Friday, October 12th, 2007
at Nexus Gallery

located inside The Crane Arts Building at 1400 N. American St. (two blocks north of Girard Ave. between 2nd & 3rd streets)

Featuring
RAY HSU (Poet; Wisconsin)
LASKA JIMSEN (Film & Video Artist; Philadelphia)
DOROTHEA LASKY (Poet; Philadelphia)
MATHIAS SVALINA (Poet; Nebraska)

RAY HSU is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His first poetry collection, Anthropy, won the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Award and was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. He has published poems in The Walrus, New American Writing, and Fence. Hsu won a Humanities Exposed Evjue Research Award for establishing a creative writing community and GED tutoring program in a prison. He was featured in Heart of a Poet, a documentary series on the television network Bravo.

LASKA JIMSEN is a film and video maker who currently lives in Philadelphia. She works across nonfiction forms from videodocumentary to artisanal 16mm filmmaking and animation. Miss Rose Fletcher: A Natural History recently screened at the MadCat Women's International Film Festival as part of "A HandMade Tale," a program of experimental 16mm films. Laska teaches in the Film & Media Arts department at Temple University.

DOROTHEA LASKY was born in St. Louis, MO in 1978.  Her first full-length collection, AWE, has just come out this fall of from Wave Books.  She has authored several chapbooks and her poems have appeared in Crowd, 6x6, Boston Review, Delmar, Phoebe, Filter, Knock, Drill, Lungfull!, and Carve, among others.  Currently, she lives in Philadelphia, where she studies education and co-edits the Katalanche Press chapbook series. 

MATHIAS SVALINA lives in Lincoln, Nebraska where he co-curates The Clean Part Reading Series & teaches creative writing at Nebraska Wesleyan University.  He is the co-editor of Octopus Magazine & Octopus Books & the author of two chapbooks, Why I Am White from Kitchen Press & Creation Myths from New Michigan Press.