February 3, 2013
at Artist Television Access
992 Valencia Street, SF
event begins at 5pm
reading starts at 5:30pm

ZOE TUCK
Zack Tuck is an enduring identity which is nonetheless being phased out. His slightly altered replacement is being gradually and awkwardly phased in. With Jackqueline Frost, Zoe Tuck curated the Condensery Reading Series. Her work has been featured in Try!, Mondo Bummer, Timeless, Infinite Light, and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry (forthcoming from EOAGH and Nightboat). Zoe Tuck is currently working on a poetry manuscript disposition matrix and a novel about the life of René Descartes.

JOHNNY HERNANDEZ
JTH is a graduate of the Mills writing program and is currently on staff at Small Press Distribution. He is currently trying to find a home for his latest manuscript and enthusiastically accepts drinks in lieu of ‘Hello’.

BEN MIROV

Ben Mirov is the author of Hider Roser (Octopus Books, 2012), Ghost Machine (Caketrain, 2010) and the chapbooks Vortexts (SUPERMACHINE, 2011) I is to Vorticism (New Michigan Press, 2010) and Collected Ghost (H_NGM_N, 2010). He grew up in Northern California and lives in Oakland.

SARA MUMOLO

Omnidawn will publish Sara Mumolo’s first collection of poems Mortar in fall of 2013. Sara is the Program Manager for the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of CA. She is the co-editor of the chapbook series, Calaveras. Mumolo curated the Studio One Reading Series in Oakland, CA from 2008-2012. Cannibal Books published her chapbook, March, in 2011, and poems have appeared in journals such as 1913: a journal of forms, Eleven Eleven, Action Yes, Berkeley Poetry Review, The Offending Adam, Real Poetik, The Volta, and West Wind Review, among others.

This event was guest curated by Sara Wintz

December 2, 2012 at 5pm
at Artist Television Access
a reading and conversation with
Tim Trace Peterson, J/J Hastain
and Monica Peck

Tim Trace Peterson is the author of Since I Moved In (Chax Press) andViolet Speech (2nd Avenue Poetry), and is Editor / Publisher of EOAGH(http://eoagh.com). Peterson is also co-editor of the forthcoming booksTroubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books / EOAGH) and Gil Ott: Collected Writings (Chax Press). From 2009-2012, Peterson curated the TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice talks series on queer writing and the manifesto at CUNY Graduate Center.

j/j hastain is currently in the process of curating an Anthology of Queer Nudes (Knives Spoons and Forks Press) and has helped curate (and participated in) two major Trans anthologies.

j/j is an Elective Affinities participant, a member of Dusie kollektiv  and is a regular contributor to Sous Les Paves. j/j currently writes creative reviews for Big Other, Lit Pub, PANK, Horseless Press and Emprise Review.

j/j’s books have been finalists in the Kelsey Street, Grey Book Press, Grace Notes Books, Switchback, Omnidawn, The Collagist, DIAGRAM and Ahsahta book and essay competitions. j/j’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Publishers Triangle. j/j’s manuscriptextant shamanisms won the Pavement Saw poetry award. j/j’s manuscript dear secondary umbilical, won second place in the Mad Hatter’s Wild and Wyrd Poetry Contest. In 2011 j/j’s book we in my Trans was nominated for the Stonewall Book Award and j/j’s book prurient anarchic omnibus was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. j/j has been a guest lecturer at Naropa University and University of Colorado. j/j is an artist and activist of the audible.

Monica / Nico Peck’s chapbook The Pyrrhaiad, a “Queer Iliad” set in San Francisco, was published this year by Trafficker Press. Peck’s blog queercity.org explores abject lost/found queer archives. Peck lives in San Francisco & teaches at San Jose State. More: mjpeck.wordpress.com

You’re invited to wow.

November 11, 2012 at 5pm
at Artist Television Access

a reading and conversation with
kathryn l. pringle, Erin Moure
and Andrea Rexilius

DOORS OPEN AT 5:00PM/EVENT BEGINS AT 5:30pm

kathryn l. pringle is an American poet living in Oakland, Ca. She is the author of fault tree (winner of Omindawn’s 1st/2nd book prize selected by CD Wright), RIGHT NEW BIOLOGY (Heretical Texts/Factory School), The Stills (Duration Press), and Temper and Felicity are lovers.(TAXT). Some of her poems can be found inDenver Quarterly, Fence, Phoebe, horse less review, and other journals. Her work can also be found in the anthologies Conversations at the Wartime Cafe: A Decade of War (WODV Press), I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues), and forthcoming in The Sonnets: Rewriting Shakespeare (Nightboat Books). She received an MA and MFA from San Francisco State University.

Restless Montrealer Erín Moure has published seventeen books of poetry plus a volume of essays, My Beloved Wager. She also translates poetry from French, Spanish, Galician (galego), and Portuguese, with twelve books translated of work by poets as diverse as Nicole Brossard, Andrés Ajens, Louise Dupré, Rosalía de Castro, Chus Pato and Fernando Pessoa. Her work has received the Governor General’s Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, the A.M. Klein Prize (twice), and was a three-time finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Her latest works are The Unmemntioable (http://www.houseofanansi.com/The-Unmemntioable-P1719.aspx andhttp://roverarts.com/2012/04/dont-speak/), an investigation into subjectivity and the nature of experience, in western Ukraine and on a South Peace homestead in the north of Alberta, and Secession (Zat-So), her fourth translation of internationally acclaimed Galician poet Chus Pato.

Andrea Rexilius is the author of Half of What They Carried Flew Away (Letter Machine, 2012) and To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation (Rescue Press, 2011).  She currently teaches BA & MFA courses at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and manages the JKS Summer Writing Program.