Our podcast of LA-Lit 8b: Diane Ward is now online. The interview was originally recorded on Sunday, February 5, 2006 at 5pm

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Diane Ward was born in 1956 in Washington, DC and currently lives in Santa Monica, California. She attended the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC. She has published ten books of poetry including, most recently, When You Awake, New York: Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, Portrait As If Through My Own Voice, Los Angeles: Margin to Margin, 2001 and Portraits and Maps (with Michael C. McMillen), Italy: ML & NLF Editions, 2000. She has been included in numerous anthologies, among them: MOVING BORDERS: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women, edited by Mary Margaret Sloan (New Jersey: Talisman House, Publishers, 1998) and OUT OF EVERYWHERE: linguistically innovative poetry by women in North America & the UK, edited by Maggie O’Sullivan (London: Reality Street Editions, 1996). She has read widely in the United States, including: District of Columbia Arts Center, The UCLA Hammer Museum, Otis Art Institute (Los Angeles), University of Pennsylvania, Small Press Traffic at New College (San Francisco), The Bowery Poetry Club and The Poetry Project of St. Mark’s Church (both in New York City), among many others. Her work has appeared in dozens of small press publications, including: The New Review, Tripwire, Crayon, Conjunctions, How(ever) Reality Studios, The Paris Review, Sulfur, The World, Raddle Moon, among others. She has received the California Arts Council Artists Fellowship in Literature, National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, San Francisco State University Poetry Center’s Book of the Year Award and is listed in the Poets and Writers Directory of American Writers. Forthcoming poetry and reviews will appear in Aufgabe, The New Review, and the series Heretical Texts. Several of her poems (including “Fade on Family”) have been set to music by the Los Angeles composer Michael Webster. She is currently working on a text for avant-garde sound performer and musician, Emily Hay.

Diane read the entire length of her chapbook, When You Awake, New York: Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, as well as a few other pieces from a new manuscript.

Our podcast of LA-Lit 8a: Diane Ward is now online. The interview was originally recorded on Sunday, February 5, 2006 at 5pm

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

Diane Ward was born in 1956 in Washington, DC and currently lives in Santa Monica, California. She attended the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC. She has published ten books of poetry including, most recently, When You Awake, New York: Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, Portrait As If Through My Own Voice, Los Angeles: Margin to Margin, 2001 and Portraits and Maps (with Michael C. McMillen), Italy: ML & NLF Editions, 2000. She has been included in numerous anthologies, among them: MOVING BORDERS: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women, edited by Mary Margaret Sloan (New Jersey: Talisman House, Publishers, 1998) and OUT OF EVERYWHERE: linguistically innovative poetry by women in North America & the UK, edited by Maggie O’Sullivan (London: Reality Street Editions, 1996). She has read widely in the United States, including: District of Columbia Arts Center, The UCLA Hammer Museum, Otis Art Institute (Los Angeles), University of Pennsylvania, Small Press Traffic at New College (San Francisco), The Bowery Poetry Club and The Poetry Project of St. Mark’s Church (both in New York City), among many others. Her work has appeared in dozens of small press publications, including: The New Review, Tripwire, Crayon, Conjunctions, How(ever) Reality Studios, The Paris Review, Sulfur, The World, Raddle Moon, among others. She has received the California Arts Council Artists Fellowship in Literature, National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, San Francisco State University Poetry Center’s Book of the Year Award and is listed in the Poets and Writers Directory of American Writers. Forthcoming poetry and reviews will appear in Aufgabe, The New Review, and the series Heretical Texts. Several of her poems (including “Fade on Family”) have been set to music by the Los Angeles composer Michael Webster. She is currently working on a text for avant-garde sound performer and musician, Emily Hay.

Diane read the entire length of her chapbook, When You Awake, New York: Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, as well as a few other pieces from a new manuscript.

Our podcast of LA-Lit 7b: Jane Sprague is now online. The interview was originally recorded on Sunday, December 12, 2005 at 5pm

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Jane Sprague’s poems have been published in many print and online magazines including How2, Kiosk, Columbia Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Tinfish, ecopoetics, kultureflash, Bird Dog & others. Her chapbooks include monster: a bestiary, break / fast, The Port of Los Angeles & Fuck Your Pastoral. The recipient of numerous grants and awards (NYSCA, NYFA, among others), she has worked as a teaching artist in the public schools of New York, a NYFA Artist in the School Community at Cornell University, Tompkins Cortland Community College, and for Bank Street College at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, a maximum-security prison for women in New York. Sprague began and curated the West End Reading Series in Ithaca, NY before relocating to Long Beach, California where she currently lives with her family. She publishes Palm Press: PalmPress.org.

Jane read the entire length of her chapbook, Fuck Your Pastoral, and her piece, The Port of Los Angeles.

Our podcast of LA-Lit 7a: Jane Sprague is now online. The interview was originally recorded on Sunday, December 12, 2005 at 5pm

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

Jane Sprague’s poems have been published in many print and online magazines including How2, Kiosk, Columbia Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Tinfish, ecopoetics, kultureflash, Bird Dog & others. Her chapbooks include monster: a bestiary, break / fast, The Port of Los Angeles & Fuck Your Pastoral. The recipient of numerous grants and awards (NYSCA, NYFA, among others), she has worked as a teaching artist in the public schools of New York, a NYFA Artist in the School Community at Cornell University, Tompkins Cortland Community College, and for Bank Street College at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, a maximum-security prison for women in New York. Sprague began and curated the West End Reading Series in Ithaca, NY before relocating to Long Beach, California where she currently lives with her family. She publishes Palm Press: PalmPress.org.

Jane read the entire length of her chapbook, Fuck Your Pastoral, and her piece, The Port of Los Angeles.

LA-Lit interviews Matvei Yankelevich and
Anna Moschovakis at Betalevel on Tuesday, April 11th at 8pm. For information about attending the recording go here.

Matvei Yankelevich is the editor of the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse, and co-edits 6×6, a poetry periodical. He is the co-translator, with Eugene Ostashevsky, of An Invitation For Me To Think, the selected poems of Alexander Vvedensky, forthcoming from Green Integer; and of Russian Absurdism: OBERIU, an anthology forthcoming from Northwestern University Press. His own writing has appeared in various magazines and his critical work on Russian-American poets appears in Octopus Magazine. A chapbook of his long poem, The Present Work, is forthcoming from Los Angeles-based Palm Press in Spring 2006. He teaches Russian Literature at Hunter College in New York City.

Anna Moschovakis has been an editor and designer with Ugly Duckling Presse since 2002, helping to produce books and chapbooks by emerging writers, translations, and the poetry periodical, 6×6. Her translations of Henri Michaux, Claude Cahun, Blaise Cendrars, Théophile Gautier and others have been published by Fence, nest, and New York Review Books Classics. She is the author of two chapbooks, The Blue Book (Phylum Press, 2005) and Dependence Day Parade (Sisyphus, 2006), and her first book, I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone, will be published this fall by Turtle Point Press. She currently teaches in the Comparative Literature department of Queens College.

Please note the time change from our normal schedule: doors open at 7:45 p.m. and the reading/recording will begin by 8:15 p.m.

Anna and Matvei are in town from New York to do a reading at Beyond Baroque in Venice with Brent Cunningham, Stan Apps, Cedar Sigo, and Genya Turovskaya on Friday, April 14th, 2006 at 7:30 pm