Ugly Duckling Presse Coach House Books Present: Ken Babstock, Corina Copp, Ben Fama and Sina Queyras

Join UDP and CHB for a reading and conversation with Ken Babstock, Corina Copp, Ben Fama, and Sina Queyras at Type Books Queen W. in Toronto! Kyle Buckley will host.

Griffin-winning Ken Babstock's fifth collection of poetry, On Malice, was published by Coach House Books in October 2014. In November 2014, he was named as the inaugural recipient of the Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize, a new, annual literary award given to a mid-career poet in recognition of a remarkable body of work, and in anticipation of future contributions to Canadian poetry. His poems have won Gold at the National Magazine Awards, have been anthologized in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland most recently in The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature in English and translated into Dutch, German, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, French, and Latvian. Babstock was previously the poetry editor for the House of Anansi Press and currently sits on the poetry board for McClelland & Stewart. He lives in Toronto: http://www.chbooks.com/catalogue/malice.

Corina Copp is a writer and theater artist based in New York. She is the author of the chapbooks ALL STOCK MUST GO Shit Valley Verlag, UK, Miracle Mare Trafficker Press, and Pro Magenta/Be Met Ugly Duckling Presse, among others. Her writing can be found in Cabinet, BOMB, Boston Review, Corrected Slogans: Reading and Writing Conceptualism Triple Canopy; SFMOMAs Open Space, and elsewhere. She is developing a three-part play entitled The Whole Tragedy of the Inability to Love, inspired by the successive forms of the work of Marguerite Duras. Excerpts have been presented at the NYC Prelude Festival, Dixon Place, and through the support of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Workspace program. She is a curator at the Segue Foundation and a 2014 NYFA Fellow. Read more about The Green Ray, her first full-length book: http://goo.gl/N1een7.

Ben Fama is the author of several chapbooks and pamphlets, including the artist book Mall Witch Wonder, Cool Memories Spork, Odalisque Bloof, and Aquarius Rising UDP. His writing has appeared in The Believer, Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, Jubilat, Lit and The Brooklyn Rail, among others. He is the co-founder of Wonder, and lives in New York City. Read more about his first full-length poetry collection, Fantasy UDP: http://goo.gl/0PToii.



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