Phoenix Reading Series @ Left Bank Books Sunday, January 4, 2015 6:30--8 pm 17 8th Avenue—Near West 12th Street NY, NY 10014 212-924-5638 $5 Contribution JILL RAPAPORT, CARL WATSON, EVE PACKER & OPEN READING Eve Packer is a Bronx-born, poet/actress/performer with three books from Fly By Night Press, the most recent, New Nails, and 5 poetry/jazz cds. Most recently, she appeared as May in Becketts Footfalls at Medicine Show theatre. Jill S. Rapaport’s collection of fiction, Duchamp et Moi and Other Stories, was published in 2014 by Fly by Night Press/A Gathering of the Tribes. Her work has appeared in Global City Review; Sensitive Skin; Redtape; The Williamsburg Observer; Big Bridge; Found Object; Resister; and other publications. Work of hers also appears in the anthologies Up Is Up, But So Is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992 (NYU Press, 2006); The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunders Mouth Press, 1999); and other collections. She has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts writing fellowship, and a MacArthur Scholarship for Fiction given through the Brooklyn College MFA Fiction program by nomination of Jonathan Baumbach. Work recorded on Nuyorican Symphony, first Spoken Word Compact Disk produced by the Knitting Factory, produced at the 1000 Greatest Poets of All Time reading. Participation in symposia at St. Marks Poetry Project Symposium, including On Content, in which she created and co-led a seminar entitled Writer, Worker, Critic, Self: Cultural Production and Interpretation [in a Millennial Age]. Participating panelist in lecture series on European Ecology Movement and The Electronic Disturbance, and on Bolo Bolo (book about social and cultural change) at CUNY Graduate Center Cultural Studies Department, both, New York, New York, 1996. Guest lecturer/reader at English and Creative Writing classes at New York University, LaGuardia Community College, Baruch College, New Rochelle College, New York City, 1993-2001. Taught English, Brooklyn College, 1998-2000, and Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, 1997-98; taught English through Cinema, Chinatown Manpower Project, New York 1997. Provided portions of translation (from French) and assisted with voiceover narration (for editing) for documentary film production, Jessye Norman Sings Carmen (Maysles Films, New York, 1988). Carl Watson is a poet and fiction writer currently living in NYC. His most recent book of poems is Astral Botanica is published by Fly By Night Press/Gathering of the Tribes. Last year he published the novel is Backwards the Drowned Go Dreaming, Sensitive Skin Press. Other titles include The Hotel of Irrevocable Acts, Beneath the Empire of the Birds and Bricolage ex Machina. He has been a regular columnist for The Williamsburg Observer and The Ninth Threshold, along with other online and print journals. HOST: Michael Graves is the author of Adam and Cain (Black Buzzard, 2006), In Fragility (Black Buzzard, 2011) and two chapbooks, Illegal Border Crosser (Cervana Barva, 2008) and Outside St. Jude’s (R. E. M. Press, 1990). His poem “Apollo to Daphne” appears in an anthology from Oxford University Press, Gods and Mortals (2,001) and his “Poem to Spring in a Time of Global Warming” appears on AboutPoetry In two thousand four (2004), he received a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. Thirteen (13) of his poems appear in the James Joyce Quarterly. He has published scholarly-critical work on James Wright and organized a conference on Mr. Wright at Poets House in 2004. youtube/watch?v=HjGZeKfSW8g.... .
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