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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Jane Sprague & Diane Ward 2/6 @ 7pm


We hope you can join us this Saturday, February 6 at 7:00 pm for the next event in the Agitprop Reading Series featuring Jane Sprague and Diane Ward.

Jane Sprague is the author of The Port of Los Angeles (Chax, 2009), *Belladonna Elders Series No. 8 (with Tina Darragh and Diane Ward; Belladonna, 2009) and numerous chapbooks including Apache Roadkill (Dusie, 2009) and Sacking the Henwife (Dusie, 2008). She teaches at CSULB and for Bard College's Institute for Language and Thinking. She lives in Long Beach, CA where she edits and publishes Palm Press. Her current projects include editing the collection Imaginary Syllabi, a utopian and practical investigation into various writing pedagogies in higher education as well as researching a project on generational poverty and histories of race and genocide in upstate New York, where she's from.

Diane Ward was born in 1956 in Washington, DC and currently lives in Santa Monica, California. She has published ten books of poetry including, most recently, *Belladonna Elders Series No. 8 (with Tina Darragh and Diane Ward; Belladonna, 2009) No List (No List), Seeing Eye Books, 2008, Flim-Yoked Scrim, Factory School, 2006, among others. Her work has been included in numerous anthologies, among them: MOVING BORDERS: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women, edited by Mary Margaret Sloan (New Jersey: Talisman House, Publishers, 1998) and OUT OF EVERYWHERE: linguistically innovative poetry by women in North America & the UK, edited by Maggie O’Sullivan (London: Reality Street Editions, 1996).
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Please share this information with friends and any interested parties. Agitprop readings are free, but donations to the gallery are always welcome.

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