Jean Day, Paul Maziar, Syd Staiti
Saturday, April 29
Doors 7:30pm
Reading 8pm
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The Poetic Research Bureau presents a reading with Jean Day, Paul Maziar, and Syd Staiti.
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Jean Day is a poet, academic editor, and (in recent years) union activist whose involvement in the San Francisco Bay Area poetry scene spans more than four decades. Her The Night Before the Day on Which was published by Roof Books last fall. Other projects include Late Human (Ugly Duckling, 2021), The Triumph of Life (Insurance Editions, 2018), Daydream (Litmus, 2017), and many others. She lives in Berkeley.
Paul Maziar is the author of two books of art writings, ONE FOOT IN THE OTHER WORLD and FLOWER POWER, as well as a handful of chapbooks of poems including To The Air, a collaboration with artist Cynthia Lahti (Cooley Gallery); New Kind of Neighborhood, a collaboration with Sam Lohmann (Great Fainting Spells); and Little Advantages (Couch Press). He's the proprietor of Breather Editions and, alongside Aaron Simon, editor of Ergo Press.
Syd Staiti is author of Seldom Approaches (The Elephants, 2023) and The Undying Present (Krupskaya, 2015). Recent work is published in Baest, Tripwire, Social Text, and A Perfect Vacuum. Staiti is director of Small Press Traffic and a collective member of Light Field.