Kalamazoo people--the best thing coming

Featuring poets:

Lily Brown
Amanda Nadelberg
Joshua Marie Wilkinson

and presenting a commemorative broadside
with works by each poet created by artist Nikkita Cohoon

view the current exhibition:
A Celebration of Michigan Prints


free and open to the public!

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Lily Brown was born in Boston, Massachusetts and currently lives and teaches in Chicago, Illinois. She holds an M.F.A. from Saint Mary's College of California, and her poems have appeared in Fence, Pleiades, Octopus, Typo, Tarpaulin Sky, and Handsome, among other journals. Her first chapbook, The Renaissance Sheet, was published by Octopus Books in 2007, and her second chapbook, Old with You, is forthcoming from Kitchen Press this winter.

Amanda Nadelberg is the author of Isa the Truck Named Isadore (Slope Editions, 2006). Her poems have appeared in journals like Conduit, Vanitas, Typo, jubilat and No: a journal of the arts. A graduate of Carleton College, she is currently attending the Iowa Writers Workshop.

Born and raised in Seattle, Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of three books and two more are forthcoming: The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth (Tupelo 2009) and 12x12: Conversations in 21st Century Poetry & Poetics (Iowa 2009). After stints in Prague, Spain, Turkey, and Slovakia, and some years in the Arizona, Colorado, and Ireland he has recently settled in Chicago. For the last 5 years he's been making a tour film about the band Califone with Solan Jensen called Made a Machine by Describing the Landscape. And three new chapbooks--A Brief History of Gossip (Dos Press), Cold Faction (Further Adventures), and Until the Lantern's Shaky Song (Cinematheque Press)--are all forthcoming. He teaches creative writing and literature at Loyola University.