Who says April is cruel?
Amy King,
Lauren Bender and
Anna Ziegler will be taking it off for Lolita and Gilda at Bar Rouge in Washington D.C. Monday, April 24nd. Reading will begin at 8:00 p.m. in The Dark Room at Bar Rouge.
Amy King is the author of
Antidotes for an Alibi (Blazevox Books) and
The People Instruments (Pavement Saw Press). She is also the managing editor for
MiPOesias and an occasional interview correspondent. Please visit
www.amyking.org for more information.
Lauren Bender is a performing, visual/textual artist living and collaborating in Baltimore.
Recent activities have included:
* providing security services for the Transmodern Age Festival,
* reading text message poems at the Just Buffalo literary series,
* performing her civic duty as a Baltimore City juror,
* researching and collecting field data for the Group for Radical Recombinance,
* editing the first issue (Shizotype) of
WORD at PEEK review online.
She occasionally provides:
* weeping for the Performance Thanatology Research Society, where she holds the esteemed title of Feminine Arbiter of Phrases, and
* contributions to various Baltimore-based anthologies, including
The Shattered Wig Review.
Contact lauren.bender@gmail.com
Anna Ziegler's poetry has appeared in
The Best American Poetry 2003, The Threepenny Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Mississippi Review, Arts and Letters, Mid-American Review, Smartish Pace, The Cimarron Review, The Southeast Review, Churchyard, Good Foot, The Saint Ann's Review, Reactions, and many other journals. Last year she taught creative writing at George Washington University and is currently teaching English at the Charles E Smith Jewish Day School. She graduated from Yale in 2001, the University of East Anglia's Master's Program in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 2002 and the NYU MFA program in Dramatic Writing in 2004. Her plays have been published in
Ten-Minute Plays for 2 Actors: The Best of 2004 (Smith and Kraus) and
New American Short Plays 2005 (ed. Craig Lucas) and have been developed at the Sundance Theatre Lab, Soho Rep Theatre, The Lark Theatre and the Underwood Theater, among other venues.
