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.
