[Detroit]

[UDP:D] Poetry After Conceptualism: Josef Kaplan, Rob Fitterman, Holly Melgard, Joey Yearous-Algozin
May 12, 2014, 7:00 pm
at Salt & Cedar

Joey Yearous-Algozin is a member of TROLL THREAD and the author of The Lazarus Project and Holly Melgard’s Friends and Family. He lives in Buffalo, NY.Robert Fitterman is the author of 14 books of poetry, most recent of which are No Wait, Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself (UDP) and Holocaust Museum (Counterpath). He is the founder of Collective Task and teaches writing and poetry at New York University and at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.Josef Kaplan is the author of All Nightmare: Introductions, 2011-2012 (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014), Kill List (Cars Are Real, 2013), and Democracy Is Not for the People (Truck Books, 2012). His recent work has appeared in Lana Turner, Rethinking Marxism, The Claudius App, and the Poetic Labor Project. He lives in Queens.Holly Melgard is the author of the Poems for Baby trilogy (2011), The Making of The Americans (2012), Black Friday (2012), and Reimbursement (2013). She co-edits Troll Thread Press, co-curates for the Segue Reading Series, and is dissertating in the Buffalo Poetics Program.More info here.