FEMINAISSANCE LOS ANGELES
Les Figues Press invites you to a Los Angeles Book Launch for
Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 4 PM
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
6522 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028
With Readings By:
MAGGIE NELSON
WANDA COLEMAN
CHRISTINE WERTHEIM
STEPHANIE YOUNG
MEILING CHENG
VANESSA PLACE
and TERESA CARMODY
Feminaissance A Book of Tiny Revolts.
Edited by Christine Wertheim, with contributions from: Dodie Bellamy, Caroline Bergvall, Meiling Cheng, Wanda Coleman, Bhanu Kapil, Chris Kraus, Susan McCabe, Tracie Morris, Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson, Juliana Spahr, Vanessa Place, Christine Wertheim, Stephanie Young and Lidia Yuknavitch. For more info: http://www.lesfigues.com/lfp/200/feminaissance
Christine Wertheim is MFA Writing Program Chair at Cal Arts. She is the author of +|’me’S-pace (Les Figues Press), a book of poetics, and a chapbook from Triage. She co-edited the anthologies Seancé, Noulipo, and Feminaissance. Recent critical work has appeared in X-tra, Cabinet , The Quick and the Dead, and Walker Art Centre. Recent poetry appears in Drunken Boat, Tarpaulin Sky and Veer. Her new book is a poetic suite on mothers.
Stephanie Young lives and works in Oakland. She edited the anthology Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006) and is currently at work on the collaborative website Deep Oakland. Her books of poetry are Picture Palace and Telling the Future Off.
Vanessa Place is a writer, a lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press. She is author of Dies: A Sentence (2006), La Medusa (2008), Notes on Conceptualisms, co-authored with Robert Fitterman (2009), and _The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality and Law _(2010). A book of conceptual poetry, Statement of Facts, will be published in France by éditions è®e, as Exposé des Faits; an English version is forthcoming from Blanc Press.
Maggie Nelson is most recently the author of three books of nonfiction: Bluets (Wave Books, 2009), Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007; winner of the Susanne M. Glasscock Award for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, and a Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant), and The Red Parts: A Memoir (Free Press, 2007; named a Notable Book of the Year by the State of Michigan). She is also the author of several books of poetry, including Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull Press, 2005; Finalist, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of Memoir), Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2005), The Latest Winter (Hanging Loose Press, 2003) and Shiner (Hanging Loose, 2001). A book of cultural and art criticism titled The Art of Cruelty is forthcoming from WW Norton. Since 2005, Nelson has taught on the BFA and MFA faculty of the School of Critical Studies at CalArts in Valencia, CA. She currently lives in Los Angeles.
Born in Watts and raised in South Los Angeles, “the fiery” Wanda Coleman has spent over forty years in America’s literary trenches, pioneering the Spoken Word scene in Southern California and becoming the first writer honored as a literary fellow by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (2003). Coleman’s many books include Bathwater Wine, winner of the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize—the first African-American woman to receive the award, and Mercurochrome (poems), bronze-medal finalist, National Book Awards 2001. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Interviews and articles on Wanda Coleman recently appear in The Los Angeles Review, Burnside Review, Superstition Review and on the Poetry Foundation website. Her most recent book, Jazz and Twelve O’clock Tales, a collection of stories, is from Black Sparrow Books (David R. Godine, 2008). She currently teaches a writing workshop at Cal Arts.
Meiling Cheng teaches at School of Theatre, University of Southern California. She is currently working on her book manuscript about contemporary Chinese time-based art, for which she received the support of a 2006 Zumberge Individual Research Award and a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Teresa Carmody is the author of Requiem (Les Figues Press, 2005), and two chapbooks: Eye Hole Adore (PS Books, 2008), and Your Spiritual Suit of Armor by Katherine Anne (Woodland Editions, 2009). Other work has appeared or is forthcoming in various publications, including Bombay Gin, Fold Appropriate Text, Luvina, Sous Rature, American Book Review, emohippus greeting cards 1-4 and more. She was one of the organizers of the original Ladyfest in Olympia, Washington, and is cofounder and co-director (with Vanessa Place) of Les Figues Press.