Off the Fence #2 – Readings from Fence Magazine Poets and Guests

Featuring: Regan Good, Brian Young, Franklin Bruno, Claudia La Rocco, Jenny Mueller, Rosemary Griggs

August 8, 2011 at 8 pm

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Brian Young is the author of two books of poems, Site Acquisition (Fence Books 2008) and The Full Night in the Street Water (University of Nevada Press 2003). He lives near St. Louis, Missouri.

Regan Good is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She was a 2001-2002 poetry fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Her poems and essays have appeared in Fence, Tin House, New Letters, Field, the Antioch Reviewand elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Franklin Bruno‘s most recent chapbook is Policy Instrument (Lame House). A full-length collection, The Accordion Repertoire, will be published by Edge Books in 2012. Recent poems have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, West Wind Review, and online in Sink Review. He is also the author of a book on Elvis Costello’s album Armed Forces, in Continuum’s 33 1/3 series; his essays and critical writing have appeared in The Nation, The Believer, and Da Capo’s Best Music Writing annuals. A native of Southern California’s “Inland Empire,” he now lives and writes in Jackson Heights, Queens.

Claudia La Rocco is a member of the Off The Park poetry press, where she is currently editing an anthology of poems by painters. She writes about performance for the New York Times and is an editor-at-large for the Brooklyn Rail. Her poems have been published in a variety of outlets, and she reads regularly in New York.

Jenny Mueller is this author of Bonneville, from Elixir Press. She lives in St. Louis, teaches at McKendree University, and occasionally publishes her poems in magazines like Colorado Review, Court Green, Fence, Interim, and New American Writing.

Rosemary Griggs is a Bay Area writer and actor. Her book Sky Girl won the 2003 Alberta Prize and was published by Fence Books. She’ll be screening a film of a poem from her new manuscript entitled Bless Me Baby Jesus I Have been so very Bad, which was made in collaboration with Film maker Tor Hansen and composer David Rhodes.