Sunday, October 15, 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 suggested donation at door; a portion of the proceeds will benefit a nonprofit organization.
There will be a cash bar.
About the writers:
Eloise Klein Healy, Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing Emerita and founding chair of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles, is the author of five books of poetry; the most recent is Passing (Red Hen Press). Healy’s work has been anthologized in The World in Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave; The Geography of Home: California’s Poetry of Place; Another City: Writing from Los Angeles; and California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present. She is cofounder of ECO- ARTS (www.eco-arts.net) and originator of the Red Hen Press imprint, Arktoi Books.
Frank X. Gaspar was born and raised in Provincetown, Massachusetts and now lives in Southern California. He is Professor of English at Long Beach City College. He also teaches poetry and novel writing in the summer program at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and at Antioch University, Los Angeles. He served three and a half years in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam Conflict and attended colleges and universities after his discharge, receiving an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. Gaspar is the author of four books of poetry and one novel. His short stories and poems have been published widely in literary journals, including The Nation, The Harvard Review, The New England Review, The Sewanee Review, Prairie Schooner, The Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, The Hudson Review, Provincetown Arts, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Antioch Review, The Tampa Review, The Denver Quarterly, and others. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies including, The Beacon Best Poetry of 1999, The Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, and others. Gaspar is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, and his work is included in the 1996 Best American Poetry and in Best American Poetry 2000. He is the recipient of three Puschcart Prizes for literature, and the Edgar Stanley Award and a Readers’ Choice Award both from Prairie Schooner. He is currently working on new poems and a new novel.
Eve Wood is the author of three books of poems, Love’s Funeral, Six, (published by Cherry Grove Collections), and Artistic Children Breathe Differently, (Hollyridge Press), a chapbook entitled Paper Frankenstein published by Beyond Baroque Press and Correspondence (Gegensatze Press, Austria). Mark Strand has described her work as "quickened by passion and imagination, an astonishingly gifted poet." Her work has appeared in numerous journals including The Best American Poetry 1997, The New Republic, The Denver Quarterly, Triquarterly, Poetry, Witness, The Wisconsin Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Greensboro Review, Exquisite Corpse, The Florida Review, The Antioch Review, and many others. She has twice been a guest on KPFK’s Poet’s Café hosted by MC Bruce. Wood is the recipient of the Jacob Javits Fellowship and a Brody Grant. Wood has written art criticism for Tema Celeste, ArtUS, Artext, Artweek, and Artnet.com, Bridge Magazine, Latinarts.com, Flash Art, and Art Papers etc. Also a visual artist, Wood is represented by Western Project in Culver City.
Wendy C. Ortiz teaches creative writing to Los Angeles youth in juvenile detention facilities and coordinates the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles half-time. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Palabra: A Magazine of Chicano and Latino Literary Art; Bedwetter; Eclipse; Cranky; KNOCK; womenwriters.net; the online zine Experimental Candy; Calapooya ; EM Literary Asylum; poetrymagazine.com; and 4th Street. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Antioch University Los Angeles. Wendy lives in Koreatown and is at work on poetry, a book of personal essays, and a novella. Bits of her creative work can be found at http://www.littlemotors.org/lab_of_lux.
Andrea Quaid is a graduate of Antioch University's MFA Creative Writing Program and CSULA's graduate program in English. For the past six years she was associate coordinator of Spoken Interludes, a non-profit arts organization that brings writing programs to underserved teenagers. She has taught creative writing to high school students in both traditional high schools and incarceration facilities, in addition to teaching composition at CSULA. Recent or forthcoming publications include Carquinez Poetry Review, Eureka Literary Magazine, Fox Cry Review, Limestone, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Pearl, Phantasmagoria, Prairie Winds, Rio Grand Review, South Carolina Review, Soundings East, and Xavier Review. She currently attends UC Santa Cruz as a Ph.D. candidate in literature and travels home to Los Angeles every other month for Rhapsodomancy.
Jerry Garcia studied Communication Arts at Loyola Marymount University. He currently works in motion picture advertising; throughout his career he has written, directed and edited television commercials and short films. His interest in poetry resurfaced in the 1990s and he is a member of Laurel Ann Bogen’s Master Class. His photography and poetry have been seen in Petroglyph and Lily: Literary Review.
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