Lorraine Lupo, Theadora Walsh, Aaron Simon

Sunday, June 23
Doors 5pm
Reading 5:30pm
at 2220 Arts+Archives

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The Poetic Research Bureau presents a reading by three writers from the Bay Area: Lorraine Lupo, Theadora Walsh, and Aaron Simon.

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Lorraine Lupo is the author of The Unwanted Sounds (Cuneiform Press), The Greatest Outdoors (Breather Editions), By Way Of (Green Zone), and co-creator of Dust Exchange (Slacks Books) and the video series GUY – A Fast Paced Sad Story (watch here: https://bit.ly/2LJJRQI), both collaborations with the artist and architect Max Jacobson. She edits the Periodic Postcard series, and as Slack Books she occasionally publishes chapbooks. As Poet-In-Residence at the Creative Growth Art Center, she edited their first collections of poetry, The Poem Is Telling Me I Remember and Dear Volcano.

Theadora Walsh is a writer who makes essays, journalism, poetry, and moving texts with an interest in considering the tension between the physicality of language and its documentation. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Gulf Coast, SFMOMA’s Open Space, Apogee, Vol 1 Brooklyn, and Unbag. Criticism has appeared in Artforum, KQED arts, Art Papers, BOMB, Electronic Book Review, and Afterimage, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Brown University where her thesis won the 2019 Francis-Mason Harris ‘26 Prize for book length manuscript. Recently, she ran a curatorial project in San Francisco called In Concert.

Aaron Simon is the author of Rain Check Poems (BlazeVOX [books], 2015), On My Way (Breather Editions, 2018), and Sister City (Slacks Books, 2023)—as well as the chapbooks Carrier (Insurance Editions 2006), Periodical Days (Green Zone Editions, 2007), and Senses Himself, (Green Zone Editions, 2014). His work has appeared in Shiny, Sal Mimeo, Insurance, Harriet the Blog, NoWhere, and Blazing Stadium, among others. Aaron studied poetry and philosophy at New School University in NYC and currently resides in Oakland, CA, with his wife and daughter.