Kazim Ali read at an evening of poetry with Harriet Levin, hosted by the Julia L. Butterfield Library. He has poems forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Barrow Street, Jubilat, and Masachussetts Review. In January 2007 he joined the permanent faculty of the Stonecoast low-residency MFA program at the University of Southern Maine. His poems are featured on www.fishousepoems.org.

Kathleen Aguero's Essay, "Koan," was published in Why I'm Still Married (ed. Jean Trounstine and Karen Propp, Hudson St. Press). She read with other authors from that collection at Middlesex Community College in Lowell, MA, and at the Andover Book Store; and from her book Daughter Of at McIntyre and Moore in Somerville, MA.

Doug Anderson read with Brian Turner at Smith College. A chapter of his memoir, Don't Rub Your Eyes, appeared in the March 2005 Ploughshares. His AJB collection The Moon Reflected Fire is written about generously in Lorrie Goldensohn's Dismantling Glory: Soldier Poets of the Twentieth Century, published in 2005.

Catherine Barnett is the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship. She read at UC Irvine and in the Franklin &  Marshall Emerging Writers' Festival. Her poems recently appeared in the Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary Poetry.

Robin Becker's sixth book of poems, Domain of Perfect Affection, will be published in October 2006 from the University of Pittsburgh Press.

Carole Borges's poem "The Messenger" was in the January 2006 issue of Margin magazine.

Julie Carr will be reading at Small Press Traffic, at 1111 - 8th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, on May 18.

Cynthia Cruz has poems currently and forthcoming in Colorado Review and the Bellevue Literary Review. She read for the Bellevue Literary Review at the Bellevue Hospital Rotunda, NYC; at Sarah Lawrence College, New York; at the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Utah; and at the Guild Complex in Chicago, Illinois. She will be reading at Pete's Candy Store, at 709 Lorimer Street - Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211, on February 2 at 7:00 pm, with Joshua Weiner; in the Readings Between A & B Poetry Series, at the 11th Street Bar, 510 East 11 Street, New York, on March 5 at 7:30 pm, with Molly Peacock and Phillis Levin; at the Sixth Annual Emerging Writers Festival, at Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, April 11-13 at 7 p.m.; and at the Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 520 Eighth Ave., Ste. 2020, New York, NY, on April 26.

Christina Davis took part in the Freebird Reading Series in Brooklyn, New York, along with Miranda Field and Rynn Williams. Additionaly, signed copies of Christina's book are being featured at Three Lives Books in Greenwich Village, New York. She read at the Teachers & Writers Collaborative, NYC; and at the KGB Bar, NYC. She will be reading at The Last Word Bookshop, 220 S. 40th street on the University of Penn. campus, Philadelphia PA, on Friday May 11, 7:00 pm, call 215-386-7750 for details; and she will participate in a panel at AWP in Altanta, GA, February 28-March 3.

Deborah DeNicola's new chapbook, Inside Light, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press and will be available in September.

Xue Di has a new book, Zone, published in February 2006 by Yefief World Editions. His poetry has recently appeared in American Letters & Commentary, AGNI, Lit, Poetry International, The Drunken Boat, and Parthenon West Review.

Jeannine Dobbs has had poems recently accepted for publication in several journals, including the Mid-America Poetry Review, Pearl, and Albatross. Her poetry is also currently on ForPoetry.com. Her book Using the Board in the Language Classroom (Cambridge University Press, 2001) will be published this year in China in a bilingual edition.

B. H. Fairchild's Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (Norton, 2003) received the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress in 2005, given for the most distinguished book of poems published during the previous two years. In November, 2005, Sewanee Review awarded him the Aiken Taylor Prize for the body of his work, and also during that month Norton published Local Knowledge, a revised version of his second book, which had been originally published by Quarterly Review of Literature. He read at the 92nd Street Y in New York City and at Adephi University in Garden City, NY.

Sarah Gambito's new book, Delivered, will be published in January 2009 by Persea Books. Her poems are featured on www.fishousepoems.org.

Eric Gamalinda's new collection of poems, Amigo Warfare, is to be published by WordTech Communications in Spring 2007.

Dobby Gibson has poems forthcoming in Jubilat, American Poet, and Post Road. His feature story on fellow poet (and childhood next-door neighbor) Spencer Reece appeared in the April issue of Mpls.St.Paul magazine. He read at The Cincinatti Art Academy. His poems are featured on www.fishousepoems.org.

