COLLEEN presents COLLEEN
Saturday, April 16, 2022
Doors: 6:30pm
Reading: 7pm
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COLLEEN presents COLLEEN
starring
Colleen Louise Barry
Giulia Bencivenga
JoAnna Novak
Leah Clancy
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Colleen Louise Barry’s debut collection of poems, Colleen, is a gleeful exercise in self-documentation. Without taking themselves too seriously, these often funny and wise poems ask big questions about the nature of reality. They mix mystery with candor and childlike wonder with aphoristic certainty.
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Colleen Louise Barry is an artist and writer. She runs the interdisciplinary publishing projects Mount Analogue and Angel Tears and teaches visual art at Westside Middle School in Seattle, WA. www.colleenlouisebarry.com
Giulia Bencivenga is the author of GIULIA BENCIVENGA IS A MANIAC (Inpatient Press, 2019), Unreasonable Whole (Gauss PDF, 2019), and CUD (nueoi, 2020). Her work appears in Peach Mag, Wonder, Adriadne Mag, Blush Lit, and other places. They run the reading series Two Snake in Los Angeles (@twosnakela) and host virtual poetry workshops sometimes.
JoAnna Novak's third book of poetry, New Life, was published in 2021. She is the author of Meaningful Work: Stories, winner of the 2020 Ronald Sukenick Prize for Innovative Fiction, and the novel I Must Have You. Her debut memoir Contradiction Days is forthcoming from Catapult Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker online, The Paris Review, and other publications. She is a founding editor of Tammy, a literary journal and chapbook press.
Leah Clancy a poet and artist from Buffalo, NY who has been based in LA for the past 8 years. She works as a writer, editor, and event producer, and currently runs MIDDLEYARD, a DIY event series based in Highland Park that is slowly coming out of COVID hibernation. Previously, she was a co-founding editor of Potluck Mag, and online literature and art journal which ran from 2014 to 2018. Her work can be found in in Peach Mag, FORTH, Mask, Funhouse, My Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry, and more. She has major imposter syndrome. Leah holds a BA in English from NYU, an MFA in Creative Writing from CalArts, a whole bunch of student loan debt, and her dog Artichoke like a tiny little baby boy in her arms.