Saturday, July 25, 7pm: Rob Halpern & Jen Scappettone

Common Place is Rob Halpern’s most recent book of poetry (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015). He lives between San Francisco and Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Jennifer Scappettone is the author of From Dame Quickly, Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice, and several chapbooks. Exit 43, an archaeology of the Superfundament and opera of pop-up pastorals, is in progress for Atelos Press, with a letterpress palimpsest, A Chorus Fosse, coming soon from Compline. She edited and translated Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli, and is at work on translating a 1944 F.T. Marinetti “aeronovel or aeropoem”; she just launched PennSound Italiana, a new sector of the archive devoted to Italian poetry that she curates. Collaborative work includes performances of Exit 43 with the Difforme Ensemble; digital archaeologies with Judd Morrissey; libretti, scores, and vocal concepts for PARK, directed and choreographed by Kathy Westwater; and sonic documentaries for X Locus, with AGENCY architecture and composer Paul Rudy at the American Academy in Rome. Her most recent work is Leave Loom, a garbage documentary room woven at WUHO Gallery in Hollywood. She lives in Chicago and sometimes elsewhere, including here.

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Saturday, July 25, 2015
Doors open at 7pm
Reading at 7:30pm

Poetic Research Bureau
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Los Angeles, CA
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