Join us for a reading and conversation with Jocelyn Saidenberg and Amina Cain hosted by former SPT Director Robert Glück
Jocelyn Saidenberg’s books include Mortal City, Cusp, Negativity, Shipwreck and Dead Letter. Born and raised in New York City, she’s lived and worked in San Francisco since 1994. She is the founding editor of KRUPSKAYA Books and one of the twelve curators of Right Window.
Amina Cain is the author of two collections of short stories: Creature (Dorothy, a publishing project, 2013) andI Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues Press, 2009). Work has appeared in BOMB, n+1, Denver Quarterly, The Paris Review Daily, Two Serious Ladies, and other places. She is a member of Betalevel, a basement space in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, where she sometimes curates readings and events.
Robert Glück is the author of nine books of poetry and fiction, including two novels, Margery Kempe and Jack the Modernist and a collection of stories, Denny Smith. Glück prefaced artist Frank Moore’s Between Life and Death, and edited, with Camille Roy, Mary Berger and Gail Scott, the anthology Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative. Glück was Co-Director of Small Press Traffic, Associate Editor at Lapis Press, and Director of The Poetry Center at San Francisco State, where he is Professor of Creative Writing. In 2013 Ithuriel’s Spear republished his first book of stories, Elements, and in 2015 Semiotext(e) will publish his collected essays, The Greatness of Kathy Acker, and other Essays.
Or just come and take it all in! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open revolving basis, anything goes with the screened work, and the refreshments are pretty good too. $5, FREE admission for contributing artists. Door:7:30pm Projector: 8pm