Poison Pen Reading Series

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12/3/09 8:30 PM
Poison Girl Bar
1641 Westheimer

Readers:
Gulf Coast Editorial Staff

(This month's announcement is ghostwritten by Sean Bishop. There's been a family in my emergency.)

Dear All,

Come to Poison Pen this Thursday at 8:00 to watch the Gulf Coast editorial team wreak a little havoc. Each ed...itor will read for four minutes, one after another, in rapid succession, which means if you don't like what's being forced into your ear-holes (a virtually unimaginable scenario), all you have to do is grab another drink and walk back outside.

This is the third year in a row that Poison Pen has been generous enough to host this reading, and it really is one of the best of the year. Here's the lineup (though the order might change). I know that everyone says "you don't want to miss this one" for every reading of the year, but for serious: you don't want to miss this one.

Gulf Coast Poetry Editor Samuel Amadon is the author of Like a Sea, forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press. He is from Hartford.

Jessica Wilbanks is a second-year MFA student in fiction at the University of Houston. She received her undergraduate degree from Hampshire College, where she studied creative writing and theology. Her essays and creative nonfiction have appeared in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, The Puritan, Sojourners, and Relevant Magazine. She is a Nonfiction Editor of Gulf Coast.

Zack Bean is a doctoral candidate in the Creative Writing program at UH and a Fiction Editor at Gulf Coast. His stories have appeared in Cream City Review, Fiction, and elsewhere. He is from Arkansas.

Liz Countryman got her MFA at the University of Maryland. She is a recipient of the Brown Award from theVermont Studio Center, and her work has appeared in Forklift Ohio, Black Warrior Review, Makeout Creek, and Ink Node. She is a Poetry Editor of Gulf Coast.

Ian Stansel is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Houston. His stories have appeared in the Antioch Review and are forthcoming, any day now, in Barrelhouse. His work was noted as an honorable mention in Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a Fiction Editor of Gulf Coast.

Chuck Carlise is a third-year PhD candidate in poetry from Canton, Ohio, by way of Portland, Oregon and many other places. His poems and essays appear in Hayden's Ferry Review, Southern Review, Fourteen Hills, Quarterly West,Cimarron Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and others. This has been his final semester as Nonfiction Editor of Gulf Coast.

Mike Jones has read at Poison Pen more than any other person on the planet, dead or alive. He’s a Fiction Editor atGulf Coast, but is leaving it, and Houston for good in May.

Sean Bishop’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Mid-American Review, Ninth Letter,Poetry, and elsewhere. In 2007 the Poetry Foundation awarded him a Ruth Lilly Fellowship. He is completing his final year in the MFA program at the University of Houston, where he is the Managing Editor of Gulf Coast.

Laurie Ann Cedilnik is the Editor of Gulf Coast. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and a native of Queens, NY. Her work has appeared in Newsday, Bust magazine, and amNY.