2012-02-29

Saturday, 03/10/12: Heather Christle, Justin Marks, and Benjamin Hersey

On Saturday, March 10, please join us at 7 pm to hear Justin Marks, Heather Christle, and Benjamin Hersey read for The Clean Part. Free and open to the public, drop by Drift Station Gallery, located at 1746 N Street in downtown Lincoln (corner of 18th St), to hear some wonderful writing and win some prizes in our free raffle!

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Heather Christle is the author of What Is Amazing (Wesleyan University Press, 2012), The Trees The Trees (Octopus Books, 2011), and The Difficult Farm (Octopus Books, 2009). Her poems have appeared in publications including The Believer, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, and The New Yorker. She has taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and at Emory University, where she was the 2009-2011 Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry. She is the Web Editor for jubilat and frequently a writer in residence at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. A native of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, she lives in Western Massachusetts.

Justin Marks’ first full length book is A Million in Prizes (New Issues, 2009). His most recent chapbook, On Happier Lawns, is available from Poor Claudia, and a new chapbook called Best Practices is forthcoming from Greying Ghost Press. He is a co-founder and editor of Birds, LLC and lives in Queens, NY with his wife and their three year-old twin son and daughter.

Benjamin Hersey is a writer and performance artist living in Northampton, Massachusetts. He recently collaborated with monologuist Seth Lepore in Get a Job/Take Me Home Tonight and Dance and Text: A Lethal Combination. In 2010, he appeared as Christopher Smart in Madeline ffitch's adaptation of Jubilate Agno. A novel excerpt, stories and a performance text have appeared in Everyday Genius, Fact-Simile and Requited. This is What We're Up Against, a chapbook of monologues, was published by Chuckwagon in 2008.

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