EVENTS

9/9/2008

Nine On The Ninth

Author Doug Kearney will be reading at the Langston Room

9/12/2008

Red Hen in New York @ KGB Bar

Come join writers Eleanor Lerman, Cate Marvin, Doug Kear

9/14/2008

Red Hen in New York @ Bowery Poetry Club

Come listen to Adam Kirsch, Ernest Hilbert, and Michael

9/15/2008

Red Hen in New York @ Teaches & Writers Collective

Join the discussion at Teachers & Writers with Rob Caspe

Read Red Hen's Featured Titles:

Leaving Resurrection
Memoir
Eva Saulitis

Sister
Poetry
Nickole Brown
Sister

Golem of Los Angeles
Poetry
Tony Barnstone

RATTLE Conversations
Poetry
Alan Fox

Snowed Under
Fiction
Antje Ravic Strubel

Interpretive Work
Poetry
Elizabeth Bradfield

Safe Suicide
Memoir
DeWitt Henry

Motel Girl
Fiction
Greg Sanders

Dancer and the Dance
Essays
Jack Foley

Morning Glories
Poetry
Brooke Bognanni

RUSKIN ART CLUB

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
— T.S. Eliot

Red Hen Press, in association with the venerable Ruskin Art Club, is proud to announce Southern California’s newest reading series, Poetry at the Ruskin. Join hosts Kate Gale, Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, and Elena Karina Byrne, past Regional Director of the Poetry Society of America and Poetry Moderator and Consultant for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books for unbelievable performances and complimentary refreshments every second Sunday of the month at the 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. For more information on the events and on our upcoming Fall/Winter season, contact Red Hen Press.

Please direct all requests to read at the Ruskin to Kate Gale,
Program Director for the Red Hen Press Ruskin Art Club Poetry series.

Date:9/14/2008 Time:2 p.m.
Tracy K. Smith is the author of The Body’s Question. She received a Whiting Writers’ Award in 2005 and in 2004 a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Princeton University. Duende continues to expand Smith’s impressive range —The Village Voice “[Smith’s] lyric brilliance and political impulses never falter under the considerable weight of her subject matter. —Publishers Weekly

Juliana Spahr is a poet, critic, and editor. Among her books of poems are Fuck YouAlohaI Love You and Response, winner of the National Poetry Series Award. Her latest work is This Connection of Everyone with Lungs (University of California Press, 2005). She was coeditor, with Jena Osman, of the international arts journal Chain.

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The Ruskin Art Club
800 S Plymouth St. Los Angeles, CA 90005 (map)
For more information call: 323.755.3530
Limited Seating available
Admission: General $10/ Students & Seniors $5

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This event is supported by Poets and Writers, Inc.through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.