ARTIFACT & SPT : 7.26.08 : Nakayasu : Levin : Bernes

Artifact & Small Press Traffic present...

Sawako NAKAYASU
Lauren LEVIN
Jasper BERNES

Saturday, July 26, 2008
6PM Doors/6:30 Reading

@ Oakland Art Gallery
Frank Ogawa Plaza
199 Kahn's Alley
Oakland Ca 94612

$5 suggested donation

BIOS

JASPER BERNES is the author of Starsdown (in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni). He is a graduate student at UC Berkeley and lives in Albany with Anna Shapiro and their son, Noah.

LAUREN LEVIN grew up in New Orleans and just moved from Grand Lake to Temescal. Her chapbooks are Adventures (Your Beeswax Press) and In Fortune (a collaboration done for the dusie e-chaps project). Lauren edits the magazine Mrs. Maybe with Jared Stanley. There's news, and conversation about skeptical occultism, at the magazine blog.

SAWAKO NAKAYASU is a poet & translator living in the US & Asia. Her most recent book is a translation of Takashi Hiraide’s For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut (New Directions, 2008), and forthcoming books are Hurry Home Honey (from Burning Deck) and Textures Notes (from Letter Machine, a new press.)