Janice Lee's Blog, page 13
January 7, 2017
CCM-Entropy @ AWP17 / February 8-11
#AWP17 – February 8-11
Come visit Civil Coping Mechanisms, #RECURRENT, & Entropy at AWP in Washington D.C.
We’ll be at Booth #448.
Also, Friday night, we’re part of a mega-reading. Save the date:
8PM Friday, February 10
The Black Squirrel
Dorothy, A Publishing Project / Dzanc Books / Action Books / Two Dollar Radio / Civil Coping Mechanisms / #RECURRENT
November 24, 2016
Franklin Park Reading Series, NY / December 12
FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES: Year-End Bash with Walter Mosley, Teddy Wayne, Jason Diamond, Alice Sola Kim, and Janice Lee
Monday, December 12, 8-10pm
FRANKLIN PARK
618 St. Johns Place, between Franklin and Classon Aves.
718-230-0293
Subway: 2, 3, 4, 5 to Franklin Avenue
www.franklinparkbrooklyn.com
Series for Civil Coping Mechanisms, assistant editor at Fanzine, founder and executive editor of Entropy, and co-editor, with Maggie Nelson, of SUBLEVEL, the new online literary magazine based in the CalArts MFA Writing Program. She is also the CEO/founder of POTG Design, a web design & development company. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at CalArts.
Poetry Versus Essay Versus Ghost at AAWW, NY / December 10
with Sun Yung Shin, Janice Lee, & Madhu Kaza
Saturday, December 10, 2016 3:00pm
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 West 27th Street
New York, New York 10001
Come throw poetry in the atom smasher with death, essays, grief, television, orientalism, science fiction, wandering, and ghosts. This event on hybrid forms and migrant thoughts features writers Madhu Kaza, Janice Lee, and Sun Yung Shin, the latter two appearing in a rare New York visit. We’ll explore poetry as a discursive site not unlike the essay–and also poetry as a site for encounters with the dead. Fans of Teju Cole, Maggie Nelson, and Bhanu Kapil, come through! Explore death! Explore hybridity! Explore the unbearable!
RESERVE A SEAT!
$5 SUGGESTED DONATION | OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
AAWW Literary Award Winner Sun Yung Shin’s new book Unbearable Splendor (Coffee House 2016) explores poetry as essay–poetry as a way to hover over the uncanny, sci-fi orientalism, Antigone, cyborgs, Borges, disobedience. A Seoul-born Korean adoptee, Sun Yung is the author of Rough, and Savage (Coffee House Press, 2012) and Skirt Full of Black (Coffee House Press, 2007) received the Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. She is the co-editor of Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (South End Press, 2006) and the author of bilingual Korean/English illustrated book for children Cooper’s Lesson (Children’s Book Press, 2004). This is what Bhanu Kapil writes about Unbearable Splendor: “To graph the immigrant, the exile and ‘pseudo-exile,’ as ‘a kind of star.’ To perform childhood. ‘Descent upon descent.’ To write on ‘paper soaked in milk.’ Unbearable Splendor is a book like this, that is this: the opposite or near-far of home. What is the difference between a guest and a ghost? What will you feed them in turn? I was profoundly moved by the questions and deep bits of feeling in this gorgeous, sensing work, and am honored to write in support of its extraordinary and brilliant writer, Sun Yung Shin.”
