November 18th Reading

Please come to the next Smell Sunday Reading, this month coming a week earlier due to holiday, on Sunday November 18.

Readers will be:
Joseph Mosconi
Teresa Carmody
Marcus Civin

The Smell is located at 247 South Main Street, between 2nd and 3rd Street, enter through the alley (Harlem Way). As always, Doors open at 6:30 pm, Five Dollars at the door, and please tell your friends who may be interested.

Joseph Mosconi is a writer, linguist and lexicographer based in Los Angeles. He is co-editor of the forthcoming literary and art journal, Area Sneaks. His poetry and criticism has been published in various publications, including Public Speaking; Greetings: A Magazine of the Sound Arts; New Yipes Reader; Primary Writing; Shampoo; The Filip Review; and in the liner notes to the Other Cinema DVD release Golden Digest by video techno-terrorists Animal Charm.

Teresa Carmody is the author of Requiem, a collection of short stories (Les Figues, 2005) and the forthcoming Eye Hole Adore (PS Books, 2008). Other work has appeared in various publications, including Slope, Fold Magazine, Stolen Purse, LA Weekly, and 4th Street. She was one of the organizers of the original Ladyfest, which spawned an international grassroots movement, and co-organizer of Feminaissance, a colloquium on women and writing at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. She is currently co-director of Les Figues Press and co-curator of the Smell Last Sunday Reading series in downtown Los Angeles.

Marcus Civin, born in Boston in 1976, grew up in Baltimore and received a BA in Theater from Brown in 1999. Last year, Marcus moved to Los Angeles from San Franciso to pursue an MFA in Studio Art at UC Irvine. In Los Angeles, Marcus has participated in exhibitions at High Energy Constructs and Monte Vista Projects. Recent publications of text-based drawings and writings include Kadar Koli 2 (edited by David Hadbawnik), Mirage #4/Period(ical) #142 (edited by Kevin Killian and Dodie Bellamy), Fold Appropriate Text Volume No. 1 (edited by Stan Aps and Mat Timmons) and Uncontained: Writers and Photographers in the Garden and the Margins (edited by Jennifer Heath).

Smell-Related Reading

Please join us for a special backyard evening of poetry, food and conversation on Saturday, October 20, as we welcome poet and visual artist Demosthenes Agrafiotis, all the way from Athens, Greece.

Also reading will be local favorite Deborah Meadows.

Saturday, October 20
5pm

1305 Romulus Dr.
Glendale, CA
91205

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.

Deborah Meadows teaches in the Liberal Studies department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Her works of poetry include: involutia (Shearsman Press, UK, 2007), The Draped Universe (Belladonna* Books, 2007), Thin Gloves (Green Integer, 2006), Representing Absence (Green Integer, 2004), Itinerant Men (Krupskaya, 2004), and two chapbooks, Growing Still (Tinfish Press, 2005) and "The 60's and 70's: from The Theory of Subjectivity in Moby-Dick" (Tinfish Press, 2003). Her Electronic Poetry Center author page is located: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/meadows/

Welcome to the Smell

The Smell Reading Series takes place on the last Sunday of each month in Los Angeles, CA.

The curators are: Ara Shirinyan, Teresa Carmody and Joseph Mosconi.

Past readers include: Rodney Koeneke, Stephanie Young, Deborah Meadows, Cynthia Sailers, Dana Ward, Diane Ward, Will Alexander, Mark Salerno, Jane Sprague, Douglas Messerli, Rae Armantrout, Wanda Coleman, Martha Ronk, Mark Wallace, K. Lorraine Graham, Aaron Kunin, Sawako Nakayasu, Eileen Tabios, Franklin Bruno, Elizabeth Treadwell, Amy Gerstler, Sissy Boyd, Mary Burger, Brent Cunningham, Stephen Ratcliffe, Alli Warren, Brandon Brown, Rob Fitterman, Andrew Maxwell, Rick Snyder, Joseph Thomas, Christine Wertheim, Justin Veach, Michael Smoler and more!

The Smell
247 S Main St
Los Angeles, CA 90012