5/19 Launch Party: Ava C. Cipri (feat. Ellis, Khoury, Cramer) @ Irma Freeman Center

6PM SATURDAY…

Join us for the launch of Ava Anne C. Cipri‘s LEAVING THE BURDENED GROUND (Stranded Oak Press 2018)!

Angele Ellis and Jill Khoury will open. Tattoo artist Jessi Sundell Cramer (Curiosity Shop) will sell artwork.

Coffee, light refreshments, and temporary cover-art tattoos provided! BYOB.

*Live-streamed on FB (Stranded Oak Press) + IG (@strandedoakpress)

Can’t make it? PRE-ORDER here: https://t.co/0QoBCSwjeH

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“LEAVING THE BURDENED GROUND is full of beautiful swerves and illuminating contradictions.” Chen Chen, author of WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE A LIST OF FURTHER POSSIBILITIES

“A fierce and loving book.” Jan Beatty, author of JACKKNIFE

“Her truth is written and the world is splitting open.” Jennifer Jackson Berry, author of THE FEEDER

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Formerly an editor for Salt Hill, AVA C. CIPRI is a poetry editor for The Deaf Poets Society: An Online Journal of Disability Literature & Art. She teaches writing at Duquesne University and is a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. Ava’s poetry appears or is forthcoming in Cimarron, decomP, Rust + Moth, Stirring’s Manticore: Hybrid Writing from Hybrid Identities anthology, and PROSODY: NPR-affliate WESA’s weekly show featuring the work of national writers. Her first chapbook, Queen of Swords, was published by dancing girl press (2018). She resides at: www.avaccipri.com and tweets at @AvaCCipri.

ANGELE ELLIS’s latest book is a hybrid valentine to her adopted city—Under the Kaufmann’s Clock: Fiction, Poems, and Photographs of Pittsburgh, with photos by Rebecca Clever (Six Gallery Press). She also is author of Spared (A Main Street Rag Editors’ Choice Chapbook), and Arab on Radar (Six Gallery), whose poems won her a fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. A longtime editor and community activist, Angele’s work has appeared in over seventy-five publications. She is a contributing editor of book and film reviews to Al Jadid Magazine.

JILL KHOURY is interested in the intersection of poetry, visual art, gender, and disability. She holds an MFA from The Ohio State University and edits Rogue Agent, a journal of embodied poetry and art. She has written two chapbooks—Borrowed Bodies (Pudding House, 2009) and Chance Operations (Paper Nautilus, 2016). Her debut full-length collection, Suites for the Modern Dancer, was released in 2016 from Sundress Publications. Find her on the web at jillkhoury.com.