Tarpaulin Sky Press Authors & Friends: Jenny Boully, Jordan Davis, Douglas A. Martin, and Max Winter February 17, 2007

Come celebrate the release of Max Winter's new book, The Pictures, and hear readings from Winter and fellow Tarpaulin Sky Press author Jenny Boully, along with Jordan Davis and Douglas A. Martin.

Mingling at 1:30. Reading at 2, followed by a book-signing.

Jenny Boully is the author of [one love affair*] (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2006) and The Body (Slope Editions, 2002). Her work has been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2002, Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present, and The Next American Essay and has appeared in Boston Review, Seneca Review, and Conjunctions. Her Book of Beginnings and Endings is forthcoming from Sarabande. Born in Thailand and reared in Texas, she has studied at Hollins University and the University of Notre Dame and is pursuing a Ph.D. at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She divides her time between Brooklyn and a small town in Texas.

Poet and critic Jordan Davis is the author of Million Poems Journal and host of The Million Poems Show, a live poetry talk show based in Manhattan at the Bowery Poetry Club. His blogs, Equanimity and Million Poems, draw more than 35,000 readers each month. His poems have appeared in Chicago Review, American Letters and Commentary, Boston Review, and, Fence, among other journals. He is a columnist for the acclaimed literary review, Constant Critic, and his reviews have appeared in Publishers Weekly, Paper, and the Village Voice. With Chris Edgar he edits The Hat, an annual literary journal.

Douglas A. Martin's most recent books are Branwell, a novel of the Bronte brother, and a collection of stories, They Change the Subject. His first novel, Outline of My Lover, was named an International Book of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement and adapted in part by The Forsythe Company for the multimedia dance- theater piece “Kammer/Kammer.” He is also the author of two collections of poetry and a co-author of the haiku year. In 2008, he will publish Last Early Poems and a new lyric prose work, Your Body Figured.

Max Winter is the author of The Pictures (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007). Winner of the Fifth Annual Boston Review Poetry Contest, Winter has poems appearing recently in Free Verse, New American Writing, Ploughshares, The Paris Review, Colorado Review, Volt, The Yale Review, The Canary, Denver Quarterly, First Intensity, GutCult, TYPO, and New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois, 2000). He has published reviews in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, and BOMB, and is a Poetry Editor of Fence.

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