Janice Lee’s new book The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016) explores the poetics of space to perform a dialogue with the dead. As Douglas Kearney writes, “These disconcerted essays observe our overrun absences—the monumental bleakness of the American West, the desert of the empty bed. Still, Lee’s frequently audacious declarations accompany a mournful narrative of loneliness. The ‘you’ Lee addresses throughout often seems the author’s lover, gone, and thus us—not with Lee, but with her collection of lustrous melancholy, an elegy for her mother and for the rest of us, who will fall to hard weather.” The LA-based Executive Editor of Entropy magazine, Janice also wrote KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press, 2010), Daughter (Jaded Ibis, 2011), Damnation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), and Reconsolidation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2015),
Born in Andhra Pradesh, India, Madhu Kaza is a writer, educator, translator and artist based in New York City. Her translations from Telugu include works by contemporary feminist writers Volga and Vimala. She is editing the Spring 2017 issue of Aster(ix) entitled “Kitchen Table Translation: Diaspora, Migration, Exchange.” She has asked “What is a television?” She rode the American rails when her father when into an Intensive Care Unit. And in X Poetics, she asks, “What if I wandered through France and Italy not in a posture of submission, and not as a student of Western Civilization?”
October 10, 2016
States of Terror Vol.3 Opening Show / November 12
Celebrate the completion of the States of Terror trilogy with live readings from Justin Hudnall, Jennifer Corley, Lauren Becker, Eber Lambert and Janice Lee.
Verbatim Books
3793 30th St,
San Diego, CA 92104
619-501-7466
Japanese Edition Launch of United States of Japan at Kinokuniya / November 5
To commemorate the launch of the new Japanese translations of the best selling Sci-fi novel, United States of Japan, author Peter Tieryas and fellow writers, Janice Lee and Justine Abellana will be doing a reading together.
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Saturday, November 5
Kinokuniya San Francisco
1581 Webster St
San Francisco, California 94115
Janice Lee is the author of KEROTAKIS, Daughter, Damnation, Reconsolidation, and The Sky Isn’t Blue. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from CalArts and currently lives in Los Angeles where she is Editor of the #RECURRENT Novel Series, Assistant Editor at Fanzine, Executive Editor at Entropy, and Founder/CEO of POTG Design.
Justine Abellana is a writer and a dog lover from San Francisco and the surrounding suburbs. Justine has been featured in online websites like popgates.com, and also in her college newspaper, The Skyline View, in which she had her own sex and dating column, The J-spot, in. She was awarded first place for a critical review article from The Journalism Association of Community Colleges in 2013. Though she has written many journalistic articles, Justine is in the process of introducing herself as a poet and literary writer to the world. Which is where her true passion for writing blossoms from. Her goal is to make connections through her words, and give others the sense of belonging that poetry has given her.
Peter Tieryas is the author of United States of Japan and Bald New World, which was nominated for the Folio Prize. His books have gotten praise from Buzzfeed, io9 Gizmodo, Kotaku, Kirkus Reviews, Financial Times, Publisher’s Weekly, Popular Mechanics, Esquire, and Yahoo!. His writing has been published in Electric Literature, Kyoto Journal, New Letters, Tor.com, and ZYZZYVA. He’s also worked as a technical writer for LucasArts and was a VFX artist at Sony and EA.
Open Press / October 21-23
OPEN PRESS 2016
October 21, 22 & 23
Friday 7-12 pm @ Insert Blanc Press
2806 1/2 Lincoln Park Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90031
Saturday 1-3 pm & 3:30-5:30 pm @ Ave 50 Studio
131 N Avenue 50, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Sunday 11 am-2 pm & 4-7 pm @ Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Open Press is a medium to extend the work of the writer, editor, and curator, to instigate new channels of reciprocity among those interested and engaged in what might constitute the literary at any given time. Over the course of three days, Open Press 2016 will feature roundtables, readings, panels, performances, a moveable book fair, and more in various locations across the Los Angeles area.
hosts: The Poetic Research Bureau, eohippus labs, ENTROPY, Insert Blanc Press.
guest presses & projects: Wonder, KRUPSKAYA, Les Figues Press, Hex Presse, Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, DUM DUM Zine, Primrose Press, Econo Textual Objects, Copilot Press, ypolita press, MONDO BUMMER, Outside Gallery, Phoneme Media, Tripwire, Círculo de Poesía, Valparaiso Editions, , Rebel Hands Press, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, The Unwrinkled Ear.
