A Poetry showcase from Death Rattle and Vegetarian Alcoholic Press featuring poet Travis Tate! Hear poets with recent books released with Vegetarian Alcoholic and poets published in Oroboro and from past festivals together in a truly fantastic line-up. You won’t want to miss this.
September 18 6pm Mountain Time Online
On featured poet: Travis Tate is a queer, black playwright, poet and performer from Austin, Texas. Their poetry has appeared in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Underblong, Mr. Ma’am, Resevoir, and upcoming in the Shade Journal and apt, among others. They were a finalist for the Cosmonauts Avenue 2018 Poetry Prize.
MAIDEN navigates holy themes of longing and purpose with adventurous instinct, applying steady tone to vibrant images of the complex intensity that is existence. travis leads an expedition to the most human places of the divine, removing the shame from sin and affirming its innocence. Get your copy of MAIDEN here!
Meet the readers: Haolun Xu was born in Nanning, China. He immigrated to the United States in 1999. He was raised in central New Jersey and studied Political Science and English at Rutgers University. Read some of his excellent work in Oroboro Vol. 3 here !
Leonora Simonovis is a bilingual writer who grew up in Caracas, Venezuela, and currently lives in San Diego, CA, where she teaches Latin American literature and creative writing (in Spanish) at the University of San Diego. She has an MFA from Antioch University, Los Angeles, and is a contributing editor for Drizzle Review, where I highlight the works of underrepresented authors. Her chapbook manuscript, Waiting for a Ripe Mango, was a finalist for the Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Contest (2019) and her work has appeared or is forthcoming from Gargoyle, Diode Poetry Journal, The Rumpus, Arkansas International, Inverted Syntax, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Kenyon Review blog, among others.
Kelsey Marie Harris is a gardener, artist, poet, and pessimist; in no particular order. She has two chapbooks, “The Jolly Queef” and “Bury Your Horses,” as well as a full length poetry book, “Spit (verb) in my mouth” published by Vegetarian Alcoholic Press. She also self published a chapbook, “Sex Wound.” Kelsey is a Bonk! Volunteer, and editor for Really Serious Literature. She is also 2020’s Racine Writer In Residence. Her poetry is fueled by anxiety, self loathing, and chronic over-thinking. She has been published in The Rust Mil, TLDR, Horror Sleaze Trash, Forklift Ohio, and Dreginald. Pre-order your copy of “Spit (verb) in my mouth” here!
Crista Siglin moved to Berlin, Germany in 2017 after having grown up in Greenfield, Iowa. She was awarded a BFA in Painting and Creative Writing from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2015. Her work varies in medium — oscillating between painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, assemblage, and poetry. She explores the body and the mind’s relationship to environment, trauma, time, and phantasmagoria. She enjoys chasing ghosts, playing with other people’s food, and making her way slowly but surely through the Criterion Collection with her cat, Apollo. Her poetry has been published in Sprung Formal, KCAI’s Compendium, Not Sorry Zine, Retrograde Craft, Likewise Magazine, A Spartan Anthology and Desolate Country: We the Poets, United, Against Trump. Siglin released her first book of poetry, Fleeting, Sacred with Spartan Press in 2015. Crista is currently a poetry editor for SAND Journal Berlin, and runs Poetry As__A Workshop. Her second book of poetry, Unpleasable Nature, was released in July of 2020 by Vegetarian Alcoholic Press.
Christine Taylor resides in her hometown Plainfield, New Jersey. She is the EIC of Kissing Dynamite: A Journal of Poetry and the author of The Queen City (Broken Sleep Books, 2019), Petal (Bone & Ink Press, 2020), CLAW: A Collection of Haibun (Ghost City Press, 2020), and Buffer Zone: Snapshots from an Abortion Clinic Escort (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2020). Right now, she’s probably covered in cat hair and drinking a martini. Visit her at www.christinetayloronline.com.
