The first fall 2016 reading features three outstanding readers: Andrew S. Nicholson, Olivia Clare, and Michael Davidson.

Andrew S. Nicholson is the author of A Lamp Brighter than Foxfire (Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State 2015). He is an assistant professor-in-residence at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he was a Schaeffer Fellow in Poetry. His poetry has been anthologized in New Poetry from the Midwest (New American Press 2015), and he has been an artist-in-residence at the Palazzo Rindaldi in Noepoli, Italy.

Olivia Clare is the author of a book of poems, The 26-Hour Day (New Issues, 2015). She is also the author of a short story collection, Disasters in the First World, and a novel, both forthcoming from Grove Atlantic. Her awards include a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award (in fiction), the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship from Colgate University (in poetry), a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and fellowships from the Tin House Writers' Workshop and the MacDowell Colony. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Southern Review, London Magazine, FIELD, and elsewhere. Her stories have appeared in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014, Granta, Southern Review, n+1, Boston Review, Ecotone, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a master’s degree from the University of Southern California, and a PhD in Literature with Creative Dissertation from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she was a Black Mountain Institute Fellow. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas.

Michael Davidson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century (Cambridge U Press, 1989), Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word (U of California Press, 1997), Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics (U of Chicago, 2003). and Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body (U of Michigan, 2008). His most recent critical book, Outskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics was published in 2011 by Wesleyan University Press. He is the editor of The New Collected Poems of George Oppen (New Directions, 2002). He is the author of six books of poetry, the most recent of which is Bleed Through: New and Selected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2013). He is the co-author, with Lyn Hejinian, Barrett Watten, and Ron Silliman, of Leningrad (Mercury House Press, 1991). He has written extensively on disability issues, most recently “Hearing Things: The Scandal of Speech in Deaf Performance,” in Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities, Ed. Sharon Snyder, et al (Modern Language Association, 2002), “Phantom Limbs: Film Noir and the Disabled Body,” GLQ 9:1-2 (2003), Universal Design: The Work of Disability in an Age of Globalization, The Disability Studies Reader, ed. Lennard Davis (Routledge, 2010), and “Pregnant Men: Modernism, Disability, and Biofuturity in Djuna Barnes,” Novel 54.3 (Summer, 2010).

Please join us at Tiger Tiger! for drinks and food afterwards!