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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Lester Robles O'Connor, Ryan Luz, and Joseph T. Thomas: Pastoral Poetry, FRIDAY, 6/4, 7pm Options

We hope you can join us this FRIDAY, JUNE 4 at 7pm for a pastoral poetry reading featuring LESTER ROBLES O'CONNOR, RYAN LUZ, and JOSEPH T. THOMAS.

We are excited to host this reading in conjunction with There Goes the Neighborhood!--a four day event that not only hopes to shed light on issues of art and its relationship to a specific community, but to also re-examine, through artistic interventions, some aspects of the neighborhood that are sometimes overlooked: http://www.theregoes.org/

LESTER O'CONNOR writes in several genres and makes video work and street propaganda. He was co-editor of the Pacific Review and reviewed films for a defunct alt-weekly.

RYAN LUZ's work is interdisciplinary--combining prose, poetry and visual element. His poems often focuses on the tiny, quotidian, and overlooked.

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.

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 before and afterward!

AGITPROP POETRY SERIES
FRIDAY, June 4, 7pm
AGITPROP Gallery
2837 University Ave in North Park (Entrance on Utah, behind Glenn’s
Market)
San Diego, CA * 92104 * 619.384.7989

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Rozalie Hirs at Agitprop: Saturday, May 8, 7pm


From the Netherlands, ROZALIE HIRS is a prolific interdisciplinary artist whose work incorporates music, text and video. Her work has performed throughout Europe and the United States, and we’re very happy to be hosting her at Agitprop. Her three books of poetry are Locus (1998), Logos (2002) and Speling (2005, all Querido Publications). She also wrote the libretto for the opera The Cricket Recovers by Richard Ayres. Rozalie Hirs' recent composition "Roseherte," (2008) for full orchestra and electro-acoustic sounds was premiered by the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and selected for the Toonzetters prize in 2009. Her electro-acoustic composition “Pulsars” (2006, 2007 rev.), commissioned by CafĂ© Sonore, VPRO Radio, Netherlands, received the distinction “Recommended work” at the 11th International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music (IREM) in 2007. A CD, Pulsars, with electroacoustic music and text pieces by Rozalie Hirs will appear in 2010 as a co-production of Attacca records and Muziekcentrum Nederland. You can learn more about Rozalie Hirs’ work online at http://www.rozalie.com/.

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, May 8, 7pm
AGITPROP Gallery
2837 University Ave in North Park (Entrance on Utah, behind Glenn’s Market)
San Diego, CA * 92104 * 619.384.7989