Zinc Bar Reading Series

March 14 Reading

Join us for a star-filled evening of poetry and dancing!

Featuring:

Corina Copp

Robert Dewhurst

Maggie Nelson

with dancing by

Kathryn TeBordo and her Workshop for Potential Movement

and

Rebecca Ketchum and Rachel Cohen of Racoco Productions

Facebook event page here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=56108152080&ref=ts#!/event.php?eid=354718310825&ref=mf

Bios:

Corina Copp is a poet, performer, and playwright living in Brooklyn. Recent work has appeared in ON Contemporary Practice, Aufgabe, Antennae, and elsewhere. She has performed in plays by Erik Ehn, Kristen Kosmas, and Normandy Sherwood, among others, at venues such as BAX, Dixon Place, Galapagos, the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator, and the NYC Fringe Fest. She is the author of plays “OK (Office Killer)” (NYCCT/Voorhees Theater 2008) and “A Week of Kindness” (Tiny Theater Fest/Ontological 2007); the e-book Carpeted (Faux Press 2004), and chapbooks Play Air (Belladonna* 2005) and Sometimes Inspired by Marguerite (Open 24 Hours 2003). She is also serving as the current editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter, and co-curates, with THE PLAYWRITING FIRM, a monthly performance reading series called The 25-cent Opera of San Francisco.

Robert Dewhurst edits Satellite Telephone, and co-edits Wild Orchids. His prose appears in the current issues of ON Contemporary Practice and the Poetry Project Newsletter. He lives in Buffalo, NY, where he attends the Poetics Program at SUNY-Buffalo.

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.

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

Rebecca Ketchum attended Goucher College where she studied Dance, Arts Administration, and French. Since graduation, she has taught many subjects in Chicago, Thailand, Maine, and the Bronx. She recently finished her Masters of Arts in Education at Harvard University where, most importantly, she met Dorothea Lasky. Rebecca currently spends her time dancing, baking and working with Racoco Productions, Movementpants Dance, and Children’s Progress.

Rachel Cohen has created work and performed in New York City since 1997. She graduated from Harvard University with a degree in “Performance as Communication,” a self-designed major. She is artistic director of Racoco Productions.