Sunday, November 10, 2013

Andrews/Inman @ Bridge Street Thursday 11/14, 8 PM

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 14th at 8:00 PM

THE EDGE READING SERIES
at Bridge Street Books presents

BRUCE ANDREWS & P. INMAN

Bruce Andrews is an experimental poet, performance artist, literary theorist & a just-retired (after 38 years) left-wing professor of political science. Most recent of a dozen or so big books is last year’s You Can’t Have Everything... Where Would You Put It!, followed by a chapbook, Yessified (Sally’s Edit) to help celebrate the December 2012 Andrews Symposium & expanded web archive. (Online at http://www.fordhamenglish.com/bruce-andrews). As Musical Director for Sally Silvers & Dancers, he has created sound designs and, in performance, live mixes of music & text for over two decades of performances. New projects involve aesthetic theorizing on the sublime, post-punk art-rock lyrics, designing a wiki-based group project (for poetry translation into German & Brazilian Portuguese), research on Alfred Hitchcock (for Sally’s choreography), & archiving.

 P. Inman grew up on Long Island. His publications include: Ocker (Tuumba Press, Berkeley); Red shift (Roof, New York); vel (O Books, Oakland); ad finitum (if p then q, Manchester, UK); and most recently per se (Burning Deck, Providence). written, 1976-2012 is forthcoming in late 2013 from if p then q. His work has been published in Ron Silliman’s influential anthology of Language poetry In the American Tree (2001) as well as several other anthologies.

 BRIDGE STREET BOOKS 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20007 ph 202 965 5200 Located in Georgetown, next to the Four Seasons Hotel, five blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro, blue & orange lines.

UPCOMING EVENTS

 Sunday, November 17, 3:00 pm
Julie Carr, DJ Dolack, Kate Greenstreet, & Chis Nealon
@ DC Arts Center

Saturday, December 7, 7:00 pm
Book party for The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley
@ The Black Squirrel