A Literary Series Text & Con/Text Curated by Chris Campanioni
About This Show
Our PANK Text & Con/text series typically showcases just two writers presented in the lounge at Dixon Place. For our very first virtual Zoom event, and as we continue to rethink spaces of creativity and pleasure, we wanted to invite all seven of our 2020 PANK Books authors to share words from their newly-released books.
Featuring readings by Monica Prince, Melissa Ragsly, J’lyn Chapman, Christine Hume, Elvira Basevich, Jody Chan, and Shira Dentz.
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About the Authors
Elvira Basevich is a poet and assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Her poems have recently appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Poached Hare, TriQuarterly, The Gettysburg Review, and Blackbird.
Jody Chan is a writer, drummer, organizer, and therapist-in-training based in Toronto. They are the author of haunt (Damaged Goods Press, 2018) and sick, winner of the 2018 St. Lawrence Book Award.
J’Lyn Chapman serves as an Assistant Professor in the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University. Her book Beastlife was published by Calamari Archive in 2016. She has also published the chapbooks A Thing of Shreds and Patches (Essay Press, 2016) and The Form Our Curiosity Takes (Essay Press, 2015).
Christine Hume is the author of a lyric memoir in the form of three interlinked essays, Saturation Project (Solid Objects, 2020), as well as three books of poetry. Her chapbooks include Lullaby: Speculations on the First Active Sense (Ugly Duckling Presse); Ventifacts (Omnidawn); Atalanta: an Anatomy (Essay Press); and a collaboration with Jeff Clark, Question Like a Face (Image Text Ithaca), a Brooklyn Rail Best Nonfiction Book of 2017. Since 2001, she has been faculty in the interdisciplinary Creative Writing program at Eastern Michigan University.
Melissa Ragsly is a writer living in the Hudson Valley. Her work has appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading, Best Small Fictions, Iowa Review, Hobart, and other journals. More can be found at melissaragsly.com.
Monica Prince, a Black performance poet raised by Guyanese parents, teaches activist and performance writing at Susquehanna University in central Pennsylvania, where she writes choreopoems and performance poetry. Her debut poetry collection, Instructions for Temporary Survival (2019), won the Discovery Award for an outstanding first collection by the publisher, Red Mountain Press. She is the managing editor of the Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly and the author of the chapbook Letters from the Other Woman (Grey Book Press, 2018).
Shira Dentz is the author of five books, including black seeds on a white dish (Shearsman), door of thin skins (CavanKerry Press), a cross-genre memoir, how do i net thee (Salmon Poetry), a National Poetry Series finalist, and the sun a blazing zero (Lavender Ink/Diálogos). She’s also the author of two chapbooks, Leaf Weather (Shearsman) and FLOUNDERS (Essay Press).
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