WordSpace at Paperbacks Plus

WordSpace is hosting its fall Next-on-Deck: Poets in the Universities reading at Paperbacks Plus on Friday, November 3, at 7 p.m. We are excited to offer a reading with poets Renee Rossi, Susan Briante, and Karen X. Please help spread the word about this upcoming reading!

About the poets:
Renee Rossi is currently pursuing an MFA at Vermont College and works part-time as an otolaryngologist. Her poems have appeared in Ilyas Honey and the anthology Body Language. The Dallas Poets Community awarded Renee with its second place prize in its 2005 National Poetry Competition.

Susan Briante is Assisant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Dallas and is currently working on completing her doctoral dissertation for the University of Texas at Austin. Her first poetry collection, Pioneers in the Study of Motion, will be published in 2007 from Ahsahta Press. Her poems have appeared in TriQuarterly, New American Writing, Indiana Review, Chain and Sentence among many others.

Karen X is a veteran performer of punk rock, poetry, producer of avant-garde events. The Dallas Poets Index describes her as "the neo-beat queen of the East Dallas poetry scene." After 10 years in Austin as a music writer for The Austin Sun, she moved to Dallas and began writing poetry. Allen Ginsberg invited her to study as a Poetics Apprentice at the Naropa Institute in 1980. As a special friend of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, she co-produced Paris Records recordings of Anne Waldman, Robert Creeley, and Ginsberg. Her shouting poetics band The Panics, with Les Michaels, performed on the same bill as Flipper, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, and John Cale. She has toured solo with Frank Black and Reverend Horton Heat with ambient music provided by Ministry. Karen has performed at Caravan of Dreams and Sita di Limur's Starck Club with Karen Finley and Laney Yarber, traveled to the Assiniboine Reservation in northern Montana to perform with Townes Van Zandt and Roxy Gordon. She has also performed at the Austin International Poetry Festival and in 1994 she was invited to read at Lollapollaza Music Festival. Karen is currently a creative writing istructor at Brookhaven Community College. She has read and lectured at colleges and universities around the country.

NEXT-ON-DECK: Writers in the Universities
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3
PAPERBACKS PLUS
6115 LA VISTA (Dallas, Texas)
FREE/DONATION
7:00 P.M.
214-827-4860