The Dikeou Collection presents the sixteenth installment of the Dikeou Literary Series on Saturday, February 20th, 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 are C.J. Martin and Eleni Sikelianos.
C.J. Martin is the author of the poetry collection Two Books (Compline, 2011), as well as many chapbooks, most recently Under Water (F.O.B.W. 2015), LAND (Compline, 2014), Medical Parts (NewLights Press, 2014) and Unused Cover (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs (2013). His essays and reviews (on Rob Halpern, Myung Mi Kim, Rachel Blau DuPlessis and others) have appeared in ON: Contemporary Practice, Jacket2, and American Book Review. He lives in Colorado Springs and works as a book designer, printer and bookbinder. With Julia Drescher, he publishes Further Other Book Works.
Eleni Sikelianos is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently The Loving Detail of the Living & the Dead (Coffee House, 2013), and two hybrid memoirs (The Book of Jon, City Lights, and You Animal Machine, Coffee House). Forthcoming is Make Yourself Happy. Sikelianos has been the happy recipient of various awards for her poetry, nonfiction, and translations, including two National Endowment for the Arts Awards and the National Poetry Series, and her work has been widely translated and anthologized. She has taught poetry in public schools, homeless shelters, and prisons, and collaborated with musicians (Philip Glass, Sandra Wong, etc.), filmmakers (Ed Bowes) and visual artists(Peter Cole, Mel Chin, etc.). She is on guest faculty for the Naropa Summer Writing Program, and she teaches at theUniversity of Denver, where she runs the Writers in the Schools program.
The Dikeou 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.