THE RUTHLESS GRIP COLLECTIVE presents Jean Donnelly, K Lorraine Graham, & Rod Smith

Book Launch Party!
@ The Black Squirrel (upstairs lounge)
2427 18th St NW, Washington DC
Friday, April 3, 8:00PM (doors 7:30)

Please join us to celebrate the release of three new books by DC poets.

Jean Donnelly is the author of Green Oil (Further Other Book Works) Anthem (Sun & Moon) and the julia set (Edge Books). Her work has appeared recently on-line at Omniverse, Opon, Open Letters Monthly, and Lemonhound. She lives in Exeter, New Hampshire.

K. Lorraine Graham is the author of The Rest is Censored, just out from Coconut Books, and Terminal Humming from Edge Books. Occasionally, she gets excited about network analysis and information ecosystems. She is back in DC after a long California hiatus, but wherever she lives, she lives with Lester Young, a pacific parrotlet.

Rod Smith's most recent book is Touché from Wave Books, He is also the author What's the Deal (Song Cave), Deed (U. Iowa), Protective Immediacy (Roof), and several others. Smith edits the journal Aerial, publishes Edge Books, and manages Bridge Street Books in Washington DC. He edited the Selected Letters of Robert Creeley with Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris.

UPCOMING READINGS:

Sunday, April 19, 3:00 p.m.
Adam Chiles, Morgan Parker, Joshua Poteat, & Allison Titus
@ DC Arts Center

Sunday, May 10, 6:00 p.m.
Kareem Estafan, Donato Mancini, Casey Smith, & Aaron Winslow
@ Bridge Street Books