Dawn Lundy Martin and Anne Lesley Selcer

Thursday OCT 16 
Dawn Lundy Martin and Anne Lesley Selcer
3:30 pm @ The Poetry Center
HUM 512, SFSU, free
7:00 pm @ The Green Arcade
1680 Market Street (at Gough),
San Francisco, free   

We are pleased to host two readings by Dawn Lundy Martin and Anne Lesley Selcer: in the afternoon at The Poetry Center and an evening reading --- and book party celebrating Anne Lesley Selcer's from a Book of Poems on Beauty, which was selected by Dawn Lundy Martin as the winner of the Gazing Grain Press 2014 feminist chapbook contest for poetry/hybrid manuscripts --- at The Green Arcade.

Dawn Lundy Martin, an essayist and award-winning poet, is author of A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering (University of Georgia Press 2007), winner of the Cave Canem Prize; DISCIPLINE (Nightboat Books 2011), which was selected by Fanny Howe for the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize and a finalist for both Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Lambda Literary Award; Candy, a limited edition letterpress chapbook (Albion Books 2011); The Main Cause of the Exodus (O'clock Press 2014); and The Morning Hour, selected by C.D. Wright for the 2003 Poetry Society of America's National Chapbook Fellowship. Her forthcoming collection Life in a Box is a Pretty Life will be published by Nightboat Books in 2014. She has written a libretto for a video installation opera, titled "Good Stock on the Dimension Floor," which was scheduled to be featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and is collaborating with architect Mitch McEwen on Detroit Opera House, "a project which stages an opera as a house, the house and its dramas of occupancy, vacancy, demolition, and re-purposing as an opera." Martin is also a co-founder of the Black Took Collective, an experimental performance art/poetry group of three. She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.

Anne Lesley Selcer recently served as a columnist for SFMoma's Open Space and has one book, Banlieusard, commissioned by Artspeak gallery. Writing had been anthologized in NW Edge III: the end of reality, The Physics of Context, The Feeling is Mutual: A list of our fucking demands, and most recently in It's night in San Francisco, but it's sunny in Oakland. A chapbook is forthcoming with supersuperette press, and another was published with the Dusie Kollektiv in 2011. Poems have appeared in The Clackamus Review, Dusie, Where Eagles Dare, in the artist book Aunt Maude's Scrapbook by Sydney Hermant, and are forthcoming in Fence. Writing on art has been commissioned by galleries Centre A, the Or, the Helen Pitt, and by artists Aurel Schmidt and Abass Ackhavan, and has appeared in Fillipand Doppelganger magazines. In San Francisco, she was a member of the now defunct Nonsite Collective. In Vancouver she created and curated an interdisciplinary series for poets, researchers, and artists called the Chroma Reading Series. Her from A Book of Poems on Beauty was selected by Dawn Lundy Martin as the winner of the Gazing Grain Press 2014 feminist chapbook contest for poetry/hybrid manuscripts. The work is an ongoing, research based project which has produced poems, essays and video.