Woodland Pattern™ |
 |
| Book Center
|
|
Small Press Focus Archive Albion Books Flood Editions Switchback Books Action Books Cultural Society Ahsahta Press |
|
||||||
|
Saturday, June 20, 2009, 2pm Gallery Talk (no cost) with Devin Johnston, Michael O'Leary, & Jeff Clark 7pm Reading 
Devin Johnston, Michael O'Leary, and Jeff Clark will discuss their work with Flood Editions, an independent publishing house. Their conversation will focus on the origins of the press, its editorial focus, and its design aesthetics. Established in 2001, Flood Editions is an independent publishing house for poetry and short fiction based in Chicago. They publish four or five titles each year, including first books, volumes by established writers, and reprints. Forthcoming books include Fanny Howe's novella What Did I Do Wrong?, William Wylie's As the Crow Flies, a book of photographs; and Graham Foust's A Mouth in California, a volume of poetry.
Jeff Clark was born in southern California in 1971. He went to Iowa for poetry, then moved to San Francisco and Oakland. Clark currently does book design as Quemadura, after eleven years with Oakland design studio Wilsted & Taylor. His own books are The Little Door Slides Back (Sun and Moon, 1997; reprint FSG, 2004), Music and Suicide (FSG, 2004), and 2A (Quemadura, 2006), written in collaboration with Geoffrey G. O'Brien. He lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan, with his partner, the poet Christine Hume, and their daughter, Juna Hume Clark. Michael O'Leary is the co-editor of Flood Editions and he works as a structural engineer in Chicago. Devin Johnston is the author of three books of poetry, including Sources (Turtle Point Press, 2008). Creaturely and Other Essays, reflections on the natural world, is forthcoming from Turtle Point Press in 2009. His book of criticism, Precipitations: Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice, appeared from Wesleyan University Press in 2002. With Michael O'Leary, he directs Flood Editions, an independent and nonprofit press for poetry. He teaches at Saint Louis University. |