people: Stephanie Sauer, Raquel Gutiérrez, Tia Blassingame, Carrie Hunter, Amy Berkowitz, Amanda Ackerman, Harold Abramowitz, Andrea Quaid, Michelle Detorie, Brenda Iijima, Taleen Kali, Teresa Carmody, Janice Lee, Ben Fama, Syd Staiti, Trisha Low, Lauren Levin, Kim Calder, Monica McClure, Joseph Mosconi, Andrew Maxwell, Mathew Timmons, Greg Curtis, David Shook, Roberto Castillo, Mijail Lamas, Olivia Taylor Smith, Jeremy Kennedy, j. shelley harrison, Mark Rice, Guan Rong, Eric Kim, Andrew Choate, Kathleen Kim, Brian Griffith, Sun Araw, Aaron Beasley, Debbie Graber, Kelman Duran.
Friday October 21 from 7-12 pm @ Insert Blanc Press
Insert Blanc Press and Outside Gallery present
– Greg Curtis: Step & Repeat @ 7pm
– Performances readings and translation @ 8:00 pm w/ Phoneme Media: David Shook, Roberto Castillo; Tripwire: David Buuck; Círculo de Poesía & Valparaiso Editions: Mijail Lamas
– Performances, readings and the archives @ 9:00 pm w/ Unnamed Press: Debbie Graber; Rebel Hands Press: Jeremy Kennedy, j. shelley harrison, Mark Rice; Los Angeles Contemporary Archive: Kelman Duran
– Performances, vocalizations and improvisation @ 10:00 pm w/ The Unwrinkled Ear: Andrew Choate, Brian James Griffith, Kathleen Kim, and Sun Araw
Saturday October 22 from 1-3 pm @ Ave 50 Studio
eohippus labs will be joined by ypolita press, Econo Textual Objects, Copilot Press, Primrose Press, and MONDO BUMMER for a panel that wishes to ask how publishing is an act of writing.
Saturday October 22 from 3:30-5:30 pm @ Ave 50 Studio
ENTROPY will be joined by Hex Presse, DUM DUM Zine, Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, Les Figues Press for a panel related to the theme of interspecies communication.
Sunday October 23 from 11 am-2 pm @ Poetic Research Bureau
The Poetic Research Bureau hosts “Wonder & Krupskaya Eat Dim Sum Together.” There will be dim sum provided. Syd Staiti films; live version of IRL podcast with Ben Fama and Monica McClure; Lauren Levin reading.
Sunday October 23 from 4pm-7pm @ Poetic Research Bureau
Open Press host “A Finale Reading.” Various readings from writers TBA. Trisha Low, Kim Calder, Aaron Beasley, Guan Rong, Brenda Iijima, Mijail Lamas, Monica McClure, Amy Berkowitz.
3 Generations on the Same Stage / October 16
Join us
Sunday October 16th 2pm
at
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
Mike the PoeT
is hosting
3 Generations on the Same Stage
The lineup includes
Rocio Carlos, Dexter Booth, Elena Muslar,
Janice Lee, Zachary Jensen,
Jillian Johnson, Michael C. Ford,
Art Currim, Luis Ordaz
and several surprise guests
to be named shortly.
681 Venice Blvd
Venice, CA 90291
July 18, 2016
Why There Are Words, Sausalito / August 11
Why There Are Words presents an evening of readings on the theme “Provenance.”
August 11, 2016
Studio 333 on 333 Caledonia Street in Sausalito
Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10.
Nancy Au / Andrea Kneeland / Janice Lee / Richard Loranger / Sue Mell / Alexandra Naughton / Jesse Prado / Natasha Sajé
June 20, 2016
Angel City Review issue 3 Release Reading / July 8
4959 York Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Featured Readers:
Mike Sonksen
Jesse Bliss
Janice Lee
Julia Ingalls
and Introducing
Christian Cardenas and Kirk Sever
Musical Performance by Matt Kivel
