Please join us at 7:30 pm on Friday, January 3 for a reading
with Brenda Hillman, Frances Richard and Evelyn Reilly
Admission is FREE.
Beverages and snacks will be served.
Frances Richard
is the author of Anarch. (Futurepoem,
2012), The Phonemes (Les Figues
Press, 2012) and See Through (Four
Way Books, 2003), as well as the chapbooks Shaved
Code (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2008) and Anarch. (Woodland Editions, 2008). She writes frequently about
contemporary art and is co-author, with Jeffrey Kastner and Sina Najafi, of Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s“Fake Estates” (Cabinet Books, 2005). She has been a visiting scholar at
the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and is the recipient of a Creative
Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and a research grant from the
Graham Foundation. Currently she teaches at the California College of the Arts
in San Francisco.
Beverages and snacks will be served.
Brenda Hillman
has published chapbooks with Penumbra Press, a+bend press, and
EmPress; she is the author of nine full-length collections from Wesleyan University Press, the most recent of which are Practical Water (2009)
and Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (2013).
With Patricia Dienstfrey, she edited The
Grand Permission: New Writings
on Poetics and Motherhood (Wesleyan,
2003). Hillman teaches at St. Mary’s College of California where she
is the Olivia C. Filippi Professor of Poetry; she is an activist for social and
environmental justice and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. http://www.blueflowerarts.com/brenda-hillman.
Frances Richard
is the author of Anarch. (Futurepoem,
2012), The Phonemes (Les Figues
Press, 2012) and See Through (Four
Way Books, 2003), as well as the chapbooks Shaved
Code (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2008) and Anarch. (Woodland Editions, 2008). She writes frequently about
contemporary art and is co-author, with Jeffrey Kastner and Sina Najafi, of Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s“Fake Estates” (Cabinet Books, 2005). She has been a visiting scholar at
the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and is the recipient of a Creative
Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and a research grant from the
Graham Foundation. Currently she teaches at the California College of the Arts
in San Francisco.
Evelyn Reilly’s books of poetry include Apocalypso and Styrofoam, both published by Roof Books. Essays and poetry have
recently appeared in Omniverse, Jacket2, the Eco-language Reader, Interim,
Verse, The Arcadia Project:
Postmodernism and the Pastoral, and &NOW
Awards2: The Best Innovative Writing.
She lives in New York City and Columbia County, New York. 