Matthea Harvey will be reading at the Dodge Poetry Festival, September 28 through October 1, in Stanhope, New Jersey. Her poems are featured on www.fishousepoems.org.

Janet Kaplan was a 2005 recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, a $7,000 grant. Poems from Dreamlife of a Philanthropist, her manuscript of prose poetry and prose sonnets, have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Rattapallax, CUE: A Journal of Prose Poetry, Crazyhorse, Sentence, and 5 AM. She read at Dakar in Brooklyn and at El Instituto Cervantes in Manhattan, and is currently at work on a collection of essays and short fiction, tentatively titled The Desire of the Line.

Claudia Keelan will read in the Poets Out Loud series at Fordham University, 113 W. 60th Street (at Columbus), 12th Floor Lounge, New York, NY, on February 5th at 7:00 pm.

Nancy Lagomarsino was a guest of the Just Buffalo Literary Center and White Pine Press in December, 2005, for a week of readings in and around Buffalo. She read from her Alzheimer's memoir, Light from an Eclipse, and also from her two Alice James titles, The Secretary Parables and Sleep Handbook. Since the memoir's publication last spring, she has read in New Hampshire and Vermont, most recently at the Dartmouth Bookstore in Hanover, NH, where she lives.

Ruth Lepson read for PEN in Cambridge, and read her poems in Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory of Music, accompanied by improvisations by jazz musicians. A saxophonist is currently writing some pieces of music influenced by her poems.

Lesle Lewis will be reading at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference's "Writing and Teaching Poetry" panel, Buffalo, NY, on April 12, 2008, at 5:00-6:15 pm; at Windham Wines, 30 and 36 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, on May 1, 2008,; and at The Renaissance Center, University of Mass., 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, on May 10, 2008.

Margaret Lloyd's book, A Moment in the Field: Voices from Arthurian Legend, has been published by Plinth Books (July, 2006).

Sabra Loomis taught at the Joiner Center, U. Mass/Boston in June 2006, and was at the Virginia Center for a month in late summer. During the past year she gave several readings in Ireland, including a benefit for Cyphers magazine at the Strokestown Poetry Festival, and a reading with Eiléan Ni Chuilleanain at Poetry Ireland. Poems have appeared recently in Cyphers, Lumina, Heliotrope and St. Ann's Review. Her newest manuscript, currently titled House Held Together by Winds, was a finalist for the 2004 National Poetry Series.

Alessandra Lynch had three poems in the January/February issue of The American Poetry Review. She also has a poem in The Laurel Review's winter 2006 issue. She read her poetry with Nancy McCabe at the Bottleworks Ethnic Arts Center in Johnstown, PA.

Anne Marie Macari will be reading at The Bitter End on September 10, 5:00 pm, on 147 Bleecker Street, New York City, with Jean Valentine and Frannie Lindsay; at the Dodge Poetry Festival, September 28 through October 1, in Stanhope, New Jersey; at Smith College, Stoddard Auditorium, Northampton, MA, on November 14, 7:30 pm; and at Brookdale Community College, 765 Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, NJ, on December 7, 7:00 pm. Her poems are featured on www.fishousepoems.org.

Sarah Manguso's new book, Siste Viator, was published in April 2006 by Four Way Books. Her poems are featured on www.fishousepoems.org.

Adrien Matejka has essays forthcoming in Callaloo and Painted Bride Quarterly, and poems forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review. He read for the Windfall Reading Series at the Eugene Public Library in Oregon. His poems are featured on www.fishousepoems.org.

Suzanne Matson's novel, The Tree-Sitter, was published in February 2006 by W. W. Norton.  She read at Boston College, Newtonville Books (Newton, MA), Charles Wright Academy, the University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA), the University of Washington Bookstore (Seattle, WA), the University of Oregon (Eugene, OR), Powell's Books (Portland, OR), and Portland State University (Portland, OR). She also recently had three poems published in Kestrel.

Richard McCann's Mother of Sorrows received the 2005 John C. Zacharis Award from Ploughshares Magazine; it was named one of the Top 50 Books of 2005 by Amazon. He also won the Reader's Digest Fellowship for Distinguished Writers from Yaddo. In 2006 he taught at the Bear River Writers' Conference in Michigan; at the Indiana University Writers' Conference, in Bloomington, IN; and at the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program, in Provincetown, MA. He will be going to Ireland for a month, with fellowships from Heinrich Boll Foundation (Co. Mayo, Ireland) and Tyrone Guthrie Centre for the Arts (Co. Monaghan, Ireland).

