Elizabeth Bradfield, Sean Hill, and Jasmine Dreame Wagner Readings in Washington
May 7, Wednesday - 7:30 pm
Reading with Jasmine Dreame Wagner and Elizabeth Bradfield
Books By the Way (
http://www.booksbytheway.com/)9928 SW Bank Road
Vashon, WA 98070
May 8, Thursday - 7:30 pm
Reading with Jasmine Dreame Wagner and Elizabeth Bradfield
Open Books (
http://www.openpoetrybooks.com/)2414 N. 45th St.
Seattle, WA 98103
May 9, Friday - 7 pm
Reading with Jasmine Dreame Wagner and Elizabeth Bradfield
Village Books (
http://villagebooks.booksense.com/)1200 Eleventh Street
Bellingham, WA 98225
Reader Bios:
Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of Interpretive Work (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2008). Interpretive Work explores the collision of natural history, work, queerness, and family, reaching toward a moment where one finds "this unsettlement, / this beauty applauded at last." Robin Becker, in a review published in The Women's Review of Books writes: "An important new voice... she brings her scientist's accuracy and artist's lyricism to poems on our lives, our loves, our work." Bradfield grew up in Tacoma, Washington and has lived on Cape Cod and in Alaska. The founder of Broadsided Press (
www.broadsidedpress.org), she holds an MFA from the University of Alaska, Anchorage, has had poems published in The Atlantic Monthly and Poetry, and is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. When not writing, she works as a naturalist and web designer. More information, poems, and reviews are available at her website:
www.ebradfield.com Sean Hill is the author of Blood Ties & Brown Liquor (U. Georgia Press, 2008). Each poem in this debut collection builds on the poetic landscape of his hometown, Milledgeville Georgia, offering a portrait of the town's black community. These poems create a call and response across six generations, celebrating familial love and yearning, confronting racism. From a slave woman's scratchy hay-stuffed mattress to a black insurance agent's ominous patter, from sweet honey to the searing heat of brickyard kilns, these poems spread before us a sensuous world of quotidian lives punctuated by love and violence. Hill has an M.F.A. from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, where he was awarded the 2003 Michener Fellowship for poetry. He has also received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, the MacDowell Colony and elsewhere. He is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow. More information, poems, and reviews are available at his website:
www.seanhill.org Jasmine Dreame Wagner graduates from the MFA program at UMT-Missoula this spring. A graduate of Columbia University, she was a writer-in-residence at The Hall Farm Center for Arts & Education in Townshend, Vermont. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, and she is the author of a limited-edition chapbook, "Charcoal." "Charcoal," surveys and deconstructs the language and visual field of the American urban ruin from the remains of the 9/11 site and the Greenpoint Terminal Market fire to the eroded mines and mills of the fabled western frontier. "Charcoal" is coming out this spring in collaboration with printmaker Matthew Trygve Tung. Wagner also performs in the experimental folk collective Cabinet of Natural Curiosities.
