Dusie Chapbook Kollektiv 8 Presents: Behm-Steinberg, Chiado, Hunter, Maughn & Tuck: Five Chapbook Releases

Founded by Susanna Gardner, Dusie began as a Swiss-based webjournal. It has since grown to include an international community of writers, artists and translators engaged in publishing activities and collective poetic projects. The eighth iteration of the Dusie Chapbook Kollektiv, curated by Ottawa writer Rob McLennan, consists of about fifty writers from around the world, five of whom reside in the Bay Area and will be reading at the Red Poppy. Each member of the Kollektiv produces fifty copies of a chapbook, which they then mail to the other members, while making additional copies for sale and review.

Performers and their new chapbooks:

Hugh Behm-Steinberg, The Sound of Music
Amanda Chiado, Prime Cuts
Carrie Hunter, Weather Diary
James Maughn, Dialog of Snake and Crane
Zoe Tuck, The Burning Sapiens

More about the poets:

Hugh Behm-Steinberg is the author of Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books) and The Opposite of Work (JackLeg Press), as well as three Dusie chapbooks, Sorcery, Good Morning! and The Sound of Music. He teaches writing at California College of the Arts, where he also serves as editor for the journal Eleven Eleven. In addition to his work as a writer, Behm-Steinberg has recently debuted an experimental album with musician Matt Davignon under the bandname Oa.

Amanda Chiado is a poet, writer and arts advocate. She works as a Program Manager for the San Benito County Arts Council and also leads many poetry workshops, including those through California Poets in the Schools. Her work is forthcoming in Black Heart Magazine and It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop.

Carrie Hunter is an editor for the Chapbook Press, Ypolita Press and Black Radish Books. With an MFA/MA in the Poetics program at New College of California, she went on to publish chapbooks with Cy Gist Press, Dusie, Arrow as Aarow, Lew Gallery Editions, Birds of Lace, and Gavia Immer. Her full-length collection, The Incompossible, was published in 2011 by Black Radish Books and her second, Orphan Machines, is forthcoming in 2015.

James Maughn lives in Santa Cruz, California, where he curates A New Cadence Poetry Series, a reading series dedicated to innovative poetries. He is a member of the Black Radish Books Publishing Collective and his own published books include Kata (BlazeVOX Books), Arakaki Permutations (Black Radish Books) and These Peripheries (Otoliths Press).

Zoe Tuck, author of Terror Matrix, has been an active member of the local literary community, working for several years at Small Press Distribution and co-curating Condensery Reading Series. She recently co-taught a class called Vampire Poetics at the Bay Area Public School with Laura Moriarty and currently teaches a class on ghosts with Zach Ozma. She will be playing the filmmaker Maya Deren in a production of Brittany Billmeyer-Finn’s the meshes: an iteration in 2 acts.

Admission: $5-7. Doors at 6:30pm. Event at 7:00pm. All ages welcome.

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