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Trickhouse Live: An Integrative Arts and Performance Series
w/Sommer Browning, Noah Eli Gordon, and Amber Nelson

in·te·gra·tive adj \ˈ in-tə- ˌ grā-tiv\
combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole

Trickhouse Live is an integrative arts series that brings together people working with words, images, sounds, videos, and a variety of performances. The series serves as a venue for visiting artists to interact with local artists and for the borders between genres and mediums to be permeable. Trickhouse Live is a physical world extension of the online cross-genre arts journal, Trickhouse.org which is based in Tucson.

Sommer Browning is a poet, cartoonist and publisher living in Denver. Her book of poetry, Either Way I’m Celebrating is forthcoming from Birds, LLC in February 2011. She is the author of three chapbooks, The Bowling (Greying Ghost, 2010) with Brandon Shimoda, The House (Cannibal Books, 2009) and Vale Tudo (horse less press, 2008). She is co-founder and editor of Flying Guillotine Press, a handbound chapbook publisher. For over five years she hosted and curated The Multifarious Array, a poetry reading series in Brooklyn. She now co-curates The Bad Shadow Affair in Denver. Her poems and comics have appeared in Typo, Octopus, The New York Quarterly, word for/word, MiPoesias and elsewhere.

Noah Eli Gordon is the author of several books, including The Source (Futurepoem, 2011) and Novel Pictorial Noise (Harper Perennial, 2007), which was selected by John Ashbery for the National Poetry Series and subsequently chosen by Sesshu Foster for the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award. He’s the co-publisher of Letter Machine Editions and an Assistant Professor in the MFA program in Creative Writing at The University of Colorado–Boulder. Visit his PennSound page.

Amber Nelson lives, writes, and rides her bike in Seattle, Washington. She is the co-founder and poetry editor of alice blue review and alice blue books. She has two chapbooks forthcoming, Your Trouble is Ballooning (Publishing Genius), Diary of When Being With Friends Feels Like Watching TV (Slash Pine), and one chapbook available online This Ride is in Double Exposure (H-ngm-n).