Ceremonial Abyss, Will Alexander, Carlos Lara, Tamas Panitz
Wednesday, February 15
8pm
Free
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Brian (Ceremonial Abyss) is an ambient, hardware and techno producer based in the Northwest.
Born in 1948 in Los Angeles, Will Alexander is a poet, novelist, playwright, philosopher, visual artist, and musician. He has published over two dozen books in a variety of genres and has earned many honors and awards including a Whiting Fellowship for Poetry, a California Arts Council Fellowship, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, a Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award, and the 2016 Jackson Poetry Prize. He has also exhibited his artwork in group and solo shows. His work is known for its visionary, oracular surrealism and the influence of Negritude. Among his publications are Refractive Africa (New Directions, 2021/Granta, 2022), which was named a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and won the California Book Award for Poetry, The Combustion Cycle (Roof, 2021), Across the Vapor Gulf (New Directions, 2017), and The Sri Lankan Loxodrome (New Directions, 2009). His book Compression & Purity (2011) was volume five in the City Lights Spotlight Poetry Series. He is currently the poet-in-residence at Beyond Baroque in Venice, California. He has lived his entire life in Los Angeles.
Carlos Lara is the author of Subconscious Colossus (Schism, 2021), Like Bismuth When I Enter (Nightboat, 2020), The Green Record (Apostrophe, 2018), and co-author of The Audiographic As Data (Oyster Moon, 2016). The poem "God Wave" was published as a chapbook by Evidence (Canada) in 2018. He has translated two books of Blanca Varela's poetry: Material Exercises (Black Sun Lit, 2023) and Rough Song (The Song Cave, 2020). With Tamas Panitz, he translated The Selected Poems of Charles Tomás (Schism, 2022). Other poems and translations have appeared in Lana Turner, Seedings, Vestiges, Aurochs, Flag + Void, Gulf Coast, Omniverse, and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles.
Tamas Panitz is the author of several poetry books, including The Country Passing By (Model City 2022), Toad's Sanctuary (Ornithopter Press, 2021), and The House of the Devil (Lunar Chandelier Collective, 2020). Other books include Conversazione, interviews with Peter Lamborn Wilson (Autonomedia, 2022), and The Selected Poems of Charles Tomás; trans. w/Carlos Lara (Schism, 2022). He now edits the journal NEW. He was tyrant over the online journal Blazing Stadium. Tamas Panitz is also a painter, whose paintings and stray poems can be found on instagram, @tamaspanitz.