Madison McCartha, Evan Kleekamp, Ava Hofmann

The Poetic Research Bureau presents…

A reading and exhibition with

MADISON MCCARTHA
EVAN KLEEKAMP
AVA HOFMANN

Friday, December 10, 2021
7:30pm

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MADISON MCCARTHA is a poet, critic, and multimedia artist. FREAKOPHONE WORLD (Inside the Castle, 2021) is their debut book of poetry and visual art. Their second book, THE CRYPTODRONE SEQUENCE, is forthcoming from Black Ocean. McCartha holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame and is a PhD student at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

EVAN KLEEKAMP is autistic. They live in Los Angeles, where they read, write, research, and design prosthetics. In 2021, Apogee Graphics will publish 4 INSTRUMENTS, a limited-edition booklet that excerpts Kleekamp’s in-progress novel, SO THAT MY BALLOON WILL TAKE ME DOWNWARD. Nightboat Books anthologized another excerpt in WE WANT IT ALL: AN ANTHOLOGY OF RADICAL TRANS POETICS (2021). Their writing has appeared in The Avery Review, Open Space (SFMOMA), X-TRA, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Evan was a 2019 Creative Capital|The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Finalist and a finalist for the 2020 Creative Capital award. Their research interests include: disability, psychoanalysis, the lecture-performance, and kitty cats.

Originally from Oxford, Ohio, Ava Hofmann is a trans writer currently living and working in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her full length collection, "[...]", was released in November 2021, with more books on the way from Inside the Castle and others. She also edits SPORAZINE, a magazine of experimental writing written by trans people. Her website is www.nothnx.com and her twitter is @st_somatic

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Readings are supported by a Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts 2021 Organizational Support Grant.