NOT MY PRESIDENT reading
Thoughtcrime Press and Angst
Gallery present
Poems and Stories from NOT MY
PRESIDENT: The Anthology of Dissent
Hosted by Thoughtcrime
Publisher/Editor Josh Gaines and Christopher Luna
6pm
Saturday, April 14
1015 Main Street
Vancouver, WA 98660
Featuring local writers from the
anthology: Gail Alexander, Sossity Chiricuzio, Christopher Luna, Elizabeth
Stansberry, Adam Strong, and Nathan Tompkins.
Thoughtcrime Press gathers voices
from around the world in NOT MY PRESIDENT, including National Book Award
winners, visual artists, New York Times Best Sellers, poets laureate,
singer-songwriters, high school students, and children of illegal immigrants, all
united in their opposition to the policies of Donald Trump. A copy of this book
has been sent to the Tweeter-In-Chief and to every member of the United States
Congress.
Order your copy of NOT MY
PRESIDENT here.
Thoughtcrime Press founder and
Captain Josh Gaines ditched a promising military career to write books, run a
profitless press, and build blanket forts with his daughter. He earned a
writing MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His fiction has been
published in Two Cities Review, Nebula Rift, and in London's, Dark Mountain.
His poetry appears in numerous anthologies and journals, most recently in Blue
Monday Review, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, and Yellow Chair Review, and in his
own books of poetry and flash fiction: Cigarette Sonatas, and little bones.
Josh is the editor of Not My President, the Anthology of Dissent and was the
2016 and 2017 Fiction Writer in Residence at Art Farm Nebraska.
Reader Bios:
Gail Alexander writes on a river in
Vancouver, WA. NOT MY PRESIDENT is her first publication.
Sossity Chiricuzio is a queer femme
outlaw poet, a working class crip storyteller. What her friends parents often
referred to as a bad influence, and possibly still do. A 2015 Lambda Fellow,
she writes as activism, connection, and survival, and is found in publications
like Adrienne, NANO fiction, Porkbelly Press, and Lunch Ticket, and in
anthologies like Not My President, The Remedy, and Glitter and Grit.
Christopher Luna served as Clark
County, WA’s first Poet Laureate from 2013-2017. He has an MFA from the Jack
Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and is the co-founder, with his wife,
Toni Partington, of Printed Matter Vancouver, an editing service and small
press for Northwest writers. He has hosted the popular Ghost Town Poetry Open
Mic in Vancouver, WA since 2004. Luna’s books include Brutal Glints of
Moonlight, GHOST TOWN, USA and The Flame Is Ours: The Letters of Stan Brakhage
and Michael McClure 1961-1978.
Elizabeth Stansberry has been
writing poetry for 3 decades. She graduated from Idaho State University with a
bachelor's degree in English. Miss
Stansberry has participated in Portland open mics and poetry slams since 2014.
Miss Stansberry has also been published in
Skyline Review, Oregon Artswatch, The Eclectic Muse and a Write Around
Portland Anthology, Mile Marker. She is
a secretary at Prosper Portland and does on call security at the Portland Art
Museum.
Adam Strong is a Digital Arts
teacher and the author of the novel Bella Vista. His work has appeared in
Nailed Magazine, The Gravity of the Thing, and in the anthology City of Weird.
He curates the reading series Songbook PDX. He writes and loves in Portland,
OR.
Nathan Tompkins is a writer living
just outside of Portland, though his heart will always be back in North Idaho. His
work has appeared in many publications including WindFall: A Journal of Poetry
of Place, Drunk Monkeys, and Anti-Heroin Chic. He's the author of five
chapbooks, the latest being Uncomfortable Adventures.