Jill Magi, writer and visual artist, is the author of Torchwood (Shearsman 2008), Threads (Futurepoem 2007), and Cadastral Map (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs 2005). Her most recent projects of text and image include “SLOT/The Exhibitionary Complex”, an interrogation of memorials, museums, and monuments; “Compass & Hem”, a meditation on the body and social visibility/invisibility; and “Cadastral Map/The Meander”, a work about the American pastoral, and the specific histories of land use and public policy in Kentucky, New Jersey, and Vermont. She runs Sona Books. Kyle Schlesinger’s most recent book is Hello Helicopter and The Pink is forthcoming from Kenning Editions. He is the proprietor of Cuneiform Press and the editor of Mimeo Mimeo. He lives in Brooklyn.

Ben Boatright is originally from Sandersville, Georgia, not far from Athens. He studied visual arts and art history at Sarah Lawrence College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received his BFA in 2004. He concentrated mainly in sculpture and performance. Since graduating he has shown work and performed at small venues in Chicago and New York. Hans Kuzmich (born 1983, Russia) is a New York based interdisciplinary artist, whose recent projects include a series of speech-based performances and a public access discourse-show for BCAT/Rotunda Gallery. Exhibitions include University Settlement (New York), AS220 (Providence), video_dumbo (New York), Intermedia Arts (Minneapolis), RKL Gallery (New York), and Theater for the New City (New York). Kyle Kessler was born in New Orleans, LA. She received her B.F.A. in interdisciplinary art from the Cooper Union in 2005. Her evolving performative and project-based works have led her to off-spaces and subcultural DIY venues in New York and beyond.

Diana Hamilton introduced by Kim Rosenfield: Diana Hamilton is the editor of The Minetta Review and an intern at the Poetry Project. She has a Zoo, which can be viewed at forcefulfriendlyactivity.blogpsot.com. Other work is forthcoming at Mid Rib Poetry. Will Morris introduced by Todd Colby: Will Morris is a Brooklyn based English poet/performer. He publishes & distributes his own chapbooks, including the new Invisible Summer & performs his work around NYC as a member of the band White Trenches. sara wintz introduced by Rachel Levitsky: sara wintz is lead singer of the pretty panicks press, a small press printing compositions, articles, and artwork materials related to rock and roll music, and co publisher of :::the press gang:::, which prints work by established and emerging avant writers. her work has been published in shampoo, ecopoetics, cricket online review, and canwehaveourballback. Hannah Zeavin introduced by Mac Wellman: Hannah Zeavin’s forthcoming book, Two-way Transatlantic Radio Broadcast, is coming out on Hanging Loose Press/Scholastic in fall 2008. She’s the recipient of the Allen G. Ross Memorial Mentorship Award.

Please join us for our 3rd biennial Silent Art Auction Fundraiser! View work from established and emerging visual artists. Enjoy live performances and readings at the top of each hour on the Sanctuary stage. Shop for rare and signed books and printed matter. Purvey the activity from the (free) wine bar on the balcony, then outbid your friends and fellow enthusiasts on your favorite works of art. If you can’t make the party, please contact us at 212-674-0910 for information on proxy bidding. Every dollar earned will benefit the continuance of the Poetry Project! Performances by Richard Hell; Jeni Olin; Bruce Andrews and Sally Silvers; Franklin Bruno; Legends (Elizabeth Reddin, Raquel Vogl and James Loman) and more t.b.a. Participating artists and writers include: Yvonne Jacquette, Suzan Frecon, Pamela Lawton, Emilie Clark, Etel Adnan, Susan Bee, Star Black, Rackstraw Downes, Simone Fattal, Vincent Katz, Vivien Bittencourt, Beka Goedde, Brenda Iijima, George Schneeman, Anne Waldman, Erica Svec, Christopher Warrington, Zach Wollard, Bill Berkson, Andrei Codrescu, Maureen Owen, Michael Friedman, Yuko Otomo, Steve Dalachinsky, Stephen Rosenthal, Reg E. Gaines, Robert Creeley, James Franklin, Richard Hell, Emily XYZ, Ted Greenwald, Hal Saulson, Mimi Gross, Legs McNeil, Jennifer Osborne, Ken Mikolowski, Ron Padgett, Ed Ruscha, Will Yackulic, Jim Dine, Fielding Dawson, Donna Brook, Simon Pettet, Steve Carey, May Pang, Henry Edwards, Terry Southern, Michael Cooper, Mick Rock, Baron Wolman, Lee Friedlander, Eve Babitz, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Clark Coolidge, Alice Notley, Lewis Warsh, Bernadette Mayer, Peter Schjeldahl, Jennifer Montgomery, Richard O'Russa, David Abel, Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, Greg Fuchs, Alison Collins, Nate Ethier, Anne Tardos, KB Jones, Andrew Mister, Elizabeth Zechel, Patricia Spears Jones, Hannah Weiner, Ted Berrigan & Fairfield Porter, Alfred Leslie, Justin Theroux, Marc Andre Robinson, Veselovsky Pitts, Geoffrey Hendricks, Elizabeth Robinson & Fran Herndon, Karl Klingbiel, Oren Slor, Nick Piombino, Jack Collom, Erica Wessmann, Danny Fields, Kate Simon, Yoko Ono, Kiki Smith, Damien Hirst, Phong Bui, Basil King, Elizabeth Castagna & Edwin Torres, Debra Jenks, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Felver, Tony Fitzpatrick, Hank O'Neal, and more t.b.a. PLUS: bid on a tarot reading with CAConrad, bid to compose a collaborative poem with Ted Greenwald, bid on a hypnosis session with Maggie Dubris, and more otherworldly experiences!

