When: Sunday, June 19 at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Ford Food and Drink, SE 11th Ave. and Division, Portland, OR
CAConrad’s childhood included selling cut flowers
along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He is the
author of eight books of poetry and essays, the latest ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness (Wave Books) is
the winner of the 2015 Believer Magazine Book Award. He is a Pew Fellow and has also received fellowships from Lannan
Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts, Banff, and Ucross. For his books and details on the
documentary The Book of Conrad
(Delinquent Films, 2016), please visit http://CAConrad.blogspot.com
Emily Carr says she “writes murder mysteries that
turn into love poems that are sometimes (by her McSweeney’s editors, for
example) called divorce poems.” She has lived all over the world and is the
author of several collections and chapbooks of poems. After she got an MFA in
poetry from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, she took a doctorate
in ecopoetics at the University of Calgary. These days, she’s the program
director of the low-residency MFA in creative writing at Oregon State
University-Cascades.
David Buuck is a writer and performer who lives in
Oakland, CA. He is the founder of BARGE, the Bay Area Research Group in
Enviro-aesthetics, and co-founder and editor of Tripwire, a journal of poetics.
Recent publications include SITE CITE CITY (Futurepoem, 2015) and An Army of
Lovers, co-written with Juliana Spahr (City Lights, 2013). A Swarming, A
Wolfing is forthcoming from Roof Books in 2016. He teaches composition at Mills
College and is an organizer for the Adjuncts Union, SEIU local 1021.
