Sunday, February 24, 2008
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
Ellen Bass's most recent book of poetry, The Human Line, was published by Copper Canyon Press this year and was named a Notable Book of 2007 by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her previous book, Mules of Love (BOA, 2002) won the Lambda Literary Award. Her work has been read by Garrison Keillor on The Writers Almanac and her poem “Gate C22” was included in Roger Housden’s best-selling anthology, Ten Poems to Change Your Life Again and Again (Harmony, 2007). Her work has been published in many journals and magazines including The Atlantic Monthly, The American Poetry Review, Ms., Ploughshares, Field, and The Kenyon Review. Among her awards for poetry are The Pushcart Prize, the Elliston Book Award, The Pablo Neruda Prize from Nimrod/Hardman, the Larry Levis Prize from Missouri Review, the New Letters Prize, the Greensboro Award, the Chautaqua Poetry Prize, and a Fellowship from the California Arts Council. She co-edited, with Florence Howe, the groundbreaking book, No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (Doubleday, 1973) and her nonfiction books include Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth and Their Allies (HarperCollins, 1996), and The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (HarperCollins, 1988) which has been translated into twelve languages. She teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University.
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.
Gleah Powers received her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles where she recently taught an undergraduate writing workshop. While in the MFA program she completed her first novel set in the 1960s southwest desert of Phoenix, the beaches of Ft. Lauderdale and the streets of Hollywood. Gleah has worked professionally as an actress, dancer and painter in New York, Los Angeles and Mexico City. She currently lives in Santa Monica and is at work on a second novel.
Born over a half a century ago during a different millennia in New York's scenic Hudson Valley, Robert W. Fox has been around, and mostly in a good way. Robert became a writer at the suggestions of friends who liked his witty e-mail responses. Much to his own surprise, Robert found out he is actually not that bad. He has a brand spankin new MFA degree in Creative Nonfiction. He has been published in LA Weekly, and even had a quasi-socialist letter to the editor printed in The Sunday New York Times Business Section. That must take talent. Not having found love, and therefore with no family, Robert has found his family and happiness teaching creative writing to teenage prostitutes and gang-bangers at Central Juvenile Hall in Lincoln Heights, LA.
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