Sunday, June 4, 2006
Doors open at 7:00 - Reading begins at 7:15pm
The Good Luck Bar, 1514 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles (east Hollywood/Silver Lake: corner of Hollywood & Hillhurst)
RSVP at rhapsodomancyla@yahoo.com
$3 donation at door; a portion of the proceeds will benefit a nonprofit organization.
There will be a cash bar.
Eileen Myles is the author of many books, including Chelsea Girls, Not Me and most recently Skies and Cool for You. She's currently finishing up a novel (the Inferno) about the hell of being a female poet. It's a work that covers life in two centuries. She also wrote the libretto for Hell, which just premiered in New York in April at PS 122. Since 2002 she's been living both in CA & NY, teaching writing & lit at UCSD.
Cheryl Klein’s first book, The Commuters: A Novel of Intersections, won City Works Press’ Ben Reitman Award and was published in 2006. Her fiction has appeared in journals including other, CrossConnect and The Absinthe Literary Review, and the anthology Jane’s Stories III (Jane’s Stories Press). By day she manages the California office of Poets & Writers, Inc. Cheryl also co-edits the online queer fiction magazine Blithe House Quarterly (www.blithe.com). An alumna of the CalArts writing program, she lives in Los Angeles and recently completed a novel—titled Calla Boulevard—about lesbians, ghosts and used clothing. When she feels like writing something short, she blogs at www.breadandbread.blogspot.com.
Christopher Russell is an artist and writer who lives and works in Los Angeles. He published 11 issues of Bedwetter magazine. Christopher's visual work has appeared in several American and European exhibitions, including solo shows at the Van Harrison Gallery and Acuna Hansen Gallery. A book of his photographs, Landscape, will be released this summer and a book of short stories, Gothic Romance, will be released in 2008. He has read his fiction at the UCLA Hammer Museum and his work has been collected by the RISD Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Ariel Robello is the author of My Sweet Unconditional (Tia Chucha Press). She is a former PEN West Emerging Voices Fellow. She works as an immigration law paralegal, adult ESL educator, freelance writer and poetry teacher in the high schools. She has performed extensively throughout California, Texas and the Southwest and is currently working on her MFA at Antioch University.
