Title of Event: Parthenon West Review and POOL
When: Saturday, May 17, 2008 7:30 PM
Location: Pegasus Books Downtown
Description: Join this Saturday as two exciting poetry journals join forces -POOL and Parthenon West Review. POOL's editors will be visiting from LosAngeles. Featured readers: Patty Seyburn, Judith Taylor, C.E. Perry, Dean Rader,Brian Komei Dempster, Jennifer K. Sweeney. Hosted by Parthenon West Review editors Chad Sweeney and David Holler.

Patty Seyburn has published two books of poems: Mechanical Cluster(2002) and Diasporadic (1998). She recently won the 2008 Green RosePrize for her manuscript Hilarity, which will be published by New Issuesin 2009. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including TheParis Review, New England Review, Field, Slate, Crazyhorse, Cutbank,Poetry East, Passages North, Seneca Review, Mudfish, and WesternHumanities Review. Seyburn is co-editor of POOL: A Journal of Poetry,based in Los Angeles. She is an assistant professor of English andCreative Writing at California State University, Long Beach.

Judith Taylor is the author of Selected Dreams from the Animal Kingdom(2003), and Curios (2000), as well as a chapbook, Burning, for which shereceived the Portlandia Prize. Her poetry has been published in TheAmerican Poetry Review, Poetry, Fence, Boston Review, The AntiochReview, Prairie Schooner, and many anthologies. She teaches literatureand writing classes in Los Angeles, and is the co-editor of POOL: AJournal of Poetry.

C. E. Perry graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1992 andDartmouth Medical School in 1999. Her work has been published inSouthern Review, Pool, Southeast Review, Dogwood and GSU Review. Herfirst book of poetry, Night Work, is forthcoming from Sarabande Press. She works at a community health center and lives in San Francisco withher family.

Dean Rader has published widely in the fields of poetry, Native Americanstudies, and visual culture. He is the author of two books, dozens ofarticles, essays, reviews, and poems. His most recent publicationsinclude a review in the San Francisco Chronicle, and Op-Ed Piece in theBay Area Newspapers Group, and poems in POOL, Connecticut River Review,Parthenon West Review, and the Colorado Review. Last year, he won firstprize in the Crab Creek Review contest. He is currently at work on acollection of poems entitled Works + Days.

Brian Komei Dempster's poems have appeared in such journals as NewEngland Review, North American Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner,and Quarterly West. His poetry has been anthologized in Language for aNew Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, & Beyond(2008), Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation (2004), and ScreamingMonkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images (2003). He is the recipientof grants from the Arts Foundation of Michigan and the San FranciscoArts Commission and editor of From Our Side of the Fence: Growing Up inAmerica's Concentration Camps (2001). He teaches at the University ofSan Francisco.

Jennifer K. Sweeney is a teacher and writer in San Francisco. She wonthe 2006 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award for Salt Memory. Her poetryhas been published or is forthcoming in: Hayden's Ferry Review, BarrowStreet, Passages North, Hunger Mountain, Puerto del Sol, RUNES,Subtropics, Water-Stone, and elsewhere. She was nominated for twoPushcart prizes in 2007 and recently won The Ledge Magazine's poetry prize.