Sunday, May 14, 2006


Seanna Oakley (middle) was the proud winner of a Kuhl's apple crumb pie at Clean Part #4.

Saturday, May 13, 2006

For the fourth installment of The Clean Part Reading Series we are incredibly pleased to present Hadara Bar-Nadav, Dora Malech & Joshua Edwards reading thier poetry SaturdayMay 13th.



Bio: Hadara Bar-Nadav’s recent publications appear or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Chelsea, Indiana Review, The Journal, Quarterly West, TriQuarterly, Verse, and other journals. Her book of poems, A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight, was chosen by Kim Addonizio for the MARGIE First Book Prize and will be published in spring 2007. This summer, she'll be moving to MN where she'll be hanging out with monks and teaching creative writing.

Read some of her poems here, here and here.


Joshua Edwards edits The Canary with Anthony Robinson and Nick Twemlow. His poems appear in Crowd, Slate, The Tiny, GutCult, 3rd Bed, Colorado Review, 26, LIT, Skanky Possum, and elsewhere. He's spending this summer in trains, Chicago, and Oaxaca, Mexico.

Read his poems here, here, here and here.



Dora Malech is a poet and a visual artist who lives in Iowa City. She is currently the Glenn Schaeffer Poetry Fellow at the University of Iowa, and recently returned from teaching a poetry workshop at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. Her poems have recently appeared in American Letters & Commentary and the Black Warrior Review.

Read her poems here and here.

Monday, May 01, 2006