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.

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.