Jennifer Firestone * Dorothea Lasky * Sarah Rosenthal
+ Manila Broadsides featured artist Scott Chasse
Saturday * May 17th * 8pm * The Distillery * 516 East Second Street * South Boston, MA 02127
Feel free to bring booze and snacks.
Jennifer Firestone is the co-editor of
Letters To Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics, and Community, forthcoming in October from Saturnalia Books. She is the author of
Holiday (published by Shearsman Books),
Waves (published by Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), and
From Flashes and
snapshot (both published by Sona Books). Her work has appeared in
HOW2, LUNGFULL!, Can We Have Our Ball Back, Fourteen Hills, MIPOesias Magazine, Dusie, 580 Split, Saint Elizabeth Street and others. She is the Poet in Residence at Eugene Lang College (The New School For Liberal Arts), and she lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their infant twins.
Dorothea Lasky is the author of
AWE (Wave Books, 2007). Currently, she lives in Philadelphia, where she studies creativity and education.
Sarah Rosenthal is the author of
How I Wrote This Story (Margin to Margin, 2001),
sitings (a+bend, 2000),
not-chicago (Melodeon, 1998), and
Manhatten (Spuyten Duyvil, forthcoming). Her poetry, fiction, reviews, essays, and interviews have appeared in numerous journals including
How(2), Bird Dog, Fence, Lungfull, Denver Quarterly, and
Boston Review. Her poetry has been anthologized in
Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006),
The Other Side of the Postcard (City Lights, 2005), and
hinge (Crack Press, 2002). Sarah has created a commissioned, multimedia installation based on her poetry for the San Francisco Exploratorium Museum. She is the recipient of the Leo Litwak Fiction Award, the Primavera Fiction Prize, and a grant-supported writing residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Her collection of interviews,
A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Avant-Garde Writers of the Bay Area, is currently being considered by several publishers. She writes curricula on writing and reading for the Developmental Studies Center, a nonprofit publishing house, and teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University.
