Please join us at Studio One on Friday, March 6
at 7:30 pm for a reading featuring
at 7:30 pm for a reading featuring
Laura Mullen, Denise Newman, and Dale Going!
~ Admission is free ~
Snacks & beverages provided.
Studio One Art Center
Laura Mullen is
the author of eight books: Complicated Grief (forthcoming from Solid Objects), Enduring Freedom: A Little Book of Mechanical Brides, The Surface, After I Was Dead,
Subject, Dark Archive, The Tales of Horror, and Murmur. Recognitions
for her poetry include Ironwood’s Stanford Prize, a National Endowment for the
Arts Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Award, among other honors. She has had several
MacDowell Fellowships and is a frequent visitor at the Summer Writing Program
at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa. Her work has been
widely anthologized and recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in New American Writing, Fence and Abridged. Mullen is the McElveen Professor in English at LSU and
the Director of Creative Writing at Louisiana State University. Her
collaboration with composer Nathan Davis for the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
premiered in November 2014.
Dale
Going is a poet-book artist, publishing handmade letterpress chapbooks and
broadsides by contemporary women poets under the Em Press imprint. Em
Press editions are in private collections, the special collections of
university and public libraries, and in the National Museum of Women in the
Arts. Her first full-length collection of poetry, As/Of the Whole, was selected by Brenda Hillman for the San
Francisco State University Poetry Chapbook Award; her second, The View They Arrange (Kelsey
St. Press) was a finalist for the
Poets’ Prize. Chapbooks include Or Less,
She Pushes With Her Hands, (Em Press) and Leaves from a Gradual (Potes and Poets Press). She was co-founder
of the quarterly ROOMS (1994-2003), an important forum for women writers
and artists interested in formal and visual experimentation. She has received
grants and awards from the Fund for Poetry, the California Arts Council, the
Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival. Recent
poetry appeared in VOLT; the latest
Em Press publication is a broadside of a poem by Colleen Lookingbill.
Two
winters ago Dale moved to the Adirondack Park of upstate New York after 35
years in the Bay Area. After the second winter she concluded that there was no
reason to be in upstate New York in March, as, despite the calendar, there
would never be a spring. She is delighted to be spending this March in the Bay
Area, in an exultation of wildflowers and poet friends.
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| Photo credit: Rachel Walther |
Denise Newman is the author of The New Make Believe, Wild Goods, Human Forest, and the forthcoming Future People. She is also a translator, and last year she received an NEA grant to complete her translation of the short story collection Baboon by the Danish writer, Naja Marie Aidt, published by Two Lines Press. For many years Newman has been collaborating with composers, providing lyrics for numerous choral works, and in May a large-scale performance of “Pandora’s Gift,” a work she’s creating with Mark Winges and director/choreographer Erika Chong Shuch, will be performed at Z Space. Also in the works is a multimedia poetry installation at the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden that she and Hazel White received a grant from the Creative Work Fund to create, scheduled to open spring 2016.
