Our podcast of LA-Lit 14b: Will Alexander is now online. The interview was originally recorded on Sunday, June 25th at 2pm.

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Will Alexander is a poet and visual artist. Working from Los Angeles, he has updated the alchemy of surrealist vision (found in such poets as Aimé Césaire and Raymond Roussel) to write his own cosmic parables, in his own electric incandescent language. His poetic works include Exobiology as Goddess, Asia & Haiti, Above the Human Nerve Domain, Towards the Primeval Lightning Field (essays), and The Stratospheric Canticles. He has two works forthcoming: a novella, Alien Weaving, from Green Integer; and a book of poems, Sri Lankan Loxodrome, from Canopic Publishing. His most recent book, a trilogy of novels, Sunrise and Armageddon, is out from Spuyten Duyvil. The International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, England named Will Outstanding Scholar of the 20th Century, and he was also recognized by the Whiting Foundation for exceptional literary achievement in New York. In 2002 Will received a fellowship for poetry from the California Arts Council.

Our podcast of LA-Lit 14a: Will Alexander is now online. The interview was originally recorded on Sunday, June 25th at 2pm.

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Will Alexander is a poet and visual artist. Working from Los Angeles, he has updated the alchemy of surrealist vision (found in such poets as Aimé Césaire and Raymond Roussel) to write his own cosmic parables, in his own electric incandescent language. His poetic works include Exobiology as Goddess, Asia & Haiti, Above the Human Nerve Domain, Towards the Primeval Lightning Field (essays), and The Stratospheric Canticles. He has two works forthcoming: a novella, Alien Weaving, from Green Integer; and a book of poems, Sri Lankan Loxodrome, from Canopic Publishing. His most recent book, a trilogy of novels, Sunrise and Armageddon, is out from Spuyten Duyvil. The International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, England named Will Outstanding Scholar of the 20th Century, and he was also recognized by the Whiting Foundation for exceptional literary achievement in New York. In 2002 Will received a fellowship for poetry from the California Arts Council.

Our podcast of LA-Lit 13b: Bruna Mori is now online. The interview was originally recorded on Sunday, May 21, 2006 at 2pm.

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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.

Our podcast of LA-Lit 13a: Bruna Mori is now online. The interview was originally recorded on Sunday, May 21, 2006 at 2pm.

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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.

Our podcast of LA-Lit 12b: Matvei Yankelevich and Anna Moschovakis is now online. The interview was originally recorded on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 at 8pm.

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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.

Our podcast of LA-Lit 12a: Matvei Yankelevich and Anna Moschovakis is now online. The interview was originally recorded on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 at 8pm.

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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.

Our podcast of LA-Lit 11a: Anthony McCann is now online. The interview was originally recorded on Sunday, April 9, 2006 at 5pm.

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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.

Anthony read from his two books, Father of Noise and Moongarden.

Our podcast of LA-Lit 10b: José Felipe Alvergue is now online. The interview was originally recorded on Sunday, February 19, 2006 at 5pm

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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.

José read from the manuscript of his novel         -american.

Our podcast of LA-Lit 10a: José Felipe Alvergue is now online. The interview was originally recorded on Sunday, February 19, 2006 at 5pm

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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.

José read from the manuscript of his novel         -american.

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.