The Dikeou Collection presents the nineteenth installment of the Dikeou Literary Series on Thursday, December 1, at 7:00pm, which will take place at Dikeou Pop-Up: Colfax, 312 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, CO 80203. Please join us for readings by Georgia Browning, Josh Fomon, Erika Hodges, and Aditi Machado. This event is free and open to the public.
Georgia Browning has studied ducks, both formally and informally, for four years. She goes to preschool in Denver. This is her first public performance.
Originally from Iowa City, Josh Fomon is a political operative in Seattle. His poems appear in alice blue review, Caketrain, DREGINALD, jubilat, Yalobusha Review and others. His first book, THOUGH WE BLED METICULOUSLY, is out from Black Ocean.
Erika Hodges is a poet and photographer living in Boulder, CO with her cat, partner and unreasonable rent. She will graduate this spring from Naropa University with a BA in Creative Writing and is very unsure of her plans for the future in case you were planning on asking. Recently, she came up with a possible ending to a very long poem she is writing. She uses these small triumphs as renewable energy until she is called writer more than worker, girl or in relation to him. Her writing stems from the challenge of turning what you would normally turn away from into something you use to heal. She is interested in her work as a way to deobjectify text as an extension of bodies. She is also interested in teasing and poking fun at those terms until all semblance of pretension has dissipated.
Aditi Machado is the translator of Farid Tali’s Prosopopoeia (Action, forthcoming in 2016). A work of postmodern elegy, this hybrid novella both mourns and celebrates the body of a man who died from AIDS. Aditi is also the author of a book of poems, Some Beheadings (Nightboat, forthcoming in 2017), and two chapbooks: Route: Marienbad (Further Other Book Works, 2016) and The Robing of the Bride (Dzanc, 2013). Her poetry and criticism (will) appear in Volt, Witness, FOLDER Magazine, Jacket2, The Chicago Review, and elsewhere. She edits poetry in translation for Asymptote.
The Dikeou Literary Series is currently organized by Mairead Case. Case is a working writer in Colorado, where she is also a PhD student at the University of Denver and the Summer Writing Program Coordinator at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Mairead teaches fiction, poetry, and poetics at DU, Naropa University, and the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility. She is the author of the novel See You In the Morning and Tenderness, a poetry chapbook.