April Ossmann will be reading at Books Etc., 38 Exchange Street, Portland, Maine, on Saturday, April 13, 2008, at 2:00 pm; at Glickman Library (USM), 314 Forest Avenue, Portland, Maine, on Tuesday, April 29, 2008, at 6:00 pm; at Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, Maine, on Wednesday, April 30, 2008, at 12:15 pm; at Kingdom Books, 283 East Village Road, Waterford, Vermont, on Saturday, July 12, 2008, at 11:00 am; and at Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz, CA, on Tuesday, October 14, 2008, at 7:30pm, with Laurel Blossom, $3 donation suggested, presented by Poetry Santa Cruz. Her poems are featured on www.fishousepoems.org.

Donald Revell read at the Salt Lake City Main Library, in Utah.

Willa Schneberg will have a poem in the forthcoming The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection from St. Martin's Press. Calyx Books released her new poetry collection, Storytelling in Cambodia (September 2006). She will be reading from her new book at Oregorn Jewish Museum, 310 NM Davis St., Portland, OR on Novmeber 16, 7:30 pm; at Elliot Bay Book Co., 101 South Main St., Seattle, WA on November 19, 2:00 pm; and at Eastwind Books, 2066 University Ave., Berkeley, CA on January 13, 4:00 pm.

Lisa Sewell's new book, Name Withheld, was published by Four Way Books (April 2006). She has poems appearing or forthcoming in Laurel Review, Denver Quarterly, and Third Coast. She is co-editor of American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics, which will be published by Wesleyan University Press in Fall 2006. She recently read at the Bowery Poetry Club, NYC. She will be reading at the Inverse Reading Series, Bubble House, 3404 Sansom St., Philadelphia, PA on January 16, 7:30 pm; and at Blacksmith House, 56 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA on February 12, 8:00 pm.

Sue Standing will be reading at The Brookline Poetry Series, Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St., Brookline, MA, on April 4, 2008 with Kevin Bowen.

Adrienne Su read from her new collection, Sanctuary, at the Wildwood Literary Festival, Harrisburg Area Community College in Harrisburg, PA. She read at the Center for New Words in Cambridge, MA; and at Shippensburg University in Shippensburg, PA.

Cole Swensen is the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship. She will be reading at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, on February 8; at Moe’s Books in Berkeley, CA, on February 19; at The University of Pittsburgh, PA, on April 5; at Prairie Lights Book in Iowa City, Iowa, on April 17; at the University of Chicago, in Chicago, IL on April 19-20; at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, France, on May 24; and the International Poets’ Conference in Coimbra, Portugal, on May 26.

Mary Szybist read at the Alumni Room, Knox College, with Jerry Harp; and at Mississippi Studios, in Portland, OR, with Paul Collins and Marian Pierce

Brian Turner read from Here, Bullet at the University of Southern Maine's Glickman Family Library and also led a poetry writing workshop in Portland. He will be reading at the Dodge Poetry Festival in Stanhope, New Jersey, September 28 through October 1; at Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Mass., on October 3; at The Putney School, Putney, Vermont on October 4; at the Brattleboro Literary Festival in Brattleboro, Vermont, on October 6-7; at the University of Oregon, in Eugene, OR on October 20; and the Reading and Central School Project at the University of Arizona in Tuscon, AZ, on October 26-27.

Tom Thompson will be reading at KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street, NYC, on October 30, 7:00 pm, with Christina Davis.

Ellen Doré Watson read at Book People in Austin, TX; participated in several panels at the AWP Annual Conference; read at the Guthrie Center in Great Barrington, MA, with Anne Waldman; and taught and read at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. She has a new book, This Sharpening, published by Tupelo Press (May 2006). She will be reading at the Collected Poets Series, Mocha Maya’s Coffee House, 47 Bridge Street, Shelburne Falls, MA, on February 7, 2008, with Kimberley Rogers. Phone number 413-625-6292.

Suzanne Wise had four poems published in the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande, 2006). She read in honor of the anthology in New York City with Erica Bernheim, Timothy Donnelly and Mark Bibbins. A review of the anthology, appearing in the San Francisco Chronicle, made mention of her work, quoting eight lines of a poem from The Kingdom of the Subjunctive published by Alice James Books.

Jon Woodward organized an Alice James Books Benefit Concert in New York City, featuring pianist Oni Buchanan.