WHAT:
But then you just have to take a deep breath and be like it’s ok. Melissa Eleftherion, Norma Cole, and Jocelyn Saidenberg take on “the incommensurate” in this twelfth installment of the Canessa Gallery Reading Series.
Melissa Eleftherion grew up in Brooklyn. Her poetry has appeared in The Paterson Literary Review, Big Scream, Defenestration, Inch, TRY, and Ur Vox, as well as online in Womb and the press gang. Forthcoming work includes a long piece from Letterbox Magazine. She received her MFA from Mills College and lives in Oakland with a gorilla and a phoenix.
Norma Cole’s new work just out: Natural Light from Libellum Press, If I’m Asleep from Mermaid Tenement Press, and Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988—2008 from City Lights. Forthcoming is 14,000 Things from a-bend press. Among her books are Collective Memory, Do the Monkey, and Spinoza in Her Youth. Current translation work includes Danielle Collobert’s Journals, Fouad Gabriel Naffah’s The Spirit God and the Properties of Nitrogen and Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France. Cole has been the recipient of a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award, Gertrude Stein Awards, the Fund for Poetry, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
Jocelyn Saidenberg’s books are: Mortal City (Parentheses Writing Series), CUSP (Kelsey St. Press), Negativity (Atelos), and Dispossessed (Belladonna). She is the founding editor of KRUPSKAYA Books.
WHEN:
Saturday, June 20, 8pm
WHERE:
Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street, SF
TICKETS:
Open to the public ($5 at the door). Refreshments provided.
Coming up next: August 15, 8pm – Filip Marinovich, Cedar Sigo, and giovanni singleton on “resistance” . . .
Monday, June 8, 2009
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