DIKEOU LITERARY SERIES: ASHLEY COLLEY, MAIREAD CASE, THIRII MYO KYAW MYINT, ADAM FAGIN

07/26/2018

The Dikeou Collection presents the twenty-nineth installment of the Dikeou Literary Series and welcomes our new series organizers, Rowland Saifi and Vincent Carafano. This event is free and open to the public and will take place on Thursday, July 26 at The Dikeou Collection, 1615 California St, Suite 515, 7-9pm. Please join us for readings by Ashley Colley, Mairead Case, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, and Adam Fagin.

 

ASHLEY COLLEY is from Ohio. Her poems have appeared most recently in PreludeBlack Warrior Review, jubilatTextsound, and New Delta Review. She’s a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PhD candidate at the University of Denver.

 

MAIREAD CASE is a working writer in Denver. The author of See You In the Morning (featherproof, 2015) and a forthcoming book about Antigone, Mairead teaches tenth grade language arts at STRIVE, poetry and narrative at the Kerouac School, and every Friday night at the Denver Women’s Jail. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from DU and is a former birthday party clown.

 

THIRII MYO KYAW MYINT is the author of the lyric novel, The End of Peril, the End of Enmity, the End of Strife, A Haven (Noemi Press, 2018) and the forthcoming family history project, Zat Lun, which won the 2018 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in creative writing at the University of Denver, the associate editor of Denver Quarterly, and an instructor at Lighthouse Writers Workshop, where she teaches hybrid/experimental forms.

 

ADAM FAGIN is the author of Furthest Ecology, coming out February 2019 from the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University. He has also written two poetry chapbooks; T’s Alphabet and THE SKY IS A HOWLING WILDERNESS BUT IT CAN’T HOWL WITH HEAVEN.

 

The Dikeou Literary Series is currently organized by Rowland Saifi and Vincent Carafano. Rowland Saifi grew up in Brazil and Arkansas before attending Naropa University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the author of the novel Lit Windows, and the novellas The Minotaur’s Daughter and Karner Blue Estates. His work has appeared in Fact-Simile, Marginalia, Bombay Gin, Livestock Review, Newfound Journal, and Kneejerk Magazine as well as contributed to “Cairo on the Length” a project at Amira Hanafi at Spoke Gallery, and to “Institutional Garbage” a multidisciplinary project at Sector 2237 in collaboration with the Hyde Park Arts Center in Chicago. He is currently working towards a Ph.D. at University of Denver in Colorado. Vincent Carafano is from El Paso, Texas and lives and writes in Denver. His collaborative novel, Swerve, is forthcoming from Astrophil Press.