) for an authentic Jamaican barbecue and fundraiser for FIRST CITY REVIEW, a new literary print magazine in Philadelphia. A $25 donation gets you food, beer, and wine.

There will be readings by:

Johannah Rodgers, who teaches writing at Manhattan College. Her book, sentences, a collection of short stories, essays, and drawings, was published this year and her short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Fence, BookForum, Fiction, CHAIN Arts, Pierogi Press, and The Brooklyn Rail, where she is a contributing editor.

William Black, whose fiction and nonfiction have appeared in several magazines, including Prairie Schooner, Other Voices, Hotel Amerika, Black Warrior Review, Ontario Review, and elsewhere. He teaches literature and creative writing at Johns Hopkins University.

Please RSVP: editors@firstcityreview.com

This Saturday, Sept 29 @ 8pm: Varrone, McCreary, TeBordo

2007-09-26T13:40:00.000-07:00

Come out to the Chapterhouse Cafe, get some coffee and listen to some poetry and fiction by three Philadelphia writers:

Kevin Varrone, author of g-point Almanac (6/21-9/21) and g-point Almanac (9/22-10/19). His first full length collection, g-point Almanac: id est, is due out from Instance Press this month. Read his poems in Big Bridge and CrossConnect.

Jenn McCreary, author of errata stigmata (Potes & Poets Press), four o'clock pocket chiming (BeautifulSwimmer Press), and a doctrine of signatures (Singing Horse Press). She co-edits ixnay press with Chris McCreary. Read her poems in How2 and Pom2.

Christian TeBordo, recipient of a grant in fiction from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, author of The Conviction and Subsequent Life of Savior Neck and We Go Liquid, just out from Impetus Press. Read about the new book here and here.

See you there!

Chapter and Verse September 2007

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The Chapter and Verse Blog has returned after a brief, mysterious absence. The reading series has kept on regardless – the fall series kicked off September 1st with Ish Klein and Linh Dinh. They brought us news from the future. In that future, laughing and crying make a circle and sometimes you don’t know which one you’re doing.

I noticed that Ish stood back from the audience and we all gravitated toward her. Linh stood close to the audience and planted poems in our most private, secrecy-ridden places. To look into some of those places, check out Detainees. To watch a video of Linh reading at Chapterhouse back in July, click here. To read some poems by Ish, click here.

Next reading is Saturday, September 29 at 8pm: Jenn McCreary, Kevin Varrone, & Christian Tebordo.

tiny press event this Saturday

2007-07-09T13:20:00.000-07:00

this Saturday, July 14th, at 8 pm, the Chapterhouse Cafe and Gallery at 620 S. 9th st. (between Bainbridge and South sts.) will host a Tiny Philly Press event, featuring Free Wine and readings by:

Linh Dinh, Brandon Holmquest, and Sueyuen Juliette Lee.

Linh is a poet, translator, and storyteller whose translation of Pablo Neruda's "Oda al mar" recently appeared as a feature on the Calque website. He's got a Wiki at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linh_Dinh.

Brandon is co-editor of Calque, a translation journal now in its second issue, online at calquejournal.com.

Juliette is the editor and publisher of Corollary Press, a chapbook press publishing innovative work from writers of color, online at corollarypress.blogspot.com.

chapter and verse: spring / summer schedule

2007-05-16T11:15:00.000-07:00

Chapter and Verse Spring / Summer 2007 featuring:

May 12th: Shonni Enelow, Adrian Khactu, Jason Zuzga

May 26th: Sarah Dowling, Courtney Rydel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Caroline Whitbeck

June 9th: Joel Nichols (joelanichols.com), Rachel Toliver, Rachel Laramee, Joshua Trott

All readings are at the Chapterhouse Cafe and Gallery, 620 S. 9th St. (between South and Bainbridge), at 8pm.
Free Wine and Coffee (not free)!

chapter and verse: 10

2007-03-27T08:03:00.001-07:00

Saturday March 31st. at 8pm, Chapterhouse Cafe and Gallery (620 South 9th St.) will host Chapter and Verse 10, featuring:

Caren Beilin: her fiction has appeared in Zembla Magazine, Quarterly West, and is forthcoming in McSweeney's. She's moving to Missoula, Montana this summer.

Ryan Eckes: born in Northeast Philadelphia and now he writes poems. Some of them have appeared or will appear in Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry, PhillySound, Exquisite Corpse, Vert, Main Street Rag, Pocket Myths #4: The Odyssey, and elsewhere. A chapbook will be published in the fall by Plan B Press.

Quincy Scott Jones: poet and teacher of literature, composition, and creative writing. Along with performing his own work, Jones has worked as an actor, copy editor, retail office supply associate, mail sorter, and, for two days, a clown.

Chad Willenborg: holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and teaches at the Art Institute of Philadelphia. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, Fugue, The Believer, and elsewhere and has been nominated for Best American Short Stories. He is currently finishing a third novel to complete his Bone Orchard Trilogy, an excerpt of which was runner-up in CityPaper's writing contest this year.

Come for the poetry and stay for the free wine!

chapter and verse: 8

2007-02-06T06:07:00.000-08:00

on Saturday: February 24th: 8pm: Chapterhouse Cafe and Gallery: 620 S. 9th St.
join us for the second part of a writer exchange with the Syracuse University graduate Creative Writing program.
featuring:
Ivy Kleinbart, a 3rd year MFA candidate who teaches poetry at Syracuse University. In 2005, she was awarded the Hayden Carruth poetry prize by Syracuse University. Her work remains, as yet, unpublished.

