Crystal Curry is the author of Our Chrome Arms of Gymansium (Slope Editions, 2010), which was selected by Dara Wier for the Slope Editions Book Prize, and the chapbook Logotherapy Pant (Costa Nostra Editions, 2008). Her poems have been widely published in literary magazines both off and online. She lives in Seattle, WA, with poet Nico Vassilakis.

Sueyeun Juliette Lee grew up three miles from the CIA. She currently lives in Pittsburgh, where she edits Corollary Press (corrollarypress.org), a chapbook series devoted to innovative, multi-ethnic writing. Her books include That Gorgeous Feeling (Coconut Press) and Underground National (Factory School) as well as the chapbooks Trespass Slightly In (Coconut), Perfect Villagers (Octopus), Mental Commitment Robots (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs) and A Primary Mother (forthcoming from Least Weasel). She writes reviews for The Constant Critic, is a contributing editor at EOAGH, and co-curates the multi-genre series POETRY ((PRO) (FANA)) with Dawn Lundy Martin. Find her at silentbroadcast.com.

Sunday April 8th. 7pm.
Hedreen Gallery. 901 12th Avenue. Seattle.

Eileen Myles was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, educated in Catholic schools, graduated from UMass Boston in 1971, and moved to New York City in 1974 to be a poet. Snowflake/Different Streets, her new double volume of poems, is out April 2012 from Wave Books. Eileen’s Infero: A Poet’s Novel (2010), which details a female writer’s coming of age, received the Lambda Book Award for lesbian fiction. Her more than twenty publications include Sorry, Tree (2007), Skies (2001), Cool for You (2000), Chelsea Girls (1994), and Not Me (1991). The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (2009) received a Warhol/Creative Capital art writing grant in 2007. She wrote the libretto for the opera Hell, which was performed on both coasts in 2004 and 2006. In 2010 Eileen received the Shelly Prize for her poetry. She writes about books, art and culture for a wide variety of publications including Artforum, Bookforum, Parkett, and Art in America. She has written recent catalogue essays on Cathy Opie, Emily Roydson, K8 Hardy, Oscar Tuazon, and for this summer’s Deftig Baroque show at the Kunsthaus Zürich. She’s teaching in Columbia’s graduate program this spring. Visit her at eileenmyles.com.

Amy De’Ath was born in Suffolk, England and has studied at the University of East Anglia, UK and in Philadelphia, US, before moving to Australia and then London. Her publications include Caribou (Bad Press, 2011), Erec & Enide (Salt, 2010) and Andromeda/The World Works for Me (Crater Press, 2010). Her work is featured in a number of UK anthologies this year. For three years she has lived and worked in London, where she has most recently been Poet-in-Residence at the University of Surrey. She moved to Vancouver in September 2011 to begin her PhD in contemporary poetry & theory at Simon Fraser University.

Joel Felix lived in Detroit and Chicago and did graduate studies at Bard College before transplanting to Seattle. He is the author of several chapbooks of poetry. A book-length collection title The Limbs of the Apple Never Die (LAND) will appear in 2012 from Verge Press. 2012 also sees the launch of “The Wandering Library” a quarterly pamphlet/lecture series he edits with Candice Rai.

Will Owen has spent much of his life in Seattle. Described by The Stranger as “young, brainy, bearded,” he read at the penultimate Subtext event, worked at Pilot Books, and helped to organize Autonomous University. He has published essays to accompany shows at Crawl Space and the Lawirome Project. He is currently enrolled in the English MA program at Simon Fraser University. His poetry appears in Peaches and Bats and Creep of Light, published by the Portlanders Sam Lohmann and James Yeary.

Thursday March 15th. 7pm.
Hedreen Gallery. 901 12th Avenue. Seattle.

CAConrad is the author of A BEAUTIFUL MARSUPIAL AFTERNOON: New (Soma)tics (Wave Books, 2012), The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010), Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined (Factory School, 2010). He is a 2011 Pew Fellow, and a 2012 Ucross Fellow. He is the editor of the online video poetry journals JUPITER 88 and Paranormal Poetics. Visit him online at http://CAConrad.blogspot.com/.

