Book Release Party + Event - Clip 1
Friday, October 20, 2023
UNF Gallery of Art 2-1001
6:30pm
Celebrate the publication of Jessica Q. Stark’s poetry collection Buffalo Girl, featuring readings by Stark, Katherine Sánchez Espano, Lauren Hunter.
Hosts: Dorsey Craft Olbrich + Keith Cartwright
Video/Lighting Design: Maureen McCluskey
Student Producers: Molly Asmussem and Christine Vu
More about our readers:
Katherine Sánchez Espano is the author of the poetry collection The Sky’s Dustbin, winner of the Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award, and the novel The Infinity Bloom. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Copper Nickel, The Massachusetts Review, Southern Indiana Review, The Pinch, Lake Effect, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Florida and teaches creative writing at the University of North Florida.
Lauren Hunter is a poet, editor and educator living in Durham, North Carolina. She received her MFA in poetry from The New School and is the managing editor for the experimental translation press Telephone. Lauren is the co-founder/curator of Electric Pumas, an occasional reading series/web presence interested in promoting multimedia art by women. Her chapbook, My Own Fires, was released by Brothel Books in 2011. Her first book, Human Achievements (Birds, LLC), was published in 2017.
Jessica Q. Stark is the author of Buffalo Girl (BOA Editions, April 2023), Savage Pageant (Birds, LLC, 2020) and four poetry chapbooks, including INNANET (The Offending Adam, 2021). Her poetry has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Poetry, Poetry Society of America, Pleiades, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Carolina Quarterly, Poetry Daily, wildness, The Boiler, The Southeast Review, Verse Daily, Tupelo Quarterly, Potluck, and for the Glass Poetry Journal: Poets Resist series. She co-organizes the Dreamboat Reading Series with Dorsey Craft in Jacksonville, Florida and she received her PhD in English from Duke University. She teaches poetry as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of North Florida.
