Saturday, 11/3/12: Mathias Svalina, Alexis Orgera, and John Chávez

On Saturday, November 3, please join us at 6 pm to watch Mathias Svalina, Alexis Orgera, and John Chávez read for this fall’s final installment of The Clean Part. Free and open to the public, drop by the Sheldon Museum of Art (located at 12th and R Streets on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s campus) to hear some great poetry and win some autumn-themed prizes in our free raffle!

Mathias Svalina is the author of three books, most recently The Explosions from Subito Press. With Zachary Schomburg & Alisa Heinzman he co-edits Octopus Books.

Alexis Orgera is the author of How Like Foreign Objects (H_ngm_n Books, 2011) and Dust Jacket, winner of the Braddock Prize at Coconut Books (forthcoming, 2013). She’s also the author of three chapbooks and has published poems, essays, and reviews in various print and online journals. You can find her poems right now in ILK Journal and Memorious, online, and in Forklift Ohio and Green Mountains Review 25th Anniversary Retrospective, in print. Orgera lives in Sarasota, Florida, and teaches writing at Ringling College of Art and Design. She is working on her first book of prose, a series of memoir-essays and meditations about Alzheimer’s, migraines, hallucinations, and other snafus of the brain.

John Chávez received a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His poems have appeared in Alice Blue, Anti-, Copper Nickel, Diode, Notre Dame Review, Palabra, Portland Review, Tusculum Review, Zone 3, among others. He is author of a chapbook Heterotopia, and co-author of a collaborative chapbook, I, NE: Iterations of the Junco. In 2009, he was the recipient of the Letras Latinas Residency Fellowship, a literary fellowship supported by the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame and The Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Redwing, MN. He is assistant professor of English at Dixie State College of Utah. He lives in St. George.

Saturday, 10/6/12: Graham Foust and Gina Myers

On Saturday, October 6, please join us at 6 pm to watch Graham Foust and Gina Myers read for this fall's first installment of The Clean Part. Free and open to the public, drop by the Sheldon Museum of Art (located at 12th and R Streets on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's campus) to hear some great poetry and win some autumn-themed prizes in our free raffle!


Graham Foust is the author of five books of poems, including the forthcoming To Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems, and the co-translator of In Time's Rift by the late German poet Ernst Meister.  He works at the University of Denver.

Gina Myers is the author ofA Model Year (Coconut Books, 2009) and several chapbooks, including most recently False Spring (Spooky Girlfriend, 2012). Her second full-length collection, Hold It Down, will be published by Coconut Books in March 2013. She lives in Atlanta, GA.

Saturday, 03/31/12: Ada Limón, Adam Clay, and Michael Robins

On Saturday, March 31, please join us at 7 pm to hear Ada Limón, Michael Robins, and Adam Clay read for this semester’s last installment of 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 poetry and win some prizes in our free raffle!

Ada Limón grew up in Glen Ellen and Sonoma, California. A graduate of New York University’s MFA Creative Writing Program, she has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and won the Chicago Literary Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harvard Review, and Poetry Daily. She is the author of three books of poetry, Lucky Wreck (Autumn House Press, 2006), This Big Fake World (Pearl Editions, 2007), and Sharks in the Rivers (Milkweed Editions, 2010). She is currently at work on a novel, a book of essays, and a new collection of poems.

Michael Robins is the author of Ladies & Gentlemen (Saturnalia Books, 2011), the chapbook Circus (Flying Guillotine Press, 2009), and The Next Settlement (UNT Press, 2007), which received the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Letters & Commentary, The Antioch Review, Colorado Review, The Laurel Review, Mid-American Review and elsewhere. His short essays and book reviews have appeared in journals such as MAKE, Poets for Living Waters, Redactions, and in the anthology The Field Guide to Prose Poetry (Rose Metal Press, 2010). Born in Portland, Oregon, Robins holds degrees from the University of Oregon and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He lives in Chicago.

Adam Clay is the author of A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World (Milkweed Editions, 2012) and The Wash (Parlor Press, 2006). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. He co-edits TYPO Magazine and lives in Kentucky. adamclay.org

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!

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.

Saturday, 02/11/12: Lily Brown and Benjamin Paloff

On Saturday, February 11th, please join us at 7 pm to hear Lily Brown and Benjamin Paloff read for The Clean Part. This event is free and open to the public. Held at Drift Station Gallery, located at 18th & N in downtown Lincoln, come listen to some great words and win some raffle prizes! See you there!

Lily Brown’s first book, Rust or Go Missing, is available from Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Recent poems are out or forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Catch Up, Transom, and 6x6. She is from Massachusetts, but currently lives in Athens, GA.

Benjamin Paloff is the author of The Politics, a collection of poems, and the translator, most recently, of Lodgings: Selected Poems of Andrzej Sosnowski. He edits poetry and criticism at Boston Review and teaches at the University of Michigan.