LA-Lit interviews Kristin Palm
Sunday, June 1 at 3pm

The LA-Lit podcast (and this event) lasts a little over an hour and will be about 30 minutes of reading and about 30 minutes of questions / answers / and further questions.

Because we will be recording, please try to arrive on time or very quietly.

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Kristin Palm’s writing has appeared in LVNG, Bird Dog, Boog City, Chain, There, Dusie and the anthology Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006), as well as numerous magazines and newspapers, including Metropolis, Planning and the Detroit Metro Times. Her book The Straits (two long poems about Detroit, her former hometown) was published this year by the serendipitously named Palm Press. Kristin currently resides in San Francisco, California.

LA-Lit interviews Dan Machlin
Saturday, April 12 at 2pm

The LA-Lit podcast (and this event) lasts a little over an hour and will be about 30 minutes of reading and about 30 minutes of questions / answers / and further questions.

Because we will be recording, please try to arrive on time or very quietly.

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Dan Machlin’s first book-length collection of poems is Dear Body (Ugly Duckling). His chapbooks include 6×7 (Ugly Duckling), This Side Facing You (Heart Hammer), and In Rem (@ Press), as well as Above Islands (Immanent Audio), an audio CD collaboration with singer/cellist Serena Jost. His poems and reviews have appeared in Fence, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Brooklyn Rail, and Soft Targets. Dan is founding editor and publisher of Futurepoem books, and co-curator of The Segue Series at Bowery Poetry Club in NYC.

LA-Lit interviews Vanessa Place
Sunday, March 16 at 3pm

We interviewed Vanessa Place a while back, but unfortunately we had technical difficulties with the second half of the interview! We will be re-recording the second half of Vanessa Place’s interview this Sunday, March 16 at 3pm at Betalevel in Chinatown. This recording will last less than an hour and will be a combination of readings, questions & answers/further questions—alternating between the two modes in hopes of creating a space for dynamic conversation.

Because we will be recording, please try to arrive on time or very quietly.

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Vanessa Place is the author of a 50,000-word, one-sentence novel, Dies: A Sentence (2005), and a co-founder of here.”>Les Figues Press, publisher of the TrenchArt series of experimental literature. Her work has appeared in Northwest Review, Northridge Review, Film Comment, Contemporary Literary Criticism, 4th Street: A Poetry Bimonthly, LA Weekly Literary Supplement, Five Fingers Review, Greetings #10/11 and The nOulipian Analects. Her nonfiction book about sex-offenders and the morality of guilt will be published by Other Press, and her chapbook, Figure from The Gates of Paradise, has just been released from Woodland Editions.

LA-Lit interviews Therese Bachand
Sunday, March 9 at 7pm

The LA-Lit podcast (and this event) lasts a little over an hour and will be about 30 minutes of reading and about 30 minutes of questions / answers / and further questions.

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Thérèse Bachand has two collections of poetry due to be published in 2008 – luce a cavallo, a 2005 Gertrude Stein Book Award (Green Integer Books), and Daughter of the Ephemeral Word (i.e.press). Her work has been anthologized in The PIP Anthology of World Poetry #5 – Intersections: Innovative Poetry in Southern California, and published in many journals, including the Brooklyn Rail, Mirage #4 Period(ical), area sneaks, Minor/American, Primary Writing, Beyond Baroque, and Tinfish. In 2002, she collaborated with Diane Ward and organized a group of LA woman poets who meet periodically on a casual basis.

LA-Lit interviews Nada Gordon
Sunday, December 2 at 1pm

The LA-Lit podcast (and this event) lasts a little over an hour and will be about 30 minutes of reading and about 30 minutes of questions / answers / and further questions.

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Nada Gordon is the author of four poetry books: Folly (recently released from Roof Books), V. Imp, Are Not Our Lowing Heifers Sleeker than Night-Swollen Mushrooms?, foriegnn bodie and, with Gary Sullivan, an epistolary techno-romantic non-fiction novel, Swoon. She practices poetry as deep entertainment and is a proud member of the Flarflist Collective. Visit her blog at http://ululate.blogspot.com.

LA-Lit interviews poets and writers in the Los Angeles area. Reflecting the shifting nature of Los Angeles as a place, this may mean writers that have lived in LA all their lives or writers who happen to be in LA for a few days. LA-Lit is a place for the literary culture of Los Angeles to develop and exhibit itself. Co-hosted and co-produced by Stephanie Rioux and Mathew Timmons, LA-Lit is sponsored by Superbunker and recorded at Betalevel.

