Zinc Bar Reading Series
Poetry. Sundays at 6:30 p.m. at the Zinc Bar, 82 W. 3rd St.
Cynthia Arrieu-King
Brenda Iijima
Sommer Browning
with dancing by Kathryn TeBordo
6:30 p.m. sharp start time
Bios:
Cynthia Arrieu-King is an assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton College and a Kundiman fellow. Her book People are Tiny in Paintings of China is forthcoming from Octopus Books in fall 2010.
Brenda Iijima’s recent books include revv. you’ll—ution (2009, Displaced Press) and If Not Metamorphic (Ahsahta Press, 2010). She is the editor of the eco-language reader which just came out from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs and Nightboat books in which poets respond to the issues of environmental duress: http://www.upne.com/0-9822645-4-2.html Presently she is working on an encyclopedia of animals used by humans as surrogates and researching the string of murders against women in her small town of North Adams, Massachusetts that took place in the late 1970’s. She is choreographing site specific dances that confront these crimes. She is the publisher of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.
Originally from Los Angeles and Virginia, Sommer Browning writes comix and draws poems in Brooklyn. She is also a maritime librarian. She has two chapbooks, Vale Tudo (horse less press) and The House (Cannibal Books).
Stalk her here: http://www.asthmachronicles.blogspot.com/
Kathryn TeBordo is a choreographer and performer and the founder of Workshop for Potential Movement, a Philadelphia-based company creating new collisions of dance and theater. Other recent projects include dancing with devynn emory/ beast productions, and performing in the dancefilm Wanna Kiss Myself by J. Makary, and in The Show Must Go On by Jerome Bel presented by the 2008 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. She currently serves on the advisory board of Dance/USA Philadelphia, and lives with her husband Christian, a novelist, in Center City. http://potentiallymoving.org
