Geoff Bouvier & Janet Holmes

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Tuesday, December 8th at 7:30 pm

Janet Holmes is the author of five books, most recently THE MS OF MY KIN (Shearsman) and F2F (U Notre Dame). She is a professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Boise State University, where she edits Ahsahta Press.

Geoff Bouvier's first book, Living Room, won the 2005 APR/Honickman Prize. His second book, Glass Harmonica, is scheduled to appear in 2011 from Quale Press. He is currently the visiting poet at the University of California-Berkeley.

Laura Moriarty & Standard Schaefer

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Tuesday, November 3rd at 7:30 pm

Laura Moriarty and Standard Schaefer will read from a collaborative work-in-progress, The Jejune Project, a poetic and narrative investigation of the Jejune Institute.

Schaefer's Water and Power appeared in 2005. His Desert Notebook just came out but was destroyed by rain during shipping and so is again forthcoming. He teaches at California College of the Arts and is about to move to Portland, OR.

Moriarty's most recent book is A Semblance: Selected and New Poetry 1974-2007. Her A Tonalist is due in the spring. She is the Deputy Director of Small Press Distribution.

Barry Gifford & Jim Nisbet

will be reading

Tuesday, October 20th at 7:30 pm.

Jim Nisbet has published nine novels, the most recent of which, The Octopus On My Head, was released in July, 2007, and by Editons Payot et Rivages (Paris) under the title Comment j'ai trouvé un boulot in November, 2008. Titles have been published in French, along with a miscellany of additional translations into German, Japanese, Italian, Polish, Hungarian, Greek and, forthcoming, Russian and Romanian. In April, 2010, Overlook Press (New York) will publish a new Jim Nisbet novel, Windward Passage, simultaneously with a new edition of the acclaimed Lethal Injection, out of print since 1989. This rollout will be followed by Jim's entire backlist, a total of eight additional titles, including the first American publication of Ulysses' Dog. The Rivages/Thriller edition of Windward Passage [Passage au vent perhaps?] will follow. PM Press will issue a novella, A Moment of Doubt, in the fall of 2010. Nisbet has also published five volumes of poetry: Poems for a Lady, Morpho (with Alastair Johnston), Gnachos for Bishop Berkeley, Small Apt (with photographs by Shelly Vogel), and Across the Tasman Sea. Two "audio narratives" -- stories told via sound effects -- have been issued under the title The Visitor. (You can listen to both if you step into the ARCHIVES.) And innumerable individual poems, essays, stories and excerpts have appeared in nearly as many newspapers, magazines and anthologies. Nisbet has twice won the Pangolin Papers Annual Fiction Award, and thrice been nominated by that magazine for a Pushcart Prize in short fiction. His novel, Dark Companion, was shorted-listed (with four other nominees) for the 2006 Hammett Prize. For more information please visit: http://www.noirconeville.com

Barry Gifford's novels have been translated into twenty-eight languages. His book Night People was awarded the Premio Brancati in Italy, and he has been the recipient of awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Library Association, the Writers Guild of America, and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. David Lynch's film Wild at Heart, which was based on Gifford's novel, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990, and his novel Perdita Durango was made into a feature film by Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia in 1997. Barry Gifford co-wrote with director David Lynch the film Lost Highway(1997); he also co-wrote with director Matt Dillon the film City of Ghosts(2003), as well as the libretto for Ichiro Nodaira's opera, Madrugada(2005). Mr. Gifford's books include The Phantom Father, named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Wyoming, named a Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year, and which has been adapted for the stage and film; The Sinaloa Story; The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room: A Barry Gifford Reader; Do the Blind Dream?; and The Stars Above Veracruz. His most recent books are The Cavalry Charges (essays), and Memories from a Sinking Ship (fiction). Mr. Gifford's writings have appeared in Punch, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Sport, the New York Times, El Pais, El Universal, La Repubblica, Brick, Projections, La Nouvelle Revue Française and many other publications. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information please visit http://www.BarryGifford.com

Lee Ann Brown, Robert Glück, Kevin Killian, Scott MacLeod and Camille Roy

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Sunday, October 11th at 6 pm

to celebrate The Book of Practical Pussies.

Drawings by Michelle Rollman with texts by D-L Alvarez, Dodie Bellamy, Lee Ann Brown, Bob Glück, Kevin Killian, Scott MacLeod, Yedda Morrison, Camille Roy and Jocelyn Saidenberg.


Editor & publisher of Tender Buttons press, Lee Ann Brown loves her 16-year-old cat, Bim. Author of Polyverse, and The Sleep That Changed Everything, The 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time and SOP DOLL! A Jack Tale Noh which features a chorus of black cats. Lives in NYC & NC.

Robert Glück is the author of nine books of poetry and fiction, including two novels, Margery Kempe and Jack the Modernist and a book of stories, Last year he and artist Dean Smith completed the film Aliengnosis. Glück teaches at San Francisco State University.

Kevin Killian is a San Francisco poet and the author of ACTION KYLIE. His new book comes out in November from City Lights, a book of stories called IMPOSSIBLE PRINCESS.

Artist and writer Scott MacLeod has been based in the Bay Area since 1976 and currently lives in Oakland. He has exhibited and published widely yet randomly in the USA and Europe.

Camille Roy is a writer and performer of fiction, poetry, and plays. One of the editors of Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative (CoachHouse 2005), her earlier books include CHEAP SPEECH, a play, from Leroy, and CRAQUER, a fictional autobiography from 2nd Story Books , as well as SWARM (two novellas, Black Star Series), among others.

erica lewis with Mark Stephen Finein & Cassandra Smith

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Tuesday, September 29th at 7:30.

erica lewis is a fine arts publicist in san francisco where she curates the canessa gallery reading series. her work has appeared or is forthcoming in P-Queue, Ur Vox, Shampoo, Little Red Leaves, Cricket Online Review, alice blue, BOOG CITY, Word For/Word, Work, and Try, among others. Chapbooks, collaborations with artist Mark Stephen Finein, include excerpts from camera obscura (Etherdome Press) and the precipice of jupiter (Queue Books).

Mark Stephen Finein earned his BFA from Buffalo State in 1986, specializing in surrealistic wood block printmaking, lithography, and 3D constructions. After a short stint as a graphic artist, he began performing, writing, and recording music, playing in the streets of Prague and in rock, blues, and folk clubs in Buffalo, San Francisco, Germany, England, and Wales. Now that he's shaken off the demon of representationalism, he's proud to be showing his visual artwork publicly for the first time in two decades. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in P-Queue, Little Red Leaves, and BOOG CITY; chapbooks(collaborations with poet erica lewis) include excerpts from camera obscura (Etherdome Press) and the precipice of jupiter (Queue Books).

Cassandra Smith works as an assistant editor with Omnidawn Publishing and hosts the occasional Artifact Reading Series in her large and intricate dollhouse. She focuses on visual/three-dimensional poetics and laughing. Work doesn't appear often, but she has recently finished a manuscript titled "being when wendy." She lives in Oakland.