Wednesday, November 5, 2008

LAST BIG BACK ROOM LIVE OF THE YEAR ! SAT DEC 6TH 7PM !

Back Room Live Two Year Anniversary and Life-long Press Publication Event ! JANE MILLER ! BRIAN TEARE ! CHRIS STROFFOLINO ! HARMONY HOLIDAY ! Issues of /BRL Editors Choice Edition/!!! SATURDAY DECEMBER 6TH ! 7pm ! Mc Nally's Irish Pub ! Come Join The Party!

Thank you ! Javier O. Huerta ! Jenny Drai ! Stephen Vincent ! Sarah Garrigan ! Lukas Champagne ! Janet W. Hardy ! Eleanor Johnson ! Della Watson ! Ailene Sankur ! Jennifer K. Sweeney ! Chad Sweeney ! Valyntina Grenier ! Sara Mumolo ! Jenny Drai ! Gillian Hamel ! Craig Santos Perez ! Zach Demby ! Rebecca Guyon ! Victoria A. Hudson ! Amanda Benson ! Veronica Carlos-Landa ! Linda Norton ! Ben Perez ! Ben Prickett ! Sarah Fattig ! Lyn Hejinian ! Brenda Hillman ! Graham Foust ! Geoffrey G. O'brien ! Lisa Gschwandtner ! Jack Morgan ! Jarrod Roland ! Erika Stati ! Patrick Holian! Lily Brown ! Victoria Hudson ! Clare Becker ! Evan Sicuranza ! Kathryn FK ! Eleanor Bayne Johnson ! Rebbecca Brown ! Jack Morgan ! Juliet Kinkade ! Tyler Williams ! Allison Landa ! JP Lacrampe ! Trevor Calvert ! Cielo Lutino ! Jeffrey Knutson ! Nicole Polidoro ! Pablo Lopez ! Sara Mumolo ! Challen Clarke ! Angelo Nikolopoulos ! Teresa Hovis ! Sarah Garrigan ! Beatrix Chan ! Alicia Bleuer ! Lukas Champagne ! Adam Watkins ! Sharon Lynn Osmond ! Andrew Kenower ! Lily Brown ! David Spataro ! Harmony Holiday ! Jason Sattler ! Blake Ellington Larson ! Vicki Hudson ! Jenny Drai ! Janet W. Hardy ! Hillary Gravendyk ! David Larsen ! Julie Choffel ! Scott Berger ! Thomas Cooney ! Ben Brashares ! For Making Art in Public ! BACK ROOM LIVE ! OAKLAND ! NOVEMBER 2006 ! DECEMBER ! 2007

Thank you ! Stephanie Young ! Margaret Rhee ! Francois Loung ! Jonny Hernandez ! For Being Willing !

Thank you Tony and Tobias for making room for us!!!!

AND THANK YOU THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO ARE A PART OF THE LIFE-LONG PRESS COMMUNITY ! you have my heart +V

Stroffolino's the author 7 books of poetry (all out of print), most recently Speculative Primitive (2004 Tougher Disguises). Also, a book of essays on contemporary poetry (Spin Cycle), co-edited a Critical Edition of Shakespeare's 12th Night. Various Rock Bands (Silver Jews, Continuous Peasant, Rising Shotgun, etc). Won a Fund For Poetry grant in 2008 and a NYFA grant in 2001. Was VIsiting Distinguished Poet at St. Mary's College (2001-2005). Essays on music, and pop culture in BigTakeover, Kitchen Sink, Oakbook, etc.

Harmony Holiday is a graduate student in the MFA program at Columbia University. She teaches dance and writing part time in New York and is currently completing her first collection "Negro League Baseball" and working a chapbook entitled "Scripture for the Perverts" based on Freud's "Three Essays on a Theory of Sexuality."

Brian Teare is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and MacDowell Colony. He was also a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. He has published poetry and criticism in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Provincetown Arts, St. Mark's Poetry Project Newsletter, Seneca Review, Verse and VOLT, among many other journals. His first book, The Room Where I Was Born, won the 2003 Brittingham Prize and the 2004 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. Two new books are forthcoming: Sight Map (University of California, 2009) and Pleasure (Ahsahta, 2010). He lives, teaches and makes books by hand in San Francisco.

Jane Miler’s recent collection is Midnights, poetry and prose in Saturnalia Press’s artist/poet Collaboration Series, #4, 2008, with visual art contributed by Beverly Pepper and an introduction by C.D. Wright. Jane has also published several poetry collections with Copper Canyon Press, most recently a book-length collection, A Palace of Pearls.

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