Sunday, December 7, 2008

December 6/Teresa Miller/Taylor Brady/Susan Gevirtz

WHAT:
When is a poem more than the sum of its parts? Teresa K. Miller, Taylor Brady, and Susan Gervirtz piece the “fragments” together in this sixth installment of the Canessa Gallery Reading Series.

Teresa K. Miller is the author of Forever No Lo (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2008). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in ZYZZYVA, Word For/Word, DIAGRAM, Tarpaulin Sky, MiPOesias, Coconut, Shampoo, Cricket Online Review, and others. Originally from Seattle, she currently teaches in Oakland.

Taylor Brady is active in the Nonsite Collective (www.nonsitecollective.org), and is the author of books including Yesterday’s News, Occupational Treatment, and Snow Sensitive Skin, co-authored with Rob Halpern.

Susan Gevirtz’s books include Aerodrome Orion & Starry Messenger, forthcoming
from Kelsey Street; Broadcast; THRALL; Omatic & After St. John; Hourglass Transcripts; Spelt, a collaboration with Myung Mi Kim; Black Box Cutaway, PROSTHESIS : : CAESAREA; Taken Place; Linen minus; Domino: point of entry; Korean and Milkhouse; and the critical study Narrative's Journey: The Fiction and Film Writing of Dorothy Richardson. Her many essays have appeared in literary magazines and scholarly journals. An Assistant Professor for 10 years at Sonoma State University, she now teaches in the MFA in Poetry program at Mills College. With Greek poet Siarita Kouka she runs The Paros Symposium, an annual meeting of poets and translators from Greece and the U.S.

WHERE:
Canessa Gallery
708 Montgomery Street, SF

TICKETS:
Open to the public ($3 at the door).

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