* DONNA de la PERRIERE * EDWARD FOSTER * C.S. GISCOMBE * PAUL HOOVER * *
RACHEL LODEN * MIRANDA MELLIS * JARED STANLEY * and * AL YOUNG *
are all reading at the Bay Area Poetry Marathon on Saturday, August 29 at
7:00 p.m.
It should be an interesting night. If you come, please be sure to say hello!
Location:
The Lab
2948 16th Street (@ Capp)
San Francisco, CA
http://www.thelab.org/events/369-2009-poetry-marathon.html
* DONNA de la PERRIERE is the author of True Crime (Talisman House). Work is
forthcoming in Gender Outlaw, a book honoring the late kari edwards. The
recipient of a 2009 Fund for Poetry award, she teaches writing at CCA &
SFSU.
* EDWARD FOSTER's most recent book is Febra Alba, a selection of his poems
in Romanian translation. His selected poems were published in 2006. A new
collection, The Beginning of Sorrows, will be published this October.
* C.S. GISCOMBE's teaches at U.C. Berkeley. His recent poetry books are
Prairie Style and Giscome Road. Prairie Style won an American Book Award
from the Before Columbus Foundation; Giscome Road won the Carl Sandburg
Award.
* PAUL HOOVER's most recent poetry book is Sonnet 56 (Les Figues
Press)--book party to be held at Moe's on October 20. Other recent works
include Poems in Spanish, Edge and Fold, and translations of Holderlin and
Vietnamese poetry.
* RACHEL LODEN is the author of Dick of the Dead (Ahsahta Press) and Hotel
Imperium (Georgia). Recipient of a grant from the Fund for Poetry, her work
is forthcoming in the &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing.
* MIRANDA MELLIS is the author of The Revisionist (Calamari Press) and
Materialisms (Portable Press at Yo Yo Labs). Her various writing has
appeared variously including Tin House, Harper's, The Believer, Fence,
Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere.
* JARED STANLEY is the author of Book Made of Forest and three chapbooks,
including The Outer Bay. He co-edits Mrs. Maybe with Lauren Levin and
Catherine Meng. Recent work is in Mary, Zoland Poetry, and Big Bridge.
* AL YOUNG's 22 widely translated books include poetry, fiction and musical
memoirs. From 2005- 2008 he served as poet laureate of California. Other
honors include NEA, Fulbright, & Guggenheim Fellowships. The Sea, The Sky,
And You, And I, a poetry & jazz CD (featuring bassist Dan Robbins) came out
this year from Bardo Digital. Detailed information about this Berkeley-based
author may be found at www.alyoung.org
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