Tangent Reading this Saturday, 6/27: Cynthia Sailers, Dana Ward & Stephanie Young

Stephanie Young and Cynthia Sailers lift off from the East Bay to read with Cincinnati’s Rilke, Dana Ward, this Saturday in Portland for Tangent. The stars line up like this only sometimes—come see.

Tangent presents
SATURDAY, JUNE 27 at 7 PM
CYNTHIA SAILERS, DANA WARD & STEPHANIE YOUNG
Clinton Corner Café, 2633 SE 21st Ave. Portland, OR

CYNTHIA SAILERS is the author of the poetry collections Lake Systems (Tougher Disguises, 2004) and Rose Lungs (Atticus/Finch, 2004). She is writing a dissertation on perversion and group psychology. She is currently in private practice as a therapist in San Francisco and works at a publicly funded clinic in the Mission, where she leads a process group for women. She serves on the board for Small Press Traffic and is expecting a new book, Ladies of Leisure, in June from Cy Press.

DANA WARD is the author of a couple of books that just came out in 2009—Roseland (Editions Louis Wain) & the Drought (Open 24hrs). He lives in Cincinnati, edits Cy Press, & works as an advocate for adult literacy at the Over-the-Rhine Learning Center.

STEPHANIE YOUNG lives and works in Oakland. Her books of poetry are Picture Palace (in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni, 2008) and Telling the Future Off (Tougher Disguises, 2005). She edited Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006) and her most recent editorial project is Deep Oakland.