Saturday Night, June 6: Michael Friedman & Matt Reeck

Michael Friedman is the author of the just-published Martian Dawn & Other Novels (Little A) and two full-length books of poetry, including Species (The Figures, 2000), and four chapbooks. His first novel, Martian Dawn, was published in 2006 by Turtle Point Press. His work has appeared in several anthologies, including Great American Prose Poems (Scribner, 2003). Previously, he was the board chair of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and an adjunct faculty member of Naropa University’s MFA writing program. He is the cofounder of the literary journal Shiny, grew up in Manhattan and lives in Denver.

Matt Reeck lives in Los Angeles, where he is co-editor of Staging Ground magazine. He has published five chapbooks: The Pastoral City (Textile Series), Sieve (Other Rooms), Love Songs & Laments (MIPOesias), Midwinter (Fact-Simile), and The Necessary City (Konundrum Engine Literary Review).  He has also published two translations from the Urdu with Aftab Ahmad: Bombay Stories, by Saadat Hasan Manto, was published by Random House India in 2012, and Mirages of the Mind (New Directions) by Mushtaq Ahmad Yousufi, in 2015.

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Saturday, June 6, 2015
Doors open at 7pm
Reading at 7:30pm

Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA
90012