BALTO vs. BKLYN at the WINDUP–Hoevenaar, Jones, O’Brien, Puglionesi, Robinson, Lala, Nelson, Paty, Zingg
The world decided not to end so it could attend this event! The literary match-up of 2013, pitting four of Brooklyn’s most depraved criminal minds against five of Baltimore’s loudest crybabies.
FROM BALTIMORE: Jeremy Hoevenaar, Bonnie Jones, R.M. O’Brien, Alicia Puglionesi, Adam Robinson
FROM BROOKLYN: Mike Lala, Allyson Paty, Eric Nelson, Matthew Zingg
FIVE BUCKS DUDE
BONNIE JONES is a writer, improvising musician, and performer working primarily with electronic music and text. She creates improvised and composed text-sound performances that explore the fluidity and function of electronic noise (field recordings, circuit bending) and text (poetry, found, spoken, visual). http://bonniejones.wordpress.com/
MICHAEL LALA lives in New York, where he co-curates Fireside Follies and is Assistant Poetry Editor at Washington Square. His work appears or is forthcoming in Fence, The Brooklyn Rail, RHINO 2013, DIAGRAM, Artifice, The Awl, and many others, including the chapbooks Under the Westward Night (Knickerbocker Circus, 2010) and [fire!] ([sic] Press, 2011). More at mikelala.com.
The son of a single mother nurse, ERIC NELSON came of age in the concrete jungle of New Jersey. Nelson’s fiction and non-fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Billfold, Superchief, Electric Literature, Squawk Back, Having a Whiskey Coke With You, Volume 1 Brooklyn, The Best of We’ll Never Have Paris, Constellation Magazine and Zine World. His book of short stories, The Silk City Series, was published by Knickerbocker Circus Press in 2010. He writes a weekly column at www.bushwicknation.com
RM O’BRIEN put out a book called Ant Killer & Other Poems. He’s working on a book called All This Was Instantaneous. He fears nothing.
ALLYSON PATY is the author of The Further Away, a chapbook published by [sic] Press in 2012. Her poems can be found in Tin House, Gulf Coast, DIAGRAM, Denver Quarterly, Harpur Palate, Handsome and Best New Poets 2012. She is co-editor of Singing Saw Press, a fine arts and poetry publisher that will make its debut release this fall.
MATTHEW ZINGG’s poetry appears or is forthcoming in Cider Press Review, Blackbird, The Madison Review, and Opium Magazine. He received his MFA in poetry form Adelphi University and lives in Brooklyn.