Friday, December 26, 2008

January 17/Erika Staiti/Suzanne Stein/Dodie Bellamy‏

WHAT:
Was it divine intervention or did the devil make you do it? Do you blame your first English teacher or that old Beat you met at City Lights? Why are you (gasp) a poet? Erika Staiti, Suzanne Stein, and Dodie Bellamy ponder the nature of “influence” in this seventh installment of the Canessa Gallery Reading Series.

Erika Staiti lives in North Oakland. She is currently running a Fassbinder marathon.

Suzanne Stein is a poet. Two of several projects forthcoming this year: a chapbook, Passenger Ship, from Ypolita press, and Signs of Life from O Books. Former co-director and film curator at four walls gallery, she works currently as community producer at SFMOMA. Stein is editor and publisher of the small press TAXT and lives in Oakland. Please visit www.taxtpress.blogspot.com or www.i-caved.blogspot.com

Dodie Bellamy's chapbook Barf Manifesto is just out from Ugly Duckling Presse. Other books include Academonia, Pink Steam, and The Letters of Mina Harker. Her book Cunt-Ups won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for poetry. In January 2006, she curated an installation of Kathy Acker’s clothing for White Columns, New York’s oldest alternative art space. She lives in San Francisco with writer Kevin Killian and three cats.

WHERE:
Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street (at Columbus), SF

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

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).