Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel, 최 Lindsay, + Lorraine Lupo

Please join us on Friday, May 5th @ 7:30 pm, for the release of Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel’s occident, featuring Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel, 최 Lindsay and Lorraine Lupo!

Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel’s work has appeared in VOLT, jubilat, The Volta, and The Offending Adam, and was recently featured in the Aesthetic Blitz exhibition from the Asian American Women Artists Association. Her first book, occident, is forthcoming from Called Back Books in 2017. She is managing editor at Omnidawn Publishing and editor of OmniVerse. Gillian also co-publishes speCt!, a chapbook series and book arts imprint, with Peter Burghardt and Robert Andrew Perez.

최 Lindsay is a diasporic Korean poet and a student at UC Berkeley, where they study literature and philosophy, and work as the managing editor of Berkeley Poetry Review. They were selected as a finalist in Omnidawn’s 2016 chapbook contest, and have poems published or forthcoming in HOLD: A Journal, The Felt, Omniverse, and Apogee’s print and online publications. They can be found on Twitter @chwelinji.

Lorraine Lupo is the author of By Way Of (Green Zone Editions). Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The New England Review, Fourteen Hills, The Art Book Review and Across The Margin, among others. She edits the Periodic Postcard series and lives in Oakland, Ca.