Action Books Tour

w/Valerie Hsiung, Jane Miller, and TC Tolbert

Wednesday, November 16, 2016
7pm (doors at 6:30)
outside in the courtyard

Poet, vocalist, and performer Valerie Hsiung is the author of three full-length poetry collections: e f g (exchange following and gene flow): a trilogy(Action Books, 2016), incantation inarticulate (O Balthazar Press, 2013), andunder your face (O Balthazar Press, 2013). Her writing can be found in places such as American Letters & Commentary, Cosmonauts Avenue, Denver Quarterly, New Delta Review, PEN Poetry Series, Prelude, RealPoetik, andVOLT, among elsewhere. Currently she serves as an editor for Poor Claudia.

A Visiting Poet at The University of Texas Michener Center, Jane Miller is the recipient of a Wallace Award for Poetry, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. She is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Thunderbird (Copper Canyon, 2013), Midnights (Saturnalia, 2008), A Palace of Pearls (Copper Canyon, 2005), and the forthcoming Who Is Trixie the Trasher? And Other Questions.

TC Tolbert often identifies as a trans and genderqueer feminist, collaborator, dancer, and poet but really s/he’s just a human in love with humans doing human things. The author of Gephyromania (Ahsahta Press, 2014) and 3 chapbooks, TC is also co-editor (along with Trace Peterson) of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2013). His favorite thing in the world is Compositional Improvisation (which is another way of saying being alive). www.tctolbert.com