Monday, February 21, 2011

JAMES MEETZE & AARON PECK


The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

JAMES MEETZE & AARON PECK

Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 7:30pm

The PRB @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 7:00pm
Reading starts at 7:30pm

$5 donation requested

James Meetze's book Dayglo was selected by Terrance Hayes as winner of the 2010 Sawtooth Poetry Prize from Ahsahta Press. He is also the author of I Have Designed This For You (2007), and editor, with Simon Pettet, of Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems by James Schuyler (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010). The recipient of the 2001 Poet Laureate Award from the University of California, he has taught poetry and creative writing at the University of California, San Diego, California State University, San Marcos, and in the MFA Program at National University. He lives in San Diego with his wife and son

Aaron Peck is the author of The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis and, in collaboration with Düsseldorf-based artists Adam Harrison and Dominic Osterried, Letters to the Pacific. Work has appeared in Golden Handcuffs Review and Maxtrix Magazine, while recent art criticism has appeared inartforum.com, 01 Magazine, Art Papers, Canadian Art, Foam and Fillip. He also has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogs in Canada and has had an article appear in La Fábrica's Spanish-language magazine Matador. He lives in Vancouver, BC, where he teaches at Emily Carr University.