BRL'S BIG BOOK ZOO BOOK BASH BON VOYAGE 7pm Thursday Jan 8th 2009!

BRL'S BIG BOOK ZOO BOOK BASH BON VOYAGE 7pm Thursday January 8th 2009!
The cover image for /BRL Editors Choice Edition/ photo ! Geatan Chabanol ! Cover Art ! Allyson O'Brien ! Layout/Design/Editor ! Valyntina Grenier ! Copy Editors ! Sarah Garrigan ! Gillian Hamel ! Binders ! Jenny Drai ! Sara Mumolo ! Jane Miller ! Gillian ! Me ! Writers ! HARMONY HOLLIDAY ! BRENDA HILLMAN ! CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ ! BARBARA CLAIRE FREEMAN ! SARA MUMOLO !


Hi there,
Please join LIFE-LONG PRESS at BOOK ZOO January 8th 2009 7pm for our Big /BRL Editors Choice Edition/ Book Bash Birthday Bon Voyage Party ! No we'll not be bashing books WE LOVE THEM ! We'll hear from contributors ! SARA MUMOLO ! CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ ! BARBARA CLAIRE FREEMAN ! BRENDA HILLMAN ! We will have copies of the edition for sale ! The Bon Voyage is for Life-long Press ! BACK ROOM LIVE will be going on line ! The Birthday is my 33rd ! I am realy looking forward to celebrating w/ you ! +V.

Sara Mumolo works at Studio One Art Center in Oakland CA and runs the Studio One Reading Series. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Shampoo, Hoboeye, Dusie, Typo & others. Find her chapbook Brain in a Vat at Stormy Petrel Press.

Barbara Claire Freeman is a literary critic and professor of literature who has recently turned her full attention to writing poetry. She is the author of The Feminine Sublime: Gender and Excess in Women's Fiction (University of California Press, 1998, pbk. 2000), among many other works of criticism and theory. Formerly an Associate Professor of English at Harvard, she teaches creative writing for the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in A Public Space, Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, Modern Review, Parthenon West, and New American Writing,. She is the current recipient of the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Award, the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize (Sarah Lawrence College, 2007) and a Pushcart Prize nominee.

Craig Santos Perez is a co-founder of Achiote Press and author of from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Tinfish Press, 2008). His poetry, essays, reviews, and translations have appeared (or are forthcoming) in New American Writing, Pleiades, The Denver Quarterly, The Colorado Review, and ZYZZYVA, among others.

Brenda Hillman has published seven collections of poetry, the most recent of which are Loose Sugar (1997), Cascadia (2001), and Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005), all from Wesleyan University Press. She has also edited Emily Dickinson's poetry for Shambhala Publications, and, with Patricia Dienstfrey, co-edited The Grand Permisson: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (2003). Hillman serves on the faculty of Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California, where she is Olivia C. Filippi Professor of Poetry. She is involved in anti-war activism with CodePink. These pieces are from Practical Water, forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press in 2009.

So that's
Thursday January 8th 7pm
at Book Zoo
6395 Telegraph Ave.
Oakland 94609

LIFE LONG PRESS ! OAKLAND ! JANUARY ! 2009