Zinc Bar Reading Series
Poetry. Sundays at 6:30 p.m. at the Zinc Bar, 82 W. 3rd St.
Join us for
Jen Bervin
and
David Abel
Reader Bios:
Poet and visual artist Jen Bervin’s large-scale sewn composites of
Dickinson’s fascicle marks and other works have been exhibited in the
US and France. Her recent books include The Desert (Granary Books
2008), A Non- Breaking Space (Ugly Duckling 2005), and Nets (UDP
2004). In The Desert, Jen Bervin continues in the tradition of poetic
composition by erasure—by sewing. Taking John Van Dyke’s prose
celebration of American wilderness The Desert (1901) as a point of
departure, Bervin has sewn, row by row, across 130 pages of Van Dyke’s
prose, creating a poem that forms its own elemental landscape and
shares Van Dyke’s poetic attention to visual phenomena. More work has
been featured recently in “Esopus” and “Double Change.” Jen Bervin is
a 2007 Poetry Fellowship recipient of the New York Foundation for the
Arts and has received fellowships in art and writing from The
MacDowell Colony, Centrum Arts, and The Camargo Foundation in Cassis,
France. She is a contributing editor for “jubilat” and lives in New
York. (Thanks to the Granary Books website for the above).
David Abel moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1997, after tenures in New
York City and Albuquerque (where he maintained the Bridge Bookshop,
and Passages Bookshop & Gallery, respectively). He is a founding
organizer of Portland’s Spare Room reading series
(www.flim.com/spareroom), now in its ninth year. The author of various
chapbooks and artist’s books, most recently Commonly (airfoil), While
You Were In (disposable books), and Twenty- (Crane’s Bill), he
frequently collaborates on multimedia and peformance projects, and is
the is the publisher of the Envelope broadside series, and copublisher
with Sam Lohmann of airfoil chapbooks.
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