Poet Brian Blanchfield will read from his new collection, A Several World, with poet Alice Bolin, author of the chapbook Motel Diary.

BRIAN BLANCHFIELD is the author of two full-length books of poetry, Not Even Then (University of California Press) and, newly, A Several World (Nightboat Books), as well as a chapbook, The History of Ideas, 1973-2012 (Spork Press) and a collection of essays, Onesheets, forthcoming from Nightboat Books. His poetry and prose have appeared recently in The Nation, The Paris Review, Guernica, The Brooklyn Rail, Denver Quarterly, The Awl, and other publications. A poetry editor of Fence and the Richard Hugo Resident Writer and visiting poet at University of Montana from 2008 to 2011, he lives in Tucson, where he teaches at the University of Arizona.

Praise for Brian Blanchfield

"This clever, busy, anxious, flirtatious poet, with his 'predilections for predicaments,' can connect anything to anything else." -Stephen Burt, The New York Times Book Review

"The oneness of our physical and spiritual life has rarely been conveyed more accurately. Blanchfield is a talent to watch." --John Ashbery

ALICE BOLIN is a poet and nonfiction writer living in Los Angeles. Her poetry has appeared in Guernica, Washington Square, Blackbird, Hayden's Ferry Review, and many other journals. She contributes essays to publications including The Paris Review Daily, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New Yorker's blog. Her first poetry chapbook, MOTEL DIARY, was released by Poor Claudia in February 2014. She holds her MFA in creative writing from the University of Montana.

Praise for MOTEL DIARY:

This little book of uneasy meditations, sneaky injunctions, and creepy vignettes cannot be adequately synopsized; it works a mad alchemy on ordinary things--broken dishes, a matchbook, a bench--transforming them into spooky harbingers of nonspecific doom. Alice Bolin knows how to be funny, how to be lonely, and how to fill you up with delicious unease.
--J. Robert Lennon, author of PIECES FOR THE LEFT HAND and FAMILIAR