Drunken Boat: Launch Party, Issue #9

Drunken Boat, international online journal of the arts, launches its ninth issue on Mis/Translation and Poetics with a multimedia performance and reading.

Join Drunken Boat, international online journal of the arts, for a speciallaunch party to celebrate Issue#9, dedicated to the Panliterary Awards, Poetics and a Mis/Translation folio. Come experience writers and multimedia artists Sandra Beasley, Rand Richards Cooper, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Alena Hairston, Karla Kelsey, Steve Langan, Hermine Meinhard, Terese Svoboda, Peter Yumi and Jonathan Zalben perform new work.Free and Open to the Public!

Sandra Beasley won the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize for her book Theories of Falling, selected by Marie Howe. Her poems have appeared in SLATE, The Believer, 32 Poems, Barrow Street, Blackbird, and the 2005 Best New Poets.
She is an editor for The American Scholar in Washington, D.C.

Aaron Hamburger was awarded the Rome Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his short story collection The View from Stalin's Head (Random House, 2004), which was also nominated for a Violet Quill Award. His next book, a novel titled Faith for Beginners, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. His writing has appeared in Poets and Writers, The Village Voice, Tin House, Details, and Nerve. Currently he teaches creative writing at Columbia University.

Rand Richards Cooper is the author of The Last to Go and Big As Life. His fiction has appeared in Harper's, GQ, Esquire, and other magazines, and he has been Writer-in-Residence at Amherst and Emerson colleges. A film critic
for Commonweal and Travel Correspondent for Bon Appetit, Rand also writes acolumn about fatherhood, "Dad on a Lark," for Wondertime.com.

Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author of ten books including Broken Hallelujahs from BOA Editions. His whereabouts are currently unknown as heis traveling to find the White City.

Alena Hairston earned an MFA in English and Creative Writing from Brown University where she won the John Hawkes Memorial Prize for Fiction. Her recent work appears in Appalachian Heritage, ABZ Journal, and The
Encyclopedia Project. She has performed in various plays and was featured in Women Pharaohs for the Discovery Channel. She is a 2004 Poetry Fellow withthe Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and a 2007-2009 Cave Canem
Poetry Fellow. Her first collection, The Logan Topographies, won Persea Books' inaugural Lexi Rudnitsky Memorial Prize for Poetry. Alena is an EnglishInstructor at Solano College in Fairfield, Ca. She received tenure this year.

Poet Karla Kelsey (Drunken Boat # 8) and Multi-media artist Peter Yumi (Drunken Boat #9) live in Central Pennsylvania. They both currently share an obsession with the work of John Cage and Merce Cunningham; their
multimedia composition Listening Devices was created using Cage's mesostic poetic form.

Steve Langan is the author of a collection of poems, Freezing (New Issues,2001), and a chapbook, Notes on Exile & Other Poems (Backwaters, 2005). His poems are in recent issues of Beloit Poetry Journal, Octopus, Poetry, Salzburg Review, Tarpaulin Sky and Zoland Poetry. Langan teaches in the University of Nebraska MFA in Writing program.

Hermine Meinhard's book Bright Turquoise Umbrella, published by Tupelo Press, was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. The winner of the Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry Award, her poems have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Barrow Street, How2, Verse Daily,and many other journals. She teaches at NYU and the New York Writers Workshop at the Jewish Community Center Manhattan.

Terese Svoboda has published eleven books of prose and poetry including Black Glasses Like Clark Kent, winner of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and Pirate Talk or Mermelade forthcoming from Dzanc Press. The McGhee Professor in fiction at Davidson College spring 2008, she most recently taught poetry for the Summer Literary Seminars in Kenya.

Jonathan Zalben's music for film, theater, and television has been shown at Slamdance, SXSW, Tribeca, LA Film Festival, New York International FringeFestival, and Chicago Sketch Fest. His orchestral works have been
performed by the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra and the New York University Orchestra. Zalben holds a U.S. patent for a muffler design.