c/c reading 001: (Sunday, 20 March 2011)

Dodie Bellamy

David Buuck

Corina Copp

Fergie’s Pub

1214 Sansom St (700pm to 900pm)

(Free – $5 suggested donation)

DODIE BELLAMY‘s latest chapbook is Whistle While You Dixie, from Summer BF Press. Her Ugly Duckling Presse chapbook Barf Manifesto was named best book of 2009 under 30 pages by Time Out New York. Other books include Academonia, Pink Steam and The Letters of Mina Harker. Her book Cunt-Ups won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for poetry. Forthcoming in April is the buddhist by Publication Studio. She lives in San Francisco with writer Kevin Killian and three cats.  She also runs the popular blog, Belladodie.

DAVID BUUCK lives in Oakland. He is the founder of BARGE – the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics – and co-founder and editor of Tripwire, a journal of poetics. Recently published and forthcoming work can be found in Cannot Exist, Tarpaulin Sky, Sous Rature, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Elective Affinities, With+Stand, and elsewhere. Information and samples can be found at David’s official website.

CORINA COPP is a playwright, poet, and wishful thinker living in Brooklyn. Recent work includes essays on Jean Day, Hannah Weiner, and Sarah Ruhl; and texts that can be found soon or now in Cambridge Literary Review, Cannot Exist, The Brooklyn Rail, Jacket2, SerieAlfa, Wild Orchids, Supermachine, Aufgabe, 6×6, and Antennae. Plays: Tell Only One (Small Press Traffic Poets Theater Festival, Jan. 2011); WALTZ (CSC/E. 13th St. Theater, July 2010, directed by Meghan Finn), and A Week of Kindness (Ontological Incubator/Brick, 2008, co-created with Kelly Kivland). Author of Play Air (Belladonna* 2005), Carpeted (Faux Press, 2004), and Sometimes Inspired by Marguerite (Open 24 Hours 2003), with new chapbooks forthcoming from minutes BOOKS and Ugly Duckling Presse. She’s performed her own work and that of others in London, NYC, and elsewhere. CC is the recent editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter and co-curator of The Twenty-Five Cent Opera of San Francisco.