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Saturday, November 7, 2009

Joseph Thomas & Mark Wallace 11/7 @ 7pm

We hope you can join us this Saturday, November 7 at 7:00 pm for the
next event in the Agitprop Reading Series featuring Joseph Thomas and
Mark Wallace.

A libertine of unimpeachable taste, Joseph T. Thomas, Jr. is an
assistant professor of English at San Diego State University’s
National Center for the Study of Children’s Literature. He is the
author of two books, Poetry’s Playground: The Culture of Contemporary
American Children’s Poetry (Wayne State UP, 2007) and Strong Measures
(Make Now Press, 2007). Poetry’s Playground was named a 2009 honor
book by the Children’s Literature Association.

Mark Wallace is the author of more than fifteen books and chapbooks of
poetry, fiction, and essays. Temporary Worker Rides A Subway won the
2002 Gertrude Stein Poetry Award and was published by Green Integer
Books. His critical articles and reviews have appeared in numerous
publications, and he has co-edited two essay collections, Telling It
Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990s, and A Poetics of Criticism.
Most recently he has published a short story collection, Walking
Dreams (2007), and a book of poems, Felonies of Illusion (2008).
Forthcoming in early 2011 is his second novel, The Quarry and The Lot.
He teaches at California State University San Marcos.
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We hope to see you there and for festivities afterward!

AGITPROP POETRY SERIES
Saturday, November 7, 7:00pm
AGITPROP Gallery
2837 University Ave in North Park (Entrance on Utah, behind Glenn’s
Market) * San Diego, CA * 92104 * 619.384.7989

Monday, April 27, 2009

Agitprop Reading 5/2: Brian Kim Stefans & Geoffrey Dyer

Please join us for a monthly lit reading in the company of art @
Agitprop in North Park, co-sponsored by the gallery and local small
presses 1913, Kuhl House, and Tougher Disguises.

This event is free and open to the public. There will be a reception
after the reading. Donations to the gallery are greatly appreciated.

Poets Brian Kim Stefans & Geoffrey Dyer will read from their work on
Saturday May 2 @ 7pm in the Agitprop Gallery in North Park: 2837
University Ave (entrance on Utah), San Diego, California, 92104,
619.384.7989.

Brian Kim Stefans' recent books include “Kluge” (Roof Books, 2007),
“What is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers” (Factory School, 2006)
and “Before Starting Over: Selected Essays and Interviews” (Salt
Publishing, 2006). Recent digital projects include the interactive
Kluge (http://www.arras.net/kluge/) and a series of digital
projections called “Scriptor” that are intended for gallery and
environmental settings, one of which appeared in the show “Contranym”
in New York City’s ABC Gallery in September, 2008. He is presently
Assistant Professor of English and Digital Humanities at UCLA, edits
the online mag arras.net and writes the Free Space Comix blog; he
lives in Los Angeles half a block away from Scarlett Johansson (’s
face on a billboard).

Geoffrey Dyer’s first book of poems, “The Dirty Halo of Everything,”
was published by Krupskaya Press in 2003. Of Dyer's work, John Yau
writes, "Welcome to the 'valley of the near yonder hell, an Out West
sort of place," where you will find "Golgotha embellished in cement"
and the "mascara of Andromeda." While you are here, "pay attention to
the words collaborating inside [y]our skull." Geoffrey Dyer certainly
does. So much so I swear that Apollinaire, William Eggleston, and
Harry Dean Stanton have been slipping Dyer some potent Kickapoo Joy
Juice. ...This is America. And, like Eggleston and Stanton, Dyer is a
damned wonderful guide." An original member of the New Brutalist
poetry collective and a graduate of Mills College’s MFA Program, Dyer
lives and blogs in the Bay Area.

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Monday, March 30, 2009

Agitprop Reading Series: Steve Willard & Allison Carter, Saturday 4/4, 7pm

Dear Friends,

We hope you can join us this Saturday, April 4 for the next reading in our regular space at Agitprop Gallery (2837 University Ave in North Park, entrance on Utah, a few blocks west of 30th Street), featuring Steve Willard and Allison Carter. We often serve wine and snacks, and
donations to the gallery are always appreciated.

Steve Willard, b. 1970. Book: Harm. (UC Press 2007.) Ph.D. studies at UC San Diego in Critical Studies/Experimental Practices: writing about sound poetry, prosody, and pop. Performs and is rap consultant with avant-country band Go Duo; currently recording a CD of text + music with bassist Jeff Denson.

