Sunday, December 16, 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
Maggie Nelson is most recently the author of a critical book about poetry and painting titled Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (U of Iowa Press, 2007), a fourth collection of poems, Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007), and a nonfiction book about sexual violence, criminal justice, media spectacle, and her family titled The Red Parts: A Memoir(Free Press, 2007). Previous books include a mixed-genre narrative titled Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull, 2005), which was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir, and the poetry collections The Latest Winter (Hanging Loose Press, 2003) and Shiner (Hanging Loose Press, 2001). After living in New York City for many years, she moved to Los Angeles in 2005. A recipient of a 2007 Arts Writers Grant from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, she currently teaches on the faculty of the School of Critical Studies at CalArts in Valencia, CA.
Emily Rapp is Core Faculty in the MFA in Creative Writing at Antioch University-Los Angeles. A former Fulbright scholar, she was a James A. Michener Fellow in Fiction and Poetry at the University of Texas-Austin. Her first book, Poster Child: A Memoir, was published by Bloomsbury in 2007 and is due out in paperback in January 2008. She has received awards and recognition for her work from The Atlantic Monthly, StoryQuarterly, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation, the Jentel Arts Foundation, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where she was a winter writing fellow. She was the Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University and was recently awarded a Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Women Writers. She is currently at work on a novel.
Maureen Alsop's first full collection of poetry, Apparition Wren (Main Street Rag) was recently released. Her poems have appeared or are pending in various publications including: The Cortland Review, Barrow Street, Typo, Columbia : A Journal of Literature and Art and Texas Review. She was the winner of Harpur Palate's 2007 Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry and Bitter Oleander’s 2007 Frances Locke Memorial Award for Poetry. Her poetry has been thrice nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Catherine Dupree's work has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, The Connecticut Review, National Geographic Traveler, Boston magazine, Harvard magazine, and Nylon. She was a fiction resident at the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, NY, and at the Kimmel-Harding-Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, NE. In 2006, she received a creative fellowship from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. She was born and raised in Cambridge, Mass.
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