Peter Yumi

The Schoolhouse Gallery Presents
www.schoolhouseprovincetown.com
494 commercial street, provincetown,
ma. 02657
508.487.4800
FRI. SEPT. 4 2009
VIDEO PARTY curated by Mark Adams & Jen Bradley

Join Drunken Boat, international online journal of the arts, for a special
launch party to celebrate Issue#9, dedicated to the Panliterary Awards,
Poetics and a Mis/Translation folio. Come experience writers and multimedia
artists Sandra Beasley, Rand Richards Cooper, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Alena
Hairston, Karla Kelsey, Steve Langan, Hermine Meinhard, Terese Svoboda,
Peter Yumi and Jonathan Zalben perform new work.

Free and Open to the Public!

Featuring:

Sandra Beasley won the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize for her book Theories of
Falling, selected by Marie Howe. Her poems have appeared in SLATE, The
Believer, 32 Poems, Barrow Street, Blackbird, and the 2005 Best New Poets.
She is an editor for The American Scholar in Washington, D.C.
Aaron Hamburger was awarded the Rome Prize by the American Academy of Arts
and Letters for his short story collection The View from Stalin’s Head
(Random House, 2004), which was also nominated for a Violet Quill Award. His
next book, a novel titled Faith for Beginners, was nominated for a Lambda
Literary Award. His writing has appeared in Poets and Writers, The Village
Voice, Tin House, Details, and Nerve. Currently he teaches creative writing
at Columbia University.

Rand Richards Cooper is the author of The Last to Go and Big As Life. His
fiction has appeared in Harper¹s, GQ, Esquire, and other magazines, and he
has been Writer-in-Residence at Amherst and Emerson colleges. A film critic
for Commonweal and Travel Correspondent for Bon Appétit, Rand also writes a
column about fatherhood, ³Dad on a Lark,² for Wondertime.com.

Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author of ten books including Broken
Hallelujahs from BOA Editions. His whereabouts are currently unknown as he
is traveling to find the White City.

Alena Hairston earned an MFA in English and Creative Writing from Brown
University where she won the John Hawkes Memorial Prize for Fiction. Her
recent work appears in Appalachian Heritage, ABZ Journal, and The
Encyclopedia Project. She has performed in various plays and was featured in
Women Pharaohs for the Discovery Channel. She is a 2004 Poetry Fellow with
the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and a 2007-2009 Cave Canem Poetry
Fellow. Her first collection, The Logan Topographies, won Persea Books¹
inaugural Lexi Rudnitsky Memorial Prize for Poetry. Alena is an English
Instructor at Solano College in Fairfield, Ca. She received tenure this
year.

Aaron Hamburger was awarded the Rome Prize by the American Academy of Arts
and Letters for his short story collection The View from Stalin’s Head
(Random House, 2004), which was also nominated for a Violet Quill Award. His
next book, a novel titled Faith for Beginners, was nominated for a Lambda
Literary Award. His writing has appeared in Poets and Writers, The Village
Voice, Tin House, Details, and Nerve. Currently he teaches creative writing
at Columbia University.

Poet Karla Kelsey (Drunken Boat # and Multi-media artist Peter Yumi
(Drunken Boat #9) live in Central Pennsylvania. They both currently share an
obsession with the work of John Cage and Merce Cunningham; their multimedia
composition Listening Devices was created using Cage’s mesostic poetic form.
Rand Richards Cooper is the author of The Last to Go and Big As Life. His
fiction has appeared in Harper¹s, GQ, Esquire, and other magazines, and he
has been Writer-in-Residence at Amherst and Emerson colleges. A film critic
for Commonweal and Travel Correspondent for Bon Appétit, Rand also writes a
column about fatherhood, ³Dad on a Lark,² for Wondertime.com.

Steve Langan is the author of a collection of poems, Freezing (New Issues,
2001), and a chapbook, Notes on Exile & Other Poems (Backwaters, 2005). His
poems are in recent issues of Beloit Poetry Journal, Octopus, Poetry
Salzburg Review, Tarpaulin Sky and Zoland Poetry. Langan teaches in the
University of Nebraska MFA in Writing program.

Hermine Meinhard¹s book Bright Turquoise Umbrella, published by Tupelo
Press, was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America¹s Norma Farber First
Book Award. The winner of the Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry Award, her poems have
appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Barrow Street, How2, Verse
Daily,and many other journals. She teaches at NYU and the New York Writers
Workshop at the Jewish Community Center Manhattan.

Terese Svoboda has published eleven books of prose and poetry
including Black Glasses Like Clark Kent, winner of the Graywolf Nonfiction
Prize and Pirate Talk or Mermelade forthcoming from Dzanc Press. The
McGhee Professor in fiction at Davidson College spring 2008, she most
recently taught poetry for the Summer Literary Seminars in Kenya.

Jonathan Zalben’s music for film, theater, and television has been shown at
Slamdance, SXSW, Tribeca, LA Film Festival, New York International Fringe
Festival, and Chicago SketchFest. His orchestral works have been performed
by the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra and the New York University
Orchestra. Zalben holds a U.S. patent for a muffler design.