Shakespeare & Co. is pleased to announce an evening of readings hosted by Brian Blanchfield, author of Proxies, on Sunday, August 6, 2023, at 6:30 pm. Featured writers include Richard Siken, author of War of the Foxes, Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, author of Captioning the Archives, Chris Nealon, author of The Shore, and Samuel Ace, author of Our Weather Our Sea. This event is free and open to the public.
Brian Blanchfield is the author of the essay collection Proxies, which was awarded a 2016 Whiting Award in Nonfiction, and the poetry collections Not Even and A Several World, which received the 2014 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He teaches poetry and nonfiction writing at the University of Montana.
Richard Siken is the author of the poetry collections War of the Foxes and Crush, which won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, a Lambda Literary Award, and the Thom Gunn Award. He lives in Tucson, Arizona, and is the co-founder and editor of Spork Press.
Leni Zumas is the author of the novels Red Clocks, which won the 2019 Oregon Book Award for Fiction, and The Listeners, and the story collection Farewell Navigator. She is an associate professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Portland State University.
Aisha Sabatini Sloan is the author of Captioning the Archives: A Conversation in Photography and Text, the essay collections The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White and Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, and the book-length essay Borealis. A 2020 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she is an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at the University of Michigan.
Chris Nealon is Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of the poem-essay collection The Shore and two books of literary criticism, Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall and The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in The American Century , as well as three earlier books of poetry: The Joyous Age, Plummet, and Heteronomy. He lives in Washington, DC.
Samuel Ace is a trans and genderqueer poet and sound artist. He is the author of the poetry collections Our Weather Our Sea and Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don’t wash. He is the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund Award in Poetry and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award. He teaches poetry and creative writing at Mount Holyoke College and divides his time between western Massachusetts and Tucson, Arizona.
