Please join us on Sunday the 23d to see Marcus Civin, David Brazil, and Sara Larsen.  Doors open 6:30 and the event will wrap by 9.

 

For more encouragement, scroll down to see Michael Smoler's beautiful flyer for this event.  But beware. . .  the flyer may be a psychoactive tarot card.

 

bios:

 

Marcus Civin is a Socialist. As a child, he was a floating eggplant with lemon nubs that needed to be scrubbed as his grandfather shot at raccoons out the window. Recently, he has grown fat, beer fat.

 

sara larsen co-edits TRY! magazine, a bi-monthly literary/arts zine, with david brazil. she curates the earthworm reading series, held once a month in her apartment in san francisco's lower haight, and is founder of earthworm press and projects. chapbooks include doubly circulatory (artifact press), 2000 decembers (ampersand press), and forthcoming this winter, NOVUS (earthworm press).

 

David Brazil was born in New York and lives in the East Bay.  With Sara Larsen, he co-edits TRY, a biweekly xerox publication.  His first book, "The Book Called Spring," was published this year by Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.  A chapbook from TAXT Press is forthcoming.

 

location:

 

THE SMELL
247 S. Main Street, between 2nd and 3rd St, downtown Los Angeles
(enter through the alley in the back--the alley is between Main and Spring, and is named Harlem Court)
 
fee:
 
$5 at the door, to go to the readers.  Fee can be waived for impoverished poets/artists willing to hoist and carry.

note:

 

Sunday the 23d is not the last Sunday of the Month.  It's our yearly November special, on the penultimate Sunday.

Please join us at the Smell at 6 pm Sunday, October 26 for a reading by 3 great visiting writers.

 

Erika Statie and Lindsey Boldt from San Francisco

 

Oni Buchanan from Boston

 

bios:

 

Erika Staiti is feverishly archiving. You can view some of her handiwork at saidwhatwesaid.com. A new document is in the works; take 3,785 guesses what it is. She's from Long Island, spent 4 yrs in Binghamton, 4 yrs in Portland OR, currently living in North Oakland, Ca (3 yrs and counting).

 

Lindsey Boldt lives in San Francisco where she is studying to become a migrant cultural-worker.  You can find her poems in/at Vanitas, shampoopoetry.com, Try! Magazine, the-press-gang.blogspot.com, Peaches and Bats, and WOO.  You can read her soul-belchings on Ridiculous Human Things blog.  She is currently working on a chapbook of "Titty Poems"  Ask her about it.

 

Oni Buchanan is the author of Spring, selected by Mark Doty for the 2007 National Poetry Series, and published by the University of Illinois Press in September 2008. Her first poetry book, What Animal, was published in 2003 by the University of Georgia Press. Oni is also a concert pianist, has released three solo piano CDs, and actively performs across the U.S. and abroad. She lives in Boston, where she maintains a private piano teaching studio.

 

location:
 
THE SMELL
247 S. Main Street, between 2nd and 3rd St, downtown Los Angeles
(enter through the alley in the back--the alley is between Main and Spring, and is named Harlem Court)
 
time:
 
Doors open 6:00PM, reading starts approximately 6:30, everything should be wrapped up by 8:30.

 

fee:

 

$5 at the door, to go to the readers

 

We hope you can join us!

The MMM reading--Mathew Timmons, Maxi Kim, Marcus Civin

See these three LA stalwarts read (or otherwise interpret) new fiction at the Smell on Sunday August 31st.

Doors open at 6:00 PM. Mystery guests will be on hand to assist in the interpretation of new works by the MMM writers.

Bios:

Mathew Timmons co-edits/curates Insert Press, Trepan, LA-Lit and Late Night Snack. His collaboration with visual artist Marcus Civin, a particular vocabulary (P S Books), is forthcoming, and his work may be found in various journals, including: Sleepingfish, P-Queue, Holy Beep!, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, NōD, PRECIPICe, Or, Moonlit, and The Encyclopedia Project. He teaches interdisciplinary arts and writing workshops for CalArts School of Critical Studies.

Maxi Kim is the author of the Japanese no novel One Break, A Thousand Blows (2008 Book Works, edited by Stewart Home). Just prior to the publication, New Cross Gate's Second School (2008 Jan-June), an alternative D.I.Y. art school adjacent to Goldsmiths College, was struck by opposition and burned. The new utopia of the short twenty-first century (2009 Christie Scott) is his account of the London experiment.

