Please join us on Friday,
June 3rd @ 7:30 pm for a reading w.
Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel, David Lau
and Garrett Caples!
Event is FREE.
Wine, Lagunitas beer and snacks will be served.
Studio One Art Center | 365 45th Street | Oakland, CA
| 94609
Here's a
map.
& as always, a huge thanks to our sponsors!
Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel’s work has appeared in VOLT, jubilat, The Volta, and The Offending Adam, and was recently
featured in the Aesthetic
Blitz exhibition from the Asian American Women Artists Association. Her
first book, occident, is forthcoming
from Called Back Books in 2017.
She is managing editor at Omnidawn
Publishing and editor of OmniVerse.
Gillian also co-publishes speCt!, a
chapbook series and book arts imprint, with Peter Burghardt and Robert Andrew
Perez. She lives in Oakland, California.
David Lau's
poetry and essays have appeared widely (in Boston Review, The American Reader, Armed Cell, New Orleans Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and New Left Review). His first book of
poetry, Virgil and the Mountain Cat, was
described by the Believer as "simultaneously creative and destructive …
grounded in—or rather, trapped by—the present." Commune Editions will publish his second
book this August; Still Dirty finds
its bearings in the political struggles after the economic crisis. In
2009, he was chosen as a Poetry Society of America New American Poet. Lau is
also the author of the chapbook Bad
Opposites (2012). With Cal Bedient, he edits the journal Lana
Turner. A graduate of UCLA and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is a
lecturer at UC Santa Cruz, where he first began teaching in 2005. He has also
taught poetry at UC Berkeley and in the MFA program at Saint Mary's College.
Garrett Caples is the author of the forthcoming Power Ballads (Wave, 2016), as well as earlier poetry
collections The Garrett Caples Reader
(Angle, 1999) and Complications (Meritage, 2007).
He wrote the essay book Retrievals (Wave, 2014), and
co-edited Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and
Selected Poems by Frank Lima (City Lights, 2016) and Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia (California, 2013). He
curates the Spotlight
Poetry Series for City Lights.