Ashwin Parulkar, currently in his second year of graduate school at Syracuse University's Creative Writing Program

Tara Warman, a third-year fiction student in the MFA program at Syracuse University. She is a Pennsylvania native and her work was featured in a recent issue of Quarterly West.

Calque release: January 27th

2007-01-17T15:31:00.000-08:00

join us saturday january 27th, 8p, for the release of Calque, a translation journal edited by Steve Dolph and Brandon Holmquest. issue one features translations of Philippe Soupault (French), Sandor Kanyadi (Hungarian), Tomaz Salamun (Slovenian), Juan Bosch (Spanish), and Kenji Miyazawa (Japanese).

featuring readings by:
Nobumasa Hiroi (fiction), Laura Jaramillo (poetry), Brandon Holmquest (fiction), Nick Moudry (poetry), Seth Pauley (fiction), Paul Sohar (poetry),
Laura Solomon (poetry)

for complete bios for the readers, visit the under-construction Calque website here

chapter and verse: 7

2006-12-06T11:48:00.000-08:00

on saturday jan.6th: 8pm:
chapterhouse cafe and gallery
620 S. 9th St.: philadelphia
will host:
corollary press
and
katalanché press
chapbook releases
and
readings
by
these
poets

chapter and verse: 6

2006-11-02T17:48:00.000-08:00

on saturday dec.2: 8pm: featuring:

Frank Fucile: grew up in a nowhere suburb somewhere far outside the
boundaries of northern Baltimore. Such an exurban landscape has been cited as
one of the "liminal zones" through which paranormal phenomena such as alien
visitations are known to pass. Frank Fucile had been aware of their presence
since his childhood, but it was not until he was first contacted by the Greys in
the White Mountains of New Hampshire that they began to reveal to him the
nature of their presence on this planet and his mission to bring that message to
it. When Frank Fucile AKA "The Statue" moved to Philadelphia, he began
transmitting his message to the world. To find out more, visit the LittleGrey
UnderGround's official website at http://lgug.blogspot.com

Marylou Fusco: lives in Philadelphia and has worked as an employment
specialist, ghost tour guide, and kitchen coordinator for a men's shelter.
Her stories have won the Philadelphia City Paper and Philadelphia Writer's
Conference short story contests and her story, "The Coming-Home Party" was
recently longlisted for the Raymond Carver award. She is a second year
Fiction student in Temple's MA program.

Brandon Holmquest: a fictionalist, essayist, critic, and translator from the Midwest who currently lives in South Philadelphia.

chapter and verse: 5

2006-10-21T07:23:00.000-07:00

on saturday: oct.28th: 8pm: chapterhouse cafe and gallery: 620 S. 9th st. chapter and verse: 5: features: Eric Baus; Will Esposito; Dorothea Lasky; Laura Solomon; Jessica Lee White
bios below:

Eric Baus is the author of The To Sound (Verse Press/Wave Books). A new chapbook, Tuned Droves, is forthcoming from Katalanche Press. He currently lives in Philadelphia where he edits Minus House chapbooks.

Will Esposito is a member of PhillySound, an editor of Angelina Jolie Poetry, and the author of Friedrich Schiller Von Von (forthcoming from Katalanche Press) and The Students of Prose and Conduct . He lives in Philadelphia and can be reached at will.esposito@gmail.com.

Dorothea Lasky: Dorothea Lasky is from St. Louis, but currently lives in Boston. She holds a BA in Classics and Psychology from Washington University, an MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and is currently working on her Ed.M in Arts in Education at Harvard University. Since 2004, she has taught English and Creative Writing at the New England Institute of Art. She has also taught poetry and art at Heath Elementary School in Heath, MA, and the Munroe Center for the Arts in Lexington, MA. She edits a chapbook series, along with the poet Michael Carr, through Katalanche Press.

Laura Solomon was born in 1976 in Birmingham, Alabama, and spent her childhood in various small towns across the state before moving to Georgia at sixteen. She studied at the University of Georgia and University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her publications include the books Bivouac (Slope Editions 2002) and Blue and Red Things (forthcoming: Ugly Duckling Presse 2007), the chapbook Letters by which Sisters Will Know Brothers (Katalanche Press 2005), and Haiku des Pierres / Haiku of Stones, by Pierre Converset, a translation from the French with Sika Fakambi (Apogee Press, 2006). Laura's poems have been translated into French, German, Italian, Slovenian and Spanish, and have appeared in journals throughout North America and Europe. Currently, she lives in Philadelphia.

Jessica Lee White's poems have recently appeared in Poetic Language (www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com). She holds BAs in English and Spanish from Temple University, where she served for two years as president of the undergraduate feminist alliance. She currently works with Hispanic clients at a disability law firm, and her writing continues to reflect a strong attentiveness to both women's issues and the Latino community.

chapter and verse:4 recordings

2006-10-15T18:41:00.000-07:00

the recordings from chapter and verse:4 are now up. scroll down the sidebar for the links.

chapter and verse:4

2006-09-25T18:49:00.000-07:00

on saturday, september 30th, at 8pm:
verse:4 will feature:
Tarannum Laila: first year graduate fiction writer at Temple University
Cait Miner: undergraduate poet at Temple University
Andrea Lawlor: second year graduate fiction writer and editor of the zine series Pocket Myths. listen to Andrea read in her previous appearance at chapter and verse: here