Spring 2010 NANO Reading Series
The Editors of NANO Fiction are delighted to bring back a second season of the NANO Reading series at Kaboom Books. We have had a wonderful time organizing this season’s readers and can’t wait to see everyone again this spring.
The NANO Reading Series is held at Kaboom Books at the intersection of Houston Ave. and Bayland on the second Tuesday of every month at 7:30pm. As always, there will be commemorative chapbooks to celebrate the reading and refreshments will be served.
February 9th, 2010 7:30 pm
Readers: Laurie Clements Lambeth & Greg Oaks
Laurie Clements Lambeth’s debut poetry collection, Veil and Burn, was selected by Maxine Kumin for the 2006 National Poetry Series. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Mid-American Review, Indiana Review, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere, with poetry and nonfiction forthcoming in Seneca Review. Her work has been selected for two Houston Arts Alliance grants as well as UH’s Michener and Inprint fellowships. An MFA and PhD graduate of the University of Houston, she recently completed a residency at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and is at work on a book of creative nonfiction and her second book of poems.
Greg Oaks has an MFA in Fiction from Texas State University and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He has been published in the Gettysburg Review, the Cimarron Review, and other journals. He is a law school dropout and currently teaches Creative Writing at Lonestar College–Tomball.
March 9th, 2010 7:30pm
Readers: Nicholas T. Brown, Catlin Johnson, & Lisa Lee
Nicholas T. Brown lives (for the moment) in Houston, TX, where he dominates the local basketball courts with his dead-eye shooting and expert savvy. He also scribbles short stories from time to time. He has a dog named Seven and a cat named Mrs. Mia Wallace.
Caitlin Johnson is a graduate of the University of Houston with a degree in English Literature. She has poems scattered here and there, but if you google them, she will deny it all. She has applied to several graduate programs around the country, so keep your fingers crossed that she will go away some time soon.
Lisa Lee recently finished her MFA at the University of Houston. She received a B.A. in Music and English from U.C. Berkeley and a J.D. from Santa Clara University. She was the recipient of the Barthelme Fellowship in Fiction 2008, runner-up for the Diana P. Hobby Prize in Fiction 2009, and runner-up for the Barthelme Fellowship in Nonfiction 2009. Lisa’s work has appeared in Gulf Coast, The Tusculum Review, Pebble Lake Review, and Reed Magazine. She is the former Nonfiction Editor of Gulf Coast.
April 13th, 2010 7:30pm
Readers: Traci Matlock & Chris Stevens
Traci Matlock sporadically attends the University of Houston and was a recipient of the Howard Moss Poetry Prize. She studies both literature and art history but spends most of her time taking photographs.
Chris Stevens works between the functions of bartender and bibliophile, and appears sometimes as a doomsday optimist with pant hems that rise above his ankles. U of H possesses his B.A. in financial ransom and he is the recipient of the Bryan Lawrence Poetry Award.
May 11th, 2010 7:30pm
Readers: Peter Hyland & R.T. Castleberry
Peter B. Hyland is the author of the chapbook, Elegy to the Idea of a Child (Trilobite Press, 2009). His poems have appeared in New England Review, New South, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. He has been the recipient of a Krakow Poetry Seminar Travel Fellowship and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He is the development director, and an occassional workshop instructor at Inprint, a local nonprofit literary arts organization.
R.T. Castleberry is a widely published poet and social critic. An active participant in Houston poetry since the mid-70‘s, he was a co-founder of the Flying Dutchman Writers Troupe and co-editor/publisher of the monthly magazine Curbside Review. His work has appeared most recently in Comstock Review, The Alembic, Paterson Literary Review, Caveat Lector, Perigee, Silk Road and Argestes. He was a finalist for the 2008 Arts & Letters/Rumi Prize for Poetry. His chapbook, Arriving At The Riverside, is being published by Finishing Line Press in January, 2010.