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Jean Day - Condensery - 8.28.11

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Jean Day has published seven books of poetry, including Enthusiasm: Odes & Otium (Adventures in Poetry, 2006) and the chapbook Daydream (The Eponym) (Belladonna, 2008). Recent poems from her current project, Late Human, have been published in Try and Cambridge Literary Review, and earlier work has appeared in a variety of venues, most recently in The Sienese Shredder, Zoland Poetry, and Mir (in French).

photo: Isaiah Rapko

Corina Copp - Condensery - 8.28.11

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Corina Copp  is a poet and playwright living in Brooklyn, New York. She is most recently the author of Pro Magenta/Be Met (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011). Her poetry and criticism include writing on Yvonne Rainer, Jean Day, and Hannah Weiner, and can be found in CLOCK, Boston Review, BOMB, Cambridge Literary Review, Supermachine, Wild Orchids, The Brooklyn Rail, and other journals; and will be anthologized in Out of Everywhere: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and the UK (second edition). Her plays include: "Tell No One" (Invisible Dog/Small Press Traffic 2011), “WALTZ” (E. 13th Street Rep 2010), and “A Week of Kindness” (Incubator Arts/Brick Theater 2007). Copp is a curator with the Segue Foundation and a former editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter (2009-2011).

Photo: Zach Galifianakis reading Corina Copp, by Lawrence Schwartzwald, 2012.

Lonely Christopher - Woolsey Heights - 3.24.12

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Lonely Christopher is a poet, playwright, and filmmaker. He is the author of The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, published in Dennis Cooper’s Little House on the Bowery series from Akashic Books. His latest projects include the chapbook Poems in June (The Corresponding Society) and the feature length film MOM (Cavazos Films), which he wrote and directed. He is also the author, with Robert Snyderman and Christopher Sweeney, of the poetry volume Into (Seven CirclePress). He lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.

Photo: Daniel Graindorge

Poetry for the People - Oscar Grant Plaza - 12.4.11

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Featuring: Chris Daniels, Sara Larsen, Laura Woltag, Zack Haber, Lindsey Boldt, Taylor Brady, Matt O'Malley, David Brazil, Claiborne McDonald, Jackeline Frost, and a handful of people I don't know.

Wendy Trevino - Buuck's - 3.12.12

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Wendy Trevino lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area. 2011 and (so far) 2012 have been the hardest and best years of her life.

Anne Boyer - Buuck's - 3.12.12

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Anne Boyer is the author of a book of poetry, "The Romance of Happy Workers" (Coffee House 2008), and the forthcoming novel "JOAN." Her interests include small press and micro-publishing, and she has published many smaller works and chapbooks of poetry and prose, including "Anne Boyer's Good Apocalypse" (Effing Press, Austin, 2006), "Selected Dreams with a Note on Phrenology" (Dusie Collectiv, Switzerland, 2007) and a book of conceptual work, "Art is War" (Mitzvah, Lawrence, 2008).  Other forthcoming works include the cyber-opera "The 2000s" and a narrative based on Google Earth called "My Time on Earth."

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