Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Friday, July 28: erica lewis & Franklin Bruno











The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

ERICA LEWIS
& FRANKLIN BRUNO

Friday, July 28 2017

Doors 7:30pm
Reading 8pm

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erica lewis lives in San Francisco where she is a fine arts publicist. In addition to mary wants to be a superwoman, her books include the precipice of jupiter, camera obscura (both collaborations with artist Mark Stephen Finein), murmur in the inventory, and daryl hall is my boyfriend. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Franklin Bruno is the author of The Accordion Repertoire (Edge Books), the chapbooks MF/MA (Seeing Eye) and Policy Instrument (Lame House), and Armed Forces (music criticism, in Continuum's 33 1/3 series). His poetry and prose have appeared in Critical Quarterly, The Brooklyn Rail, The Nation, The Oxford American, and Paideuma. Since 1990, he has released fifteen albums as a member of Nothing Painted Blue, as a solo artist, and with his current band The Human Hearts. Other musical projects include collaborations with The Mountain Goats, Jenny Toomey, Laura Cantrell, and Drew Gardner's Poetics Orchestra. He is currently writing a history of bridges and 'middle eights' in pop music for Wesleyan University Press. Franklin was raised in Southern California's Inland Empire and lives in Jackson Heights, Queens.