**Bird Dog
Bird Dog: A dog used to retrieve game birds. To follow a subject on interest with persistent attention. A scout . . .
Bird Dog was founded in 2002 by Sarah Mangold. It publishes innovative work from emerging and established writers with a focus on longer sequences, poetics, and visual work. Perfect-bound, every issue features hand-tipped illustrations and art.
*Performer Bios*
**Stephanie Carlin
Stephanie Carlin just released her second EP, “the Agony and Ecstasy of.” The CD, captivating the gut-wrenching loves and losses of the human heart, led to her first opportunity to reject a record contract, which involved: Tommy Hilfiger; an aging producer who, based on his awkward mohawk, was dying to be accepted by Hot Topic pre-teens; and participating in multiple slutty modeling shoots in exchange for tasteless ClearChannel marketing.
Carlin self-released her first EP at 16, which led to the formation of Long Island sensation Oliver Lankard. For a while, Oliver Lankard was four-piece band, then a seven-piece band, and even a ten-piece band, complete with a three-piece horn section and three doo-wop back-up vocalists. She managed the band while performing as lead vocalist and guitarist. Under her supervision, Oliver Lankard performed over 50 shows at notable venues like The Knitting Factory, Maxwell’s, and The Crazy Donkey. In their short time together, Oliver Lankard opened for The Hold Steady keyboardist Franz Nicolay and performed alongside Prentiss McNeil of legendary group The Drifters.
From violently chastising American democracy to glorifying spontaneous love, her original lyrics are as wildly inventive as her impulsive scat-singing. With influences ranging from Elliott Smith to Ella Fitzgerald, the clarity of her obscurity is quite fascinating.
**Kate Eichhorn
Kate Eichhorn is the author of Fond (BookThug) and the co-editor of Innovative Canadian Women’s Poetry and Poetics (Coach House Books). As a curator, she has worked with reading series and literary festivals to stage multidisciplinary collaborations between poets, visual artists, and composers. She is an assistant professor of culture and media studies at The New School.
**Sandy Florian
Sandy Florian is the author of four books—Telescope (Action Books) and The Tree of No (Action Books), and the forthcoming On Wonderland & Waste (Sidebrow Press) and Visible Stars (Elixir Press), as well as the chapbook 32 Pedals & 47 Stops (Tarpaulin Sky Press). She is the current writer in residence at the New College of Florida in Sarasota. You can visit her blog at the above link.
**Kate Greenstreet
Kate Greenstreet’s first book, case sensitive, was published by Ahsahta Press. Her second, The Last 4 Things, will be out from Ahsahta in September. This is why I hurt you, her most recent chapbook, is available from Lame House Press. New work is out or forthcoming in jubilat, Court Green, Hotel Amerika, Saltgrass, and Fence.
**Laura Sims
Laura Sims is the author of two books of poems: Practice, Restraint (winner of the 2005 Fence Books Alberta Prize), and Stranger (Fence Books). Her book reviews and essays have appeared in Boston Review, New England Review, Rain Taxi, and The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and she has recently published poems in the Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, CAB/NET, and Crayon. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing at Baruch College in Manhattan.
**Nico Vassilakis
Nico Vassilakis works in textual and visual poetry. He is a curator for the Subtext Reading Series in Seattle. His vispo videos have been shown in exhibits and festivals of innovative language arts. Nico’s recently published Text Loses Time is available from ManyPenny Press. Forthcoming from blazevox is Disparate Magnets and from blue lion books, Protracted Type, a collection of visual poetry.
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