handmade/homemade at URI

There’s an exhibit of chapbooks right now in the windows of the URI library on Washington Street.  Organized by Kate Schapira in tandem with an exhibit at Pace University, the exhibit features work by author’artists including Jennifer Borges Foster, Anne Gorrick, Kate & Max Greenstreet, Jen Hofer, Brenda Iijima, Dorothea Lasky, Matthew Klane, Jill Magi, Lori Anderson Moseman, Kate Schapira, Jessica Smith, and Janaka Stucky.

On Wednesday, four of the artists will be reading at the URI Gallery, which is technically on Washington but more realistically on Union St.  That starts at 6pm.  Reader bios after the jump:

Janaka Stucky is the founder and managing editor of Black Ocean, an non-profit publishing and production company based out of Boston, New York, and Chicago. Prior to Black Ocean, he was the co-founder of the nationally touring group, the Guerilla Poets, devoted to injecting poetry into public and commercial spaces. His work has appeared in Fence, Cannibal, North American Review, Blue Fifth Review, Frogpond, Elixir, and Volt, among other places. Rooted in Boston, Stucky spends his life traveling, writing, and caring for the dead. He likes his whisky neat and his music dirty. He is developing the perfection of effort and is ever reading to serve you by word.

Lori Anderson Moseman founded the High Watermark Salo[o]n Chapbook Series after Federal Disaster #1649, a Delaware River flood. She runs Stockport Flats press. Her poetry books are Walking the Dead, Cultivating Excess, Persona and Temporary Bunk. Matthew Klane is founder and editor of Flim Forum Press. His new book is B_____ Meditations (Stockport Flats Press, 2008). Other recent work can be found in Absent, Otoliths, Open Letters Monthly and The New Chief Tongue. He currently lives and writes in Albany, New York. See: www.matthewklane.blogspot.com.

Kate Schapira lives in Providence, where she writes, teaches, and runs the Publicly Complex Reading Series. In addition to her own homemade titles, she’s the author of three chapbooks published by other people, most recently The Love of Freak Millways and Tango Wax (Cy Gist Press), and she just started working as a Writer in the Schools for first and second graders. *** The Pace University event has the following sources of information available. Blog http://handhomemade.wordpress.com/ Facebook http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=58213707652 http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128100530290 http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=53191129105