Saturday, 11/12/11: Joshua Ware and Elisa Gabbert

On Saturday, November 12, please join us at 7 pm to hear Joshua Ware and Elisa Gabbert 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 18^th St.), to hear some wonderful poetry and win some November-ish raffle prizes! See you soon!

Joshua Ware lives in Denver, Colorado. His first book, Homage to Homage to Homage to Creeley, won the 2010 Furniture Press Poetry Prize and was published this past summer. He is the author of three chapbooks, and his writing has appeared in many journals, such as American Letters & Commentary, Colorado Review, New American Writing, and Quarterly West.

Elisa Gabbert is the author of two collections of poetry: The French Exit (Birds LLC, 2010) and Thanks for Sending the Engine, a chapbook (Kitchen Press, 2007). Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Another Chicago Magazine, The Awl, Denver Quarterly, Sentence and other journals. Her nonfiction has appeared in Mantis, Open Letters Monthly, and The Monkey & The Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics. She lives in Denver and blogs at The French Exit.

Saturday, 10/01/11: Lisa Fishman and Danielle Pafunda

On Saturday, October 1, please join us at 7 pm to hear Lisa Fishman and Danielle Pafunda 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!


Lisa Fishman is the author of five books of poetry and four chapbooks. Her newest collections are Current (Parlor Press, November 2010) and F L O W E R C A R T (Ahsahta, May 2011). Her most recent chapbook, at the same time as scattering, was released by Albion Books (San Francisco, 2010). Fishman’s earlier books are The Happiness Experiment (Ahsahta, 2007); Dear, Read (Ahsahta, 2002); and The Deep Heart’s Core Is a Suitcase (New Issues Press, 1996). Her chapbooks are Lining (Boxwood Editions, 2009), KabbaLoom (Wyrd Press, 2007), and “The Holy Spirit does not deal in synonimes: a Transcription of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Marginalia in Her Greek and Hebrew Bibles” (Parcel Press, 2008). Fishman is Poetry Program Director at Columbia College Chicago and lives in Madison and Orfordville, Wisconsin.

Danielle Pafunda is the author of four collections of poetry including Iatrogenic: Their Testimonies (Noemi Press), My Zorba (Bloof Books), and the forthcoming Manhater (Dusie Press Books 2012). Her work appears in a number of journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry, Gurlesque: The New Grrly, Grotesque, Burlesque Poetics (Saturnalia Books), and Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (Cinco Puntos Press 2011). She’s an assistant professor of gender & women’s studies and English at the University of Wyoming, and a contributor to the blog Montevidayo.

Tuesday, 05/03/11: John Gallaher and G.C. Waldrep

On Tuesday, May 3^rd at 7 pm G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher will read for The Clean Part Reading Series. Just like the previous two events, the reading will be held at the Drift Station Gallery, which can be found at the intersection of 18th & N in downtown Lincoln, NE. This will be the last Clean Part Reading of the semester, so come out to celebrate the re-establishment of the series and tell your (human) friends.

John Gallaher is the author of the books of poetry, Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls, The Little Book of Guesses, winner of the Levis Poetry Prize, and Map of the Folded World, from The University of Akron Press, as well as the free online chapbook, Guidebook from Blue Hour Press. Other than that, he's co-editor of The Laurel Review and GreenTower Press. Currently he's working on a co-authored manuscript with the poet G.C. Waldrep, titled Your Father on the Train of Ghosts, due out in Spring 2011 from BOA Editions.

G.C. Waldrep is the author of four full-length collections of poetry, most recently Archicembalo (Tupelo, 2009; winner of the Dorset Prize) and, with John Gallaher, Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (BOA Editions, 2011). His work has appeared in many journals, including New American Writing, APR, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, New England Review, and Tin House. He is also the author of a work of nonfiction and co-editor of two forthcoming anthologies: Homage to Celan, with Ilya Kaminsky (forthcoming later this year from Marick Press), and The Arcadia Project, with Joshua Corey (forthcoming from Ahsahta Press in 2012). He lives in Lewisburg, Pa., where he teaches at Bucknell University and serves as Editor-at-Large for The Kenyon Review.

Saturday, 04/09/11: Christian Hawkey and Michael Earl Craig

On Saturday, April 9th at 7 pm Christian Hawkey and Michael Earl Craig will read for The Clean Part Reading Series. Just like the previous Clean Part event, the reading will be held at the Drift Station Gallery, which can be found at the intersection of 18th & N in downtown Lincoln, NE. See you there and tell your friends.

Christian Hawkey has written three full-length collections and three chapbooks of poetry. His newest book, Ventrakl, a cross-genre exploration of the life and work of Georg Trakl, has just been released by Ugly Duckling Presse. His work has been translated into thirteen languages.

Michael Earl Craig is the author of Can You Relax in My House (Fence Books, 2002), Yes, Master (Fence Books, 2006), and Thin Kimono (Wave Books, fall of 2010). He lives near Livingston, Montana where he shoes horses for a living.

Saturday, 2/12/11: Tina Brown Celona and Arda Collins

Arda Collins and Tina Brown Celona will read for The Clean Part Reading Series on Saturday, February 12 at 7PM. The event will be held at a new location, the Drift Station Gallery, which can be found at the intersection of 18th & N in downtown Lincoln, NE. We hope to see you there.

Arda Collins is the author of It Is Daylight, which was awarded the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. Her poems have appeared in A Public Space, The New Yorker, jubilat and elsewhere. She is a recipient of the May Sarton Poetry Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and lives in Denver, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in poetry.

Tina Brown Celona has been working toward a doctorate in poetry at the University of Denver. She is particularly interested in Edwardian novels, Emily Dickinson, Helen Hunt Jackson, and Romantic and Victorian prosody and poetics. Her first poetry collection The Real Moon of Poetry and Other Poems was published by Fence Books in 2002, followed by Snip Snip! in 2006. Her most recent unpublished work is a chapbook, My Cat Jeoffry.