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MacGregor Card | Karen Weiser | Sean Casey
Saturday | February 13 | 8 pm.

The Old Firehouse | 7 Sugarloaf | S. Deerfield

Karen Weiser’s first full length collection of poetry, entitled To Light Out, is due out from Ugly Duckling Presse any minute now. It is a companion volume to MacGregor Card’s first book (see below.) Her chapbooks include “Pitching Woo” (Cy Press, 2006), “Heads Up Fever Pile” (Belladonna, 2005), “Placefullness” (Ugly Duckling Press, 2004) and “Eight Positive Trees” (Pressed Wafer, 2002). Some recent poems have appeared in the journals Aufgabe and Tight. Weiser lives in New York City where she is a doctoral candidate writing about early American novels in the post-revolutionary period.

Macgregor Card is a poet, translator and bibliographer livi ng in Queens. His first book, Duties of an English Foreign Secretary is just out from Fence Books, and is a companion volume to Karen Weiser’s To Light Out. New work is forthcoming in The Equalizer #1 (March 2010), and recent work is featured on Inknode and the Poetry Project. With Oliver Brossard he is editing an anthology of New York School poets, for simultaneous publication in English and French translation. He is currently translating Philippe Beck and Pascal Poyet from the French, and (with Megan Ewing) Uljana Wolf from the German. From 1996-2007 he co-edited The Germ: a journal of poetic research with Andrew Maxwell. He teaches poetry at Pratt Institute (Brooklyn), and works for the MLA Bibliography.

Sean Casey has work forthcoming in McSweeney’s, Columbia Journal, Invisible Ear, and The Lifted Brow. He runs The Chuckwagon , a small press which published two of 2009’s Schoen Books of the Year, Ben Hersey’s This Is What We’re Up Against and Jono Tosch’s Under Sea. For more of his work, visit www.seantcasey.com.