Adeena Karasick is a poet, media and performance artist, and the award-winning author of seven books of poetry and poetic theory: Amuse Bouche: Tasty Treats for the Mouth (Talonbooks 2009), The House That Hijack Built (Talonbooks, 2004). The Arugula Fugues (Zasterle Press, 2001), Dyssemia Sleaze (Talonbooks, Spring 2000), Genrecide (Talonbooks, 1996), Mêmewars (Talonbooks, 1994), and The Empress Has No Closure (Talonbooks, 1992). Writing at the intersection of Conceptualism and neo-Fluxus performatics, her urban, Jewish feminist mashups have been described as “electricity in language” (Nicole Brossard) and noted for their “cross-fertilization of punning and knowing, theatre and theory” (Charles Bernstein) a twined virtuosity of mind and ear which leaves the reader deliciously lost in Karasicks signature “syllabic labyrinth” (Craig Dworkin). She teaches Pop Culture and Media Theory in New York and is co-founding Director of KlezKanada Poetry Festival and Retreat, Laurentian Mountains, Quebec. The “Adeena Karasick Archive” is established at Special Collections, Simon Fraser University. Larissa Shmailo’s newest collection of poetry is #specialcharacters (Unlikely Books). Larissa is the editor of the anthology Twenty-first Century Russian Poetry and founder of The Feminist Poets in Low-Cut Blouses. She translated the zaum opera Victory over the Sun for the Los Angeles County Museum of Arts landmark restaging and has been a translator on the Bible in Russia for the American Bible Society. Her other books of poetry are In Paran (BlazeVOX [books]), the chapbook, A Cure for Suicide (Červená Barva Press), and the e-book, Fib Sequence (Argotist Ebooks); her poetry CDs are The No-Net World and Exorcism (SongCrew), for which she received the New Century Best Spoken Word Album award. Born in Hong Kong during the height of the Cultural Revolution, Marc Vincenz has spent most of his life on the road. He has lived in England, Switzerland, Spain, Hong Kong, China, the United States, and has traveled to central Siberia, the Amazon Rainforest, Tibet, India’s Thar Desert, and China’s Kun Lun Mountains. His work has appeared in many journals both online and in print, including Washington Square Review, Fourteen Hills, The Canary, The Bitter Oleander, Superstition Review, Crab Creek Review, The Battersea Review, St. Petersburg Review, Tears in the Fence, Pirene’s Fountain, Exquisite Corpse, The Potomac, Poetry Salzburg Review, Spillway, Stirring, MiPOesias and Guernica. His work has been translated into German, Russian and Romanian. He has been awarded several grants from the Swiss Arts Council for his translations. Jonathan Penton is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Unlikely Stories: Episode IV, the on-line magazine of art and culture at UnlikelyStories.org, formerly known as Unlikely 2.0, formerly known as Unlikely Stories. I am the founder and Editor-in-Chief of its print subsidiary, Unlikely Books. He is the Managing Editor of Fulcrum: an anthology of poetry and aesthetics. I am the Managing Editor of MadHat, Inc., and most of its projects, including MadHat Annual (formerly Mad Hatters Review), and MadHat Press. He is the founder and Publisher of the new translation imprint, Cœur Publishing. I am the founder of the almost-weekly literary drafting workshop, Acadiana Wordlab, which is now run by Clare L. Martin. His poetry chapbooks are Last Chap (Vergin Press, 2004), Blood and Salsa and Painting Rust (bound together, Unlikely Books, 2006) and Prosthetic Gods (New Sins Press, 2008).
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