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LA-Lit: Clouds :: November 21+22, 2008
at Betalevel and Center for the Arts Eagle Rock

Come celebrate LA-Lit’s three year anniversary on Friday November 21 at Betalevel and on Saturday November 22 at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock. For over three years, LA-Lit has developed a new space for the literary culture of Los Angeles to develop and exhibit itself. Reflecting the shifting nature of Los Angeles, LA-Lit has conducted well over thirty interviews with poets and writers who have lived in LA all their lives as well as writers who have visited LA for only a few days. Please join us for LA-Lit: Clouds :: a two day conference in Los Angeles connecting the decentered literary culture of LA in an effort to investigate it’s current manifestations and to develop a sense of LA’s inherent literary spontaneity.

LA-Lit: Clouds :: Schedule
Friday November 21:
8:00pm-11:00pm:
Perform and Celebrate at Betalevel
Stan Apps, Teresa Carmody, Amarnath Ravva, Lisa Samuels, Christine Wertheim

Saturday November 22:
Confer at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock
12:00pm-1:30pm
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Panelists: Stan Apps, Guy Bennett, Christine Wertheim, Ara Shirinyan

2:00pm-3:30pm
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Panelists: Will Alexander, Teresa Carmody, Amarnath Ravva, Mark Wallace

4:30pm-6:00pm
Perform at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock
Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Will Alexander, Guy Bennett, K. Lorraine Graham, Sawako Nakayasu, Ara Shirinyan, Mark Wallace

Betalevel – in the alley behind 963 N. Hill St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock – 2225 Colorado Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90041

Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Otis College of Art + Design, Paul Vangelisti is the author of over twenty collections of poetry and other books. Translator, journalist, and former cultural affairs director at KPFK radio. NEA Translator Fellow, and NEA Poetry Fellow. Coeditor of the literary magazine Invisible City, and editor of Ribot, the annual publication of the College of Neglected Science.

In the fall of 2008, Paul Vangelisti and the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Otis College of Art + Design will be releasing the first issue of or, a semi-annual tabloid of poetry, fiction, essays, statements, provocations & other extensions of the whole art. Featuring new English translations of Adonis, Jorge Amado, Ahmed Barakat, Mohammed Dib, Horace, Ko Un, Giovanna Sandri, as well as a report on “The Position of Things,” the March 2008 celebration in Los Angeles, honoring the life and work of Italian poet, editor and critic Adriano Spatola. Also featured is new work by Amiri Baraka, Art Beck, Guy Bennett, Brian Blanchfield, Gillian Conoley, Ray DiPalma, Peter Gadol, Owen Hill, Lewis MacAdams, Barabara Maloutas, Ken McCullough, Douglas Messerli, Laura Moriarty, Yann Perreau, Dennis Phillips, Nick Piombino, Martha Ronk, Iris Smyles, Domenic Stansbery, Frederic Tuten, and more. Free-of-charge and distributed nationally, or is a publishing project of Otis College of Art and Design’s Graduate Writing program, replacing the critically acclaimed New Review of Literature, which published ten issue from 2003-2008. For more information, or to be on a list of free subscribers, please visit the publication’s website.

We’d like to invite you to a live radio recording, reading & conversation this coming Sunday, June 1 at 3 p.m. at Betalevel in Chinatown. Kristin Palm will be the featured writer on LA-lit, a radio show co-curated by Mathew Timmons & Stephanie Rioux. The show (& hence the recording) lasts a little over an hour and will be about 30 minutes of reading & about 30 minutes of questions & answers/further questions—alternating between the two modes in hopes of creating a space for dynamic conversation.

Kristin Palm’s writing has appeared in LVNG, Bird Dog, Boog City, Chain, There, Dusie and the anthology Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006), as well as numerous magazines and newspapers, including Metropolis, Planning and the Detroit Metro Times. Her book The Straits (two long poems about Detroit, her former hometown) was published this year by the serendipitously named Palm Press. Kristin currently resides in San Francisco, California.

