LA-Lit interviews Anthony McCann at Betalevel on Sunday, April 9th at 5pm. For information about attending the recording go here.

Anthony McCann was born and raised near Albany, New York. He studied in New Hampshire and Iowa and has lived and worked in Texas, Washington, Wisconsin, Vermont, the former Czechoslovakia, South Korea, Nicaragua, and Guatemala. His poems have been translated into Spanish, Lithuanian, Latvian and Slovenian. Currently he lives in Brooklyn, NY where he teaches English as a Second Language, but he will be moving to Los Angeles within the next several months. His first book, Father of Noise, was published by Fence Books in 2003. His current book, Moongarden, was released by Wave Books on April 1st, 2006.

Our podcast of LA-Lit 6b: Amar Ravva is now online. The interview was originally recorded on Sunday, December 04, 2005 at 5pm

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Amarnath Ravva lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He recently finished his first manuscript, a work of non-fiction called American Canyon, that blends South Indian and Californian history, memoir, poetry, documentary, and compassion. When he is not writing or producing art, he teaches at Glendale Community College. Since 2001 he has served as an advisor for the journal nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts. He has published several poems in Interlope: a Journal of Asian American poetics, nocturnes, The Berkeley Poetry Review and has work forthcoming in the journal Trepan as well as the anthologies Risen from the East: the Poetry of the Non-Western World, and Writing the Lines of our Hands. To learn more about him or his work, visit Videopoetics.org.

Our podcast of LA-Lit 6a: Amar Ravva is now online. The interview was originally recorded on Sunday, December 04, 2005 at 5pm

This recording has also been made available as a video podcast which includes the movies Amar showed during the first half of the show.

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Amarnath Ravva lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He recently finished his first manuscript, a work of non-fiction called American Canyon, that blends South Indian and Californian history, memoir, poetry, documentary, and compassion. When he is not writing or producing art, he teaches at Glendale Community College. Since 2001 he has served as an advisor for the journal nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts. He has published several poems in Interlope: a Journal of Asian American poetics, nocturnes, The Berkeley Poetry Review and has work forthcoming in the journal Trepan as well as the anthologies Risen from the East: the Poetry of the Non-Western World, and Writing the Lines of our Hands. To learn more about him or his work, visit Videopoetics.org.

Amar read from his manuscript, American Canyon.

Our VideoPodcast of LA-Lit 6a: Amar Ravva is now online. The interview was originally recorded on Sunday, December 04, 2005 at 5pm

This show has also been made available as an audio only podcast.

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

Amarnath Ravva lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He recently finished his first manuscript, a work of non-fiction called American Canyon, that blends South Indian and Californian history, memoir, poetry, documentary, and compassion. When he is not writing or producing art, he teaches at Glendale Community College. Since 2001 he has served as an advisor for the journal nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts. He has published several poems in Interlope: a Journal of Asian American poetics, nocturnes, The Berkeley Poetry Review and has work forthcoming in the journal Trepan as well as the anthologies Risen from the East: the Poetry of the Non-Western World, and Writing the Lines of our Hands. To learn more about him or his work, visit Videopoetics.org.

Amar read from his manuscript, American Canyon.

Our podcast of LA-Lit 5b: Jen Hofer is now online. The interview was originally recorded on Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 5pm

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Jen Hofer moved from Mexico City to Los Angeles in 2002. She edited and translated Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women (University of Pittsburgh Press and Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2003). Her recent books include a translation of sections from Dolores Dorantes’ sexopurosexoveloz (Seeing Eye Books, 2004), lawless (Seeing Eye Books, 2003), slide rule (subpress collective, 2002), and The 3:15 Experiment (with Lee Ann Brown, Danika Dinsmore and Bernadette Mayer, The Owl Press, 2001), as well as a forthcoming collaboration with poet and musician Patrick Durgin, to be published by Atelos. With Rod Smith, she is co-editing issue #10 of Aerial Magazine, a critical volume dedicated to the work of Lyn Hejinian. Recent poems and translations can be found in 1913, BOMB, damn the ceasars, new messes, Séance and Where We Put Our Hats. In addition to teaching poetics at CalArts, Jen works as a court interpreter in the Los Angeles County Superior Courts. She is co-founder of the City of Angels Ladies’ Bicycling Association, also known as The Whirly Girls.

Jen read from her manucript, _one_. Download poems from _one_ here.

Our podcast of LA-Lit 5a: Jen Hofer is now online. The interview was originally recorded on Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 5pm

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

Jen Hofer moved from Mexico City to Los Angeles in 2002. She edited and translated Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women (University of Pittsburgh Press and Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2003). Her recent books include a translation of sections from Dolores Dorantes’ sexopurosexoveloz (Seeing Eye Books, 2004), lawless (Seeing Eye Books, 2003), slide rule (subpress collective, 2002), and The 3:15 Experiment (with Lee Ann Brown, Danika Dinsmore and Bernadette Mayer, The Owl Press, 2001), as well as a forthcoming collaboration with poet and musician Patrick Durgin, to be published by Atelos. With Rod Smith, she is co-editing issue #10 of Aerial Magazine, a critical volume dedicated to the work of Lyn Hejinian. Recent poems and translations can be found in 1913, BOMB, damn the ceasars, new messes, Séance and Where We Put Our Hats. In addition to teaching poetics at CalArts, Jen works as a court interpreter in the Los Angeles County Superior Courts. She is co-founder of the City of Angels Ladies’ Bicycling Association, also known as The Whirly Girls.

Jen read from her manucript, _one_. Download poems from _one_ here.