c/c reading 002: (Saturday, 2 April 2011)

Rob Halpern
CJ Martin
Julia Bloch

Fergie’s Pub
1214 Sansom St. (6:30pm to 8:30pm)
($5 suggested donation)

ROB HALPERN is the author of several books of poetry, including Rumored Place (Krupskaya) and Disaster Suites (Palm Press, 2009). He’s also the co-author of the book-length poem Snow Sensitive Skin (together with Taylor Brady, Atticus/Finch Books, 2007), which is currently being reissued in an expanded edition by Displaced Press. A new book of poems, Music for Porn, is forthcoming (Nightboat Books, 2011). His essays appear in a range of journals and anthologies, including Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative, Modernist Cultures, ON: Contemporary Practice, and Journal of Narrative Theory.  His work on Georges Perec, including translations of Perec’s early essays on aesthetics and politics, can be found in Chicago Review and Review of Contemporary Fiction. A founding member of the Nonsite Collective, he lives in San Francisco and Ypsilanti, where he teaches at Eastern Michigan University.

C.J. MARTIN is the author of Two Books (Compline, forthcoming 2011), WIW?3: Hold me tight. Make me happy (Delete Press, 2009), Lo, Bittern (Atticus/Finch, 2008), and CITY (Vigilance Society, 2007). He is also a contributing editor for Little Red Leaves and LRL e-editions, and he teaches at TX State University-San Marcos.

JULIA BLOCH lives in Philadelphia, where she co-curates the Emergency Reading Series, works as coeditor of Jacket2, and is completing a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. Recent poetry appears in P-Queue, Aufgabe, and Peacock Online Review; her book Letters to Kelly Clarkson is forthcoming this year from Sidebrow Books.