Sunday, February 11, 2007
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; after expenses, a portion of the proceeds will benefit The Academy of American Poets (www.poets.org) Adopt-A-Poet program.
There will be a cash bar.
Amy Gerstler is a writer of poetry and nonfiction whose most recent book is Ghost Girl. She teaches writing and art at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and poetry at the Bennington Writing Seminars at Bennington Collegein Vermont. Her other books of poetry include Medicine, Crown of Weeds and Nerve Storm. Her work has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies including Paris Review, the New Yorker, and The Norton Anthology of Postmodern Poetry.
Cathy Colman’s book Borrowed Dress won the 2001 Felix Pollak Prize for Poetry and made the The Los Angeles Times Best-seller List the first week of its release. Her work has appeared in The Colorado Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Journal, Mudfish, Quarterly West, Pool, Contemporary 88, and elsewhere and has been widely anthologized. She has won the Browning Award for Poetry and the Ascher Montandon Award for Poetry. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize six times and was a former reviewer for The New York Times Book Review. She has done readings in Los Angeles, Berkeley, San Francisco, Oakland, New York, Prague, Paris and elsewhere. She collaborated with composer Robert Johnson and their vocal piece honoring the fall of the Berlin Wall was presented at the Kennedy Center. Her newest collection is Tattoo.
Armine Iknadossian lives in Pasadena, California and teaches high school English. She received her BA from UCLA and an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles. She has just completed her first manuscript, Gnosis. Publications include Pasadena City College's Inscape, UCLA's Wisteria, Cal State Northridge's Edges, Literati Cocktail, Experimental Candy, Poetic Diversity, and Poets Against War. "The Return" was a finalist in Backwards City Review's annual poetry contest. "March Eulogy," winner of Prose Poems at Work, and "Bodies of Water," a featured poem of the month, can be viewed at www.writersatwork.com. She will be a featured poet in ARARAT magazine and two of her poems will appear in zaum this spring.
Chrys Tobey was born and bred in the city that soaks in sulfur (ie. Cleveland). She just completed her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. Most recently she has had poetry published in Soundings East, Poetic Diversity, The Pen, and Margie. Chrys has poetry forthcoming in Mochila Review, Mad Poet's Review and Salt Hill. Her poem "Seven Things I Know About Hearts" won semifinalist for Margie's Marjorie J. Wilson Award for 2006 judged by Molly Peacock. Chrys dwells among the planted palm trees in Santa Monica, California.
