Dogfish is thrilled to partner with New Orleans Poetry Festival, hosting the opening night of the 2019 festival!
Featuring: Oliver Baez Bendorf, Lee Ann Brown, Henk Rossouw and Chen Chen
Tickets: Part of the NOPF Festival Pass: nolapoetry.com or by donation at event to support this local reading series, which offers monthly readings with featured writers and an open mic.
Featuring:
Henk Rossouw is from Cape Town, South Africa. His book-length poem Xamissa, published by Fordham University Press in 2018, won the Poets Out Loud Editor's Prize. An assistant professor, Henk teaches creative writing (poetry) and literature in the English Dept. at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The anthology Best American Experimental Writing 2018 (Wesleyan University Press), edited by Myung Mi Kim, features an excerpt. Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani included his chapbook The Water Archives in the boxset New-Generation African Poets: Tano (African Poetry Book Fund/Akashic Books). Further excerpts of Xamissa are available in Tupelo Quarterly, The Common, and in Blackbird. He also has poems in The Paris Review and Boston Review.
Lee Ann Brown is the author of five books beginning with Polyverse (Sun & Moon, 1999), and most recently Other Archer (PURH, 2015). She was the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at the University of Cambridge last year and is Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City. She was born in Japan, raised in North Carolina and now lives in New York City at Torn Page where she curates an event space for poetry, theater and developing cross genre performance. She's also the founding editrix of Tender Buttons Press: https://www.tenderbuttonspress.com/ and her author website is: https://leeannbrownpoet.com/
Oliver Baez Bendorf is the author of two collections: Advantages of Being Evergreen (forthcoming 2019), winner of Cleveland State University Poetry Center's 2018 Open Book Poetry Competition, and The Spectral Wilderness (Kent State U., 2015), finalist for the Thom Gunn Gay Poetry Award. His chapbook The Gospel According to X was selected for the 2018 Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series. His work can be found in recent or forthcoming issues of American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, BOMB, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere, and has been anthologized in Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. In 2016, he read poems at The White House for the Trans Community Briefing. He has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Lambda Literary, Vermont Studio Center, and University of Wisconsin-Madison's Institute for Creative Writing. Born and raised in the Midwest, he is currently an assistant professor of creative writing at Kalamazoo College in Michigan.
Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, which won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, the GLCA New Writers Award, the Texas Book Award for Poetry, and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. Bloodaxe Books will publish a UK edition in June 2019. Chen's work appears in many publications, including Tin House, Poem-a-Day, The Best American Poetry, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a PhD in English and Creative Writing from Texas Tech University. Currently he is the Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University.
