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Blue Press Poets a reading and conversation with Kevin Opstedal, Michael Price, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, Patrick Dunagan, Micah Ballard and Cedar Sigo
Thursday February 22, 2007
3:30 pm @ the Poetry Center
HUM 512, SFSU, free

• Kevin Opstedal is publisher of Blue Press Books and editor of an array of sub-radar literary magazines, the latest being Blue Book #8. Recent works are On the Low (Gallery Books) and Rare Surf, Vol. 2 : New & Used Poems (Smog Eyes Press). He lives in Santa Cruz, and is writing a literary history of the Bolinas poets. • Michael Price, co-editor of Blue Book magazine and Blue Press Books is author of Doombook (The Figures), On the Eve of the Death of Michael Price , and his latest, The Year of the Mother (both Blue Press). He lives in Boulder. • Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, from New Orleans, has been in San Francisco six years. Her books include Last We Spoke (Auguste Press, 2004) and 20/20 Yielding (Blue Press, 2005). • Patrick Dunagan's chapbooks include: Young American Poets (Showerhead), U.S.A. (surfZombie), Baby Skull (Yenless Rumsoaked), Of Stone (Snag), Fess Parker (Red Ant), and After the Sinews (Auguste). • Micah Ballard, from Louisiana, lives in San Francisco and runs the Lew Gallery at New College of California. His books include Emblematic (Old Gold), Bettina Coffin (Red Ant Press), In the Kindness of Night (Blue Press), and Evangeline Downs (Ugly Duckling Presse). • Cedar Sigo is author of Goodnight Nurse (Angry Dog Press, 2001). His Selected Writings was published by Ugly Duckling Presse (2003; second edition, 2005). Forthcoming is a book of collaborations, Deathrace V.S.O.P. He lives in San Francisco, where he is the editor of Old Gold Press.