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).

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