The Dollhouse Reading Series

It's a poetry party

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The last DH event will be filled--overflowing, I say!--with great readers and fun and tears. We’ll see you there!

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Our final reader at The Dollhouse #50 is a personal DH fav, Tyler Cain Lacy!

Tyler lives in Chicago. He is the author of the chapbook Reus (Press Board Press, 2014) and is a Luminarts Creative Writing Fellow. Recent work has appeared in alice blue, Salt Hill, Bombay Gin, Poor Claudia, and Powder Keg. 

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Abigail Zimmer will be gracing us with her poems this Saturday at The Dollhouse #50!

Abigail is the author of girls their tongues, forthcoming from Orange Monkey Publishing, and two chapbooks: fearless as I seam from dancing girl press and child in a winter house brightening, forthcoming from Tree Light Books. She lives in Chicago where she is the poetry editor for The Lettered Streets Press. Her work has appeared in NightBlock, Jellyfish, Another Chicago Magazine, and alice blue review, among others.

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Davy Knittle is making the trip from Philadelphia to join us at The Dollhouse this Saturday!

Davy Knittle's second chapbook, empathy for cars / force of july, was released by Horse Less Press in April. His poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Fence, Jacket2, Pinwheel and Forklift, Ohio. His collaborations with Sophia Dahlin are in HOLD: A Journal and Eleven Eleven. He lives in Philadelphia where he is a PhD candidate in English at Penn. He is glad the weather is warm so he can resume napping outside.

RSVP for DH #50 and don’t miss Davy’s incredible poems this Saturday

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Tomás Q. Morín is reading at The Dollhouse #50 this Saturday! Tomás is the author of the poetry collections A Larger Country and Patient Zero (forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2017). He is the translator of Pablo Neruda’s The Heights of Macchu Picchu, as well as the co-editor with Mari L’Esperance of Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine. He teaches at Texas State University and in the low residency MFA program of Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Please RSVP for the SECOND TO LAST Dollhouse here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1030506400352111/

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Next Saturday, y'all! DH #50 (the penultimate) with Davy Knittle, Tyler Cain Lacy, Tomás Q. Morín, and Abigail Zimmer!

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Live Lit: Last Days of The Dollhouse

Cramming into a private living room to listen at the feet of poets is a strangely intimate, absorbing experience. The poems are not filtered by distance or microphone. Sitting on the floor with you…

Shout out to Newcity Magazine for writing up a little ditty in which DH co-curators Dolly and Holly reflect on the five years, fifty readings, and fun times of Dollhouse history.

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Tomorrow! In addition to Jacob Victorine, francine j. harris, and Ryan Collins, Emily Jungmin Yoon will also be reading at #49. Her poems and translations have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Volta, POETRY, The Collagist, The Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is the 2015 winner of Ploughshares' Emerging Writer's Contest, AWP's WC&C Scholarship Competition, and the AAWW Fellowship to The Home School in Miami. She serves the Poetry Editor for The Margins, the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and is a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Deets here.

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Jacob Victorine will also be reading at #49! Deets and RSVP here.

Jacob is the winner of the 15th Annual Elixir Press Editor's Award for Poetry and the author of Flammable Matter (Elixir Press, 2016). He earned his MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago, where he teaches a class on performance poetry. His poems appear in places such as Columbia Poetry Review, Vinyl Poetry, Phantom Books, and PANK, which nominated him for a Pushcart Prize in 2013. He currently lives in Chicago with his girlfriend and their cats, Gilgamesh and Sita. Visit him here.

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Also reading at #49: Ryan Collins is the author of A New American Field Guide & Song Book (H_NGM_N Books, 2015), and several chapbooks. His poems have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine; Diagram; Forklift, Ohio; Handsome; Ninth Letter; PEN Poetry Series; Verse Daily; and elsewhere. He hosts the SPECTRA Poetry Reading Series in Rock Island, IL, where he lives. See him, along with francine j. harris, Emily Jungmin Yoon, and Jacob Victorine, this Saturday! Deets: https://www.facebook.com/events/1091437700922220/

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This Saturday, Chicago! We've got a stacked lineup of readers for #49, one of whom will be francine j. harris.

harris is a 2015 NEA fellow whose second book, play dead, has received early praise on such noted lists as Publishers Weekly and in American Poets. Her first collection, allegiance, was a finalist for the 2013 Kate Tufts Discovery and PEN Open Book Award and recent work has appeared in Literary Hub and Academy of of American Poets. Originally from Detroit, she is a Cave Canem fellow and Writer in Residence at Washington University in St. Louis.

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DH #48 is Saturday! Get here (you only have a handful left before we're gone forever)!

Maggie Smith is the author of The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, winner of the Dorset Prize, published by Tupelo Press in 2015; Lamp of the Body, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award at Red Hen Press; and three chapbooks. Disasterology, winner of the Dream Horse Press Chapbook Prize, was just released April 15th. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. She is a freelance writer and editor in Columbus, Ohio, and is a Contributing Editor to the Kenyon Review.

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This Saturday at DH #48, we'll also have Jonathan Moody: Jonathan holds an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. He’s also a Cave Canem graduate fellow whose poetry has appeared in various publications such as African American Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, and Crab Orchard Review. Moody is the author of The Doomy Poems (Six Gallery Press, 2012). His second collection, Olympic Butter Gold, won the 2014 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize. He lives in Fresno, Texas, with his wife and son and teaches English at Pearland High School. Deets and RSVP here. 

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DH #48 is this Saturday! We'll have three readers this time around, one of whom will be Emilia Phillips.

Emilia is the author of two poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, Groundspeed (2016) and Signaletics (2013), and three chapbooks. Her poems and lyric essays appear in Agni, Boston Review, The Kenyon Review, Ninth Letter, Ploughshares, Poetry, and elsewhere. She is the Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Centenary College of New Jersey.

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Also at DH #47:

Caroline Cabrera is author of The Bicycle Year (H_NGM_N BKS 2015), Flood Bloom (H_NGM_N BKS 2013), and the chapbook, Dear Sensitive Beard (dancing girl press 2012). She currently lives in Denver. All the deets here.

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Here's Evan reminding you of Saturday's reading. Evan Kleekamp is an MFA candidate studying poetry at Columbia College Chicago, where he is an editor for Columbia Poetry Review. His poetry and criticism have been published in ADULT, Vinyl Poetry, Ghost Ocean, Drunken Boat, and Sprung Formal. But more importantly, he loves the online translation journal Asymptote and Les Figues Press in Los Angeles, and he hopes you do, too. Deets.