from Craig Perez
BACK ROOM LIVE ! SATURDAY NIGHT ! October 25th ! Curator M.C. CRAIG PEREZ ! STEPHANIE YOUNG ! MARGARET RHEE ! FRANCOIS LUONG ! JONNY HERNANDEZ ! Mc NALLY'S IRISH PUB 7pm !
Stephanie Young lives and works in Oakland, California. She's the author of Telling the Future Off (Tougher Disguises, 2005) and Picture Palace (ingirumimusnocte, 2008), and she edited the anthology Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006). Recent editorial work includes the collaborative website www.deepoakland.org. Find her online: www.stephanieyoung.org/blog.
Originally from Strasbourg, France, françois luong currently lives in San Francisco. Other work of his has appeared or is forthcoming in Cannibal, Parthenon West Review, New American Writing, and elsewhere. He is also working on a translation into English of chutes, essais, trafics by Rémi Froger and into French of wide slumber for lepidopterists by a.rawlings.
JTH (Johnny Hernandez) is a writer who has been born and raised in and around southern California. JTH currently resides in Emeryville and has been the recent recipient of the Academy of American Poets award for 2008. A recent graduate of the University of California at Berkeley in English, JTH is pursuing an MFA degree from Mills College. His most recent collection of poems entitled 'U' is his first published collection.
Margaret Rhee is an interdisciplinary writer and artist. Currently she is a doctorate student in the program in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. She has written academic articles on representation, race, and sexuality for Amerasia Journal; the anthology Crash Course: Reflections on the Film 'Crash' for Critical Dialogues About Race, Power and Privilege; and the journal of Sexuality Research and Social Policy. Previously she worked as writer and editor in Los Angeles for "YOLK Magazine,""Chopblock.com," and "Back Stage." She earned her BA in creative writing at the University of Southern California, and her MA in Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. She is Kundiman fellow, where in the hot, humid, and gorgeous summers of Virginia, she fell in love with poetry.
Craig Santos Perez is the co-editor of Achiote Press and author of from unincorporated territory (Tinfish Press, 2008).
LIFE LONG PRESS ! OAKLAND ! OCTOBER ! 2008
So that's,
Sat.Oct 25th at 7pm
McNally's Irish Pub
5352 College Ave
Oakland, CA 94618
Minutes from the Rockridge BART Station
and on the 51 bus line
There will be no reading the last Saturday of November!
Saturday December 6th Back Room Live Two Year Anniversary and Life-long Press Publication Event w/ JANE MILLER, BRIAN TEARE, CHRIS STROFFOLINO, HARMONY HOLIDAY, and issues of /BRL Editors Choice Edition/!!!
Thursday January 8th BRL at Book Zoo A Celebration Reading!!! w/ readers from the /BRL Editors Choice Edition/ to be announced
Stephanie Young lives and works in Oakland, California. She's the author of Telling the Future Off (Tougher Disguises, 2005) and Picture Palace (ingirumimusnocte, 2008), and she edited the anthology Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006). Recent editorial work includes the collaborative website www.deepoakland.org. Find her online: www.stephanieyoung.org/blog.
Originally from Strasbourg, France, françois luong currently lives in San Francisco. Other work of his has appeared or is forthcoming in Cannibal, Parthenon West Review, New American Writing, and elsewhere. He is also working on a translation into English of chutes, essais, trafics by Rémi Froger and into French of wide slumber for lepidopterists by a.rawlings.
JTH (Johnny Hernandez) is a writer who has been born and raised in and around southern California. JTH currently resides in Emeryville and has been the recent recipient of the Academy of American Poets award for 2008. A recent graduate of the University of California at Berkeley in English, JTH is pursuing an MFA degree from Mills College. His most recent collection of poems entitled 'U' is his first published collection.
Margaret Rhee is an interdisciplinary writer and artist. Currently she is a doctorate student in the program in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. She has written academic articles on representation, race, and sexuality for Amerasia Journal; the anthology Crash Course: Reflections on the Film 'Crash' for Critical Dialogues About Race, Power and Privilege; and the journal of Sexuality Research and Social Policy. Previously she worked as writer and editor in Los Angeles for "YOLK Magazine,""Chopblock.com," and "Back Stage." She earned her BA in creative writing at the University of Southern California, and her MA in Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. She is Kundiman fellow, where in the hot, humid, and gorgeous summers of Virginia, she fell in love with poetry.
Craig Santos Perez is the co-editor of Achiote Press and author of from unincorporated territory (Tinfish Press, 2008).
LIFE LONG PRESS ! OAKLAND ! OCTOBER ! 2008
So that's,
Sat.Oct 25th at 7pm
McNally's Irish Pub
5352 College Ave
Oakland, CA 94618
Minutes from the Rockridge BART Station
and on the 51 bus line
There will be no reading the last Saturday of November!
Saturday December 6th Back Room Live Two Year Anniversary and Life-long Press Publication Event w/ JANE MILLER, BRIAN TEARE, CHRIS STROFFOLINO, HARMONY HOLIDAY, and issues of /BRL Editors Choice Edition/!!!
Thursday January 8th BRL at Book Zoo A Celebration Reading!!! w/ readers from the /BRL Editors Choice Edition/ to be announced
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