a multiple poetry reading by
JEN HOFER
DOLORES DORANTES
JESSE SELDES
& PATRICK DURGIN
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Tuesday October 16, 2007 Kootenay School HQ
309 – 207 West Hastings
8:00 pm
Admission: 3 – 5$, sliding scale.
PATRICK F. DURGIN is the proprietor of Da Crouton, a poet, scholar, and educator now living in Chicago. He was born in St. Paul, MN, moved to Iowa City, Buffalo, Berkeley, and Ypsilanti (the birthplace of Iggy Pop). All this time and for the most part, he has sought a living wage. Most of his poetry has been published in small press and fine press zines and chapbooksmost recently, a short collection entitled Imitation Poems. He will be reading from that book and conducting performances from Hannah Weiners Open House, which he recently edited for Kenning Editions.
In 2002, JEN HOFER moved from the Centro Histórico in Mexico City to Cypress Park in Los Angeles, where she teaches poetics in the MFA Writing Program at CalArts and works as a Spanish-language interpreter with the Los Angeles County Superior Courts. Her recent publications include lip wolf, a translation of Laura Solórzanos lobo de labio (Action Books, 2007), Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women (University of Pittsburgh Press and Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2003), slide rule (subpress, 2002), and the chapbooks laws (Dusie Kollectiv, 2006) and lawless (Seeing Eye Books, 2003). Her forthcoming books are The Route, an epistolary and poetic collaboration with Patrick Durgin (Atelos), Laws (Dusie Books), and a book-length series of anti-war-manifesto poems titled one (Palm Press). Jen and Patrick will read from The Route and Jen will read from her translations of and in tandem with Dolores Dorantes.
DOLORES DORANTES was born in Córdoba, Veracruz in 1973, and has lived in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua for the past 20 years. Her published books include sexoPUROsexoVELOZ (Lapzus and Oráculo, 2004), Lola (cartas cortas) (Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro, CONACULTA, 2002), Para Bernardo: un eco (MUB editoraz, 2000) and Poemas para niños (Ediciones El Tucán de Virginia, 1999). She is founding director of the border arts collective Compañía Frugal, which supports autonomous projects in the arts and counts among its activities publication of the bi-weekly poetry broadside series Hoja Frugal, printed in editions of 4000 and distributed free throughout Mexico. In addition to continuing work on Dolores Dorantes, she is currently working on a book of poetic conversations in collaboration with Inti García and Hugo García Manríquez.
JESSE SELDESS relocated from Chicago to Berlin and, more recently, to Karlsruhe. In Chicago, he co-curated The Discrete Reading and Performance Series with Kerri Sonnenberg. In Berlin, he organizes The Floating Series of exhibitions and events with Leonie Weber. In Karlsruhe, he continues to edit Antennae, a journal of experimental writing, music, and performance. Chapbooks of his poems have been published by Answer Tag Home Press, Bronze Skull Press, and the Chicago Poetry Project, and his book of poems, Who Opens, appeared on Kenning Editions early in 2006. He will be reading from that book and from recent texts.