The Dikeou Collection presents the tweltfh installment of the Hope, Thanks & The Unforgiving Literary Series on Friday, September 25, at 7:00pm, which will take place at Dikeou Pop-Up: Colfax, 312 E Colfax Ave, Denver CO 80203. The featured readers for the evening include Bin Ramke, Tim Earley, and Jessica Comola. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.
During his childhood in south Louisiana and east Texas Bin Ramke intended to become a mathematician, and then a sculptor, but after majoring in literature at LSU he eventually received a Ph.D. in modern literature from Ohio University. He taught in Columbus, Georgia prior to arriving at the University of Denver in 1985. He sometimes teaches part of the year at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His first book won the Yale Younger Poets Award, and he has since published eleven more books, most recently Missing the Moon (Omnidawn, 2014).
Tim Earley is the author of four full-length collections of poems, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (Horse Less Press 2014), The Spooking of Mavens (Cracked Slab Books, 2010), Boondoggle (2005), and the forthcoming Malcolm Canmore/After Whiteface (Horse Less Press in 2017), along with the chapbooks Catfish Poems (Delete Press, 2013) and The Center Is Barbaric The Periphery Is Without Lights (DoubleCross Press, 2015). His work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Chicago Review, Colorado Review, jubilat, Conduit, The Ecopoetry Anthology, and the Hick Poetics anthology. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi, where he teaches online courses in literature and writing.
Jessica Comola is the author of Everything We Met Changed Form and Followed the Rest (forthcoming from Caketrain Press in early 2016) and the chapbook What Kind of Howly Divine (Horseless Press 2014). Her work has previously appeared in jubilat, Tenderloin, Dreginald, EOAGH, and Smoking Glue Gun. She is a PhD student at the University of Denver
Hope, Thanks & The Unforgiving Literary Series is currently organized by Joe Lennon and Adam Fagin. Joe Lennon has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Denver, and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. His recent poems and curations have appeared or are forthcoming in Gigantic Sequins, Incessant Pipe, and Denver Quarterly, and he is a contributor to the Denver Poetry Map (www.denverpoetrymap.org). He’s been to every US state except Alaska. Adam Fagin is a doctoral candidate at the University of Denver. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Fence, Web Conjunctions, Volt, and other journals. He’s the author of a chapbook, T’s Alphabet, and one forthcoming, THE SKY IS A HOWLING WILDERNESS BUT IT CAN’T HOWL WITH HEAVEN.