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The Whenever We Feel Like It Reading Series is put on by Committee of Vigilance members Michelle Taransky and Emily Pettit. The Committee of Vigilance is a subdivision of Sleepy Lemur Quality Enterprises, which is the production division of The Meeteetzee Institute.

RYAN ECKES was born in Northeast Philadelphia in 1979. He is the author of Old News and Valu-Plus, both from Furniture Press. He wrote Old News from the spring of 2008 to the spring of 2009 in South Philadelphia, where he continues to reside. More of his poetry can be found in the book when i come here (Plan B Press, 2007), on his blog, ryaneckes.blogspot.com, and in various journals. Along with Stan Mir, he organizes the Chapter & Verse Reading Series. He works as an adjunct English professor at Temple University and other colleges.

CHRIS MCCREARY is the author of Undone: A Fakebook, and [ neüro / mäntic ], both from Furniture Press. He has written two other full-length collections, The Effacements (Singing Horse Press) and Dismembers (ixnay press), in addition to several chapbooks, including Sansom Agonistease(Potes & Poets Press). Along with his wife Jenn McCreary, he has co-edited ixnay press for over a decade, publishing numerous chapbooks, eight issues of ixnay magazine, and four installments of a “mini-anthology” entitled the ixnay reader. (Much of the press’s output is now available as free pdf files at ixnaypress.com.) Chris has reviewed fiction, poetry, and poetics for venues such as Rain Taxi, The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Review of Contemporary Fiction, and he has published his own short fiction in New Review of Literature and elsewhere. He holds an MA in Creative Writing from Temple University, and he teaches at a private high school outside of Philadelphia, where he lives with Jenn and their twin sons.