an evening with David Buuck, Eileen Myles and CAConrad!
March 18, 2012
doors open at 5pm; reading promptly at 5:30pm
at Artist Television Access
992 Valencia, San Francisco
admission $6-10/sliding scale
MEMBERS FREE!
David Buuck is a writer who lives & works in Oakland, CA. He is the founder of BARGE, the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics, & member of the Nonsite Collective & the Occupy Oakland Poets. Publications, writing & performance samples, & further info available via davidbuuck.com.
photo by Sam Ace
Eileen Myles was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1949, educated in catholic schools, graduated from the U. Mass (Boston) in 1971, and moved to New York City in 1974 to be a poet. Her Inferno: a poet’s novel (2010) which details a female writer’s coming of age was described by John Ashbery as “zingingly funny and melancholy.” Alison Bechdel called Inferno “this shimmering document.” Snowflake/different streets Eileen’s next collection of poems will be out soon from Wave Books. Other publications include Sorry Tree (2007), Cool for You (2000), Skies (2001) Not Me (1991), and Chelsea Girls (1994). The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (2009) received a Warhol/Creative Capital art writing grant in 2007. In 2010 Eileen received the Shelley Prize for her poetry. She writes about books, art and culture for a wide variety of publications including Art Forum,
Book Forum, and Parkett and she blogs on Art in America and Harriet’s sites. She’ll be teaching in Columbia’s graduate program this spring. Please visit her at eileenmyles.com.
photo by Zoe Strauss
CAConrad is the author of A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon (Wave Books, 2012), The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010), Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined (Factory School, 2010). He is a 2011 Pew Fellow, and a 2012 Ucross Fellow. He is the editor of the online video poetry journals JUPITER 88 and Paranormal Poetics, and you can visit him online at http://CAConrad.blogspot.com
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