Ecstatic Thursdays with Stacy Doris, Kristine Leja and Colleen Bazdarich

Thu, Sep 8
7:30pm
Free!

The reading series continues after a summer hiatus!
Join us Thursday, September 8th at StartSoma Gallery for a reading =20
featuring:

Stacy Doris

with Ecstatic Monkey Members Kristine Leja & Colleen Bazdarich

Entry is FREE and open to the public

Wine and Beer available

7:30 pm

StartSoma Gallery is at 672 S. Van Ness between 17th and 18th (through
the blue door and up the stairs)

Stacy Doris' books written in English include Conference (Potes &
Poets 2001), Paramour (Krupskaya 2000), and Kildare (Roof, 1995).
Written semi-anonymously in French are La vie de Chester Steven Wiener
=E9crite par sa femme (P.O.L,1998), and Une ann=E9e =E0 New York avec
Chester (P.O.L 2000). Forthcoming: Knot (University of Georgia) and
Parlement (P.O.L). She has edited a dossier of new American writing in
French for Java, and co-edited the following collections of French
poetry translated by American poets: with Chet Wiener, Christophe
Tarkos: Ma Langue est Po=E9tique--Selected Work (New York: Roof) 2001;
with Norma Cole, Twenty-two New (to North America) French Poets
(Vancouver: Raddle Moon) 1997; with Emmanuel Hocquard), Violence of
the White Page, Contemporary French Poetry in Translation (Santa Fe,
NM: Pederal) 1992. She is an assistant professor of Creative Writing
at San Francisco State University.

Kristine Leja is a Chicago native now living in San Francisco where
she is an MFA in poetry candidate at San Francisco State University.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in can we have our ball back,
Transfer, 42opus, Identity Theory and in the anthology New San
Francisco Writing (Lost Island Press). She edits the literary
journal Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review and can be found at
lessthancausal.blogspot.com.

Colleen Bazdarich spent the summer in Dublin sifting through the
private library of Poetry Ireland, where she found gems like a 1st
edition copy of Jack Spicer's Billy the Kidd hidden in the covers of
other books. Her work has lately focused on the occult, and she hopes
to return to the Green Aisle next year to study up on Yeats' similar
fascination with mysticism and maybe, while she's there, finish up the
MFA thesis for SFSU she's supposed to be writing.

Venue:

StartSoma Gallery
672 S. Van Ness
San Francisco

StartSoma Gallery is at 672 S. Van Ness between 17th and 18th (through
the blue door and up the stairs)

Additional Info:

http://www.ecstaticmonkey.com/