Featherless #4

Featherless #4 will be held at Wordspace on September 19th, 2010 at 7:30 pm.

The readers: 

Khadija Anderson returned in 2008 to her native Los Angeles after 18 years exile in Seattle. Khadija's poetry has been published extensively in print, online, and elsewhere. She is an MFA candidate at Antioch University L.A. and her poem "Islam for Americans" was a 2011 Pushcart nominee.

Sarah B. Burghauser is an LA-based writer, scholar, and mixed-media artist. Sarah publishes with A Café in Space, the Anaïs Nin literary journal, is a Lambda Literary Writers Retreat Fellow, and has been awarded a residency at the MacDowell Colony. Currently Sarah works on her first book, Nincarnation, a text that insists it is possible to know oneself in the life of another.

Michael Molitch-Hou™ is founder and chair of the Reality™ Institute, a service institute dedicated to understanding reality in the silliest way possible. He is a current MFA student at CalArts in the field of creative writing and a firm advocate of world peace.

Reception to follow.

Featherless #3

Featherless #3 will be held at Wordspace on August 15, 2010 at 7:30 pm.

The readers:

Kirsty Singer is a semi-native Southern Californian and the daughter of scientists. In another life she might have been a really bad taxonomist. Instead she writes poems in which she records signs from the universe.

Valerie Savior currently lives in Los Angeles where she writes poetry and fiction when she is not at work at Occidental College. Valerie’s work has appeared in Carnet de Route, Colorado Review, Fine Madness, The Germ, The Iowa Review, Seneca Review, and Volt.   

Anthony McCann is the author of Father of Noise, Moongarden and the forthcoming collection I Heart Your Fate.  He lives in Los Angeles.

Reception to follow.

Featherless #2

Featherless #2 will be held at Wordspace on July 18, 2010 at 7:30 pm.

The readers:

Ama Birch lives in Los Angeles, California. She has authored three chapbooks, "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow," "Faces in the Clouds," and "Forms".

Chiwan Choi's poems and essays have appeared in ONTHEBUS, Esquire, and circa, among others. Chiwan's first collection of poetry, The Flood, was published by Tia Chucha Press in April, 2010. He received an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU and with his wife, Judith Oden runs Writ Large Press, published Los Angeles writers.

Harold Abramowitz  is a writer from Los Angeles.  His recent publications include Not Blessed (Les Figues Press) and A House on a Hill {A House on a Hill, Part One} (Insert Press) Harold writes collaboratively as part of SOSY and UNFO, and co-edits the short-form literary press eohippus labs.

Reception to follow.

Featherless #1

Featherless #1 will be held at Wordspace on June 20 at 7:30 pm. Wordspace is located at 3191 Casitas Ave. #156, Los Angeles CA 90039 [map]. Featherless is curated by Katie Jacobson and Andrea Lambert.

The readers:

Allison Carter is the author of a book, A Fixed, Formal Arrangement (Les Figues Press), and two chapbooks: Shadows are Weather (Horse Less Press) and All Bodies Are The Same and They Have The Same Reactions (Blanc Press). She currently lives in Los Angeles, where she co-edits the Particle Series (psbooks.org). For more information: accarter.com

Saehee Cho holds a BA in Literature/Writing from the University of California, San Diego and a MFA in Writing from Calarts. She has just completed her first collection of short stories tentatively titled "Form, Composite." Her work has been featured in Shrapnel and Ex Nihilo. Aside from writing, she bakes.

Flint just completed her first book, Blood: A Memoir, and is editing an anthology charting the spectrum of feminist ideologies of sexual desire. She is on the adjunct faculty at Antioch University and California Institute of the Arts, where she teaches writing, with an emphasis on the interplay between creative nonfiction and critical theories of identity.

Reception to follow.