BACK ROOM LIVE SATURDAY NIGHT JULY 26TH

BACK ROOM LIVE ! SATURDAY NIGHT ! JULY 26th 2008 ! AILENE SANKUR ! JENNIFER K. SWENEY ! CHAD SWEENEY ! VALYNTINA GRENIER ! Mc NALLY'S IRISH PUB 7pm !

Ailene Sankur's life is very simple: Mexican food, the beach, Diet Coke, cigarettes, Law and Order episodes. And a little writing thrown in for good measure.


Jennifer K. Sweeney is the author of the poetry book,
Salt Memory, winner of the 2006 Main Street Rag Poetry
Book Award. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing
from Vermont College. Her poems have recently appeared
in: Barrow Street, Water~Stone, New York Quarterly,
Hunger Mountain, RUNES, Subtropics and elsewhere. She
won The Ledge Poetry Prize for 2007 and was nominated
for two Pushcart Prizes in 2007 as well. She has been
awarded a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission
and a Residency at Hedgebrook to complete her memoir,
A Great Deal Of Light Falls On Everything. She serves
as an associate editor for DMQ Review and lives in San
Francisco with her husband, poet Chad Sweeney.

Chad Sweeney edits Parthenon West Review with his
buddy David Holler, and is the author of the books An
Architecture (BlazeVOX, 2007), Arranging the Blaze
(Anhinga, 2009), and A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer
(Tarpaulin Sky, 2006). Chosen for Best American
Poetry 2008 by Charles Wright, Sweeney's poems and
translations have appeared in New American Writing,
Verse, Colorado Review, Slope, Crazyhorse, Black
Warrior, Volt, Barrow Street, Denver Qtly, American
Letters & Commentary, H_ngM_n, and elsewhere. He's
currently editing an anthology of poetry and prose
from the first 15 years of the National WritersCorps,
which will be released by City Lights Books next
February. Chad will enter the Ph.D. program in
literature/poetry at Western Michigan University this
September, with his beloved partner by his side, poet
Jennifer K. Sweeney.

Valyntina Grenier is an artist living and working in Oakland Ca. She Curates Back Room Live and is the editor of Life-long Press. She holds a B.A. from U.C. Brekeley and an MFA from Saint Mary's.

LIFE LONG PRESS ! OAKLAND ! JUNE 2008

So that's,
Sat.JULY 26th at 7pm
McNally's Irish Pub
5352 College Ave
Oakland, CA 94618
(510) 654-9463
Minutes from the Rockridge BART Station
and on the 51 bus line