Radical Poetry Reading with Buck Downs

Buck Downs curates the 90th Radical Poetry Reading with Leslie Bumstead, Heather Fuller, K. Lorraine Graham, and Rod Smith

In this talk

Buck Downs

Poet Buck Downs makes poetry stickers, postcards, voicemails, and other ephemera. Tachycardia: Poems 2010-2012 is available from Edge Books. A selected poems, Unintended Empire, was published by Furniture Press Books in 2017.

Leslie Bumstead

Poet Leslie Bumstead is the author of Cipher/Civilian (Edge Books). Her work has appeared in Not for Mothers Only, Boog City, Hotel Amerika, West Wind Review, and elsewhere. She teaches writing at RhizomeDC and in Maryland prisons.

Heather Fuller

Nurse and animal advocate Heather Fuller is the author of four poetry collections, including Dick Cheney’s Heart (Edge), and occasional plays, essays, stories, beer recipes, dress patterns and garden designs. She is part of a Baltimore hospital team that won a Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nursing for work during the COVID pandemic.

K. Lorraine Graham

Poet K. Lorraine Graham makes poems and texts that sometimes manifest as drawings, games and performances. She is the author of The Rest is Censored (Bloof Books), Terminal Humming (Edge Books), My Little Neoliberal Pony (Insert Blanc Press), and a little book of semiotic squares, forthcoming from Primary Writing.

Rod Smith

Poet Rod Smith is the author of Touché (Wave, 2015), Deed (U. Iowa,  2007), Music or Honesty (Roof, 2003), and The Good House (Spectacular Books, 2001) and others. He edits the journal Aerial, publishes Edge Books, and manages Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC.

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