LA-Lit interviews Bruna Mori at Betalevel on Sunday, May 21st at 2pm. For information about attending the recording go here.

Bruna Mori is the author of Dérive, a book of New York cityscape poems with sumi-ink paintings by Matthew Kinney, to be published this fall by Meritage Press. Tergiversation, her Ahadada Books chapbook, to be released this spring, is a series of homophonic and ’sensorial’ translations, inspired by the work of the late Argentinean poet Alejandra Pizarnik.

In addition to her poetry and short prose, she writes creative nonfiction about art and architecture. Her most recent essay, for a forthcoming Semiotext[e] anthology, is on Isamu Noguchi’s internment designs for Poston, the camp where Noguchi was [voluntarily] incarcerated during World War 2.

Born in Japan and raised in the U.S., Mori presently lives in Los Angeles, where she edits at the Getty Research Institute, and teaches at Art Center College of Design and the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Her own BA and MFA degrees were completed at the University of California, San Diego, and Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.

Please note the time change from our normal schedule: doors open at 1:45 p.m. and the reading/recording will begin by 2:15 p.m.

Our podcast of LA-Lit 9b: Guy Bennett is now online. The interview was originally recorded on Sunday, February 12, 2006 at 5pm

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The audio files of the interview will be archived here after they have been podcast on May, 07, 2006.

Guy Bennett is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Drive to Cluster (2003), a collaboration with artist Ron Griffin, and co-author, with Béatrice Mousli, of Charting the Here of There: French and American Poetry in Translation in Literary Magazines, 1850-2002 (2002). His writing has appeared in magazines and anthologies in the Brazil, Canada, France, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, and the U.S. Recent translations includes works by Mostafa Nissabouri, Nicole Brossard, Valère Novarina and Jacques Roubaud. He lives in Los Angeles, where he publishes Seeing Eye Books.

Guy read from a cycle commemorating the anniversary of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, “The Lilac Variations,” forthcoming in Traverse 8, ” Oracle Four: One Dozen Fortune Cookies for Syd Barrett, forthcoming from Manual Arts Press, and titles from Sequences, forthcoming from Gateway Songbooks.