Sunday, October 19, 2008
Doors open at 7:00 - Reading begins at 7:30pm
The Good Luck Bar, 1514 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, 90027 (east Hollywood/Silver Lake: corner of Hollywood & Hillhurst)
21 and over only.
RSVP at rhapsodomancyla@yahoo.com (RSVP not required, but appreciated)
$3 suggested donation at door.
There will be a cash bar.
www.rhapsodomancy.org
Eloise Klein Healy is the author of six books of poetry and three spoken word recordings. She was the founding chair of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles where she is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing Emerita. Healy directed the Women’s Studies Program at California State University Northridge and taught in the Feminist Studio Workshop at The Woman’s Building in Los Angeles. She is Resident Poet at the Idyllwild Summer Poetry Festival, the co-founder of ECO-ARTS, an eco-tourism/arts venture, and founding editor of ARKTOI BOOKS, an imprint of Red Hen Press. Her latest collection of poems is The Islands Project: Poems For Sappho.
Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of Interpretive Work (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2008) and editor of Broadsided. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, several anthologies, and are forthcoming in Orion and The Believer. Currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, when not writing, she works as a naturalist.
Michelle Bitting grew up in Los Angeles, California. She was educated at U.C. Berkeley and in 2009, will graduate with an MFA in Poetry from Pacific University, Oregon. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Poetry Daily, Crab Orchard Review, Passages North, Many Mountains Moving, and Rattle. Thomas Lux chose her full-length manuscript, Good Friday Kiss, as the winner of C & R Press’s DeNovo First Book Award. Formerly a dancer and a chef, Michelle devotes a portion of her time to doing outreach work in Los Angeles where she lives with her husband, the actor, Phil Abrams, and their two children, Elijah and Vera Rose.
Wendy C. Ortiz is a Los Angeles native. She was awarded a writing residency from Hedgebrook in 2007. Recent publications include Blood Orange Review, Palabra: A Magazine of Chicano and Latino Literary Art, Cranky, KNOCK, Eclipse, and others. She is cofounder and curator of the Rhapsodomancy Reading Series at the Good Luck Bar in Hollywood. Wendy is currently a graduate student of psychology. Some of her work can be found at http://www.wendyortiz.com.
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