Bazaar Writers Salon

Readings by Peter Thomas Bullen, Grady Chambers, and Tess Taylor
Hosted by Peter Kline

Peter Thomas Bullen, hairdresser and co-founder of Peter Thomas Hair in Berkeley, began writing late, not just late in life, but also late at night. Later still he discovered that if you are standing in front of a room, holding text and trembling slightly, people will give you their attention. This made him happy. His work has appeared in sparkle & blink, eleven eleven, Red Light Lit, and the LA Review of Books. In October, his first chapbook, Wallflower, came out from Nomadic Press. He blogs at wetriedourbest.wordpress.com.

Grady Chambers was born and raised in Chicago. Poems of his have appeared in or are forthcoming from The Adroit Journal, Ninth Letter, Diode Poetry Journal, Barrow Street, Midwestern Gothic, and elsewhere. He lives in Oakland, and is a 2015-2017 Stegner Fellow at Stanford.

Tess Taylor’s chapbook, The Misremembered World, was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship. Her first book, The Forage House, was a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award. Her second book is Work & Days, which Stephen Burt called “our moment’s Georgic.” Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Boston Review, Harvard Review, The Times Literary Supplement, and other places. Taylor chairs the poetry committee of the National Book Critics Circle, is currently the on-air poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered, and was most recently visiting professor of English and creative writing at Whittier College. Taylor has received awards and fellowships from MacDowell, Headlands Center for the Arts, and The International Center for Jefferson Studies. Taylor recently was awarded a Fulbright US Scholar Award to study and lecture at Queen’s University Belfast, in Northern Ireland, for six months in 2017.