Well, if excitement isn’t the name of the game, then we don’t know what is.  Coming soon:

c/c reading 005:

(Saturday, 4 Jun 2011)

Ariana Reines

Dorothea Lasky

Marion Bell

And with that, we’d like invite you to the fifth installment of the c/c reading series.

Fergie’s Pub

1214 Sansom St

730pm to 930pm

(Free – $5 suggested donation)

Thanks and look forward to seeing you there!

- Jamie Townsend & Nicholas A DeBoer

Ariana Reines is the author of the cow (alberta prize, fence: 2006), coeur de lion (mal-o-mar: 2007, fence: 2011), and mercury (fence: 2011).  TELEPHONE, her first play, was commissioned by the foundry theatre, inspired by the work of avital ronell, and performed at the cherry lane theatre in new york, 2009, with two obies; related performances and talks were featured at the guggenheim museum later that year.  translations include my heart laid bare by charles baudelaire (mal-o-mar: 2009), the little black book of grisélidis réal by jean-luc hennig (semiotext(e): 2009), and preliminary notes toward a theory of the younggirl by TIQQUN (semiotext(e) interventions series: 2012).  save the world, an lp starring lili taylor, is due out this summer.  ariana is new to philadelphia.  sometimes she blogs at YES.

Dorothea Lasky is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, published by Wave Books, AWE and Black Life. She is also the author of five chapbooks, most recently an educational text, Poetry is Not a Project. Born in St. Louis in 1978, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Laurel Review, American Poetry Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Boston Review, and A Public Space, among others. She was educated at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Harvard University, and Washington University. Currently, she researches creativity and education at the University of Pennsylvania.

Marion Bell is a person who lives + reads + writes poems in Kensington, Philadelphia.  She is excited to be reading with two great heroes of the female avant garde.  She is into that.  She is shy but wants to talk to you.