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Aster to Daylily Reading and Release Party

Jay Besemer’s most recent poetry collections are A New Territory Sought and Aster to Daylily.  As Jen Besemer, he also authored Telephone and Object with Man’s Face (a book of collage-poems in the form of a deck of cards).  To find out more, visit www.jenbesemer.com.

In addition to Jay, Cean Gamalinda and Adrienne Dodt will also be reading:

Cean Gamalinda is a 6-year-old bag of Original-flavored Lays left out on the kitchen counter. Why have you left him on a kitchen counter for 6 years? His book Crowthoughts is not forthcoming from anywhere because it does not exist because Cean is a bag of potato chips. He rots in Chicago.

Adrienne Dodt is a poet, essayist, and amateur photographer. Adrienne’s work can be found in Fact-Simile, Apothecary, Con/Crescent, and Monkey Puzzle magazines, and, most recently, in the anthology Body Electric. Ze is a regular contributor to Spoon River Poetry Review blog. Ze was the Poetry Editor for Bombay Gin magazine in 2008-2009, and ze edited the Next Objectivists’ chapbook Collective Unconsciousnesses in 2011. Adrienne currently teaches English at City Colleges of Chicago.