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On the horizon

Forthcoming chronologically: Brenda Hillman, Geoffrey G. O'Brien, Graham Foust, Joanne Kyger, Marjorie Wellish, Robert Halpern and Taylor Brady, Rusty Morrison, Barbara Freeman, Elizabeth Robinson, Alli Warren, C.S. Giscombe, Rae Armantrout.

If any eager listeners happen upon bios or links about these poets please pass them along to akenower at gmail dot com.

Lyn Hejinian - BRL, McNally's Irish Pub - 3.29.08

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Lyn Hejinian is a poet, essayist, and translator; she was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and lives in Berkeley. Published collections of her writing include Writing is An Aid to Memory, My Life, Oxota: A Short Russian Novel, Leningrad (written in collaboration with Michael Davidson, Ron Silliman, and Barrett Watten), The Cell, The Cold of Poetry, and A Border Comedy; the University of California Press published a collection of her essays entitled The Language of Inquiry.

From 1976 - 1984, Hejinian was the editor of Tuumba Press and from 1981 to 1999 she was the co-editor (with Barrett Watten) of Poetics Journal. She is also the co-director (with Travis Ortiz) of Atelos, a literary project commissioning and publishing cross-genre work by poets. In the fall of 2000, she was elected the sixty-sixth Fellow of the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.

Tommorrow and Next

Saturday March 29th 7pm

Graham Foust
Lyn Hejinian
Brenda Hillman
Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Back Room Live @ Mc Nally's Irish Pub
5352 College Avenue Oakland

Celebrating the first printing of /Back Room Live/

* also look forward to collaborative work from Joshua Marie Wilkinson and Noah Eli Gordon.

Joshua Marie Wilkinson - Stephanie Young's House - 3.4.08

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Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of three books, and two more are forthcoming. He lives in Chicago and teaches at Loyola University.

Claire Becker - BRL, McNally's Irish Pub - 1.26.08

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Claire Becker's poems have appeared in Typo, Octopus, H-ngm-n, Tarpaulin Sky, the Cultural Society and elsewhere and are forthcoming in Forklift, Ohio.  Her chapbook Untoward was published by Lame House Press.  She lives in San Francisco and teaches Josh, Jot, Leo, Sam, and Travis at the California School for the Blind.

Lily Brown - BRL, McNally's Irish Pub - 1.26.08

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Lily Brown was born in Boston, MA and currently lives in San Francisco. She holds an MFA from Saint Mary's College of California and has poems out or forthcoming in Octopus, Typo, Fence, Coconut, Tarpaulin Sky, Cannibal and Handsome. Octopus Books published her chapbook, The Renaissance Sheet, in early 2007.

Monica de la Torre - Pegasus Books - 12.6.07

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Mónica de la Torre is a poet and translator based in New York. She is the author of the collection Talk Shows; co-author of Appendices, Illustrations & Notes; and with Michael Wiegers co-editor of Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature at Columbia University.

Garrett Caples - Pegasus Books - 12.6.07

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Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1972, Garrett Caples is a poet living in Oakland, CA. He is the author of The Garrett Caples Reader, er, um, and The Philistine's Guide to Hip Hop. He's published numerous essays, articles, and reviews, and currently writes on hip hop for the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

Susan Gevirtz - SPD Open House 12.1.07

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Susan Gevirtz’s book Thrall is just out from Post-Apollo Press. She teaches in the Visual Criticism Program at California School of the Arts.

C.S. Giscombe - SPD Open House - 12.1.07

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C. S. Giscombe just began teaching at UC Berkeley this fall. He is the author of several books of poetry and a memoir Into and Out of Dislocation. He received a prestigious Carl Sandburg Award for his first book Giscombe Road.