You can subscribe to the podcast by visiting our website (LA-Lit.com) and dragging the subscribe link from the sidebar to your podcast folder in iTunes. You can also directly download past shows by visiting the writer’s page at LA-Lit.

LA-Lit interviews Catherine Daly
Sunday, November 11 at 5pm

The LA-Lit podcast (and this event) lasts a little over an hour and will be about 30 minutes of reading and about 30 minutes of questions / answers / and further questions.

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Catherine Daly is author of the forthcoming Vauxhall (Shearsman, 08) and Heavy Rotation (BlazeVox, 07) as well as five other fabulous books (DaDaDa, Locket, To Delite and Instruct, Paper Craft, and Chanteuse / Cantatrice), some eBooks and eChaps (ex., Paper Craft (again), Secret Kitty, Kittenhood, Boy Girl Boy, The Last Canto, Glosses, Make-Up), and many chapbooks and ephemeral publications. While she founded i.e. Press at about the same she moved to Los Angeles, she just began publishing books. She began reviewing and writing essays about poetry about ten years ago, too. She earned an MFA about 17 years ago. She has curated reading series in Hartford, New York, and Los Angeles. She has been a car hop, deejay, astrologer, building contractor, and senior technology manager. She is married to a writer, Ron Burch, and her pet is a parrot, Po.

LA-Lit interviews poets and writers in the Los Angeles area. Reflecting the shifting nature of Los Angeles as a place, this may mean writers that have lived in LA all their lives or writers who happen to be in LA for a few days. LA-Lit is a place for the literary culture of Los Angeles to develop and exhibit itself. Co-hosted and co-produced by Stephanie Rioux and Mathew Timmons, LA-Lit is sponsored by Superbunker and recorded at Betalevel.

You can subscribe to the podcast by visiting our website (LA-Lit.com) and dragging the subscribe link from the sidebar to your podcast folder in iTunes. You can also directly download past shows by visiting the writer’s page at LA-Lit.

LA-Lit interviews Eileen Myles
Sunday, November 4 at 5pm

The LA-Lit podcast (and this event) lasts a little over an hour and will be about 30 minutes of reading and about 30 minutes of questions / answers / and further questions.

Because we will be recording, please try to arrive on time or very quietly.

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In Eileen Myles’ latest book, Sorry, Tree, she describes “some nature” as well as the transmigration of souls from the east coast to the west. Bust Magazine calls Myles “the rock star of modern poetry” and Holland Cotter in The New York Times describes her as “a cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant garde.” She’s published more than 20 volumes of poetry, fiction, articles, plays and libretti including Hell (an opera with composer Michael Webster, 2004) Skies, (2001), on my way, (2001), Cool for You, (a novel, 2000), School of Fish, (1997), Maxfield Parrish, (1995), Not Me, (1991), and Chelsea Girls, (stories, 1994). In 1995, with Liz Kotz, she edited The New Fuck You/adventures in Lesbian Reading (Semiotext(e). In 1992 she conducted an openly female write-in campaign for President of the United States. In the 80s she was Artistic Director of St. Mark’s Poetry Project. In ’97 and again in 2007 Eileen toured with Sister Spit, a post-punk female performance troupe. She has been a professor of writing at UCSD since 2002. In 2007 she received The Andy Warhol/Creative Capital art writing fellowship. She contributes to a wide number of publications including Bookforum, the Believer, and lately Cabinet.

LA-Lit interviews poets and writers in the Los Angeles area. Reflecting the shifting nature of Los Angeles as a place, this may mean writers that have lived in LA all their lives or writers who happen to be in LA for a few days. LA-Lit is a place for the literary culture of Los Angeles to develop and exhibit itself. Co-hosted and co-produced by Stephanie Rioux and Mathew Timmons, LA-Lit is sponsored by Superbunker and recorded at Betalevel.

You can subscribe to the podcast by visiting our website (LA-Lit.com) and dragging the subscribe link from the sidebar to your podcast folder in iTunes. You can also directly download past shows by visiting the writer’s page at LA-Lit.

LA-Lit interviews Masha Tupitsyn
Friday, October 19 at 8pm

The LA-Lit podcast (and this event) lasts a little over an hour and will be about 30 minutes of reading and about 30 minutes of questions / answers / and further questions.

