24/04/2021
Join us for a poetry reading on May 15th. Poets Rae Armantrout, Shane Book, Jared Fagen, Forrest Gander, Carlos Lara, Joyelle McSweeney, and Jane Miller will present works from the new Lana Turner, issue 13 of our annual journal. This event is hosted by co-editor David Lau.
Participants:
Rae Armantrout's recent volumes poetry are Partly, Itself, Wobble, and Conjure, all from Wesleyan. She is professor emeritus at UC San Diego.
Shane Book is the author of Ceiling of Sticks, Congotronic, and the forthcoming volume of poetry All Black Everything. He is a filmmaker and a professor at University of Victoria.
Jared Daniel Fagen's prose poetry and essays have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Lana Turner, Asymptote, Prelude, and Caesura. His first book, The Animal of Existence, will be published by Black Square Editions in 2022. He is the editor of Black Sun Lit and a graduate student at CUNY.
Forrest Gander, a writer and translator with degrees in geology and literature, was born in the Mojave Desert and lives in the Bay Area of California. Recent books include Be With, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and Twice Alive, just out from New Directions.
Chula Vista, California. His translation of Blanca Varela’s book Canto villano (Rough Song) was published by The Song Cave in 2020. He is also the author of the collection Like Bismuth When I Enter and the book-length The Green Record and the co-author, with Will Alexander, of The Audiographic As Data. He has lived in Brooklyn, Washington state, and Saudi Arabia, and currently resides with his wife and son in the greatest city on the planet, Los Angeles
Joyelle McSweeney is a poet, translator, and essayist. Her recent books are Toxicon and Arachne, The Necropastoral, and Dead Youth, or, The Leaks. She is publisher of Action Books and a professor at Notre Dame.
Jane Miller's recent poetry collection is Who Is Trixie the Trasher? and Other Questions, from Copper Canyon Press. Just completed: From the Valley of Bronze Camels: A Primer, Some Lectures, & A Boondoggle on Poetry.