Date/Time
Date(s) - 4/24/2014
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Location
Suburbia

Hatchet Job was away from the cave for a few months, roaming the foothills, spear in hand, but now he’s returned to Brooklyn and poetry is going to need a new pelt.

Hatchet Job XXI is Eileen Myles, Brian Blanchfield, Todd Colby, and Farnoosh Fathi.

Eileen Myles is the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry,fiction, and nonfiction including, Snowflake / different streets, The Inferno, Sorry, Tree, Chelsea Girls, Not Me, and The Importance of Being Iceland. She has received a Guggenheim fellowship, a Warhol/Creative Capital art writers’ grant, and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She lives in New York.

Brian Blanchfield is the author of two books of poetry–Not Even Then (2004) and A Several World (2014)–as well as a collection of essays, in progress: Onesheets, a finalist for a 2013 Creative Capital Innovative Literature grant. His recent work has appeared in The Nation, Chicago Review, The Brooklyn Rail, A Public Space, Lana Turner, The Paris Review, Web Conjunctions, Guernica, The Awl, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. A poetry editor of Fence, he lives in Tucson.

Todd Colby has published five books of poetry: Ripsnort, Cush, Riot in the Charm Factory: New and Selected Writings, and Tremble & Shine, all published by Soft Skull Press. Flushing Meadows was published by Scary Topiary Press in 2013. Colby’s next book, Splash State, will be published by The Song Cave in 2014. He posts new work on gleefarm.blogspot.com.

Farnoosh Fathi is the author of Great Guns (Canarium Books, 2013). She’s the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Poetry Foundation, the Fulbright Program, and the MacDowell Colony, and her poems, translations, and prose have appeared in Boston Review, Fence, Everyday Genius, Poetry, Jacket2, and elsewhere. She just moved back to New York City.