Kate Colby is the author of Unbecoming Behavior, Fruitlands, and chapbooks from Anadama, A Rest, and Belladonna presses. Recent work can be found in Aufgabe, New American Writing, No: A Journal of the Arts, Vanitas and the Bay Poetics anthology. She grew up in Massachusetts and recently moved to Providence, RI after 11 years in San Francisco. Jibade-Khalil Huffman is the author of 19 Names For Our Band. His poetry and fiction have appeared in Canarium, 6X6, Boston Review, Court Green, NOON and Aufgabe, among others. He lives in New York.

Robert Kocik, poet, essayist, artist, architect, eleemosynary entrepreneur, lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he directs the Bureau of Material Behaviors. As a builder, his niche is the realization of unknown architectural functions and missing civic services. He is currently developing a building based on 'prosody' and poets' imagined relevance to our society. His essays comprise a nascent field known as the Sore, Oversensitive Sciences (SOS). His publications include: Overcoming Fitness (Autonomedia, 2001), and Rhrurbarb (Field Books, 2007). Joel Kuszai was born in Michigan during the Summer of Love (and riots). Since 1987, he has been the editor/publisher of more than one hundred small press publications, under the imprints of Meow Press and Factory School. In addition to poetry, he has written on anarchism and education, utopian public policy, and the history of student and resistance publications, especially in Detroit's tumultuous post-war period. Since 2005 he has curated the Southpaw Culture book series for the Factory School learning and production collective, which he co-founded in 2000. In 2007 he received a PSC-CUNY grant to edit the Fredy Perlman Reader, which will be published in 2008. He teaches writing and literature at Queens Community College.

Robin Coste Lewis writes poetry, essays and fiction. Her writing has appeared in various journals including The Pocket Myth Series (Orpheus and The Odyssey), the anthology Black Silk, and is forthcoming in The Encyclopedia Project. After graduating with a Masters of Theological Studies degree from the Divinity School at Harvard, where she concentrated in Sanskrit and African American Religious Literature, Lewis became the Cole Professor of Creative Writing at Wheaton College in Norton, MA. Later, she became an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Hampshire College. She is completing a poetry collection titled Pleasure & Understanding. Will Fabro is a graduate of the writing program at UC San Diego and has been previously published in Fresh Men, selected by Edmund White and edited by Donald Weise, and Userlands, edited by Dennis Cooper. His writing has also appeared in New York Press and the zine Cheese + Liquor. He curated and hosted the reading series This Is Not The New Minstrel Show, which showcased up-and-coming queer writers under thirty, and is co-editor of the upcoming anthology Cool Thing. Born in 1981 in Hollywood, he currently lives in Brooklyn.

The Project's annual poetry mag The Recluse is published every spring. The issue will feature work by Kimberly Lyons, Karen Weiser, Uche Nduka, Erik Anderson, Donna Brook, Peter Culley, Tonya Foster, Zhang Er, Alli Warren, Larry Price, John Coletti and more t.b.a. - some of these people will be present at this reclusive but not exclusive gathering.

