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Sat, Nov 10 at 8 PM: Frank Montesonti, Peter Covino, and Jacqueline Lyons

Book launch for Blight, Blight, Blight, Ray of Hope

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

Frank Montesonti is the author of Blight, Blight, Blight, Ray of Hope, winner of the 2012 Barrow Street Book Contest. He has been published in literary journals such as Tin House, Black Warrior Review, AQR, Poet Lore, and Poems and Plays, among many others. His second collection, Hope Tree, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in 2014. He has an MFA from the University of Arizona and teaches poetry at National University. He lives in Los Angeles.
 
Peter Covino is the author of the poetry collections The Right Place to Jump (2012) and Cut Off the Ears of Winter (2005) both from W. Michigan University Press, New Issues.  His prizes include the 2007 PEN American/ Osterweil Award for emerging poets and the Frank O’Hara Poetry Prize for his chapbook, Straight Boyfriend (2001). His co-edited volume, Essays on Italian American Literature and Culture recently appeared from Bordighera Press, CUNY (2012). His poems have been published widely both in America and Italy in such places as the American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Columbia, Gulf Coast, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and The Penguin Anthology of Italian-American Writing, among others.  Peter is also one of the founding editors of Barrow Street Inc.; and he is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Rhode Island.

Jacqueline Lyons is the author of the poetry book The Way They Say Yes Here (Hanging Loose Press), the poetry chapbook Lost Colony (Dancing Girl Press), and has published over fifty poems and literary essays in national journals such as Bellingham Review, Colorado Review, The Journal, Quarter After Eight, and Sonora Review. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry, a Nevada Arts Council Fellowship in Nonfiction, and Utah Arts Council Literary Awards in Poetry and Nonfiction. She teaches at California Lutheran University.
 

Saturday, October 20th at 8 PM: Suzanne Scanlon and Amanda Ackerman

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

Suzanne Scanlon’s first book, Promising Young Women, will be published this October from Dorothy, a publishing project. Recent fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, BOMB Magazine, Identity Theory and is forthcoming in The Brooklyn Rail and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago, where she teaches in the English Department of Columbia College and writes about theater for Time Out.

Amanda Ackerman is the author of four chapbooks: Sin is to Celebration (co-author, House Press), The Seasons Cemented (Hex Presse), I Fell in Love with a Monster Truck (Insert Press Parrot #8), and Short Stones (Dancing Girl Press). She is co-publisher and co-editor of the press eohippus labs. She also writes collaboratively as part of the projects SAM OR SAMANTHA YAMS and UNFO. Her writing has been published in a variety of literary publications, including, most recently, TH.CE Magazine, Everyday Genius, WestWind Review, and Shearsman Magazine. 

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Saturday, September 15th at 8 PM: Colin Winnette and Amelia Gray

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

Colin Winnette’s most recent book, a collection of short prose entitled Animal Collection, is forthcoming from Spork Press on September 8th. Recently, he won the Sonora Review’s Short Short Fiction Contest, and was a Finalist for the 1913 First Book Award. He lives in San Francisco.

Amelia Gray is the author of AM/PM (Featherproof Books) and Museum of the Weird (FC2), for which she won the 2008 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize. Her first novel, THREATS, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Her writing has appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, McSweeney’s, and DIAGRAM, among others.

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.

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