RHP at the Ruskin Art Club

Red Hen Press lets you rub elbows with readings at the venerable Ruskin Art Club. The Ruskin Art Club, founded in 1888, is Los Angeles’ oldest cultural association. Its 1922 clubhouse was declared a Los Angeles Historical Monument in 1997.

The Ruskin Art Club
800 S Plymouth Blvd
Los Angeles, CA

General admission $10
Students and seniors $5

Upcoming Event

April 8, 2012
1 PM

Easter Celebration & Poetry Reading!

In association with the venerable Ruskin Art Club, please join Red Hen Press for our first Easter celebration! Following an Easter egg hunt at 1:00pm, we’ll provide arts and crafts and story time with the Easter Bunny for the kids, while parents enjoy readings by Ron Carlson, Peggy Shumaker, Joan Kane, Nicole Stellon O’Donnell, and Amber Flora Thomas.

Complimentary champagne and hors d’oeuvres will follow the reading.

Featured readers:

Ron Carlson is the author of eight books of fiction, most recently The Signal. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and a National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Award. His book on writing, Ron Carlson Writes a Story, is taught widely. He is director of the Graduate Program in Fiction at the University of California, Irvine. His new book, Room Service, was released by Red Hen Press in March 2012.

Peggy Shumaker is Alaska’s State Writer Laureate. Her most recent book of poems is Gnawed Bones. Her lyrical memoir is Just Breathe Normally. Professor emerita from University of Alaska Fairbanks, Shumaker teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop. She is founding editor of Boreal Books, publishers of fine art and literature from Alaska. She edits the Alaska Literary Series atUniversity of Alaska Press.

Amber Flora Thomas writes lyric poems that often engage the body as a record of loss and accrual. She is the author of the forthcoming collection The Rabbits Could Sing (2012) and The Eye of Water (2005), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Thomas’s honors include the Richard Peterson Poetry Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize from Rosebud magazine, the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize, and an individual artist grant from the Marin Arts Council. She has taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Dominican University of California, and the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. Thomas lives inFairbanks.

Nicole Stellon O’Donnell was born and raised on Chicago’s South Side. In 1994, she moved to Fairbanks, Alaska where she earned an MFA from the University of Alaska. She has lived in Alaska ever since. Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Women’s Review of Books, Ice Floe, Cirque, and other literary journals. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Anchorage Daily News and as commentaries for the Alaska Public Radio Network. She received an Individual Artist Award from the Rasmuson Foundation to support the writing of Steam Laundry, which was released by Red Hen Press in 2012.

Joan Kane received the John Haines Award from Ice Floe Press in 2004, and received a 2007 individual artist award from the Rasmuson Foundation. In 2009 her play, “The Gilded Tusk,” won the Anchorage Museum theater contest and she was selected as a finalist for the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Fellowship. She is a 2009 recipient of the Connie Boochever Fellowship from the Alaska State Council on the Arts, a National Native Creative Development Program recipient, and a Whiting Writers’ Award winner. Along with her husband and sons, she lives in Anchorage, Alaska.