June 2 Guests
JAMES KAELAN
James is the former web editor/co-founder of Flatmancrooked, a full-service, independent online and print publishing house established in 2008. He graduated with a BA in English & Creative Writing from the University of California, Davis. After that he earned his Fiction MFA at Boston University. He writes for The Sweet Science and Bedlam Magazine in LA. His first novel, Brute, is forthcoming in 2010. He is also the author of We’re Getting On, which is part of the Zero Emission Book Project. The first edition of We’re Getting On has birch seeds embedded in the cover, which means that if the novel is planted in the ground, it grows into a tree – thus offsetting its production emissions. The book tour was carbon-neutral as well. James not only forewent using any fossil-fueled vehicles by riding his bike 1,900 miles, he ate only organic, local produce.
LAURA HOPE-GILL
Laura moved to Asheville, NC, four times in her life and now knows it as home. The Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation named her its first poet laureate for her poems in The Soul Tree: Poems and Photographs of the Southern Appalachians. The next book, Look Up Asheville, is comprised of her writings about Asheville architecture with photographs by Michael Oppenheim, and she’s currently working on a book of poems to photos by Ian Young from Edinburgh. Laura is also the director of Asheville Wordfest. She says of her work, “This is part of my practice, part of my olan tikkun, repairing of the world. I have faith in poetry as a healing force, as well as a corrective one. It is a means of discourse which by its very nature strives for accommodation of paradox and inclusion of many parts, each maintaining its integrity. I wrote my Masters thesis about this and I haven’t seen the world the same way since.”
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JAMES KAELAN 916-276-9421
James is the former web editor/co-founder of Flatmancrooked, a full-service, independent online and print publishing house established in 2008. He graduated with a BA in English & Creative Writing from the University of California, Davis. After that he earned his Fiction MFA at Boston University. He writes for The Sweet Science and Bedlam Magazine in LA. His first novel, Brute, is forthcoming in 2010. He is also the author of We’re Getting On, which is part of the Zero Emission Book Project. The first edition of We’re Getting On has birch seeds embedded in the cover, which means that if the novel is planted in the ground, it grows into a tree – thus offsetting its production emissions. The book tour is carbon-neutral as well. James will not only forego using any fossil-fueled vehicles by riding his bike 1,900 miles, he’ll be eating only organic, local produce.
LAURA HOPE-GILL 828-681-5348
Laura moved to Asheville, NC, four times in her life and now knows it as home. The Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation named her its first poet laureate for her poems in The Soul Tree: Poems and Photographs of the Southern Appalachians. The next book, Look Up Asheville, is comprised of her writings about Asheville architecture with photographs by Michael Oppenheim, and she’s currently working on a book of poems to photos by Ian Young from Edinburgh.
Laura is also the director of Asheville Wordfest. She says of her work, “This is part of my practice, part of my olan tikkun, repairing of the world. I have faith in poetry as a healing force, as well as a corrective one. It is a means of discourse which by its very nature strives for accommodation of paradox and inclusion of many parts, each maintaining its integrity. I wrote my Masters thesis about this and I haven’t seen the world the same way since.”
