Thursday
January 16, 2014
7:30 PM

The Last Bookstore
453 S. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Come join Kelsey Street Press and Les Figues Press at The Last Bookstore in Downtown LA featuring a book launch and readings by Sabrina Dalla Valle and Christine Wertheim.

Sabrina Dalla Valle’s book 7 Days and Nights in the Desert (Tracing the Origin) was selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge as the winner of the 2013 Kelsey Street Press Firsts! Contest.

Christine Wertheim’s newest book, mUtter-bAbel, is coming out in early 2014 from Counterpath. If we are lucky, there will be copies at the event!

More About the Performers:

Sabrina Dalla Valle, MFA, is an experimental writer and researcher of integral awareness. She is the author of 7 Days and Nights in the Desert (Tracing the Origin) and a chapbook, 7 Days and Nights in the Desert, published by Mindmade Books in 2012. Her work is anthologized in Best Poems of 2012 by Kore Press (2013) and in Alchemical Traditions by Numen Books (2013). Sabrina lives and works in Los Angeles, where she teaches at the University of Philosophical Research and at Woodbury University, in Burbank. She is a co-editor of Diaphany, a new peer-reviewed journal for integral studies.

Christine Wertheim is a poet, critic, performer, and curator. Her books include mUtter–bAbel (Counterpath Press), +|’me’S-pace (Les Figues Press), Corpus, Feminaissance (editor) (Les Figues Press), and, with Matias Viegener, Séance and The n/Oulipean Analects (co-editor). Her poetry is anthologized in Against Expression, The & Now Awards, I’ll Drown My Book, The LA Telephone Book, and Out of Nothing. With her sister Margaret, she co-directs the Institute For Figuring, which curates exhibitions and seminars on the intersection of art, science and mathematics. She has a doctorate in literature and semiotics from Middlesex University and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.