Because we will be recording, please try to arrive on time or very quietly.

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Masha Tupitsyn is a fiction writer and feminist critic who lives in New York City. She received her MA in Literature and Cultural Theory from the University of Sussex in England. In 2004, she worked as the Assistant Literary Editor at BOMB Magazine. She was a 2005 finalist for the Panliterary Award for Fiction, sponsored by Drunken Boat. Her fiction and criticism has been published or is forthcoming in the anthology Wreckage of Reason: XXperimental Women Writers Writing in the 21st Century, Make/Shift, Bookforum, Fence , Five Fingers Review, NYFA Current, Unpleasant Event Schedule, How2, and Nth Position. She is the author of Beauty Talk & Monsters, a collection of film-based stories (Semiotext(e) Press, 2007). She is currently working on a new book, Star Notes.

LA-Lit interviews poets and writers in the Los Angeles area. Reflecting the shifting nature of Los Angeles as a place, this may mean writers that have lived in LA all their lives or writers who happen to be in LA for a few days. LA-Lit is a place for the literary culture of Los Angeles to develop and exhibit itself. Co-hosted and co-produced by Stephanie Rioux and Mathew Timmons, LA-Lit is sponsored by Superbunker and recorded at Betalevel.

You can subscribe to the podcast by visiting our website (LA-Lit.com) and dragging the subscribe link from the sidebar to your podcast folder in iTunes. You can also directly download past shows by visiting the writer’s page at LA-Lit.

LA-Lit interviews Demosgthenes Agrafiotis
Thursday, October 18 at 8pm

The LA-Lit podcast (and this event) lasts a little over an hour and will be about 30 minutes of reading and about 30 minutes of questions / answers / and further questions.

Because we will be recording, please try to arrive on time or very quietly.

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Demosthenes Agrafiotis is an artist, poet, photographer, editor and sociologist based in Athens, Greece. Agrafiotis is the author of over 13 books of poetry, including a collaboration with Jerome Rothenberg, An Oracle for Delphi (Membrane Press, 1995). Between 1980 and 1990 he edited the Athens-based art & literary journal Clinamen, which featured translations of several influential American poets into Greek for the first time. His first book to appear in English, Chinese Notebook, is currently being translated by John and Angelos Sakkis.

LA-Lit interviews poets and writers in the Los Angeles area. Reflecting the shifting nature of Los Angeles as a place, this may mean writers that have lived in LA all their lives or writers who happen to be in LA for a few days. LA-Lit is a place for the literary culture of Los Angeles to develop and exhibit itself. Co-hosted and co-produced by Stephanie Rioux and Mathew Timmons, LA-Lit is sponsored by Superbunker and recorded at Betalevel.

You can subscribe to the podcast by visiting our website (LA-Lit.com) and dragging the subscribe link from the sidebar to your podcast folder in iTunes. You can also directly download past shows by visiting the writer’s page at LA-Lit.

LA-Lit interviews Christine Wertheim
Sunday, September 23 at 5pm

The LA-Lit podcast (and this event) lasts a little over an hour and will be about 30 minutes of reading and about 30 minutes of questions / answers / and further questions.

Because we will be recording, please try to arrive on time or very quietly.

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Christine Wertheim writes poetics and aesthetic criticism. Her book “+|’me’S-pace,” was published in 2007 by Les Figues Press. Other work has appeared in La Petite Zine, Five Fingers Review, Cabinet, Open Letter, Art History vs Aesthetics, and X-TRA. She co-organizes an annual writing conference whose publications are Séance (2006), and The Noulipian Analects (2007), and co-directs The Institute For Figuring. She teaches writing, literature and feminisms in the school of Critical Studies at CalArts.

LA-Lit interviews poets and writers in the Los Angeles area. Reflecting the shifting nature of Los Angeles as a place, this may mean writers that have lived in LA all their lives or writers who happen to be in LA for a few days. LA-Lit is a place for the literary culture of Los Angeles to develop and exhibit itself. Co-hosted and co-produced by Stephanie Rioux and Mathew Timmons, LA-Lit is sponsored by Superbunker and recorded at Betalevel.

You can subscribe to the podcast by visiting our website (LA-Lit.com) and dragging the subscribe link from the sidebar to your podcast folder in iTunes. You can also directly download past shows by visiting the writer’s page at LA-Lit.