Poetry Reading: Anna Vitale and Daniel Owen

Anna Vitale is the author of Detroit Detroit, Different Worlds, and the forthcoming pamphlet Our Rimbaud Mask (Ugly Duckling Presse). She is also the author of several chapbooks including Unknown Pleasures and Anna Vitale's Pop Poems. Recent poems and prose have appeared in Alienocene, Columbia Poetry Review, Full Stop, and Jacket2. She earned an MFA from Bard and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She hosts the Tenderness Junction on WFMU in Jersey City and teaches writing in New York.

Daniel Owen is the author of Toot Sweet (United Artists Books, 2015), Restaurant Samsara (Furniture Press Books, 2018), and the chapbook Authentic Other Landscape (Diez, 2013). His translation of Afrizal Malna’s Document Shredding Machine is forthcoming from Reading Sideways Press. His writing has appeared in The Recluse, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, The Fanzine, Vestiges, and elsewhere. He is a member of the Ugly Duckling Presse editorial collective.