Welcome to the Hypothetical Review Contributor Roundup, an occasional record of what our recent contributors are writing, publishing, reading and sharing around the web and across the world.
This month, we bring you updates from our Issue One poets, many of whom are tearing up the literary scene with new books, fresh publications, interviews and more.
Poet and illustrator V.B. Borjen will be our first Featured Contributor to take part in the HR Interview, coming up later this month. Visit Everything Else for an exclusive Q&A with the author to hear about his latest projects and passions.
Issue One contributor and Monthly Feature poet Teresa Mei Chuc is the author of the poetry collection Red Thread. She can be seen here reading her translation of “Giraffe” by Russian poet Nikolai Gumilev at the Rattle Reading Series earlier this summer.
Poet Cynthia Cruz honored us by reading at our Issue One celebration last month at KGB Bar in NYC. Learn more about her and her work by following her blog, or take a look at her conversation with Lisa Wells for The Rumpus, published last summer.
Zachary Schomburg is a writer, poet, publisher at Octopus Books and co-curator of the Bad Blood Reading Series in Portland, OR. His most recent book of poems is Fjords, Vol. 1, a selection from which was just published in Poetry Magazine. You can see him read in the flesh on October 14, 2013 at Poetry on Broadway at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts.
Lithuanian poet and translator Rimas Uzgiris does this neat thing called Poetry and Jazz, together with Issue One Celebration musical guest Daniel Bennett. Check it out: it’s pretty funky. While both of his contributions to HR are translations (from work by poets Paulius Norvila and Indré Valantinaité), Rimas also writes original poems and pieces about poetry, like this one from The Rumpus published last spring.
Nick Ripatrazone is the author of six books, two of which – This Darksome Burn and We Will Listen For You — are forthcoming in 2013. His works include poetry, fiction and literary criticism, and his primary writing and teaching interests range from Catholic literature to sports literature and contemporary American fiction. You can see Nick live in action at the LaSalle University in Philadelphia, PA on October 22, 2013.
And last but not least, poet and two-time Pushcart Prize nominee Michael T. Young brings his work to HR amidst a string of publishing successes that includes three books of poetry and a forthcoming piece in the anthology Rabbit Ears: TV Poems.
