The Rinky Dink Press and Tolsun Books combined reading will feature works from Eduardo Arce, Will Cordeiro, Shawnte Orion, David Pischke, Ben Pitts, and Cody Wilson. All titles associated with the readers are available from Rinky Dink Press and Tolsun Books.
Immediately following the joint reading with Rinky Dink Press and Tolsun Books, the two publishing houses will conduct an informative and fun editorial panel.
Cody Wilson teaches English in Arizona. He has an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. His chapbook, Nobody is Ever Missing, was published by Tolsun Books. Some of his work appears online at Juxtaprose, The Southampton Review, Juked, and Emrys.
Eduardo Arce is a high school educator and writer. He lives in Phoenix with his wife, Carmen, and his Pitbull, Ninja. Eduardo will often find inspiration for his work from his faith, the social climate, relationships, and anxiety. When he’s not working on his vocational responsibilities, he can be found enjoying an evening with his wife, having dinner with his friends, listening to stand-up comedy, or planning how to kill his players in their next Dungeons & Dragons session.
Will Cordeiro has work appearing or forthcoming in Best New Poets, Copper Nickel, DIAGRAM, Fourteen Hills, Nashville Review, Poetry Northwest, The Threepenny Review, Zone 3, and elsewhere. He has two chapbooks of short prose, “Never-never” (White Knuckle, 2017) and “Reveries and Opinions of Mr. Figure” (Rinky Dink press, 2016). He is also the co-editor of the small press Eggtooth Editions. He received his MFA and Ph.D. from Cornell
University. He lives in Flagstaff, where he teaches in the Honors College at Northern Arizona University.
Shawnte Orion has published two recent collections of poetry, The Existentialist Cookbook (NYQBooks) and Faithful as the Ground (Five Oaks Press). His poems have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Barrelhouse, New York Quarterly Georgetown Review and other literary journals. He has performed at bookstores, bars, universities, hair salons, museums, and laundromats.
David Pischke lives in Tolleson, Arizona with his wife, two boys, three dogs, and half a dozen chickens. He is an elementary school Art teacher, college English instructor, and co-founder of Tolsun Books. Ben Pitts lives in Peoria, Arizona where he is a High School English teacher. When he’s not reading or writing, most of his time is spent with his two daughters, Grace and Norah and his wife, Brianne.
Rosemarie Dombrowski is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Phoenix, AZ, the founding editor of Rinky Dink press, the co-founder and host of the Phoenix Poetry Series, and the curator of First Friday Poetry on Roosevelt Row. She is the recipient of five Pushcart nominations, an Arts Hero Award, the Carrie McCray Literary Award in Nonfiction, and a fellowship from the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics. Her collections include The Book of Emergencies, The Philosophy of Unclean Things, and The Cleavage Planes of Southwest Minerals [A Love Story], winner of the 2017 Split Rock Review chapbook competition. www.rdpoet.com
