LA - "Reading" (05.10.08)

Reading
(a Reading)
with Susan Gevirtz and Steve Dickison
Saturday, May 10 at 7:30pm

I have been able to catch up on some reading lately. Finished __________ by __________–I really like it but __________ does get a bit technical in talking about the brain and how it functions in the role of the emotion life. Have had the Winter 2007 issue of __________ sitting around to finish–title is “__________.” It is about the rise, of __________–one article talks about “monastic groupies,” people who connected themselves to a monastery, practiced some of the disciplines but lived outside in the world. I have tended to go to different monasteries, three I think at this point but was a regular at a retreat center for about a year.

Also Just finished reading __________ on “__________.” They have excellent material in that __________, maybe I need to re-subscribe? Of course, I have had this one lying around for 6 months and only now finished it. One article talked about the problem of __________ and how so many __________.

I am moving slowly through __________ but hope I can sustain my concentration enough to finish it this time–likely will take a few months. Re-reading __________ and the book that __________ says had a significant impact on him (in the __________ I just finished). I should finish __________ by the __________ of my recently completed _________–hmmm, if I am saying should, that is not a good sign. Also have a couple of chapters to finish in __________–that is one that started out very promising but couldn’t sustain itself and so I put it aside–maybe having two __________ to finish had something to do with it. What is next? A couple on my desk that I am looking at longingly—__________ by__________, __________ by __________and __________by __________. I do want to head back and finish __________ that I started last summer.

Susan Gevirtz's books include Aerodrome Orion & Starry Messenger, forthcoming from Kelsey Street: Broadcast, forthcoming from Trafficker: Without Event: Introductory Notes, forthcoming from eohippus labs: THRALL, Post Apollo; Omatic & After St. John, dpress, 2006; Hourglass Transcripts, Burning Deck, 2001; Spelt, collaboration with Myung Mi Kim, a+bend press, 1999; Black Box Cutaway, Kelsey Street, 1999; PROSTHESIS : : CAESAREA, Potes and Poets, 1994; Taken Place, Reality Street, 1993; Linen minus, Avenue B, 1992; Domino: point of entry, Leave Books, 1992; Korean and Milkhouse, ABACUS, Potes and Poets, 1991; and the critical study Narrative's Journey: The Fiction and Film Writing of Dorothy Richardson, Peter Lang, 1996. Many essays have appeared in literary magazines and scholarly journals. She was an Assistant Professor for ten years at Sonoma State University and now teaches in the MFA in Poetry Program at Mills College. With Greek poet Siarita Kouka she runs The Paros Symposium, on Paros island, an annual meeting of poets and translators from Greece and the U.S.

Steve Dickison has directed the Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University since 1999. He is editor and publisher of the small press Listening Chamber, with offshoots Rumor Books and Parrhesia Press, and with David Meltzer, he co-edits and publishes Shuffle Boil, an occasional music magazine with poet, artist, and musician contributors. He curated the art exhibition Poetry and its Arts: Bay Area Interactions 1954–2004 at the California Historical Society during Winter 2005, in celebration of the Poetry Center's 50th anniversary, and during Spring 2006 the book exhibition Recent Visitors: Poets & Publishing on the Bolinas Scene in the Seventies at the Book Club of California. Disposed, a book of poetry, published in 2007 by the Post-Apollo Press, was selected as 2007 Book of the Year under “Poet to Watch” by the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association.

Directions to Betalevel

1. Find yourself in front of "FULL HOUSE RESTAURANT" located at 963 N. Hill Street in Chinatown, Los Angeles

2. Locate the narrow alley on the left hand side of Full House.

3. Walk about 20 feet down the alley (away from the street).

4. Stop.

5. Notice dumpster on your right hand side.

6. Take a right and continue down the alley.

7. Exercise caution so as not trip on the wobbly cement blocks underfoot

8. The entrance to Betalevel is located 10 yards down on left side, behind a red door, down a black staircase.