For Immediate Release
a reading for kari edwards
Thursday, December 21, 2006
7 pm
(this is a free and open event)
HIGH ENERGY
CONSTRUCTS
990 N. Hill St., #180
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Please join the Los Angeles poetry community and High Energy Constructs in honoring the life and work of poet, artist, and (trans)gender activist, kari edwards. kari died of heart failure at the age of 52 on Saturday, December 2, 2006. kari's life and work was an ongoing revolution of body and language, as well as a revelation of human potential. Not only a dear friend and supporter of High Energy Constructs, kari was also one of the forty artists included in High Energy Constructs' Fall 2006 exhibition, Many Happy Returns. kari's work as a gender activist, radical writer, and social sculptor was - and will continue to be - some of the most honest, compassionate, and evolved necessary action in today's world.
Friends and poets, Marcus Civin, Jen Hofer, Mary Kite, Eileen Myles, Michael Smoler, Justin Veach, and others gather to read, perform, and speak in memory and tribute to the spirit of kari edwards, on Thursday, December 21, 2006, at 7 pm.
For more information regarding this gathering please call 323.227.7920.
kari's most recent book of writing, have been blue for charity, can be viewed and read at: http://www.blazevox.org/bk-ke.htm
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kari edwards (1954 - 2006) was a poet ,artist and gender activist , winner of New Langton Art's Bay Area Award in literature (2002); was the author of have been blue for charity , BlazeVox (2006); obedience , Factory School (2005); iduna , O Books (2003); a day in the life of p ., subpress collective (2002); a diary of lies , Belladonna #27 by Belladonna Books (2002); obLiqUE paRt(itON): colLABorationS , xPress(ed) (2002); and post/(pink), Scarlet Press (2000), as well as poetry editor for Transgender Tapestry magazine. edwards' work has appeared in numerous publications, such as anthologies Blood and Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard , Painted leaf Press (2000), and Electric Spandex: anthology of writing the queer text , Pyriform Press (2002); as well as been exhibited throughout the United States , including Denver art museum, New Orleans contemporary art museum, University of California -- San Diego , and University of Massachusetts -- Amherst . edwards’ work can also be found in Bombay Gin, Belight Fiction, In Posse, Mirage/Period(ical), Van Gogh’s Ear, PuppyFlower, Vert, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Narrativity, Shampoo, xStream, Rain Taxi, Big Bridge, Nerve Lantern, muse-apprentice-guild, Avoid Strange Men, Bird Dog Magizine, RealPoetik, Raised in a Barn, and The International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies.