Thomas Glave was born in the Bronx and grew up there and in Kingston, Jamaica. A graduate of Bowdoin College and Brown University, Glave traveled as a Fulbright Scholar to Jamaica, where he studied Jamaican historiography and Caribbean intellectual and literary traditions. While in Jamaica, Glave worked on issues of social justice, and helped found the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals, and Gays (J-FLAG). Glave is author of the essay collection Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent, nominated for a 2006 Publishing Triangle Gay Men’s Nonfiction Award and winner of a 2005 Lambda Literary Award. His fiction collection, Whose Song? and Other Stories, was nominated by the American Library Association for their “Best Gay/Lesbian Book of the Year” award and by the Quality Paperback Book Club for their Violet Quill/Best New Gay/Lesbian Fiction Award. His newest book of fiction, The Torturer’s Wife, will appear in fall 2008, following his edited anthology, Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles. The recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including an O. Henry Prize for fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Center in Provincetown, Glave was named a “Writer on the Verge” by The Village Voice in 2000. He presently teaches in the English department at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Rachel Levitsky: author of Under the Sun, poet who writes many sentences, currently reading Giorgio Agamben and modernist women poets. Politically and personally on the far left. Officially a feminist since 1982. Has a tendency to use handy quotes from Gertrude Stein. Neighbor, the second book, will be published in 2009 by Ugly Duckling Presse.

Cartharsis revels in the guilt and confusion of consumption for American culture. It offers a dream-like progression of visual poetry told through Bunraku style puppetry and the transcendence of an original pop music soundtrack. IMAGINATIONEXPLOSION is an experimental performance collaborative that creates hybrid works of puppet theater and fine art. I.E. was founded in 2004-05 after emerging from the Cooper Union School of Art, and has since produced over 8 original productions in NYC. Lea Marie Cetera is a New York City based artist. She received her B.F.A from the Cooper Union School of Art in 2005 and is the co-founder and co-director of IMAGINATIONEXPLOSION. As a solo artist, she has exhibited with John Connelly Presents, as IMAGINATIONEXPLOSION she has performed at venues such as Theater for the New City, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Galapagos Art Space, Zebulon Bar, and The Cooper Union in New York City. She is currently working on a feature-length movie. Amber Marsh has been associated with the art of puppetry her whole life and has also studied the fine arts. Amber graduated from Cooper Union School of Art in New York City, and interned with Modern Art Foundry. In Chicago, she has worked as special assistant to master puppeteer, Lolly Extract, in the fabrication and performance of puppets for; The Shedd Aquarium; Chicago Public Libraries; The Field Museum; Links Hall; and Hystopolis Productions. Amber has taught one-of-a-kind puppetry workshops for primary and intermediate grades with the Bronx Arts Ensemble, the Metropolitan Montessori School, and for three seasons with the Latin American Community Art Project in El Salvador. She is co-founder of IMAGINATIONEXPLOSION; entering into its fourth year of original productions.

Students of the Spring Workshops taught by Frank Lima, Vincent Katz, Lisa Jarnot and Jill Magi will present their work.

Elaine Equi's books include Voice-Over, which won the San Francisco State Poetry Award, The Cloud of Knowable Things, and most recently Ripple Effect: New & Selected Poems - all from Coffee House Press. Widely anthologized, her work appears in Postmodern American Poetry: a Norton Anthology and numerous editions of The Best American Poetry. She teaches at New York University and in the MFA Programs at The New School and City College. Douglas A. Martin is the author most recently of a poetry collection, In the Time of Assignments (Soft Skull, 2008). His prose works include Branwell, a novel of the Bronte brother, They Change the Subject, a book of stories, and Your Body Figured, an experimental narrative forthcoming in September from Nightboat Books. Outline of My Lover, Martin's first novel, was an International Book of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement and adapted in part by the Forsythe Company for their multimedia ballet/live film "Kammer/Kammer." He teaches writing at The New School University and in the Low-Residency MFA Writing Program at Goddard College.

All-stars from Friday Nights c. 2006-08 will gather, perform and be merry. Join us for feisty near-midnight reading and revelry; incorporate your finest hot weather cuisine. We'll dance this season away.