Thursday, April 2, 2009

April 11/Jennifer Manzano/Brent Cunningham/Stacy Doris‏

WHAT:
Thing significance thing. And to retrieve it. Retains of a particular. Jennifer Manzano, Brent Cunningham, and Stacy Doris recall and recollect “memory” in this tenth installment of the Canessa Gallery Reading Series.

Jennifer Manzano mothers in Alameda, letterpresses in Oakland, and gets paid in San Francisco. She received her MFA from Mills College in 2007 and co-publishes olywa press with Michael Nicoloff. Recent work is in or on TRY!, the press gang, Cricket Online Review, and this is not a french press.

Brent Cunningham is a writer, publisher and visual artist currently living in Oakland with his fiancée and new daughter. His first book of poetry, Bird & Forest, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2005. He works for Small Press Distribution in Berkeley, serves on the board of Small Press Traffic in San Francisco, and helps coordinate the Artifact Reading Series in Oakland. In 2005, he and Neil Alger founded Hooke Press, a chapbook press dedicated to publishing short runs of poetry, criticism, theory, writing and ephemera, which can be found at hookepress.com.

Stacy Doris writes books in French and English and is also deeply involved with translating. Forthcoming from P.O.L. is Caroline Dubois and Anne Portugal’s rendition of her Krupskaya book Paramour. She is a Creative Writing professor at San Francisco State University.

WHEN:
Saturday, April 11, 8pm

WHERE:
Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street, SF

TICKETS:
Open to the public ($5 at the door). Refreshments provided.



Coming up next: May 16, 8pm – Laurel DeCou, Stan Apps, and Bill Luoma on “the inarticulate”. . .