Celebrate the release of Charlotte Seley's debut poetry collection, The World is My Rival, published in July 2018 by Spuyten Duyvil Publishing (New York). Charlotte will be joined by friends and poets Mercedes Lucero, Courtney Faye Taylor, and Cassandra Gillig for a poetry reading, the fabulous unknown, and a party like however poets party.

POET BIOS:
CHARLOTTE SELEY is a writer and poet from the Hudson Valley region of New York, currently residing in Kansas City. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and her BA with a concentration in Creative Writing from Eugene Lang College of the New School for Liberal Arts. Her first collection of poetry, The World is My Rival, is on Spuyten Duyvil Publishing.

She served as the Editor-in-Chief and Poetry Editor of Redivider, and read poetry for Ploughshares, including their Emerging Writers Contest. She also used to manage the digital media and communications for the monthly reading series Mr. Hip Presents, located in Jamaica Plain, MA.

https://charlotteseley.com/
The World is My Rival: http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/the-world-is-my-rival.html

poem "Bright Red Bit" https://www.rattle.com/bright-red-bit-by-charlotte-seley/

poem "All of us are disappearing all the time": http://www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/charlotte-seley
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MERCEDES LUCERO is the author of Stereometry (Another New Calligraphy) and the chapbook In the Garden of Broken Things (Flutter Press). She is the winner of the Langston Hughes Creative Writing Award for Poetry. Her poems, stories, book reviews, and essays have appeared in New Orleans Review, Puerto del Sol, Fourteen Hills, Curbside Splendor, Paper Darts, The Chicago Tribune's Printers Row Journal, The Pinch, Heavy Feather Review, and Whitefish Review among others. She is a Glimmer Train "Short Fiction Award" Finalist and has received several Pushcart Prize nominations. She helps curate the Big Tent Reading Series held in Lawrence, KS and helped launch BLACK Lawrence, an arts collective that seeks to elevate the dialogue around the meaning of being a black artist and creating black art. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University and is a PhD candidate in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Kansas.

https://www.mercedeslucero.com/
Stereometry: http://www.anothernewcalligraphy.com/

In the Garden of Broken Things: https://flutterpress2009.blogspot.com/2016/10/new-release-in-garden-of-broken-things_13.html

poem "The Possible Causes of Your Suffering": http://www.paperdarts.org/literary-magazine/2017/3/22/the-possible-causes-of-your-suffering

creative non-fiction "From Where Do you Speak": https://www.puertodelsol.org/single-post/2017/12/15/PdS-Black-Voices-Series-Presents-MERCEDES-LUCERO
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COURTNEY FAYE TAYLOR is a graduate of the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program. She was awarded the 2017 "Discovery" / Boston Review Poetry Prize, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and The Hopwood Poetry Award from the University of Michigan. Her work appears or is forthcoming in TriQuarterly, Boston Review, Witness, and elsewhere.
Courtney is the Associate Poetry Editor of SLICE Magazine. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri and is at work on her first book.

https://courtneyfayetaylor.com/

poem "Brainstorm for central argument": http://bostonreview.net/poetry/courtney-faye-taylor-brainstorm-central-argument

poem: "Spamalot! New York City: August 31 2005": http://www.triquarterly.org/issues/issue-152/spamalot-new-york-city-august-31-2005

CASSANDRA GILLIG is a hell archivist and liturgical poet serving under the New Order of St. Agatha. She is a translator, with Anne Boyer, of the book Grenade in Mouth: Some Poems by Miyó Vestrini, forthcoming from Kenning Editions in Fall 2018. She plays music as Orlando Gillig.