SARAH SHUN-LIEN BYNUM
FARRAH FIELD
ELENA MINOR
JARED WHITE
Sunday, June 7, 2009
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
www.rhapsodomancy.org<br>
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is the author of two novels, Ms. Hempel Chronicles, a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award, and Madeleine Is Sleeping, a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award and winner of the Kafka Prize. Her work has appeared in several magazines and anthologies, including The New Yorker, Tin House, The Georgia Review, and The Best American Short Stories. The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and an NEA Fellowship, she directs the MFA Program in Writing at the University of California, San Diego. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.
Farrah Field's poems have appeared in many publications including the Mississippi Review, Pool, Typo, Harp & Altar, 42Opus, La Petite Zine, Pebble Lake Review, and Fulcrum, among others. Rising won Four Way Books' 2007 Levis Prize and is her first book of poetry. She lives in Brooklyn and blogs at adultish.blogspot.com.
elena minor is the founding editor of PALABRA A Magazine of Chicano & Latino Literary Art. Her fiction and poetry have been published or are forthcoming in Puerto del Sol, Quercus Review, Verdad, Buffalo Carp, Mandorla, OCHO, Diner, Passager, Poetry Midwest, Segue, Magnapoets, Prism Review, BorderSenses and The Big Ugly Review, among others. She is a past First Prize recipient of the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize for drama and her work has placed as finalist in several national writing competitions. She’s also a high school creative writing instructor with Spoken Interludes Next and a veteran arts administrator.
Jared White grew up in Massachusetts and lives in Brooklyn. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in journals like Cannibal, Coconut, Fulcrum, Harp & Altar, Inscape, The Modern Review, Sorry 4 Snake, and Verse. He has published essays in Harp & Altar, Poets Off Poetry at Coldfront, and Open Letters, and a chapbook entitled Yellowcake was included in the recent hand-sewn anthology Narwhal from Cannibal Books. From time to time, he blogs at jaredswhite.blogspot.com and plays the piano.
