Studio One
First Fridays presents Andrew Joron, Dora Malech, and Michael Leong, plus a
special performance by Cosmists—
Friday, November 2nd at 7:00 PM
Friday, November 2nd at 7:00 PM
Join us on Friday, November 2nd for an All Souls
Show of poetry and music with poets Andrew Joron, Dora Malech and Michael Leong!
The night will also feature theremin
and drums duo Andrew Joron and Mark Pino--AKA Cosmists.
The event begins at 7:00 PM.
Beverages and snacks will be
served.
Special thanks also to our emcee for the evening, Robert
Andrew Perez!
**please note that this reading will start @ 7:00 PM, rather than our regularly scheduled time of 7:30
Studio One Arts Center
365 45th Street
Oakland, CA 94609
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Andrew Joron is the author of Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems (City Lights, 2010). Joron’s previous poetry collections include The Removes (Hard Press, 1999), Fathom (Black Square Editions, 2003), and The Sound Mirror (Flood Editions, 2008). The Cry at Zero, a selection of his prose poems and critical essays, was published by Counterpath Press in 2007. From the German, he has translated the Literary Essays of Marxist-Utopian philosopher Ernst Bloch (Stanford University Press, 1998) and The Perpetual Motion Machine by the proto-Dada fantasist Paul Scheerbart (Wakefield Press, 2011). Joron plays theremin in the dark ambient group Cloud Shepherd as well as in the instrumental rock trio Crow Crash Radio.
Dora Malech was
born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1981 and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. She
earned a BA in Fine Arts from Yale College in 2003 and an MFA in Poetry from
the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2005. She has been the recipient of
a Frederick M. Clapp Poetry Writing Fellowship from Yale, a Truman Capote
Fellowship and a Teaching-Writing Fellowship from the Writers’ Workshop, a
Glenn Schaeffer Poetry Award, a Writer’s Fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri
Center in Italy, and a 2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. The Waywiser Press
published her first full-length collection of poems, Shore Ordered Ocean, in 2009 and the Cleveland State University
Poetry Center published her second collection, Say So, in 2011. Her poems have appeared in numerous
publications, including The New Yorker,
Poetry, Best New Poets, American Letters
& Commentary, Poetry London, and The
Yale Review. She has taught writing at the University of Iowa; Victoria
University’s International Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington, New
Zealand; Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Augustana College in
Rock Island, Illinois; and Saint Mary’s College of California in Moraga,
California. Her paintings and drawings are available at the Chait Galleries in
Iowa City, Iowa. She lives in Iowa City, where she writes, draws, teaches, and
coordinates the Iowa Youth Writing Project, an arts outreach program for
children and teens.
Michael Leong is the author of two books of
poetry: e.s.p. (Silenced
Press, 2009) and Cutting Time with a
Knife (Black Square Editions, 2012), which won a "Face Out"
grant from the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses. He has also
published a translation of the Chilean poet Estela Lamat, I, the Worst of All (BlazeVOX
[books], 2009). He is the recipient of a 2012 &NOW Award for his
chapbook The Philosophy of
Decomposition/Re-Composition as Explanation (Delete Press, 2011), and
his newest chapbook, Words on Edge,
was chosen by Rob Fitterman as the winner of Plan B Press' 2012 Poetry Contest.
He is a lecturer at Rutgers University where he completed a dissertation
on the contemporary long poem and the archive.
Mark Pino began
playing the drums at age eleven. Previous to that he had loved listening to
music, and his parents’ catholic tastes in music opened up his ears to many
different styles. Pino began playing publicly in the SF Bay Area in the early
1990’s, and since then has played regionally and nationally in many different
bands. Mark considers himself a band player; the interaction with other
musicians remains important to him, as does the act of manipulating physical
instruments for sound and music making. Over the course of his career, Pino has
played with all sorts of people in all sorts of settings, and is grateful to
all of them, as well as to his teachers who shared their knowledge with
him.
