Sunday, October 28, 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)
21 and over only.
RSVP at rhapsodomancyla@yahoo.com
$3 suggested donation at door; after expenses, a portion of the proceeds will benefit a nonprofit to be determined.
There will be a cash bar.
www.rhapsodomancy.org
Martha Ronk is the author most recently of Vertigo, selected for the National Poetry Series by C.D. Wright and published by Coffee House Press 2007; and of In a Landscape of Having to Repeat, published by Omnidawn Press and winner of the PEN USA award for a book of poetry 2005. She has published eight books and several chapbooks, has received residencies at Djerassi and MacDowell, and is the 2007 recipient of an NEA grant. She is professor of English at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
David Marriott currently teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Incognegro(Salt Publications, 2006) and Haunted Life: Visual Culture and Black Modernity (Rutgers, 2007). A new book of poetry, Hoodoo Voodoo, is forthcoming in 2008.
Alex Lang is a poet and lyricist living in Los Angeles. His poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, and his lyrics (written under the name Shuggie Love) can be found on Monkey Bars’ album Food Eating Food. For cash, Alex works as a television executive for a network no one has ever heard of.
Wendy C. Ortiz is co-curator of Rhapsodomancy. Recent or forthcoming publications include Blood Orange Review, Palabra: A Magazine of Chicano and Latino Literary Art, Cranky, and Eclipse, among others. She was awarded a writing residency from Hedgebrook in 2007. Wendy is currently a graduate student of psychology.
Andrea Quaid is the co-curator of Rhapsodomancy. She currently attends UC Santa Cruz as a Ph.D. candidate in literature where she is the co-organizer of the Poetry and Politics Research Cluster and Reading Series.
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