Insert Blanc Press General Projects Presents
Kim Calder
David Hadbawnik
Morani Kornberg-Weiss
Michael Smoler
Friday, September 19th at 730pm
2806 ½ Lincoln Park Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90031
(image collages by Michael Smoler)
Inert Blanc Press General Projects invites you to a reading with a diverse group of writers both from Los Angeles and from afar. Michael Smoler, author of Parrot 16 Pieces of Water and Kim Calder from The People episodes 15 & 10, produced by Insert Blanc Press, will be joined by Morani Kornberg-Weiss who grew up in So-Cal and currently lives in Los Angeles after being far afield, and David Hadbawnik who is in Los Angeles to study at the Huntington Library and who runs the very interesting projects Habenicht Press and the journal kadar koli.
We hope you’ll join us at 7:30 pm on Friday September 19th in Lincoln Heights to meet the readers. Insert Blanc will have books for sale and some of the readers will have books for sale as well. The readings will begin after 8pm. Insert Blanc Press will provide some drinks and light snacks and highly encourages you to bring whatever you might like to drink and snack on and possibly to share with others.
Kim Calder lives in Los Angeles, where she studies contemporary literature and critical theory at the University of California, Los Angeles. She holds an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her work has most recently appeared in Unsaid Literary Journal, Jacket2, and The Volta.
David Hadbawnik is a poet living in Buffalo, NY. Part one of his translation of the Aeneid was published in 2013 (Little Red Leaves); part two is forthcoming in 2014. In 2012, he edited Thomas Meyer’s Beowulf (Punctum Books), and in 2011 he edited (with Sean Reynolds) selections from Jack Spicer’s Beowulf for CUNY’s Lost and Found Document Series. Other publications include Field Work (BlazeVOX, 2011), Translations From Creeley (Sardines, 2008), Ovid in Exile (Interbirth, 2007), and SF Spleen (Skanky Possum, 2006). He is the editor and publisher of Habenicht Press and the journal kadar koli, and a co-editor of eth press.
Morani Kornberg-Weiss is an Israeli/American poet and translator who currently lives in Los Angeles. She is completing her Ph.D. in literature at SUNY Buffalo's Poetics Program. Both her scholarly and creative endeavors focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She recently published her debut poetry collection, Dear Darwish, a series of letters and poems addressed to the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
Michael Smoler is 41 years old. He has been a poet for the last 18 years: living in Los Angeles the past 9 years. He is what can be termed a "Naropa poet"—and is currently an associate director at Blum & Poe. His most recent publication is Parrot 16 Pieces of Water, published in 2013 by Insert Blanc Press through the Parrot series.