SAVE THE DATE!

CANESSA PARK READING SERIES:

708 Montgomery Street (at Columbus)

San Francisco, CA 94111

2^nd Monday Nights – September 10th, 2012

Ron Loewinsohn – reading from the memoir Home Again, Home Again.

John Sakkis & Angelos Sakkis – reading translations of Demosthenes Agrafiotis new book                                                                          "now,   1/3" and thepoem 
Laura Wetherington – reading from A Map Predetermined and Chance

Doors open at 7 pm.  Reading at 7:30 pm.

Donation $6.   (No one turned away for lack of funds.)

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Ron Loewinsohn is the author of the novel Magnetic Field(s), which won the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Association Award for Fiction in 1983.  He is also the author of some nine collections of poetry, including Watermelons (Totem Press, 1959), Meat Air (Harcourt Brace, 1970), and Goat Dances (Black Sparrow Press, 1976.  He was one of the two youngest poets in Donald Allen's landmark anthology The New American Poetry (Grove Press, 1960).  He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and  two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.  He is the editor of W.C. Williams' collection of prose piecesThe Embodiment of Knowledge (New Directions, 1974).  From 1970 to 2005 he taught American Literature and Creative Writing at Univ. of Calif, Berkeley.  He is currently working on a screen adaptation of Magnetic Field(s) and a memoir titled "Home Again, Home Again."

John Sakkis is the author of Rude Girl, and with Angelos Sakkis he has translated three books by Athenian poet and multi-media artist Demosthenes Agrafiotis — Maribor (The Post-Apollo Press), awarded the 2011 Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation, Chinese Notebook (Ugly Duckling Presse), and the just released "now, 1/3" and thepoem (BlazeVOX Books). The author of numerous chapbooks, pamphlets, mixtapes and ephemera, most recently White Castle Skateboard Stuntsand RAVE ON!. Under the moniker BOTH BOTH he has curated/ edited various projects including: blog, "band," reading series, and since 2005 a magazine.

Demosthenes Agrafiotis (1946) ,poet and intermedia artist, is active in the fields of poetry/ painting/ photography/ intermedia/ installations and their interactions, with books of poetry and essays, and exhibitions both in Greece and abroad. He has a special interest in the relations between art and new technologies. His book Maribor (The Post-Apollo Press) was awarded the 2011 Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation, Chinese Notebook (Ugly Duckling Presse) appeared later that same year-both books are translated by Angelos and John Sakkis. His recent books are: +-graphies (Veer Books, London),Betises (Editions Fidel Anthelme X, Marseille,in french) and ,ArtxArt (Redfoxpress, Ireland). He is based in Athens, Greece.

Laura Wetherington’s first book, A Map Predetermined and Chance (Fence 2011), was selected by C.S. Giscombe for the National Poetry Series. She has poems forthcoming in the Minnesota Review, Drunken Boat, and a Telephone Books anthology, The Sonnets: Rewriting Shakespeare. Wetherington co-founded and currently co-edits textsound.org with Anna Vitale. She teaches creative writing in Sierra Nevada College’s low residency MFA program.