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The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms, and through a variety of media to include poetry, fiction, film, graphic art, dance, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines multiple genres and materials, whether textual, sonic, visual, and/or embodied to explore intersections of race, sexuality, gender, and class in their written, screened, and staged performances.

The Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. For more information, please email [email protected]

April 16: Janice Lee

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I’m excited to have had the opportunity the guest-edit the newest volume of Tierra Adentro and introduce some excellent writing by young American writers to readers in Mexico.

See more details and the table of contents here.

Birds of Lace & Samantha Cohen are hosting an end-of-&Now salon! Come listen to brilliants read, hang the fuck out and enjoy each other’s company. Short readings by:

Leon Baham

Sofia Samatar

Teresa Carmody

Lara Glenum

Becca Klaver

Raquel Gutierrez

Vickie Vertiz

Kenji Liu

Janice Lee

Samantha Cohen

Michelle Detorie

Nikki Darling

Kate Durbin

Megan Milks

Christine V. Nguyen

Anna Joy Springer

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Thanks to Mike da Poet Sonksen for this wonderful mention at KCET:

In the final pages of the book, the author acknowledges: “There are only 26 letters in the alphabet, and there are thousands of rad women stories to be shared.” Schatz’s answer to this, is a suggestion for her readers. “They can’t all fit in this book — but hey,” she writes “maybe you can write one too!” I agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment and have written a similar statement in previous articles I’ve authored. Before closing out this column, I would like to follow her lead and mention two Los Angeles women that belong in this conversation. They are Janice Lee and Monalisa Murray.

Janice Lee is a Los Angeles based writer, editor, professor and advocate of the Southern California literary community. Still in her early 30s, she has already authored four books, worked as a professor at Cal Arts, and mentored dozens of young writers in her classes and workshops. Lee is the Executive Editor of the popular poetry website, Entropy Magazine. Chiwan Choi from Writ Large Press says, “Sometimes, I’m so blown away by all the work Janice Lee does editing, publishing, archiving, and promoting literary works and community, that I forget she is also the author of many things, including one of my favorite books of all time, ‘Damnation.’ That book wrecked me in a way that I could feel something in the way I see and experience the world had shifted permanently.” Lee publishes frequently, does many public readings and teaches several classes. She is well on her way towards radical woman status.

Read the full article here.

More details TBA.

Resonances & Repetitions: Poetic Reverie and Space

Friday, March 27 • 11:30am – 1:00pm (CalArts, Valencia, CA)

A Panel at &NOW 2015: Blast Radius

Featuring: Janice Lee, Laura Vena, Amanda Ackerman, Shoshana Seidman, Sueyeun Juliette Lee

This panel will explore literary practices that revolve around changing sensory capacities and spatial resonances, and consider both the written text and literary practice as a materiality that concretely affects and changes the body and atmosphere. Inspired by Gaston Bachelard’s canonical texts, the panel brings together five female writers who work within, around, and between different physical and emotional spaces and who question what it means to articulate via language the specific resonances and repetitions of a space, the unique architectures of the body, and the associated memories and narratives of a place. From meditations on distance, memory, devastation, and the body, to looking at how text operates like scent—as porous, pouring from one body into another, confirming our existence as shared bodies, the panel will delve into the relationship between flesh, sense, and landscape in the writing practice.

I’m uncontainably excited for the big news today. Entropy & Civil Coping Mechanisms, are now CCM-Entropy, your new indie lit community & portal. Books, magazine, resources, a small press database, and new love-child, Enclave, the literary community blog space.

Read the CCM-Entropy State of the Union here for all the details: http://entropymag.org/entropy-state-of-the-union-2014-2015/

See CCM’s newly revamped site: http://copingmechanisms.net/

Catch up on ENTROPY: http://entropymag.org/

& now, check out the new community blog ENCLAVE: http://enclave.entropymag.org/

Roar Shack Reading Series presents “Imaginary Day” on Sunday, November 2! Join us as we present an incredible lineup to usher in the holiday season. John Eder, Julie Stark, musical guest Eddie Moffett, Janice Lee and Wendy C. Ortiz!

Sunday Nov 2, 4-5:30PM

826LA Echo Park 1714 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90026

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Wider than the Sky: A Celebration of Poetry in Word, Image, and Performance

I’m teaching a workshop called The Poetics of Spaces in this festival that offers free workshops for high school teachers and students.

More information here.

7:30PM Saturday, October 18 @ Stories in Echo Park

Readings by:

Mark Gluth

James Greer

Janice Lee

& Jarett Kobek

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