Jessica Laser, Hans F. Wagner, Sophie Weil, Julia Lans Nowak
Sunday, March 3
Doors: 4pm
Reading: 4:30pm
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Jessica Laser is the author of three books of poems: Sergei Kuzmich from All Sides (Letter Machine Editions, 2019), Planet Drill (Futurepoem Books, 2022) and The Goner School, forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press this fall. Her poems have recently appeared in Annulet, The New York Review of Books and The Paris Review. A Tujunga resident, she teaches writing at Claremont McKenna College and is finishing a PhD in English at UC Berkeley.
Hans F. Wagner was born on the St. Croix River near the edge of Minnesota’s northern forest. He studied literature at the University of Minnesota and University of California, Davis. He is the author of three books of poetry on his own Meadow Lair Press. His newest book, The Vegas Lair Manuscript, is forthcoming (2024) on Lithic Press. His recent writing has appeared or is forthcoming in New American Writing and Caesura, and elsewhere. He divides his time between the Bay Area and Los Angeles, and records music and paints at his studio in Bogus Thunder.
Sophie Weil is a musician and poet living in L.A. from Minneapolis, she recently self published a chapbook of poetry called (Daphnee & Grizzer) and releases music as Syko Friend and Pink Trash Can on Los Angeles based label - Post Present Medium.
Julia Lans Nowak is a writer, translator, bookseller, and musician. She has been writing poems for exactly twelve years. Some of them have been published. Most are concerned with investigation and communication of affect; Love, tenderness, apathy. She lives in L.A. with her dog Slug.