Saturday, April 18th, 2009

ChainLinks & Moles Not Molar
are delighted to be pairing up to present to you

a BOOK RELEASE PARTY & READING for Refuge/Refugee

at 4 pm
@ the Temple Gallery
located at 259 N. 3rd Street

Featuring Readings, Slide Shows, & Soundscapes

By EMILY ABENDROTH, AMZE EMMONS, and JENA OSMAN

More About the Book:

“By definition, a refuge is a safe place for those in danger, a nature refuge shelters wildlife from over-hunting and habitat loss, a refugee camp protects innocent civilians from perilous warring forces. But the closer one looks at these spaces of protection, the more permeable their borders, the more complex the acts of isolation they require. Refuge/Refugee includes a poetic essay on the paradoxes to be found at Lake Mattamuskeet Wildlife Refuge by Emily Abendroth, a discussion of the “border industrial complex” by Bryan Finoki, a visual examination of the architecture of crisis as found in refugee camps by Amze Emmons, and interviews of refugee teens conducted by The Documentary Project.”

& About the Afternoon's Presenters:

EMILY ABENDROTH is a writer and artist, alternately residing in the San Francisco Bay area and Philadelphia, where she co-curates the Moles not Molar Reading Series with poet Justin Audia. Recent work of hers can be found or is forthcoming in Digital Artifact, Encyclopedia, How2, Pocket Myths, horse less review, Eco-poetics, and Cut & Paint. Her chapbook, Toward Eadward Forward, was published by horse less press this past November. She is currently and ever-so-slowly piecing her way through some writings and thinking on solitary confinement practices in U.S. prisons.

AMZE EMMONS grew up in rural upstate New York. Since receiving his MFA in Print from the University of Iowa, he has lived in Brooklyn, Vermont, and Iowa City and currently can be found somewhere on I-476 commuting between his job in Allentown and his home in Philadelphia. His artwork has been exhibited at Aqua Miami, Scoula Internationale di Graphica (Venice), Works on Paper Gallery (Philadelphia), OH&T Gallery (Boston), The Des Moines Art Center, Wendy Cooper Gallery (Chicago), The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Palace of Arts in Belarus, The International Print Center of New York, The Philadelphia Print Center, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Fogg Museum at Harvard, and the Tama Art Museum in Tokyo. More of his work can be viewed at http://amzeemmons.com.

JENA OSMAN is a poet, editor, and scholar who lives in Philadelphia and teaches in the Creative Writing program at Temple University. Osman’s books of poetry include An Essay in Asterisks (Roof, 2004), The Character (Beacon, 1999) and Amblyopia (Avenue B, 1993). Her book The Network is forthcoming from Essay Press in fall 2009. With Juliana Spahr, she currently edits ChainLinks, a spinoff project of the journal Chain.