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Guillermo Castro’s work appears in The Brooklyn Rail, The Bellevue Literary Review, La Fovea, EOAGH, Nthposition, Lapetite Zine, Bloom, Barrow St, among others, and the anthologies This Full Green Hour, My Diva, Saints of Hysteria, and more. His translations of Olga Orozco, in collaboration with Ron Drummond, appear in Guernica, U.S. Latino Review and Visions. He lives in New York City and is a native of Argentina.

Ron Drummond’s Why I Kick at Night was a Portlandia Press Chapbook Competition winner. He has received writing fellowships from Ragdale Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Blue Mountain Center, and was one of the founding editors of Barrow Street. His work is represented in the Penguin textbook Literature as Meaning, the anthologies Poetry Nation, Poetry After 9/11, This New Breed, Latin Lovers and Saints of Hysteria, as well as in many literary journals. His translations, in collaboration with the charming and talented Guillermo Castro, have appeared in U.S. Latino Review, Terra Incognita and Guernica.

Gloria is a Brooklyn, NY born poet, visual artist, and member of the music group Kanipchen-Fit. Her poetry has been published in the E-publication Bent Pin Quarterly, and literary magazines A Gathering of the Tribes and LUNGFULL!, Interview, and Aloud, Nuyorican Poets Anthology among others. She has read and performed her work at KGB Bar, Galapagos Art Space, The Bowery Poetry Club, St. Marks Poetry Project, NY Open Center, Blue Stockings, The Drawing Center, and venues outside the U.S. She has been a professor for art at the School of Art + Design at SUNY Purchase, and The Cooper Union, School of Art and has taught poetry through residencies for Young Audiences/NY.

Drunken! Careening! Writers! is a monthly reading series dedicated to the proposition that readings should be: excellent, well-read pieces that have at least one thing in them that makes people laugh (nervous laughter counts), and don’t run more than 15 minutes each.