Memphis, TN. August 1977.

It’s our last reading of the season! Don’t miss these amazing poets. BE HERE. THERE WILL BE A PROJECTOR. DOUGLAS PICCINNINI was born in New York City in 1982. He has been awarded residencies by The Vermont Studio Center, Art Farm in Marquette, NE and, The Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia. In 2014, he was selected by Dorothea Lasky as a winner of the Summer Literary Seminars for Poetry. He is the author of Story Book: a novella, and a collection of poems, Blood Oboe.

CHRIS HOSEA was born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1973, and his first book of poems, Put Your Hands In, was selected by John Ashbery as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. His work as a visual artist includes Over Time Across Space, with Kim Bennett, which was the subject of a 2015 full-gallery exhibition at Transmitter in Brooklyn, New York. His poems have appeared in 6x6, The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Brooklyn Rail, Web Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, New American Review, Prelude, White Wall Review, and VOLT. He lives in Brooklyn. JONATHAN MAY grew up in Zimbabwe as the child of missionaries. He lives and teaches in Memphis, TN. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in [PANK], Superstition Review, Shark Reef, Duende, One, Winter Tangerine Review, and Rock & Sling. He’s recently translated the play Dreams by Günter Eich into English. Read more at http://memphisjon.wordpress.com/

I know, it has been too long. But believe me when I say that I have been enjoying a much needed siesta since the fantastic success of the first ever season of Impossible Language and am in the planning stages of season two. There will be more poems and art. Promise.

In the meantime, let’s take a...

Hawaii, 1968. Taken by my great-grandmother on vacation.

My mother took this in Israel in the late 70s.

Two recent pictures. Why not? You've seen my relatives, both long-gone and alive.

The first is from a museum party; the Jenny Holzer installation was broken, hence the face.

The second is me at school, teaching how different animals use their senses of smell.

I’m 30 today!

8/9/1976. Branson, Missouri.

This is me and my siblings at the Mzilikazi Arts and Culture Center in Zimbabwe. Circa 1990.

My grandmother. June 1957.

Israel, late 1970s. From my mother's kibbutz stay.