Friday, October 7th @ 7:30 pm: Ida Börjel, Jennifer Hayashida and Hugo García Manríquez

Please join Studio One and Commune Editions on 

Friday, October 7th @ 7:30 pm to celebrate the release of  

Ida Börjel's Miximum Ca' Canny the Sabotage Manuals, featuring 

Ida Börjel, Jennifer Hayashida 

and Hugo García Manríquez

 The event is FREE.

Beer, wine and snacks will be served.

Studio One Art Center

365 45th Street | Oakland, CA | 94609

We look forward to seeing you there!

book info, author bios and photos below | + a HUGE thanks to our sponsors:

Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation

  Lagunitas Brewing Comapany

Clorox Company Foundation 

 

Ida Börjel was born in 1975 in Lund, Sweden. She is recognized as one of the most important Swedish poets of the last decade. She is recognized as one of the most important Swedish poets of the last decade and has received numerous prizes for her works, which include Sond, Skåneradio, Konsumentköplagen: juris lyrik , and MA . Her poems have been translated into fifteen different languages. She currently lives in Röstånga and works with the City Fables Group at Malmö University, exploring the way that stories about financial success circulate in contemporary cities.

 

Jennifer Hayashida is a writer, translator, and visual artist. Her most recent projects include translation from the Swedish of Athena Farrokhzad’s White Blight (Argos Books, 2015) and Karl Larsson's Form/Force (Black Square Editions, 2015). She is director of the Asian American Studies Program at Hunter College, CUNY, and serves on the board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

 

Hugo García Manríquez’s most recent book is the bilingual work Anti-Humboldt: A Reading of the North American Free Trade Agreement (published by Litmus Press, in co-edition with Aldus Editorial, in Mexico City). He is the author of two books in Spanish: No oscuro todavia and Los materiales, as well as two English chapbooks, Two Poems (Hooke Press) and Painting is Finite (Little Red Leaves). His work has appeared in New American Writing, Berkeley Poetry Review, Dreamboat, Dusie, Denver Quarterly, Letras Libres, La Tempestad, among others.Hugo has a Master's Degree from the Poetics Program at SUNY-Buffalo, and is currently a Ph.D candidate in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at Berkeley. 

 

 

Ida Börjel's Miximum Ca' Canny the Sabotage Manuals, translated by Jennifer Hayashida:

At once practical handbook and philosophical inquiry, Ida Börjel’s exploration of sabotage and its history throws a wrench into the machinery of contemporary language, generating strange affinities between wreckers, iconoclasts, and saboteurs of all types. Sourced from political pamphlets and factory workers’ diaries, and drawing out important connections between technology and poetic technique, Börjel’s poem allows for the most profound understanding of sabotage – technological, political, economic, and linguistic all at once. Silencing the machines, these sabotaged manuals allow us to hear new sounds and new possibilities for resistance.

   

Friday, September 9th @ 7:30 pm: A collaboration with Commune Editions, feat. David Lau, Wendy Trevino, Cheena Marie Lo and Jasper Bernes

Please join us on Friday, September 9th @ 7:30 pm for 

a collaboration with Commune Editions, featuring David Lau, Wendy Trevino, Cheena Marie Lo and Jasper Bernes!

Event is FREE.

Snacks, Lagunitas beer and wine will be served.

Studio One Art Center 

365 45th Street | Oakland, CA | 94609

We hope to see you there! 

author bios and photos below. &, as always, a HUGE thanks to our generous sponsors:

Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation

  Lagunitas Brewing Comapany

Clorox Company Foundation 

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 (speCt!, 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. 

Wendy Trevino was born & raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Her chapbook 128-131 was published by Perfect Lovers Press in 2013. Her chapbook BRAZILIAN IS NOT A RACE was just recently published by Commune Editions, and Krupskaya Books will publish her chapbook Cruel Work later in 2016. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals, including Abraham Lincoln, Armed Cell, the Capilano Review, LIES, Macaroni Necklace, Mondo Bummer, ELDERLY and Open House.

Cheena Marie Lo is the author of the full length title A Series of Un/Natural/Disasters (Commune Editions, 2016). They currently coordinate a youth art program at California College of the Arts, and co-edit the literary journal, HOLD.

Jasper Bernes is author of two books of poetry, Starsdown (2007) and We Are Nothing and So Can You (2015). He has recently completed a scholarly book, The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization (Stanford University Press, forthcoming), about the role poetry plays in the postindustrial restructuring of labor. Poems, essays, and other writings can be found in Modern Language Quarterly, Radical Philosophy, Endnotes, Lana Turner, The American Reader, Critical Inquiry and elsewhere. Together with Juliana Spahr and Joshua Clover, he edits Commune Editions. He lives in Berkeley with his family.