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featherless
A Reading Series
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Photos from Featherless #19
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Featherless #19
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Calvin Pennix holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Chapman University and lives with his wife and daughter in Mission Viejo, CA. He is currently an instructor at Everest College, where he teaches Composition, American Literature, Critical Thinking and Algebra. Calvin’s first book of poetry, Grounds, was published by Argotist Books, his second collection, Around/About, was published by Differentia Press and his chapbook, All Dried Up, was published by quarter after press. Calvin has been a featured artist at Counterexample Poetics and has had his poetry recently appear in Mad Hatters Review Blog, On Barcelona, Otoliths, Certain Circuits, experiential-experimental-literature, The Altered Scale, and Upstairs at Duroc. He is also the founding editor of quarter after/quarter after press a place for poetry, poetics and art and a visual artist represented by Gallery 207
Exciting October! Matias Viegener, Calvin Pennix and Elizabeth
Hall will be reading on October 12, at 8 pm, at Stories Books & Café.
Elizabeth
Hall was born in Louisiana and raised in
Georgia by two back-to-the-landers who got bored. She is currently finishing
her first nonfiction book, I HAVE DEVOTED MY LIFE TO THE CLITORIS, a study of
small things.
Calvin Pennix holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Chapman University and lives with his wife and daughter in Mission Viejo, CA. He is currently an instructor at Everest College, where he teaches Composition, American Literature, Critical Thinking and Algebra. Calvin’s first book of poetry, Grounds, was published by Argotist Books, his second collection, Around/About, was published by Differentia Press and his chapbook, All Dried Up, was published by quarter after press. Calvin has been a featured artist at Counterexample Poetics and has had his poetry recently appear in Mad Hatters Review Blog, On Barcelona, Otoliths, Certain Circuits, experiential-experimental-literature, The Altered Scale, and Upstairs at Duroc. He is also the founding editor of quarter after/quarter after press a place for poetry, poetics and art and a visual artist represented by Gallery 207
Matias
Viegener is an artist, author and critic who
teaches at CalArts. He is one of the founders of the art collective Fallen
Fruit, which has exhibited internationally in Mexico, Colombia, Denmark,
Austria, and at LACMA, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and ARCO 2010
in Madrid. He writes regularly on art for X-tra and ArtUS,
has recently published in Cabinet, Journal of Aesthetics &
Protest, Radical History Review, and Black Clock. He is
the co-editor of Séance in Experimental Writing and The
Noulipian Analects. His book of experimental
non-fiction, 2500 Random Things About Me, Too has recently
been published by Les Figues Press.
Stay tuned for November, with Duff Brenna and others tba.
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Featherless #18
August is on!
And it’s hot tonight. We have
Justin Huang, Katie Jacobson, and Anne Shaw reading on August 10th,
2012. We go on at 7:30pm at Stories
Books in Echo Park, as always, hang out and buy a book or a most delicious iced
coffee.
The authors:
Justin Huang is an
editor and producer based in Los Angeles. He is second-generation Taiwanese
American, born and raised in sun-kissed Southern California. He studied English
literature and writing at Pomona College and Oxford University. He's a featured
blogger on the Huffington Post, and he writes a sociosexual blog called I AM YELLOW PERIL.
KATIE JACOBSON IS A BEAR/SHARK HYBRID ORIGINALLY FROM NEW JERSEY. HER MFA FROM
CALARTS GOT HER A JOB AT A BOOKSTORE. SHE IS A GQ MOTHERFUCKER WHO LIKES TO
WRITE ABOUT GENETIC MUTANTS. HER WORK HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN VALEVEIL'S CASEBOK/EKPHRASIS
PROJECT AND IN HOT TEA, COLD WATER. KATIE SELF-PUBLISHED A ZINE,
VERGANGENHEITSBEWÄLTIGUNG, IN 2009, AND HAS SINCE AUTHORED VARIOUS PAMPHLETS
UNDER THE PSEUDONYM "ANARCHY SHARK." SHE CO-CURATES THE READING
SERIES YOU ARE CURRENTLY AT. SEE HER UNFINISHED WEBSITE AT KATIEJACOBSON.COM. HER BIO IS IN ALL
CAPS.
Anne Shaw is the author of Undertow, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky
Poetry Prize, and Shatter and Thrust,
forthcoming from Persea Books in 2013. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming
in numerous literary journals
including Harvard Review, Black Warrior
Review, Denver Quarterly, Crab Orchard Review, and New American Writing. Her extended poetry project can be found on
Twitter at twitter.com/anneshaw. She is currently a student of sculpture at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Next event, September 14th.
Friday, June 8, 2012
Photos from Featherless #17
Monday, May 14, 2012
Featherless #17
Please join us for Featherless #17, which will take place on Friday, June 8, at 8pm at Stories Books & Cafe in Echo Park. Our readers are Michelle Joyner, Ofelia del Corazon, and Dana Johnson.
Michelle Joyner
has been a professional actress her entire adult life, and is proud to
say that she has never had a day job. Of course, Government Assistance
was helpful in achieving that status. She has played a wide range of
roles in television, theater and movies. Thru out her career, Michelle
has had a simple goal: To live until the third act, and though that
dream was seldom realized, she is still recognized today as the girl
that Sylvester Stallone dropped 4000 feet off a mountain top in
CLIFFHANGER. She took a decade long hiatus from dying on screen that
ended just recently, during which she raised twin boys and wrote 8
studio screenplays, now sitting on 8 studio shelves. She most recently
guest starred on “Lie to Me” and “Bones” (Fox) and has segued seamlessly
from playing the victim to currently playing the victim’s mother.
Michelle has always performed other people’s words, or written words for
other people to perform, and is now out trying out saying the words in
public that she wrote, just for something new. And she gets to live.
Ofelia del Corazon is a writer, macho femme and profesional pervert. She is a founding member of the Los Angeles Transgender Film Festival and the curator of the "Naughty Bits" Erotic Film Shorts Program. She likes to watch videos of the artists she admires most (alone on repeat in her dark bedroom) then plot schemes to trick them into being her best friends forever and ever. These creepy schemes usually include organizing performances or screenings and writing about their work. She keeps a queer arts and culture blog at mommyfiercest.com
Dana Johnson's debut novel Elsewhere, California will be published June 12 by Counterpoint Press. It has received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and garnered advance praise from writers like T.C Boyle, Michelle Huneven, Oscar Hijuelos, and Aimee Bender. Dana is also is the author of the short story collection Break Any Woman Down, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Born and raised in and around Los Angeles, California, Dana is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern California. For more info on Dana, visit: www.danajohnsonauthor.com
Ofelia del Corazon is a writer, macho femme and profesional pervert. She is a founding member of the Los Angeles Transgender Film Festival and the curator of the "Naughty Bits" Erotic Film Shorts Program. She likes to watch videos of the artists she admires most (alone on repeat in her dark bedroom) then plot schemes to trick them into being her best friends forever and ever. These creepy schemes usually include organizing performances or screenings and writing about their work. She keeps a queer arts and culture blog at mommyfiercest.com
Dana Johnson's debut novel Elsewhere, California will be published June 12 by Counterpoint Press. It has received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and garnered advance praise from writers like T.C Boyle, Michelle Huneven, Oscar Hijuelos, and Aimee Bender. Dana is also is the author of the short story collection Break Any Woman Down, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Born and raised in and around Los Angeles, California, Dana is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern California. For more info on Dana, visit: www.danajohnsonauthor.com
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