bkyn reading: june 2: wordsmiths at halcyon: 1 pm

Sunday
June 2, 2002 at 1:00 PM

bkyn, an online journal of the arts

presents a reading of poetry and short stories
by Thomas Sayers Ellis, John Keene, Thaddeus Rutkowski,
Eleni Sikelianos and Lisa Paul Streitfeld

Wordsmiths at Halcyon

Halcyon
227 Smith Street
between Butler and Douglass Streets
in Brooklyn (F train to Bergen)

about the authors:

Thomas Sayers Ellis, co-founder of The Dark Room Collective , earned his
MFA from Brown University and was a fellow at The Fine Art Work Center
in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He co-edited On the Verge: Emerging
Poets and Artists (New Cambridge Press, 1994) and is the author of The
Genuine Negro Hero (Kent State University Press (2001). Ellis lives in
Cleveland, Ohio, has a poem in The Best American Poetry 2001 , and two
illustrated poems forthcoming in Tin House . His poem Slow Fade to Black
appears on bkyn 2.0

John Keene is the author of Annotations. His most recent publications
include poems, essays, stories, interviews and translations in Fence,
Nocturnes, Mosaic, Poets & Poems, 110 Stories, and Harrington Gay Men's
Quarterly. He currently is working on a book with poet and artist
Christopher Stackhouse, and is teaching at Brown University. His poem
THE ORDERS (from Pariah) appears on bkyn 3.0

Thaddeus Rutkowski's novel, Roughhouse (Kaya Production), was a finalist
for the Members' Choice of the Asian American Literary Awards. His
stories have appeared in Fiction, American Letters & Commentary and
elsewhere. He teaches fiction writing at the Writers' Voice of the West
Side YMCA in New York. His short story Off with a Hitch appears on bkyn 3.0

Eleni Sikelianos is the author of The Book of Tendons, The Lover's
Numbers, and To Speak While Dreaming. She is the recipient of a National
Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two Gertrude Stein Awards for
Innovative American Writing, and a James D. Phelan Award. Sikelianos's
most recent book of poems is Earliest Worlds (Coffee House). She is
currently a Seeger Fellow writer in residence at Princeton University.
Her poem The Typical Hand appears on bkyn 2.0

Lisa Paul Streitfeld writes art and cultural criticism as well as
experimental fiction. Formerly a book reviewer and feature writer for
the Advocate weekly newspapers, she is now a regular reviewer for
Southern Connecticut Newspapers and contributes to a variety of art
magazines, including NY Arts, Sculpture and Art New England . She is
currently at work on an e-mail memoir about her adventures on the
cutting edge of New York's art world. Her short story Teasing The
Animals: Max Blagg's Chymical Journey appears on bkyn 3.0

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