Sunday, April 22, 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 a nonprofit organization to be determined.
There will be a cash bar.
Robin Becker, professor of English and women’s studies at The Pennsylvania State University, is the author of six collections of poetry, including Domain of Perfect Affection, The Horse Fair, All-American Girl and Giacometti’s Dog. Becker is the recipient of individual fellowships from the Bunting Institute, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poetry column “Field Notes” appears in the Women’s Review of Books, where she serves as poetry editor.
Tara Ison's first novel, A Child out of Alcatraz (Faber & Faber, Inc.), was a Finalist for the 1997 Los Angeles Times Book Awards, "Best First Fiction." Her new novel, The List, was just released (March 2007). Her short fiction, essays and book reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Nerve.com, The Mississippi Review, LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine and Book Review, and other newpapers and numerous anthologies. Tara is the recipient of Yaddo fellowships, Pushcart Prize nominations, a Rotary Foundation Scholarship for International Study, a Brandeis National Women's Committee Award, a Thurber House Fiction Writer-in-Residence Fellowship, and the Simon Blattner Fellowship from Northwestern University.
Tung-Hui Hu lives in San Francisco, where he writes on film and new media. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Mine (Ausable, 2007) and The Book of Motion (Georgia, 2003). In the spring, he will be a resident at MacDowell and Millay Colonies, and later this summer, he will release the inaugural vintage of his pinot noir from Anderson Valley, California.
Suzan Lustig's work has been published in several journals including Smartish Pace, Poeticdiversity, Triplopia and Mannequin Envy. She was a finalist for the 2006 Beullah Rose Poetry Prize and was nominated for a 2007 Pushcart Prize, as well as the Best of the Net Anthology. She is currently working on an original screenplay and is a mentor with “WriteGirl,” an LA based writing program for teenage girls. Suzan holds an MFA in poetry from Antioch University.
