Our podcast of LA-Lit 4b: Doug Kearney is now online. The interview was originally recorded in early September, 2005.

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Douglas Kearney received an MFA in Writing at the California Institute of the Arts (2004). His poetry has been published in anthologies including Dark Matter: Reading the Bones, Bum Rush The Page and Role Call, and several journals including Callaloo, nocturnes, Jubilat and Mangrove. He has performed his work all over the country, including commissioned work for the Weisman Museum of Art in Minneapolis, a showcase performance at the 2002 Slam Nationals, LA’s World Stage and New York’s Public Theatre and Bowery Poetry Club. He is currently developing libretti for three different collaborations. He has received fellowships at Cave Canem, Callaloo and a Waiter’s Scholarship at Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference. He was born in Brooklyn but grew up in Altadena (right outside LA). After several years in Washington, DC, San Diego and Minneapolis, he is back in Altadena and teaches at CalArts. His first collection of poems, Fear, some, will be released by Red Hen Press.

Doug read from his book, Fear, some.

Our podcast of LA-Lit 4a: Doug Kearney is now online. The interview was originally recorded in early September, 2005.

If you need information about how to subscribe to our podcast go here.

Douglas Kearney received an MFA in Writing at the California Institute of the Arts (2004). His poetry has been published in anthologies including Dark Matter: Reading the Bones, Bum Rush The Page and Role Call, and several journals including Callaloo, nocturnes, Jubilat and Mangrove. He has performed his work all over the country, including commissioned work for the Weisman Museum of Art in Minneapolis, a showcase performance at the 2002 Slam Nationals, LA’s World Stage and New York’s Public Theatre and Bowery Poetry Club. He is currently developing libretti for three different collaborations. He has received fellowships at Cave Canem, Callaloo and a Waiter’s Scholarship at Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference. He was born in Brooklyn but grew up in Altadena (right outside LA). After several years in Washington, DC, San Diego and Minneapolis, he is back in Altadena and teaches at CalArts. His first collection of poems, Fear, some, will be released by Red Hen Press.

Doug read from his book, Fear, some.

Our podcast of LA-Lit 3: Julien Poirier is now online. The interview was originally recorded on September 18, 2005 at Machine Project (1200 D N Alvarado St in Los Angeles).

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Born in San Francisco, 1970, Julien Poirier lives in New York City where he is an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse and a toiler in Public School literacy and poetry programmes. Books include “Ours, Yours” (Loudmouth Collective, 2001), “Short Stack” (UDP, 2005), “Living Go and Dream” (UDP, 2005), and “Key Doors” (forthcoming from Old Gold).

Julien read from his novel, Living Go and Dream. Excerpts from this work are available here.

LA-Lit interviews José Alvergue at Betalevel on Sunday, February 19th at 5pm. For information about attending the recording go here.

José Felipe Alvergue writes in LA. Born in El Salvador, he grew up in San Ysidro, on the US|México Border. While a student at UCSD, he became friends with members of the Taco Shop Poets, and later joined them, redcalaca press (previously known as Calaca Press), and other local artists, writers and activists, as a board member of Voz Alta, a not for profit Chicano/a art gallery and social collective. José is a graduate of the Cal Arts MFA writing program, and has been published in Temper, M.AG., Fourteen Hills, Nocturnes (audio CD), Black Clock and is slated to appear in the upcoming issue of Trepan 5. He is an educator living in LA.