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The Kraken Reading Series is based in Denton, TX, and features poets from across the country. The series is especially dedicated to poets putting out their first books and expanding their audiences.

Description

The Kraken Reading Series features two poets per reading. All readings take place at Paschall at 122 N Locust St on the Square (above Andy's Bar). Readings begin at 6 PM sharp, and are free and open to the public. 

2012-2013 schedule:

Saturday, Sept 1 -- Jynne Dilling Martin & Paul Otremba
Saturday, Sept 29 -- Matthew Guennette & Matt Hart
Saturday, Oct 27 -- Laurie Saurborn Young & Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Saturday, Dec 1 -- William Wenthe & Deborah Paredez

Saturday, Jan 26 -- Kara Candito & Rebecca Hazelton
Wednesday, Feb 13 -- Cindy St. John & Kate Greenstreet
Saturday, Feb 23 -- Alex Lemon & Stephen Danos
Wednesday, Mar 20 -- Matthew Olzmann & Vievee Francis
Wednesday, Apr 17 -- Michael Robins & Adam Clay & Ada Limón
Saturday, Apr 27 -- Dot Devota & Karyna McGlynn

All readings co-hosted by Kyle McCord and Justin Bigos.

Come join us and hear some absolutely tremendous poets! 

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General Information

Kyle McCord and Justin Bigos, Series Directors
Luke Heister, Art
Daniel Heffner, AV
Gwen Edward, Photography
Sam Coronado, Intern
Jon Savage, Intern
Erin Stalcup, Kraken Press

Bios for Spring Readers:

Kara Candito is the author of Taste of Cherry (University of Nebraska Press), winner of the 2008 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Her work has appeared in such journals and anthologies as Blackbird, AGNI, Prairie Schooner, The Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, Best New Poets 2007, The Rumpus Original Poetry Anthology, and A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. A recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Santa Fe Arts Institute, Candito is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin, Platteville (www.karacandito.com).

Rebecca Hazelton has been published in Agni, The Southern Review, and The Gettysburg Review, featured on Verse Daily and Inknode, and included in Best New Poets 2011. She was the 2010-2011 Jay C. and Ruth Hall Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Creative Writing Institute. Her book, Fair Copy, won The Ohio State Press/The Journal poetry award in 2011, and in 2012, she won The Discovery/Boston Review Prize.

Cindy St. John is the author of several chapbooks, most recently Be the Heat (Slash Pine Press). She lives in Austin, TX where she teaches teenagers, and edits Headlamp, a poetry and art collaboration.

Kate Greenstreet is the author of The Last 4 Things and case sensitive, both from Ahsahta Press, and six chapbooks. Her new work can be found in Chicago Review, Colorado Review, Volt, Fence, Boston Review, and other journals. Ahsahta will publish her third book, Young Tambling, in January 2013.

Stephen Danos is author of the poetry chapbook Playhouse State (H_NGM_N BKS, forthcoming in 2012). He earned an MFA in Creative Writing - Poetry from Columbia College Chicago and a BA in English from the University of Iowa. He has been awarded a residency from the Vermont Studio Center, a Follett Fellowship from Columbia College Chicago, and a University & College Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Forklift Ohio, Court Green, ILK, RealPoetik, Inter | rupture,1913: a journal of forms, The Destroyer, and elsewhere. He serves as an Assistant Editor for YesYes Books and co-curates The Dollhouse Reading Series in Chicago.

Alex Lemon is the author of Happy: A Memoir, and the poetry collections Mosquito, Hallelujah Blackout, and Fancy Beasts. A book of essays and a new poetry collection are forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. His writing has appeared in Esquire, The Huffington Post, Best American Poetry 2008, Satellite Convulsions, Tin House, Kenyon Review, AGNI, The Southern Review, and jubilat, among others. His awards include a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2006 Minnesota Arts Board Grant. He is a frequent book reviewer for the Dallas Morning News. He lives in Ft. Worth, Texas, and teaches at TCU.

Matthew Olzmann is the author of Mezzanines, which won the Kundiman Poetry Prize and will be published by Alice James Books in April 2013. Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Inch, Gulf Coast, Rattle, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and has received fellowships from Kundiman and the Kresge Arts Foundation. Currently, he is a writer-in-residence for the InsideOut Literary Arts Project, the Beebe Fellow at Warren Wilson College, and poetry editor of The Collagist.

Vievee Francis is the author of Horse in the Dark (2012) and Blue-Tail Fly: Poems (2006). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in several periodicals and anthologies including Crab Orchard Review, Rattle, Best American Poetry 2010, and Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry. She was the 2009–2010 Poet-in-Residence for the Alice Lloyd Hall Scholars Program and is the recipient of a 2009 Rona Jaffe Award, a 2010 Kresge Artist Fellowship, and Cave Canem fellowships. She is an associate editor for Callaloo.

Michael Robins is the author of The Next Settlement (UNT Press, 2007), Ladies & Gentlemen (Saturnalia Books, 2011), and the chapbook Little Felons (Strange Machine, 2012). He teaches literature and creative writing at Columbia College Chicago.

Adam Clay is the author of A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World (Milkweed Editions, 2012) and The Wash (Parlor Press, 2006). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. He co-edits TYPO Magazine and lives in Kentucky.

Ada Limón is the author of three books of poetry, including Lucky Wreck (Autumn House Press, 2006), This Big Fake World (Pearl Editions, 2007), and Sharks in the Rivers (Milkweed Editions, 2010). Her work has appeared in numerous magazines, including Harvard Review, Poetry Daily, and The New Yorker. She is currently finishing her first novel, a book of essays, and a new collection of poems. She works as a writer and lives in Kentucky and California.

Karyna McGlynn is the author of I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl, winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize from Sarabande Books, as well as three chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in Fence, Salt Hill, Columbia Poetry Review, Subtropics, Court Green, Ninth Letter, and Denver Quarterly. Karyna was a Zell Fellow at the University of Michigan, where she received her MFA. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Houston, where she works as Managing Editor for Gulf Coast and organizes the Houston Indie Book Fest.

The Poet Dot Devota’s mother retired from the rodeos and her father died with regrets. The book she is writing is nonfiction, MW: A Field Guide to the Midwest. Sections can be read in Make Magazine and Denver Quarterly, with a chapbook forthcoming from Editions 19\. She is the author of a chapbook of poetry, The Eternal Wall (Cannibal). Poems appear in Volt, iO, Tarpaulin Sky, Gulf Coast, Octopus, and The Volta. She currently lives in Tucson AZ, Taiwan, and in a field in central Missouri.