The Empty Globe

Saturday, May 5th at 8 PM: Gina Abelkop and Kate Durbin

at Pieter (Lincoln Heights)
420 West Avenue 33, Unit 10 Los Angeles, CA 90031
*please park on the street, and not in the lot

$5 donation, or pay what you can

Gina Abelkop is a Pisces living in Northern California with a pug named after Ava Gardner. She is the founder/editor of the DIY feminist press Birds of Lace and author of Darling Beastlettes (Apostrophe Books, 2012). Visit her online at http://themoonstop.blogspot.com.

Kate Durbin is a Los Angeles-based writer and performance artist. She is author of The Ravenous Audience (Akashic Books), E! Entertainment (Blanc Press Diamond Edition, forthcoming), The Fashion Issue (Wonder, forthcoming), and, with Amaranth Borsuk, ABRA (Zg Press, forthcoming). Her projects have been featured in Spex, Huffington Post, The New Yorker, Salon.com, AOL, Poets and Writers, TMobile’s Digital Daily, Poets.org, VLAK, Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion, Black Warrior Review, Joyland, berfrois, SUPERMACHINE, Drunken Boat, NPR, Bookslut, Fanzine, and The American Scholar, among others. She is founding editor of Gaga Stigmata, an online arts and criticism journal about Lady Gaga, which will be published as a book from Zg Press in 2012.

Saturday, March 31st at 8 PM: Miranda Mellis and Julianna Snapper

at Pieter (Lincoln Heights)
420 West Avenue 33, Unit 10 Los Angeles, CA 90031
*please park on the street, and not in the lot

$5 donation

Miranda Mellis is the author of a story collection, None of This Is Real (Sidebrow 2012), a novella, The Spokes (Solid Objects 2012),a chapbook of documentary poetics, Materialisms (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs 2009) and The Revisionist (Calamari Press 2007), illustrated by Derek White. The Revisionist is out in Croatian and Italian and was the subject of a 90-foot mural by artist Megan Vossler. Mellis is the recipient of John Hawkes Prize in Fiction and an NEH grant. Her various writings have appeared in various publications including most recently Conjunctions and The Believer. She is an editor at The Encyclopedia Project and teaches at Mills College and the California College of the Arts.

Saturday, December 10 at 8 PM: Jibade-Khalil Huffman and Thomas Trudgeon

at Pieter (Lincoln Heights)
420 West Avenue 33, Unit 10 Los Angeles, CA 90031
*please park on the street, and not in the lot

$5 donation

Jibade-Khalil Huffman is the author of two books of poems, “19 Names For Our Band” (Fence, 2008) and “James Brown is Dead” (Future Plan and Program, 2011). His art and writing projects, spanning photography, video, performance and poetry, have been exhibited and performed at MoMA/PS1, Southern Exposure, Mt. Tremper Arts, and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, among others. He was a 2010-2011 Workspace Artist-in-Residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in New York. Educated at Bard College and Brown University, he lives in Los Angeles.

Tom Trudgeon is a poet. Some of his publishable work has been featured in Shampoo, Out of Nothing, Horse Less Review, and others. He has a small chapbook, ‘having been spoken w.’, through Avantacular Press. He is also co-editor of Dear Memo Magazine, a small arts and poetics fanzine run out of San Francisco and Brooklyn.

Painting by anonymous Indian artist, ca. 1710

(via cephalopodqueen)

Saturday, November 19 at 8 PM: Bruna Mori, Adam Novy, and Mark Wallace

at Pieter (Lincoln Heights)
420 West Avenue 33, Unit 10 Los Angeles, CA 90031
*please park on the street, and not in the lot

$5 donation

Bruna Mori is a writer, and educator, preoccupied with peripatetics. Her books include Derivé (Meritage Press), with paintings by Matthew Kinney, and Poetry for Corporations (forthcoming from Insert Press), exploring the unregulated drift of people and commodities through cities. Since moving to La Jolla, she has turned her attention to the suburbs, with photographer George Porcari, in a collaboration titled “Beige.” She also teaches in the writing program at the University of California at San Diego, and writes for a nonprofit design and media firm called Lybba founded by filmmaker Jesse Dylan, dedicated to open-source health advocacy worldwide. She is also Lucien’s mom.

Adam Novy is the author of a novel, The Avian Gospels (Hobart). He lives in Southern California.

Mark Wallace is the author of more than fifteen books and chapbooks of poetry, fiction, and essays. Temporary Worker Rides A Subway won the 2002 Gertrude Stein Poetry Award and was published by Green Integer Books. His critical articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, and he has co-edited two essay collections, Telling It Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990s, and A Poetics of Criticism. Most recently he has published a novel, The Quarry and The Lot (2011), and a book of poems, Felonies of Illusion (2008). He teaches at California State University San Marcos. 

pastichepastiche:

Josef Albers, 1922 (stained glass).

Sat, August 6 at 8 PM: Colin Dickey, David Emanuel, and Cheryl Klein

at Pieter (Lincoln Heights)
420 West Avenue 33, Unit 10 Los Angeles, CA 90031
*please park on the street, and not in the lot

$5 donation

Colin Dickey is the author of Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius, and co-editor (with Nicole Antebi and Robby Herbst) of Failure! Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practices. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, Cabinet, and TriQuarterly. He’s a distinguished alumnus of his elementary school.

David Emanuel has collaborated with artists to make performance installations, zines, and occasional artifacts. His writing, both critical and creative, has appeared online and in print in How2, Court Green, and With + Stand. He currently lives in Providence, RI where he is a graduate student in the Literary Arts program at Brown University.

Cheryl Klein is the author of Lilac Mines (Manic D Press) and The Commuters, which won City Works Press’ Ben Reitman Award. She recently received a grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation to complete a novel about wayward circus performers. Her fiction has appeared in The Normal School, Other, and several anthologies. She directs the California office of Poets & Writers, Inc. by day and blogs about life, art and carbohydrates at breadandbread.blogspot.com​.

Sat, July 16 at 8 PM: Saehee Cho, Last Nights of Paris, and Margaret Wappler

at Pieter (Lincoln Heights)
420 West Avenue 33, Unit 10 Los Angeles, CA 90031
*please park on the street, and not in the lot

$5 donation

Saehee Cho holds an MFA in Writing from The California Institute of The Arts. Her work has been featured in Sidebrow, decomP, BAP, PANK and Out of Nothing. She lives in Los Angeles. 

Last Nights of Paris, named after a novel of mad love & mystery by surrealist author Philippe Soupault, is the sound project of Los Angeles resident David Eng. David is currently involved with Machine Project & Betalevel in addition to performing with Ambient Force 3000 & synth/drums duo Crime Wave.

Margaret Wappler writes for the Los Angeles Times about arts and culture, and has been published in Black Clock, The Believer, Joyland, LA Weekly, Rolling Stone and the upcoming debut issue of Public Fiction. She read from her novel-in-progress at the Hammer Museum earlier this year with Ann Beattie, and also presented at the EMP Pop Music Conference at UCLA. She is finishing a novel that explores environmentalism, the suburban landscape, and alien spaceships.