Reminder: RADAR Reading Series at Main SF Library @ Thu Mar 8 6pm - 7pm (Queer Things)

more details » RADAR Reading Series at Main SF Library Underground + Emerging Writers + Artists at The San Francisco Public Library, 30 Grove St. near Market St. Thursday, March 8th 2012 http://www.radarproductions.org/ LORNA DEE CERVANTES is an award-winning Chicana, Native American (Chumash), feminist, activist poet who is considered one of the major Chicana poets of the past 40 years. Her published works include Ciento: 100 100-Word Love Poems, DRIVE: The First Quartet and From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger. The Patterson Prize for Poetry, the Battrick Award for Poetry and the Latino Book Award are among her many honors. NATE LIPPENS has written about art, music, and poetry for various publications including Yeti, Mobius, No Depression, Punk Planet, Test Pattern, Visual Codec, and Fillip. He has published two chapbooks of poetry, Children First (H.H. Waldo Press) and The Deformative Years (Ada Editions), and fronted the band Mattachine Gun. Recently he completed a novel. MIRANDA MELLIS received an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University in 2004. She is the author of The Spokes (Solid Objects, 2012); None of This Is Real (Sidebrow Press, 2012); Materialisms (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2009); and The Revisionist (Calamari Press, 2007). The Revisionist has been translated into Italian and Croatian and was a finalist for The Believer 2007 Book Award. She has received The John Hawkes Prize in Fiction, The Micheal Harper Praxis Prize, The New Voices Sudden Fiction Prize, and an NEH Independent Research Grant. Her writing has appeared in various publications including Conjunctions, Harper's, McSweeney's, The Believer, Cabinet, Fence, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, American Book Review, Context, Modern Painters, Post Road, Harp & Altar, No Colony, BeeHive, and Paul Revere's Horse. She teaches part-time at the California College of the Arts, Mills College, and the Language & Thinking Program at Bard College. She is a coeditor at The Encyclopedia Project and grew up in San Francisco. EILEEN MYLES was born in Boston in 1949, attended catholic schools in Arlington, Mass. and graduated from UMass (Boston) in 1971. She came to New York in 1974 to be a poet. Inferno (a poet's novel) (2010, OR books) chronicles the adventures of a female writer in hell very much like Eileen Myles. Inferno is actually a kunstlerroman. Myles first became known to many people for her openly female write-in campaign for President of the United States in 1991-92. She received her poetic education at The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in 1975-77 where she participated in workshops lead by Alice Notley, Ted Berrigan and others. In 1977 and 79 she published issues of dodgems, a poetry magazine which presented a collision of New York School, Language Poetry, performance texts and other likely aesthetics of the time. She co-edited the feminist anthology Ladies Museum (w Timmons, Kraut and Notley), worked as assistant to poet James Schuyler in 1979, and was a founding member of the Lost Texans Collective (w Nauen & McKay) which produced Joan of Arc a spiritual entertainment and Patriarchy, a play. Following these were solo performances: Leaving New York (1989), Life (a performance by Eileen Myles) (1991) and Summer in Russia (1996) at PS 122, the Judson Church, Franklin Furnace and the WOW Café and her plays Feeling Blue Parts 1, 2, & 3; Modern Art; and Our Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, which she wrote for Alina Troyano, were all produced at PS122. Her books include The Importance of Being Iceland/travel essays in art (2009) for which she received a Warhol/Creative Capital art writing grant, Sorry, Tree (poetry) 2007, Tow w/ artist Larry C. Collins (2005), Skies (2001), on my way (2001), Cool for You (novel, 2000), School of Fish (1997), Maxfield Parrish (1995), Not Me (1991), and Chelsea Girls (stories, 1994). In 1995, with Liz Kotz, she edited The New Fuck You/adventures in lesbian reading. From 1984 through 1986 Myles was Artistic Director of St. Mark's Poetry Project. In 2004 she wrote the libretto for the opera, Hell, composed by Michael Webster and performed on both coasts and in Tijuana in 2004 and in 2006. She is a Professor Emeritus of writing & literature at UC San Diego where she taught from 2002 to 2007. In Spring, 2010 she was the Hugo Writer at U. of Montana in Missoula. In November of 2010 she will be Fannie Hurst Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. She contributes to a wide number of publications including Art Forum, Parkett, The Believer, Vice, Cabinet, The Nation, TimeOut, Book Forum and AnOther Magazine. She received an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital art writers' grant for "Iceland." The Poetry Society of American awarded her the Shelley Prize in 2010. She lives in New York. Hosted with Q+A by Michelle Tea, who will give you a cookie she made with her own two hands. Thursday, March 8th 2012 San Francisco Public Library Main Branch / 100 Larkin Street Latino Reading Room / Basement Level 6pm sharp / FREE When Thu Mar 8 6pm – 7pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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