Two Poets Read Thursday

FELIX:

A SERIES OF NEW WRITING

presents:

ACTION POETRY:

JOYELLE McSWEENEY

& JOHANNES GÖRANSSON

Thursday, March 12^th at 4:30 P.M.

Room 126 Memorial Library

Joyelle McSweeney is the author of The Commandrine and Other Poems (Fence 2004) and The Red Bird, which inaugurated the Fence Modern Poets Series in 2002. She is also the author of two hybrid novels: Nylund, the Sarcographer (2007), a baroque noir from Tarpaulin Sky Press; and Flet (2007), a science fiction from Fence. With Johannes Göransson, she is also the co-founder and co-editor of Action Books, a poetry and translation press, and Action, Yes, a web-quarterly for international writing and hybrid forms. She writes regular reviews for the Constant Critic, Rain Taxi, and the Boston Review. She teaches in the MFA Program at Notre Dame.

Johannes Göransson is the co-editor of Action Books and Action, Yes. He is the author of two collections of poetry, A New Quarantine Will Take My Place (Apostrophe Books, 2007) and Pilot (Natträngslighet) (Fairy Tale Review, 2008). He was born and grew up outside of Lund, Sweden, but has lived in the US for the past twenty years. A translator of Swedish poetry, he has translated Remainland: Selected Poems of Aase Berg (Action Books, 2005) and Ideals Clearance by Henry Parland (Ugly Duckling, 2007).

The Felix series is dedicated to providing an audience for new writing, and to highlighting the publication of the independent press. Felix readings are FREE and open to the public.