A Reading Series of Apostate Youth
:: aged 35 and younger ::

Mitch Manning, Mary Kovaleski Byrnes, and Linwood Rumney
Tuesday, January 31st @ 7:00 pm
The Marliave, Downtown Crossing

Mitch Manning studied English and Classics at Suffolk University in Boston and Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic and currently attends the MFA program at UMass Boston. He is a co-founder of Suffolk University’s Classics program. His work has appeared in the Charles River Journal and The Open End.

Mary Kovaleski Byrnes is a lecturer in the First Year Writing Program at Emerson College, where she received her MFA in Creative Writing. Her poetry has been or is forthcoming in numerous literary journals, including Cimmaron, Poet Lore, the Squaw Valley Review, and Poets & Artists.

Linwood Rumney's poetry has appeared in Poetry Quarterly, Potomac Review, Carolina Quarterly, and Cold Mountain Review, among others. His reviews and interviews have appeared in Redivider, where he recently served as the poetry editor, and Cerise Press. The recipient of a 2010 emerging writers fellowship from the Writers’ Room of Boston and a grant from the St. Botolph Club Foundation, he currently lives in Boston, where he teaches writing.

Listen to past U35 readers (mp3):

Ailbhe Darcy has published poems in Ireland, Britain and the US, and writes critically for a number of publications including The Critical Flame, The Stinging Fly, and Verbal. She recently appeared as part of the prestigious Poetry Ireland Introductions Series. She has just embarked on a PhD in contemporary poetry at the University of Notre Dame. With Clodagh Moynan, she co-edits Moloch, an online journal of new Irish art and writing.

Mark Thomas Noonan is a poet, playwright, and musician from Ireland, now living in Atlanta, Georgia. Mark's plays have been produced in Dublin, Cork, and New York, and his poetry and other writing have appeared in numerous journals. He recently completed an MA in Ethnomusicology from University College Cork and now works for an independent folk music label.

Adam Fitzgerald is a graduate of the Columbia MFA program, editor at Monk Books, and editor of Maggy Poetry Magazine. His poems have appeared in several journals.

Liza Katz is a poet and translator whose work has appeared in The Critical Flame, Clarion, Exit 13, and North Central Review. She is at work on a book-length essay entitled Bridging the Gap between French and Francophone Literature.

Stephen Sturgeon is the editor of Fulcrum: an Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics. He is the author of Trees of the Twentieth Century (Dark Sky Books, March 2010) and a graduate of Boston University and SUNY Buffalo.

Joseph Spece is a graduate of the Columbia University MFA program and recipient of a 2009 Ruth Lilly Fellowship. His work has appeared in Poetry Magazine and elsewhere.

Nora Delaney is a poet, translator, and an editor at The Pen and Anvil Press. Her work has appeared in The Critical Flame, Jacket, Little Star, and elsewhere.

Michelle Robinson received her PhD from the American Studies program at Boston University, and is the author of The Life of a Hunter (Iowa).

James Stotts is a poet and translator of Russian writing between the wars. His poetry was featured in the first issue of Little Star, and he has a recent chapbook out from Pen and Anvil Press.

Janaka Stucky is the publisher of Black Ocean Press, poet and burlesque performance artist. He was voted The Boston Phoenix Boston's Best Poet in 2010, and his work has appeared in several journals and chapbooks.