Allison Carter currently lives in Los Angeles, where she works as a freelance web designer and teaches a writing workshop in hybrid forms at CalArts. She is the author of a book, A Fixed, Formal Arrangement (Les Figues Press) and a chapbook Shadows Are Weather (Horse Less Press). Her work has otherwise been published in Joyland, P-Queue, 5_Trope, Fence, 3rd Bed, and other journals. Allison co-edits The Particle Series (P S Books) with Joe Potts.

We hope to see you there and for all festivities afterward!

AGITPROP POETRY SERIES
Saturday, April 4
7:00pm
AGITPROP Gallery
2837 University Ave in North Park. Entrance on Utah.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Agitprop Reading Series: Amina Cain & Saehee Cho, Saturday 3/7, 7pm

We hope you can join us this Saturday, March 7 for the next reading in our regular space at Agitprop Gallery (2837 University Ave in North Park, entrance on Utah, a few blocks west of 30th Street), featuring Amina Cain and Saehee Cho. We often serve wine and snacks, and donations to the gallery are always appreciated.

Amina Cain is the author of I Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues Press, 2009). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as 3rd Bed, Action Yes, Denver Quarterly, Dewclaw, Emohippus Greeting Card #2, The Encyclopedia Poject,La Petite Zine, Sidebrow, and Wreckage of Reason, and has been translated into Polish on MINIMALBOOKS. Recordings of her stories exist as part of the exhibition "A Diamond in the Mud" at Literaturhaus Basel, and the Moles Not Molar "Transmissions: Signal to Noise Ratio" radio show. Recently she co-curated When Does It or You Begin? (Memory as Innovation), a month long festival of writing, performance, and video. She lives in Los Angeles.

Saehee Cho is an MFA candidate at Calarts whose fiction has been featured in Shrapnel and Ex Nihilo. She holds a BA in Literature/Creative Writing from UCSD and currently resides in Los Angeles.

We hope to see you there and for all festivities afterward!

AGITPROP POETRY SERIES
Saturday, March 7
7:00pm
AGITPROP Gallery
2837 University Ave in North Park. Entrance on Utah.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Agitprop Reading Series, CARMODY & PLACE, Saturday 2/7, 7pm

After a winter hiatus, the Agitprop reading series is back!

We hope you can join us this Saturday, February 7 for the next reading in the Agitprop Reading Series featuring VANESSA PLACE and TERESA CARMODY. We often serve wine and snacks, and donations to thegallery are always appreciated.

Please note that we are in a different venue for this reading than is usual. For this event only, the Agitprop Reading will take place nearby at at ART Produce Gallery on 3139 University Ave,on the corner of University and Herman, next to Cafe Carpe Diem.

Vanessa Place is a writer and lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press. She is the author of Dies: A Sentence (Les Figues Press), a 50,000-word, one-sentence prose poem; the post-conceptual novel LaMedusa (Fiction Collective 2), and, in collaboration withappropriation poet Robert Fitterman, Notes on Conceptualisms (Ugly Duckling Presse (2009). Place is also a regular contributor to X-TRAContemporary Art Quarterly, and is collaborating with Los Angelesconceptual artist Stephanie Taylor on the film, “Murder Squaredance at the Spiral Jetty.” Her nonfiction book, The Guilt Project: Rape and Morality will be published by Other Press in 2010. Place is co-founderof Les Figues Press, described by critic Terry Castle as “an elegant vessel for experimental American writing of an extraordinarily assured and ingenious sort.”

Teresa Carmody is the author of Requiem (Les Figues, 2005) and two chapbooks: Eye Hole Adore (PS Book, 2008) and Your Spiritual Suit of Armor by Katherine Anne by Teresa Carmody (Woodland Editions, 2008).Other work has appeared in various publications, including emohippusgreeting card 1 & 2, Bombay Gin, Fold, Slope, American Book Review, LAWeekly and Stolen Purse. She was one of the organizers of the original Ladyfest in Olympia, Washington, and co-organizer (with Matias Viegener and Christine Wertheim) of Feminaissance, a colloquium on women, experiments and writing at the Los Angeles Museum ofContemporary Art. She is cofounder and co-director (with Vanessa Place) of Les Figues Press.

We hope to see you there and for all festivities afterward!

AGITPROP READING SERIES

Saturday, February 7. 7:00pm ART Produce Gallery
3139 University Ave. San Diego, CA 92104
On the corner of University and Herman, next to Cafe Carpe Diem in North Park