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.