Brent CunninghamBrent Cunningham is a writer, publisher and visual artist currently living in Oakland with his fiancee and new daughter. His first book of poetry, BIRD & FOREST, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2005. After receiving his MA in English from SUY Buffalo in 1998, he began working for Small Press Distribution (SPD) in Berkeley, the nation's only not-for-profit distributor of literary books. He currently holds the position of Operations director. A board member of Small Press Traffic since 2001, he was a founding curator of SPT's "Poets Theater Jamboree," an annual ritual of amateur experimental theater. In 2005 he and Neil Alger founded Hooke Press, a chapbook press dedicated to publishing short runs of poetry, criticism, theory, writing and ephemera. Hooke has published five titles so far, with two more on the way, and can be found at hookepress.com. He is currently at work on his second book of poetry. His blog can be found at http: //brentcunningham.blogspot.com. Read More Read Less