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Poets in Print

March 2016: Iliana Rocha and David Dodd Lee

Saturday, March 19, 2016

KBAC Gallery
7:00 p.m.

Iliana Rocha and David Dodd Lee with broadsides by Brett Colley and Margaret Reed.


Broadsides

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Lee by Colley

Poet: David Dodd Lee
Artist: Brett Colley
Poem: Suffering The Unattainable

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Rocha by Reed

Poet: Iliana Rocha
Artist: Margaret Reed
Poem: La Llorona as Andrea Yates

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Authors 

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David Dodd Lee

David Dodd Lee is the author of eight previous books of poems, including The Coldest Winter on Earth (Marick Press, 2012). His fourth book, Sky Booths in the Breath Somewhere, the Ashbery Erasure Poems (BlazeVox, 2010), taught him how to write the poems in his next books: The Nervous Filaments (Four Way Books, 2010) and Orphan, Indiana (University of Akron Press, 2010). He is the editor of two poetry / fiction anthologies: Shade 2004 & 2006 (Four Way Books) and The Other Life: the Selected Poems of Herbert Scott (Carnegie Mellon, 2010). His latest book of poems, Animalities, was published by Four Way Books in late 2014. His poems have appeared in Court Green, Denver Quarterly, Field, Jacket, The Nation, Nerve, and in many other places. He is also a visual artist, writes and publishes fiction, publishes chapbooks and full-length titles as editor-in-chief of 42 Miles Press, and teaches classes in poetry, publishing, art history, and the art of collage at Indiana University South Bend, where he is assistant professor of English. He lives in Osceola, east of South Bend, where he kayaks and fishes on Baugo Bay.

Iliana Rocha

Iliana Rocha is originally from Texas and is currently a PhD candidate in English-Creative Writing at Western Michigan University. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry from Arizona State University, where she was Poetry Editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review. Her work was chosen for the Best New Poets 2014 anthology and has previously appeared in Blackbird, Yalobusha Review, Puerto del Sol, and Third Coast. Her first book, Karankawa, won the 2014 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.