Dan Alter, Feliz Lucia Molina, Brent Armendinger
The Poetic Research Bureau presents…
DAN ALTER
FELIZ LUCIA MOLINA
BRENT ARMENDINGER
SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 2023
7pm
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Dan Alter’s poems and reviews have been published in journals including Field, Fourteen Hills, Pank, and Zyzzyva; his first collection “My Little Book of Exiles” won the Poetry Prize for the 2022 Anne and Robert Cowan Writer’s Awards. He is a former fellow of the Arad Arts Project, and a member of the Community of Writers at Olympic Valley. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley and makes his living as an IBEW electrician. He can be found online at https://danalter.net/
Feliz Lucia Molina was born and raised in a Filipino diaspora in the San Fernando Valley, California. She holds a BA in Writing & Literature and minor in Religious Studies from Naropa University, and graduate degrees in Literary Arts from Brown University, Clinical Social Work from The University of Chicago, and a PhD (ABD) at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. She taught poetry at Brown, UC San Diego, and Cal State San Marcos, and is the recipient of poetry fellowships from Kundiman and MacDowell. Her books include Undercastle (Magic Helicopter Press), The Wes Letters (Outpost19), and Roulette from Make Now Books. Her chapbooks are An Essay Of Things About Someone I First Met and Spent Time With For One Day in Tokyo (Magic Helicopter Press) and Crystal Marys (Scary Topiary Press). She is working on various poetry manuscripts and a screenplay about her childhood experience of growing up in board and care facilities.
Brent Armendinger is the author of Street Gloss (The Operating System, 2019), a work of site-specific poetry and experimental translation, and The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying (Noemi Press, 2015), both of which were finalists for the California Book Award in Poetry. He is also the author of two chapbooks, Undetectable (New Michigan Press, 2009) and Archipelago (Noemi Press, 2009). Brent’s poems and translations have appeared in many journals, including Anomaly, Asymptote, Aufgabe, Bloom, Colorado Review, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Ghost Proposal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Interim, LIT, Puerto del Sol, Sporklet, and Volt. He has been awarded residencies and fellowships at Mineral School, Blue Mountain Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Community of Writers. Brent teaches creative writing at Pitzer College and lives in Los Angeles.