LA-Lit: Clouds :: November 21+22+23, 2008
at Betalevel, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock and High Energy Constructs

A call to LA-Lit Interviewees for conferees and performers to perform and confer.
To sign up for a panel or performance, e-mail us at laliterature@gmail.com by October 27.
In the interest of encouraging more poetic presentations, we have made our panel topics purposefully open-ended. We will limit each panel to 4 or 5 presenters each with 15 minutes maximum.

Friday November 21 at 8:00pm:
Perform at Betalevel

Saturday November 22:
Confer at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock

10:30am-12:00pm
form-body-surface-material-method-growth-sound-mass
condensation-structure-elements-foreground-background

12:30pm-2:00pm
atmospheric-nebulae-clarity-reveals-recreation-currents
groundless-textured-visible-droplets-interstellar-crystalline

2:30pm-4:00pm
connectivity-dense-manifest-rhythm-decenter-collaborate
surprise-confer-disperse-spontaneity-currents

7:00pm
Perform at High Energy Constructs

Betalevel – in the alley behind 963 N. Hill St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
http://betalevel.com/
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock – 2225 Colorado Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90041
http://www.centerartseaglerock.org/
High Energy Constructs – 990 N Hill Street #180, Los Angeles, CA 90012
http://www.highenergyconstructs.com/

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.

We’d like to invite you to a live radio recording, reading & conversation this coming Sunday, November 11 at 5 p.m. at Betalevel in Chinatown. Catherine Daly 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.

Catherine Daly is author of the forthcoming Vauxhall (Shearsman, 08) and Heavy Rotation (BlazeVox, 07) as well as five other fabulous books (DaDaDa, Locket, To Delite and Instruct, Paper Craft, and Chanteuse / Cantatrice), some eBooks and eChaps (ex., Paper Craft (again), Secret Kitty, Kittenhood, Boy Girl Boy, The Last Canto, Glosses, Make-Up), and many chapbooks and ephemeral publications. While she founded i.e. Press at about the same she moved to Los Angeles, she just began publishing books. She began reviewing and writing essays about poetry about ten years ago, too. She earned an MFA about 17 years ago. She has curated reading series in Hartford, New York, and Los Angeles. She has been a car hop, deejay, astrologer, building contractor, and senior technology manager. She is married to a writer, Ron Burch, and her pet is a parrot, Po.

We’d like to invite you to a live radio recording, reading & conversation this coming Sunday, November 4 at 5 p.m. at Betalevel in Chinatown. Eileen Myles 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.

In Eileen Myles’ latest book, Sorry, Tree, she describes “some nature” as well as the transmigration of souls from the east coast to the west. Bust Magazine calls Myles “the rock star of modern poetry” and Holland Cotter in The New York Times describes her as “a cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant garde.” Eileen arrived in New York after college, (U. Mass. (Boston)) gaining the friendship of Allen Ginsberg, working for poet James Schuyler, becoming a habitue of the household of Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley and generally being a notable part of the turbulent punk and art scene that animated Manhattan’s East Village, giving her first reading at CBGB’s in 1974. A virtuoso performer of her work - she’s read and performed at colleges, performance spaces, and bookstores across North America as well as in Europe, Iceland, Ireland and Russia. She’s published more than 20 volumes of poetry, fiction, articles, plays and libretti including Hell (an opera with composer Michael Webster, 2004) Skies, (2001), on my way, (2001), Cool for You, (a novel, 2000), School of Fish, (1997), Maxfield Parrish, (1995), Not Me, (1991), and Chelsea Girls, (stories, 1994). In 1995, with Liz Kotz, she edited The New Fuck You/adventures in Lesbian Reading (Semiotext(e). In 1992 she conducted an openly female write-in campaign for President of the United States. In the 80s she was Artistic Director of St. Mark’s Poetry Project. In ‘97 and again in 2007 Eileen toured with Sister Spit, a post-punk female performance troupe. She has been a professor of writing at UCSD since 2002. In 2007 she received The Andy Warhol/Creative Capital art writing fellowship. She contributes to a wide number of publications including Bookforum, the Believer, and lately Cabinet.