Friday, May 29, 2009

BACK ROOM LIVE ! SATURDAY NIGHT ! BERMEO ! RHEE ! PEREZ ! YEE !


Check out backroomlive.wordpress.com for new writing from Debbie Yee ! Margaret Rhee ! Oscar Bermeo ! Craig Santos Perez ! Also look for guest curators Sara Mumolo in June and Trevor Calvert in August !
 bermeo Born in Ecuador and raised in the Bronx, Oscar Bermeo is the author of Anywhere Avenue, Palimpsest and Heaven Below.

His poems appear in Achiote Seeds, BorderSenses, CrossBRONX, Ozone Park, and Spindle, among others.  Oscar has been a featured writer at a variety of institutions including the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Intersection for the Arts, Kearny Street Workshop, Bronx Academy of Letters, Rikers Island Penitentiary, San Quentin Prison, the Loft Literary Center, Sacramento Poetry Center, UC Berkeley, UNC-Chapel Hill, NYU and many others.

He now makes his home in Oakland, with his wife, poeta Barbara Jane Reyes.

For more information on Oscar and his poetics, please visit his website, http://oscarbermeo.com, or his blog, http://geminipoet.blogspot.com.

3077071984_1f55715bb4 Debbie Yee is an attorney, poet and arts & crafts enthusiast.  A Kundiman fellow, Debbie's poems have appeared in 32 Poems and Barn Owl Review, among others.  Her poem, "Cinderella's Last Will and Testament", was selected for The Best American Poetry 2009. http://www.debbieyee.com

pic_MRMargaret Rhee is an emerging interdisciplinary writer, scholar, and artist, dedicated to social justice.  She is a doctoral student in Comparative Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, lover of full bodied coffee and wine, and a Kundiman fellow in poetry. http://www.aapw-la.org/

 
photo Craig Santos Perez is a co-founder of Achiote Press (www.achiotepress.com) and author of from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Tinfish Press, 2008). His poetry, essays, reviews, and translations have appeared in New American Writing, Pleiades, The Denver Quarterly, The Colorado Review, and ZYZZYVA, among others. He blogs at blindelephant.blogspot.com.

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