[audio:http://nolafugeespress.com/AUDIO/NOLA-BOOKFAIR-2011/MARK-YAKICH.mp3]

Press Play to hear Mark Yakich read from “Checking Out” (Checking In/Checking Out, NO Press 2011)

 

Mark Yakich is an associate professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans. He is the author of Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross (National Poetry Series, Penguin 2004), The Making of Collateral Beauty (Snowbound Chapbook Award, Tupelo 2006), Green Zone New Orleans (Press Street 2008), The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine (Penguin 2008), and Checking In/Checking Out (NO Books). With Christopher Schaberg, he is also co-founder and co-editor of airplanereading.org, a new media project that aims to rejunvenate airplane reading. Mark’s writing and research interests include poetry and politics, experimental poetics, and art and writing. For spring 2012, he will be a Fulbright Fellow in Portugal.