Mark Yakich is the author of Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting
to Cross (National Poetry Series, Penguin 2004) and The Making of
Collateral Beauty (Snowbound Chapbook Award, Tupelo 2006). Mark's
forthcoming collection is entitled September 12. Visit Mark Yakich's website here. Also
featuring my poem Even the Authors Are Gentrified, the utter
destruction of a classic pop song that deserves it, and a journey with Ernest
Shackleton.
A recent graduate of USC, Evan Kilgore is a Washington transplant living in Los
Angeles. He is currently at work on a variety of book, film, and television
projects. His debut novel, Who is Shayla Hacker, a bizarre search for one girl,
will be published in June of 2007. The show also includes a couple of other
pieces and an appearance by dead soul star Barry White. See Evan Kilgore's
website here, his MySpace home here, and his Bleak House Books
page here.
This week's reader, Kim Bannerman, has written two novels, The Tattooed
Wolf and TheWolf of Gilsbury Cross. Her career has
spanned three continents, a handful of languages, and a Hugo nomination in
2006. More information about Kim's publications can be found at her website. The show also features a tragedy
of sorts, the song Multipolar, and my story Sod.