Poetry Reading May 2009

Louis Armand was born in Sydney and since 1994 has lived in Prague. He is the author of two volumes of prose fiction and has authored and edited a dozen volumes of non-fiction, including Contemporary Poetics (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007). His poetry has appeared in Meanin, Sulfur, New York Quarterly, as well as The Best Australian Poems 2008 and the Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry. His most recent collections include Picture Primitive (2006), Strange Attractors (2003) and Malice in Underland (2003).

Christopher Crawford was born in Glasgow in 1974. He studied Mechanical and Offshore Engineering at Robert Gordon University after which he worked on various oil platforms and seismic vessels in the Gulf of Mexico where the harsh extremes influenced much of his work. He has been published in The Prague Revue and other literary journals, been invited to read his work at international poetry festivals and hosted a reading series in Prague for two years. He lives and works in Prague. 

Stephan Delbos is a New England-born poet living in Prague, where he teaches at the Anglo-American University and edits The Prague Revue. His poetry and essays have appeared internationally, most recently in Rain Taxi, Born Magazine, Poetry International, Zoland Poetry and various anthologies, including Against Agamemnon: Anti-War Poetry.

Willie Watson is originally from Des Moines, Iowa, USA. He has lived in New York City, Seattle and Los Angeles, as well as Israel, France (Paris), England (London) and Wales. He majored in linguistics and journalism. In addition to English, he speaks Czech, French, Spanish, and a little bit of a few other languages. He is the author of 5 books of poetry. "Tarot Poems," which will be available in hardback shortly, is the first to actually be published. The others are "Poems from Prague", "The Guru Kalehuru and Other Poems", "Four Syllables on Water" and "The Alchemist's Notebook". He has lived in Prague since 1998 and manages Watson's School of English.

R. Adriel Vasquez comes from the sticks sand dirt ocean cactus of South Texas. He has lived with his wife in Prague for almost three years. He is a writer and DJ, and studies Humanities, Society & Culture at Anglo-American University. He is currently at work on several projects.