The Blue Bus is pleased to present a poetry event featuring Melissa Buckheit, Eléna Rivera, Scott Thurston, on Tuesday 17th April, from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the sixty-second event in THE BLUE BUS series. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions). For future events in the series, please scroll down to the end of this message. Forthcoming events will include Marcus Slease, Lesley McKenna and Fran Lock (15th May), D S Marriott, Sarah Kelly and Robert Sheppard (19th June), and John Muckle and tba (17th July).

Melissa Buckheit is a poet, dancer, photographer, English Professor and Bodywork Therapist. She is the author of Noctilucent (Shearsman Books, 2012), Arc, a chapbook, (The Drunken Boat, 2007), and her poems, translations, photography, interviews and reviews have appeared in nth position, Blue Fifth Review, The Drunken Boat, Sinister Wisdom, Cutthroat, Bombay Gin, Pirene’s Fountain, A Trunk of Delirium, Spiral Orb, Shearsman Magazine, and Sonora Review. She translates the poet Ioulita Iliopoulou from Modern Greek, and her poetry has also been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. She holds an M.F.A. from Naropa University and a B.A. from Brandeis University. She has taught at University of Arizona, Pima College and SUVA. Melissa is the curator of Edge, a monthly reading series for emerging and younger writers at Casa Libre en la Solana in Tucson, AZ.

Scott Thurston lectures at the University of Salford where he runs a Masters in Innovative and Experimental Creative Writing. He co-runs The Other Room reading series in Manchester, edits The Radiator, a little magazine of poetics, and co-edits The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry with Robert Sheppard. He is the author of Hold, Momentum, Internal Rhyme, and Of Being Circular.

Eléna Rivera was born in Mexico City and spent her childhood in Paris, France. She is the author of Remembrance of Things Plastic (LRL-e Editions, 2010), Mistakes, Accidents and the Want of Liberty (Barque Press, 2006), The Perforated Map (Shearsman) and translator of Secret of Breath (Burning Deck Press, 2008) poems by Isabelle Baladine Howald. She won the 2010 Robert Fagles prize for her translation of The Rest of the Voyage by Bernard Noël, which will be published by Graywolf Press in November 2011. She was also awarded a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Translation, and a 2009 Fundacíon Valparaíso Poetry Residency in Mojácar, Spain.

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