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.