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.