Salon Reading
Poetry, short fiction and essays
Wednesday October 27, 2010
7pm
In conjunction with Salon No. 6, Marine is pleased to be hosting an evening of poetry,
short fiction and art related essays.
Ken Deifik has read and performed at The Museum Of Modern Art, The Philadelphia Art Institute, The St. Marks Church Poetry Project, Beyond Baroque and the Mudd Club. His most recent publication is in Black Clock 12. He co-founded the Poetry Mailing List, a popular New York poetry magazine of the 1970's. His book The Focus Puller was published in 1983. He is also a musician. He has recorded with artists as diverse as Laurie Anderson, Marty Robbins and the LA Surf-Punk band Lawndale. Phillip Glass wrote his only harmonica music for him, 'Lucy's Music,' which became the germ for Glass' opera Satyagraha. He also performed with Kenward Elsmlie, Kathy Acker, Jill Kroesen and Peter Gordon's Love Of Life Orchestra.
Sarah Eggers received her M.F.A. in poetry from Hunter College in New York City, where she has taught creative writing and literature for three years. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Cargoes and Ology. She was a finalist for the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize in 2009. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
Peter Frank is art critic for the Huffington Post and Adjunct Senior Curator at the Riverside Art Museum; He has served as Editor of THE magazine Los Angeles and Visions Art Quarterly and as critic for Angeleno magazine and the L. A. Weekly. Frank was born in 1950 in New York, where he wrote art criticism for The Village Voice and The SoHo Weekly News, before moving to Los Angeles in 1988. He has taught at numerous institutes such as Columbia University's School of the Arts, the University of California Los Angeles and the Tyler School of Art. Frank contributes articles to publications and has written many catalogues for one‑person and group exhibitions. Frank has also organized numerous theme and survey shows including his current curatorial project "LADYKILLERS" a photographic exhibition by Maya Mercer. Publications including, A cycle of poems, The Travelogues, issued by Sun & Moon Press in 1982, New, Used & Improved, an overview of the New York art scene co-written with Michael McKenzie, in 1987, and has published many artists' monographs.
Sophie Sills' poems and literary criticism have appeared in various magazines and journals. Her first full-length book of poetry, "Elemental Perceptions: A Panorama" is forthcoming from BlazeVOX Books this winter. Sophie lives in Los Angeles where she teaches and is Editor in Chief of the Peacock Online Review.
