Ian Dreiblatt, Alexis Almeida, Jacob Kahn, Anna Gurton-Wachter

LANGUAGE GARDEN II

Saturday, May 20
5:30pm

at David Horvitz’s 7th Ave Garden
1911 7th Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90018

with Ian Dreiblatt, Alexis Almeida, Jacob Kahn, Anna Gurton-Wachter
BYOM (mezcal)

programmed by Corina Copp, Sophia Le Fraga, and Joseph Mosconi

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Ian Dreiblatt is most recently the author of forget thee (ugly duckling presse) and the translator of Dmitrii Furman’s Imitation Democracy (verso books). writing & translations in the baffler, the believer, the larb, music & literature, lithub, n+1, bomb, the agriculture reader, conjunctions, and many other fine homespun publications. he loves flowers and ancient languages and can get a kill screen in tapper. he wishes you’d brought your dog.

Alexis Almeida is the author of I Have Never Been Able to Sing (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018) and most recently the translator of Dalia Rosetti's Dreams and Nightmares (Les Figues, 2019) and co-translator of Carlos Soto Román's 11 (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023). Her recent poems, prose, translations, and interviews have recently appeared in FENCE, Oversound, BOMB, the Poetry Project Newsletter, and elsewhere. She teaches at the Bard Microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library and edits 18 Owls Press. More info at https://alexisfalmeida.com

Jacob Kahn is a poet, editor, and curator living in Oakland, CA. He is the author of the Mine Eclogue (Roof Books) and several chapbooks, most recently A Is For Aegis (DoubleCross Press). With Sophia Dahlin, he runs the chapbook press, Eyelet Press, and the reading series, Islet. He works at Berkeley Public Library and for the art organizations Small Press Traffic and The Lab.

Anna Gurton-Wachter is a writer, editor and archivist. She is the author of Utopia Pipe Dream Memory (ugly duckling presse) as well as seven chapbooks, most recently My Midwinter Poem (clones go home). Other recent work has appeared in Hot Pink Magazine and The Recluse. More info at annagw.com / @anna.as.metaphor