Anthony McCann, Mark Doten, Jeremy Schmall, Justin Taylor

*The Agriculture Reader *is pleased to present one of our favorite poets, Anthony McCann. He will be joined by *Ag.Re. *editors Jeremy Schmall and Justin Taylor, and fiction contributor Mark Edmund Doten. Pleasure will bemanifold, but seating is limited.



Anthony McCann was born and raised in the Hudson Valley. He is the author of *Moongarden *(Wave Books, 2006) and *Father of Noise *(Fence Books,2003). In addition to these two collections, he is one of the authorsof *Gentle Reader! *(2007), a book of erasures of the English Romantics, along with Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer. He has taught English as a SecondLanguage in the former Czechoslovakia, South Korea and Nicaragua, as well asin New York City. Currently he lives in Los Angeles and teaches poetry at CalArts and ESL to immigrants. He is also the ceremonial and acting poetlaureate of Machine Project, an art-performance-gallery-instructional spacein the Echo Park section of LA.

Mark Edmund Doten is enrolled in Columbia University's MFA writing program.His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Exquisite Corpse, New YorkMagazine, The Agriculture Reader, 2river, Word Riot, Mudlark, The Potomac and Dennis Cooper's "Userlands: New Fiction Writers from the BloggingUnderground" (Akashic Books). His interviews with Scott Heim, Brian Evenson, Rick Moody and Edmund White have appeared in various Internet publications.

Jeremy Schmall is the editor and founder of *The Agriculture Reader*, asmall-run, handmade art journal, and the author of a chapbook, *Underneathan Obnoxious Moon*, and an artist book, *The Slapdown*. He's been published in *Hotel St. George, Pilot, Juked, *and *Forklift, OH: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety*. He lives in Brooklyn.

Justin Taylor is the editor of *The Apocalypse Reader,* and *Come Back, Donald Barthelme*. His writing has been published by NPR, Paste, YETI, and numerous other journals, magazines and websites. His essay "Fort Smith,Arkansas: A Monologue" was an honorable mention in Best American Essays2007. His short story "The Jealousy of Angels" is forthcoming in Best ofthe Web 2008 With Jeremy Schmall, he co-edits *The Agriculture Reader. *http://www.justindtaylor.net/