Marcus Civin is a visual artist and writer who divides his time between Los Angeles and Irvine. His visual art has been shown at High Energy Constructs Gallery, The University Art Gallery at UC

Irvine, and elsewhere. He has translated several 19^th century Russian novels (War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, Fathers and Sons) into alternative formats, such as text-messages. He edits and publishes the journal DISASTER. His collaboration with Mathew Timmons, a particular vocabulary, is forthcoming (see above). He is the cover artist for kari edwards' Iduna and Insert Press' Fold Collaborate Narrate.

location:

THE SMELL
247 S. Main Street, between 2nd and 3rd St, downtown Los Angeles
(enter in the alley in the back--the alley is named Harlem Court)

time:

Doors open 6:00PM, reading starts approximately 6:30, everything should be wrapped up by 8:30.

The Smell Last Sunday Reading Series

Dear Friends,

You are invited to the next installment of
THE SMELL LAST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH READING SERIES

SUNDAY, April 27, 2008 at 6:30 pm

With featured readers

Janet SARBANES
Ben DOLLER
Sandra DOLLER

The Smell is located at
247 S. Main Street
Between 2nd and 3rd Street
The entrance is through the back, by way of the alley, west of Main Street.

The doors will open at 6:30 pm. Five dollars at the door.

More about the featured readers:

Janet Sarbanes is the author of the short story collection Army of One, (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions 2008), and is currently completing a novel entitled This Land: The Adventures of the President's Daughter. She teaches Narrative Writing and Theory in the CalArts MFA Writing Program, and Cultural Studies in the School of Critical Studies, where her scholarship focuses on the role of aesthetic practice in utopian and subcultural social formations. She has recently published criticism in the Journal of Utopian Studies, Popular Music and Society, Afterall, and the anthology Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography. Her fiction has appeared in Black Clock, Merge, Plum Ruby Review, Zyzzyva and the noulipan Analects.

Ben Doller (né Doyle)'s first book of poems, Radio, Radio, was selected by Susan Howe as winner of the 2000 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. He co-edits the Kuhl House Books contemporary poetry series of the University of Iowa Press and has most recently taught in Idaho, Ohio, and California. Wherever he lives, he lives with his wife, Sandra Doller, (née Miller) and their boxador, Ronald Johnson.

Sandra Doller (née Miller) lives in San Diego with her new name, her man Ben Doller (né Doyle), and their pooch Ronald Johnson. Her first book, Oriflamme was published by Ahsahta Press in 2005, and her second collection Chora is forthcoming. Sandra Doller is the founder & editrice of a fancy magazine & press, the curiously named 1913, and she teaches at Cal State San Marcos.

THE SMELL LAST SUNDAY READING SERIES

SUNDAY, March 30, 2008 at 7pm

With featured readers

Daniel TIFFANY
Kelly LYDICK
Michael SMOLER

The Smell is located at
247 S. Main Street
Between 2nd and 3rd Street
The entrance is through the back, by way of the alley, west of Main Street.

The doors will open at 6:30 pm. Five dollars at the door.

More about the featured readers:

Daniel Tiffany's first book of poetry, Puppet Wardrobe, appeared in 2006 from Parlor Press. He has published translations of works by Sophocles, Georges Bataille, and the Italian poet Cesare Pavese. His critical works include Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric (University of California Press, 2000), named one of the "Best Books of 2000" by the Los Angeles Times Book Review. His poetry, which has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, has appeared in many journals, including Tin House, Boston Review, Volt, The Germ, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, and the Paris Review. He has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Karolyi Foundation in France and been the recipient of a Whiting Fellowship. His most recent poetry project, "The Dandelion Clock," was set to music by the composer Daniel Rothman and installed at the Interface New Music Festival in Berlin in 2007. He lives in Venice, California and teaches at the University of Southern California.

Kelly Lydick received her B.A. in Writing and Literature from Burlington College, in Burlington Vermont and her M.A. in Writing and Consciousness from the New College of California. She is the author of Mastering the Dream (Second Story Books, 2007) and We Once Were, a chapbook published by Pure Carbon Publishing. Other work has appeared in Twittering Machine, Published in Moments and Burlington College Poetry Journal.

