The Dikeou Collection presents the thirteenth installment of the Hope, Thanks & The Unforgiving Literary Series on Thursday, October 29, 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 Eric Baus and Aaron Angello. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.
Eric Baus is the author of four books of poetry: The Tranquilized Tongue, (City Lights 2014), Scared Text, winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry (Center for Literary Publishing, 2011), Tuned Droves (Octopus Books, 2009), and The To Sound, winner of the Verse Prize (Wave Books, 2004). A fifth book, How I Became a Hum is forthcoming from Octopus next year. He teaches literature and creative writing at Regis University’s Mile High MFA program in Denver.
Aaron Angello is a fourth-year PhD student, currently writing his dissertation about the ways in which digital poets are confronting and resisting power in their work. Aaron received an MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder and a BA from Antioch University Los Angeles. When he is not researching and writing about digital art and poetry, he is making it.
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.