Friday, June 1, 2007 at 09:47AM
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Doors open at 7:00 - Reading begins at 7:15pm
The Good Luck Bar, 1514 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles (east Hollywood/Silver Lake: corner of Hollywood & Hillhurst) 21 and over only.
RSVP at rhapsodomancyla@yahoo.com
$3 suggested donation at door; after expenses, a portion of the proceeds will benefit a nonprofit organization to be determined.
There will be a cash bar.
www.rhapsodomancy.org
Eloise Klein Healy is the author of six books of poetry. Her most recent collection, The Islands Project: Poems For Sappho, is from Red Hen Press. Ms. Healy, Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing Emerita at Antioch University Los Angeles, was the founding chair of the MFA in Creative Writing Program. She is also the co-founder of ECO-ARTS, an eco-tourism/arts venture and founding editor of Arktoi Books, an imprint of Red Hen Press specializing in publishing the work of lesbian writers. Healy is Resident Poet at the Idyllwild Summer Poetry Festival and will serve as poetry faculty for the Lambda Literature Foundation’s LBGT Writers Retreat in 2007.
Robert Krut is the author of the chapbook Theory of the Walking Big Bang (H-ngm-n Books, 2007). His poetry has appeared in a variety of journals, including Blackbird, The Mid-American Review, and Hayden's Ferry Review, among others. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Tess. Lotta is finishing her MA in English (lit and lit theory) while writing poetry and journalism, teaching, and making art. She serves as Poetry Editor for www.poeticdiversity.org and as the Editor and Creative Director for Media Cake eMagazine www.mediacakemagazine.com. Information on her creative projects and writing is available at www.litparlor.com.
Bonnie Bolling lives in Long Beach with her family. She is an editor of Verdad, a literary and art web magazine. She is a finalist for the 2007 Rita Dove Poetry Award and the winner of two Donald Drury Awards, for fiction and poetry and a PEN USA/Emerging Voices participant. Her work has been published in Pearl Magazine, Chickasaw Plum, Verdad, Poetic Diversity and other magazines and newspapers. Her current projects are a novel titled The Book of Ruth, and a collection of poetry. She holds a B.A. in English and is a student of the creative writing program at Long Beach City College.