Gurlesque: The New Grrly, Grotesque, Burlesque Poetics

LARA GLENUM is the author of The Hounds of No (2005) and Maximum Gaga (2008). With Josef Horacek, she translates twentieth-century Czech poetry, most recently the selected poems of the Czech poet Vladimir Holan, a project that has received a Fulbright Fellowship and an NEA Translation Award. She lives and teaches in Athens, Georgia, where she curates the VOX Emerging Writers Series. ARIELLE GREENBERG'S books include My Kafka Century (2005) and Given (2002), the chapbook Far(t)her Down: Song from the Allergy Trials (2003), and, with Rachel Zucker, Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts & Affections (2008). Her poems have been included in the 2004 and 2005 editions of Best American Poetry and a number of other anthologies, including Legitimate Dangers (2006), and she is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony fellowship and other awards. She is assistant professor of English at Columbia College Chicago.