Observable Readings

February Reading

Thursday, February 05, 2009 at 08:00 PM: Jeff Hamilton, Stephanie Shlaifer & Scott McKelvie

Delmar Revisited: The former Delmar Magazine will revisit with editors and featured poets Jeff Hamilton, Stephanie Schlaifer and Scott McKelvie.

Jeff Hamilton is a Lecturer in English at Washington University. His poems and essays have appeared in Jacket, Fence, The Laurel Review, Phoebe, Lvng, and The Denver Quarterly. In 2001 he received his Ph.D. at Washington
University with a dissertation on Robert Duncan and Laura Riding. He also received an MFA in poetry from The University of Iowa's Writers Workshop. With Scott McKelvie he co-founded Delmar magazine, and
edited several of its issues.

Scott McKelvie is a founding editor of Delmar, with Jeff Hamilton, and continued to serve in various editorial and administrative functions throughout the life of the journal. He was general editor of Delmar 3 (1992), poetry
editor for Delmar 7 (1999), and assisted in some capacity with several other issues as well. His poems appeared in Delmar 2 (1990) and Delmar 4 (1993); his essay, "Rooting for the Great Unknowable: Baseball and the
Transcendental Experience" appeared in Delmar 5 (1995). Scott graduated from Washington University in 1982 with a bachelor’s degree in English. He received his Masters degree from UM-St. Louis in 1988, where he has
taught composition full-time since 1991.

Originally from Atlanta, Stephanie E. Schlaifer is an artist and freelance  editor in St. Louis, Missouri. Her work has appeared in Delmar, Fence, and The Wilson Quarterly. She is a combative Boggler and compulsive baker; it
is rumored that two men once arm-wrestled each other to death for the last slice of her pecan pie. Stephanie is currently working on a series of children's books in verse.