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Joanne Kyger - SPD Open House - 4.12.08

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Joanne Kyger has published more than twenty books of poetry and prose, including Going On: Selected Poems, 1958-1980 (1983) and Just Space: poems, 1979-1989 (1991). She has lived in Bolinas since 1968, where she has edited the local newspaper and done some occasional teaching at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

source: wikipedia

more at: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/kyger/

Catherine Meng & James Shea Tonight at Studio One, Oakland

"365 45th ST in Oakland
The cross is Broadway
The Bart is MacArthur
All readings start at 700pm"

Catherine Meng has lived in the Bay Area for the past 8 years. She works at a restaurant in Oakland. Her publications include the chapbooks: 15 Poems in Sets of 5 (Anchorite Press), Dokument (Petrichord Press), Lost Notebook w/ Letters to Deer (Dusie Kollectiv), and a full length collection, Tonight’s the Night (Apostrophe Books). She also co-edits the journal Mrs. Maybe with Lauren Levin and Jared Stanley. She went deep-sea fishing once and caught a haddock.

James Shea is the author of Star in the Eye, winner of the 2008 Fence Modern Poets Series. His poems have appeared in various journals, including American Letters and Commentary, Boston Review, Mrs. Maybe, and Verse. He currently teaches at Columbia College Chicago and DePaul University.

http://workingforthecity.blogspot.com/2009/03/special-off-night-reading-with.html

Ariana Reines - The (New) Reading Series - 3.15.09

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Ariana Reines is the author of The Cow (Alberta Prize, FenceBooks 2006) and Coeur de Lion (Mal-O-Mar 2007). Two volumes of translation will appear in 2009: My Heart Laid Bare by Charles Baudelaire, for Mal-O-Mar, and a collection of documents by Swiss prostitute and anarchist Griselidis Real, for Semiotext(e). She is working on a play, TELEPHONE, with The Foundry Theatre, derived from The Telephone Book by Avital Ronell. TELEPHONE will run February 12-28 at The Ohio Theatre in New York. In Spring 2009, Ariana will teach a class at UC Berkeley as Holloway Lecturer in Poetry.

source: goodreads