Monday February 27th 2012. 7pm.
Hedreen Gallery. 901 12th Avenue. Seattle.

Lonely Christopher is the author of The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, published in Dennis Cooper’s Little House on the Bowery series from Akashic Books. His latest projects include the chapbook Poems in June (Corresponding Society) and the feature length film MOM (Cavazos Films). He lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.

Friday February 3rd, 2012. 6 pm.
Hedreen Gallery. 901 12th Avenue. Seattle.

Don Mee Choi is the author of The Morning News is Exciting (Action Books, 2010) and has recently received a Whiting Writer’s Award. Her newly published translation is South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon’s All the Garbage of the World, Unite! (Action Books, 2011). Her previous translations include When the Plug Gets Unplugged (Tinfish, 2005), Anxiety of Words (Zephyr, 2006), and Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers (Action Books, 2008).

Melanie Noel is the author of Monarchs (forthcoming from Stockport Flats Press). Her poems have appeared in Fine Madness, Filter, Weekday, and on the audiomagazine Weird Deer. She’s also written poems for short films and installations, and from 2006-2008 co-curated APOSTROPHE, a dance, music, and poetry series, with Gust Burns, Michele Steinwald, and Beth Graczyk.

Bruce Fulton is the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He has co-translated several anthologies of modern Korean short fiction, including the prize-winning Words of Farewell: Stories by Korean Women Writers (Seal Press, 1989), A Ready-Made Life: Early Masters of Modern Korean Fiction (University of Hawai’i Press, 1998), and Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction (M.E. Sharpe, 2007). His most recent translations (with Ju-Chan Fulton) are The Red Room: Stories of Trauma in Contemporary Korea (University of Hawai’i Press, 2009) and Lost Souls: Stories by Hwang Sunwŏn (Columbia University Press, 2009).

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Kim Hyesoon is a prominent South Korean poet who has received numerous prestigious literary awards. She teaches creative writing at Seoul Institute of the Arts. Her work translated into English includes the books All the Garbage of the World, Unite! (Action Books, 2011) and Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers (Action Books, 2008), the chapbook When the Plug Gets Unplugged (Tinfish Press, 2005), and poems in the anthology Anxiety of Words: Contemporary Poetry by Korean Women (Zephyr Press, 2006). A recent interview with Kim Hyesoon appears in Guernica.

Andy Pressman is co-founder of the design studio Rumors (www.rumors-studio.com). Notable work includes the art direction of Bidoun magazine, book and web design for Verso Books, and exhibition design for the Canadian Centre for Architecture. He teaches at Parsons School of Art and the Cooper Union and currently lives in Portland.

Jayme Yen is the graphic designer for the Henry Art Gallery. She has been a design fellow at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, a design researcher in the Netherlands, and has worked for clients such as McSweeney’s and HarperCollins. She can be found online at her rarely updated website www.jaymeyen.com.

Nadine Antoinette Maestas is a poet’s poet and believes that the empire of the sentence is an extremely oppressive totalitarian regime. Mountain biking in dangerous and remote places, she lives in Seattle, teaches at the University of Washington and North Seattle Community College, and facilitates poetry workshops at SPLAB. Co-author with Karen Weiser of Beneath the Bright Discus (Potes & Poets Press, 2000), Nadine is writing a dissertation on postmodern American anthropoetics.

M Thompson (www.m-thompson.net) has crisscrossed the U.S. playing music for people, seen the south of France as an organic farmer, and been a bicycling bag artist living in Berlin. His fiction, book reviews, and interviews have appeared in places like Unsaid, Everyday Genius, Used Furniture Review, The Collagist, elimae, and Spork,among others. In 2011, a collection of his work was shortlisted for NMP/DIAGRAM’s Chapbook Prize.