The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

DODIE BELLAMY & VANESSA PLACE
Saturday, December 20 2008 at 5:00pm

@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206

Doors open at 4:30pm
Reading starts at 5:00pm

$5 donation requested

Dodie Bellamy's chapbook, Barf Manifesto, is recently out from Ugly Duckling Presse. Other books include Academonia, Pink Steam and The Letters of Mina Harker. Her book Cunt-Ups won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for poetry. In January, 2006, she curated an installation of Kathy Acker's clothing for White Columns, New York's oldest alternative art space. She lives in San Francisco with writer Kevin Killian and three cats. She teaches, among other places, in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch, Los Angeles.

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 piece; the post-conceptual novel La Medusa (Fiction Collective 2), and, in collaboration with appropriation poet Robert Fitterman, Notes on Conceptualisms (Ugly Duckling Presse (forthcoming)). Her nonfiction book, The Guilt Project: Rape and Morality will be published by Other Press in 2010.

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