Sunday, December 12, 3:00 p.m.

Barbara Henning, Rachel Levitsky & Adam Marston

@ DC Arts Center

Barbara Henning is the author of three novels, seven books of poetry and a series of  photo-poem pamphlets.  Her most recent books are a collection of poetry and prose, Cities & Memory (Chax Press 2010); a novel, Thirty Miles from Rosebud (BlazeVox 2009); and a collection of object-sonnets, My Autobiography (United Artists 2007).  Poems and stories have been published in many magazines, including Poetry International, Jacket Magazine, the Paris Review, Fiction International, Journal 1913, The Brooklyn Rail, The World, Talisman, Lingo, Shiny, Not Enough Night and Hanging Loose. In the 90's Barbara was the editor of Long News in the Short Century. Born in Detroit, she moved to New York City in the early eighties. She teaches American literature and creative writing courses for Long Island University and for Naropa University.  

Rachel Levitsky is the author of two collections of poetry: Neighbor (Ugly Duckling Presse) and Under the Sun (Futurepoem); and a novel: The Story of My Accident is Ours (forthcoming from Futurepoem).  Four of Levitsky's mini-essays on The Poetics of Confinement can be found online at the Poetry Project Web Blog.  She is the founder and co-curator of the feminist Belladonna Series (NYC) and teaches for Naropa University's Summer Writing Program, Bard Prison Initiative and Pratt Institute.  

Adam Marston is an undergraduate at George Mason University.  He's recently been or is forthcoming in Peacock Online Review, Everyday Genius, Poor Claudia, The Northville Review, and others.  He especially likes being warm.