Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Nov 8: Matthew Klane & Jennifer Scappettone


Sunday, November 8th
7pm

Matthew Klane
Jennifer Scappettone

at Myopic Bookstore
1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue

MATTHEW KLANE is co-editor/founder of Flim Forum Press, publisher of the anthologies Oh One Arrow (2007) and A Sing Economy (2008). His book is B_____ Meditations from Stockport Flats Press (2008). His latest chapbooks include Friend Delighting the Eloquent, Sorrow Songs, and The-Associated Press. Also see: The Meister-Reich Experiments, a sprawling hypertext, online at http://www.housepress.org.

JENNIFER SCAPPETTONE is the author of From Dame Quickly (Litmus, 2009) and of several chapbooks, including Ode oggettuale / Thing Ode, translated into Italian with Marco Giovenale (La Camera Verde, 2008). She edited Belladonna Elders Series #5: Poetry, Landscape, Apocalypse (Belladonna, 2009), also featuring work by Etel Adnan and Lyn Hejinian, and the feature section of Aufgabe #7, devoted to contemporary Italian poetry of research. Exit 43, in progress for Atelos Press, is an archaeology of Superfund sites interrupted by an opera of pop-ups. She is now collaborating with choreographer Kathy Westwater on translating pop-up windows into scores for PARK, coming to Dance Theater Workshop and the Center for Performance Research in Winter 2010. Some readings, talks, and interviews are archived at her PennSound page, http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Scappettone.html.