Michael Smoler (b. 1973, Chicago) is a collage artist and poet, living in Los Angeles. He is the author of five small press chapbooks, including in "envy in smoke" (The Healthy Unhealthy Press, NY, 2004), "A Quilt Film About the Death of Jack Spicer" ­ a collaborative prose poem with Coryander Friend (The Healthy Unhealthy Press, NY, 2003), "worn broke" (A Ringing Press, Boulder, CO, 1999), "plot" (Third Ear Press, Boulder, CO, 1998), and "The Candy Was Good" (Third Ear Press, Boulder, CO, 1997). Smoler has studied and taught at Naropa University, in Boulder, CO, where he received a B.A. in Writing and Poetics from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (1998), and has also studied and taught at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Currently, Smoler is the director of HIGH ENERGY CONSTRUCTS, an exhibitions and performance venue in LA¹s Chinatown, and is working on a manuscript of collected poems (1996-2008), tentatively titled "The Dead Muse."

THE SMELL LAST SUNDAY READING SERIES

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2008

With featured readers

Jasper BERNES
Anthony MCCANN


The Smell is located at
247 S. Main Street
Between 2nd and 3rd Street
The entrance is through the back, by way of the alley, west of Main Street.

The doors will open at 6:30 pm. Five dollars at the door.

A bit more about the featured readers:

Jasper Bernes is the author of Starsdown (in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni) and a literary annotation of the human genome, Desequencer, forthcoming from TAXT. He grew up in Southern California and now lives in Albany, CA with Anna Shapiro and their son Noah. He is a graduate student at UC Berkeley.

Anthony McCann was born and raised in the Hudson Valley. He is the author of Moongarden (Wave Books, 2006) and Father of Noise (Fence Books, 2003). In addition to these two collections, he is one of the authors of Gentle Reader! (2007), a book of erasures of the English Romantics, along with Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer. He has taught English as a Second Language in the former Czechoslovakia, South Korea and Nicaragua, as well as in New York City. Currently he lives in Los Angeles and teaches poetry at CalArts and ESL to immigrants. He is also the ceremonial and acting poet laureate of Machine Project, an art-performance-gallery
-instructional space in Echo Park.

Dear Friends and Language Lovers,

You are invited to the next installment of
THE SMELL LAST SUNDAY READING SERIES

SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008

With featured readers

John SAKKIS
Mady SCHUTZMAN
Logan Ryan SMITH


The Smell is located at
247 S. Main Street
Between 2nd and 3rd Street
The entrance is through the back, by way of the alley, west of Main Street.

The doors will open at 6:30 pm. Five dollars at the door.


A bit more about the featured readers:

John Sakkis's recent chapbooks include Rude Girl (Duration Press), The Moveable Ones (Transmission Press) as well as the art book post bulletin (Taxt Press). A new chapbook, Gary Gygax, is forthcoming from Cy Gist Press. With Angelos Sakkis he translates the work of Athenian multi-media artist Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Chinese Notebook being the latest. Recent poetry, interviews, translations and reviews and have appeared in New American Writing, Aufgabe, Mirage #4/ Period(ical), Dusie, The Poker, Beyond Baroque, Hot Whiskey, Shampoo, The Bedside Guide To No Tell Motel, Bombay Gin, Shuffleboil, and Mipoesias. He curates the BOTH BOTH reading series in his apartment in the Lower Haight, SF and DJ's under the moniker ONLYMERK! having opened for Outkast, Heiroglyphics, Black Eyed Peas and the Living Legends among others.

Mady Schutzman is writer and theater artist. She has worked for over 25 years as free lance practitioner of the interactive theatre techniques of Brazilian director Augusto Boal, and co-edited two volumes of essays on his work with Routledge. In 2006, she wrote UPSET! -- a Boal-inspired, Brechtian comedy about the L.A. riots -- which was performed at REDCAT by 30 youth from the Plaza de la Raza youth program. She has published scholarly essays and creative non-fiction in several anthologies and journals including Black Clock, The Drama Review, Errant Bodies, Theatre Topics, and The Journal of Medical Humanities. Mady writes a lot about ambiguity and paradox, comedy, jokes, and trickery as forms of resistance, divination practices and performative tropes like ventriloquism, ritual, and hysteria. She is currently working on a film about the Socialist City ­ a utopian collective started in the high desert 70 miles from L.A. in 1914. She teaches at California Institute of the Arts.

Logan Ryan Smith lives in San Francisco where he publishes Transmission Press chapbooks and the poetry mag, small town. He is author of 2 books of poetry, THE SINGERS (Dusie Press Books), and STUPID BIRDS, which he released under the Transmission Press imprint. His poetry has been published in New American Writing, Bombay Gin, Hot Whiskey Magazine, the tiny, string of small machines, Sorry for Snake, as well as numerous other mags, and also in the anthologies, Bay Poetics (Faux Press) and The Meat Book (Hot Whiskey Press).