We’d like to invite you to a live radio recording, reading & conversation this coming Sunday, March 9 at 7 p.m. at Betalevel in Chinatown. Dan Machlin will be the featured writer on LA-lit, a radio show co-curated by Mathew Timmons & Stephanie Rioux. The show (& hence the recording) lasts a little over an hour and will be about 30 minutes of reading & about 30 minutes of questions & answers/further questions—alternating between the two modes in hopes of creating a space for dynamic conversation.

Dan Machlin’s first book-length collection of poems is Dear Body (Ugly Duckling). His chapbooks include 6×7 (Ugly Duckling), This Side Facing You (Heart Hammer), and In Rem (@ Press), as well as Above Islands (Immanent Audio), an audio CD collaboration with singer/cellist Serena Jost. His poems and reviews have appeared in Fence, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Brooklyn Rail, and Soft Targets. Dan is founding editor and publisher of Futurepoem books, and co-curator of The Segue Series at Bowery Poetry Club in NYC.

PSA by Diane Ward – read by Diane Ward and Will Alexander

PSA by Guy Bennett

We interviewed Vanessa Place a while back, but unfortunately we had technical difficulties with the second half of the interview! We will be re-recording the second half of Vanessa Place’s interview this Sunday, March 16 at 3pm at Betalevel in Chinatown. This recording will last less than an hour and will be a combination of readings, questions & answers/further questions—alternating between the two modes in hopes of creating a space for dynamic conversation.

Vanessa Place is the author of a 50,000-word, one-sentence novel, Dies: A Sentence (2005), and a co-founder of here.”>Les Figues Press, publisher of the TrenchArt series of experimental literature. Her work has appeared in Northwest Review, Northridge Review, Film Comment, Contemporary Literary Criticism, 4th Street: A Poetry Bimonthly, LA Weekly Literary Supplement, Five Fingers Review, Greetings #10/11 and The nOulipian Analects. Her nonfiction book about sex-offenders and the morality of guilt will be published by Other Press, and her chapbook, Figure from The Gates of Paradise, has just been released from Woodland Editions.

We’d like to invite you to a live radio recording, reading & conversation this coming Sunday, March 9 at 7 p.m. at Betalevel in Chinatown. Therese Bachand will be the featured writer on LA-lit, a radio show co-curated by Mathew Timmons & Stephanie Rioux. The show (& hence the recording) lasts a little over an hour and will be about 30 minutes of reading & about 30 minutes of questions & answers/further questions—alternating between the two modes in hopes of creating a space for dynamic conversation.

Thérèse Bachand has two collections of poetry due to be published in 2008 – luce a cavallo, a 2005 Gertrude Stein Book Award (Green Integer Books), and Daughter of the Ephemeral Word (i.e.press). Her work has been anthologized in The PIP Anthology of World Poetry #5 – Intersections: Innovative Poetry in Southern California, and published in many journals, including the Brooklyn Rail, Mirage #4 Period(ical), area sneaks, Minor/American, Primary Writing, Beyond Baroque, and Tinfish. In 2002, she collaborated with Diane Ward and organized a group of LA woman poets who meet periodically on a casual basis.

We’d like to invite you to a live radio recording, reading & conversation this coming Sunday, December 2 at 1 p.m. at Betalevel in Chinatown. Nada Gordon will be the featured writer on LA-lit, a radio show co-curated by Mathew Timmons & Stephanie Rioux. The show (& hence the recording) lasts a little over an hour and will be about 30 minutes of reading & about 30 minutes of questions & answers/further questions—alternating between the two modes in hopes of creating a space for dynamic conversation.

Nada Gordon is the author of four poetry books: Folly (recently released from Roof Books), V. Imp, Are Not Our Lowing Heifers Sleeker than Night-Swollen Mushrooms?, foriegnn bodie and, with Gary Sullivan, an epistolary techno-romantic non-fiction novel, Swoon. She practices poetry as deep entertainment and is a proud member of the Flarflist Collective. Visit her blog at http://ululate.blogspot.com.