c/c reading 008:

(Saturday, 9 July 2011

Dana Ward

Thom Donovan

Joseph Bradshaw

We’d like to gratefully invite you to the eighth installment of the c/c reading series, featuring a brilliant trio of writers.

Fergie’s Pub

1214 Sansom St.

700pm to 900pm

(Free – $5 suggested donation)

Thanks and look forward to seeing you there!

- Jamie Townsend & Nicholas A. DeBoer

Joseph Bradshaw was born in Idaho and spent an itinerant childhood along the west coast. He was a founding editor of FO(A)RM Magazine, and for several years co-curated the Spare Room reading series in Portland, OR. He is the author of two chapbooks, The Way Birds Become (Weather Press: 2007), and This Ocean, or Oppen Series (Cannibal Books: 2008), and the book In the Common Dream of George Oppen (Shearsman Books: 2011). He now lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he works as an archivist.

Thom Donovan is a writer, curator, editor, and archivist. He edits the weblog Wild Horses Of Fire, now in its 6th year! Co-edits ON Contemporary Practice, a print journal for critical writings and conversations about one’s contemporaries. He also edits the web archive, Others Letters, featuring correspondence about contemporary practices across the arts, and co-curates The Project for an Archive of the Future Anterior, a live interview series and video archive concerning the immanence of possible futures. His work has appeared widely in print and online and includes critical works in Afterall, BOMB, PAJ, and The Brooklyn Rail. His first full-length book, The Hole, is forthcoming with Displaced Press. He is currently at work revising and editing a book of essays and statements, Sovereignty and Us: Critical Objects 2005-2010.

Dana Ward is the author of, most recently, The Squeakquel (Song Cave 2011). His book This Can’t Be Life is coming out this fall from Edge Books. He’s currently writing a long work that will be published by Futurepoem Press late in 2012. He lives in Cincinnati where hosts the Cy Press Poetry reading series at Thunder Sky Gallery.