On Saturday, December 2 at 1pm, writers Del Ray Cross, Susan Gevirtz, Suzanne Stein, Stephanie Young and Magdalena Zurawski (whose work appears in the new anthology Bay Poetics edited by Stephanie Young) were our guests.

After the recording of LA-Lit, visiting and local writers held an informal Salon with our guests until 6pm.

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LA-Lit 17 Discussion
LA-Lit 17 Readings

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Del Ray Cross edits Shampoo a sudsy online literary magazine, and thrives in San Francisco. He has a chapbook and a half available from Pressed Wafer (including Cinema Yosemite) and a couple postcard books from Poetry Espresso (with Stephanie Young and Cassie Lewis).

Susan Gevirtz was an associate editor of HOW(ever) a journal of modernist/innovative directions in women’s poetry and scholarship, on the editorial advisory board of the journal Avec, and the online journal HOW2. Her books include Hourglass Transcripts, Burning Deck, 2001, Spelt, collaboration with Myung Mi Kim, a+bend press, 1999; Black Box Cutaway, Kelsey Street Press, 1999; Narrative’s Journey: The Fiction and Film Writing of Dorothy Richardson, Peter Lang, 1996; PROSTHESIS : : CAESAREA, Potes and Poets, 1994; Taken Place, Reality Street, 1993; Linen minus, Avenue B, 1992; and Domino: point of entry, Leave Books, 1992.

Suzanne Stein’s works have appeared in the publications Mirage #4/Period[ical], Commonweal, Small Town, The Bay Area Poetry Anthology, and at the venues Refusalon Gallery, the San Francisco Exploratorium, the Berkeley Art Center, Outpost for Contemporary Art, and elsewhere. She is the former co-director and film curator of four walls gallery, San Francisco.

Stephanie Young lives in Oakland and works at Mills College, but she’s also a resident of the internet, and you can find her there at The Well Nourished Moon. She is a board member at Small Press Traffic, San Francisco’s 30-year-old literary arts center. She also hosted a popular series of poetry readings at her house in Oakland for several years, and is the editor of BAY POETICS, an anthology out from Faux Press. Her writing has been published in Pettycoat Relaxer, Five Fingers Review, VeRT, Shampoo, Mirage Period(ical), Cypress Magazine, LIT, can we have our ball back? and Combo.

Magdalena Zurawski is currently working on a novel called The Bruise and she keeps a blog at Minor Americans. She says of herself “I was born in Newark NJ and grew up in Edison NJ but Providence RI feels like my hometown more than any place else because that’s where I started having sex and meeting poets and being a real person in a real world. My major poetic influences are Jack Spicer, Bruce Springsteen and Immanuel Kant (but only the 3rd critique). Early Bruce Springsteen albums make me happier than anything on earth (well, as happy as really really good poetry readings).”