Performance Poets from Both Coasts Read for New Anthology

Art House Gallery and great weather for MEDIA present a riveting and sublime evening of performance poets from across the U.S. They come together to celebrate the release of great weather’s new anthology, The Understanding between Foxes and Light, which features work by intense poets – including those you’ll hear tonight – who write for both the page and the stage. Come prepared for something that you won’t expect.

Joining us for an evening hosted by great weather guest editor Richard Loranger (Oakland) will be a stellar array of women wordsmiths from both coasts and beyond. Don’t even think of missing Jane Ormerod (NY/London), Puma Perl (NY), Joan Gelfand (SF), Kit Kennedy (SF), Mary Mackey (Berkeley), and Julia Vinograd (Berkeley) as they rearrange your brain cells with grace and lightning. Neurologic consultations offered free of charge. There will be a brief open mic to start the evening.

Please stop by, get yourself dangerously verbiaged up, and pick up a copy of The Understanding between Foxes and Light to call your very own.


RELEASE PARTY for The Understanding between Foxes and Light

a reading by
Jane Ormerod,
Puma Perl,
Joan Gelfand,
Kit Kennedy,
Mary Mackey,
Julia Vinograd,
and Richard Loranger

Thursday, November 14, 2013
signup 7 pm
start 7:30

$5 donation

Art House Gallery
2905 Shattuck Ave.
(one block north of Ashby, and close to Ashby BART)
Berkeley


PERFORMER BIOS

Jane Ormerod is the author of Welcome to the Museum of Cattle (Three Rooms Press, 2012), Recreational Vehicles on Fire (Three Rooms Press, 2009), the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books, 2008), and the spoken word CD Nashville Invades Manhattan. Born on the south coast of England, Jane now lives in New York City and performs extensively across the United States and Europe. She is a founding editor of great weather for MEDIA. Website

Puma Perl is a widely published poet and writer. She is the author of two chapbooks—the award-winning Belinda and Her Friends and the recently published Ruby True—and one full-length collection knuckle tattoos. Puma was the co-creator, co-producer, and main curator of DDAY Productions, which mounted shows in various New York City venues. Her newest venture is Puma Perl’s Punk Pandemonium, which launched at the Bowery Electric Map Room in 2012 and brings poetry together with rock and roll. She performs regularly with a number of excellent musicians.

Joan Gelfand’s poetry, fiction, reviews, essays and letters have appeared in national and international anthologies, literary journals and webzines. Joan teaches writing for Poetry Inside Out and coaches writers in San Francisco. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, a contributing Poetry Editor to the J, the Past President of the Women’s National Book Association, and blogs regularly for the Huffington Post. Joan is the author of A Dreamer’s Guide to Cities and Streams (SF Bay Press, 2009), Here & Abroad a chapbook of short fiction (winner of the 2010 Cervena Barva Fiction Award) and Seeking Center (Two Bridges Press, 2006), and the spoken word/original music CD Transported. Website

Kit Kennedy is the author of While Eating Oysters (CLWN WR BKS, 2013) and co-author with Susan Gangel of Inconvenience (Littoral Press, 2010) and Constellations (Co-Lab Press, 2011). Her work has appeared in the great weather for MEDIA anthology It’s Animal but Merciful, and in journals including Otoliths, and The Pedestal Magazine. She lives in San Francisco. Website

Mary Mackey’s published works include six collections of poetry, including Sugar Zone, winner of the 2012 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence (Marsh Hawk Press 2011). She is also the author of thirteen novels including the poetic novel Immersion (Shameless Hussey Press, 1972), the first novel published by a Second Wave feminist press. Mary’s works have been translated into twelve foreign languages. Website

Julia Vinograd is a Berkeley street poet. She has published fifty-eight books of poetry and won the American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation for her collection The Book of Jerusalem. She received a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. A Pushcart Prize winner, she was one of four editors of the anthology New American Underground Poetry Vol. 1: The Babarians of San Francisco – Poets from Hell (Trafford Publishing, 2006).

Richard Loranger is a writer of poetry and prose, as well as a spoken word, performance, and visual artist, who has lived in many parts of the country, including New York, Austin, Boulder, Ann Arbor, Chicago, and San Francisco. He currently lives and works in Oakland, CA. He is the author of Poems for Teeth, as well as The Orange Book and nine chapbooks, including Questions (Exot Books, 2013) with artwork by Bill Mercer. His work has been included in over eighty magazines and journals and twenty anthologies. Website