Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Tangent Reading Saturday: Cobb & Perez

Allison Cobb and Craig Santos Perez poetically inaugurate post-Bush America this Saturday, January 24 for Tangent. Craig’s giving his debut reading in Portland, Allison her debut reading as a Portlander. Feel free to stick around afterwards at the Clinton to meet the poets.
Tangent presents
SATURDAY, JANUARY 24 at 7 PM
ALLISON COBB & CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ
Clinton Corner Café, 2633 SE 21st Avenue (@ Clinton) Portland, OR

ALLISON COBB is the author of Born2 (Chax Press, 2004) a poetic meditation on her hometown of Los Alamos, New Mexico. She is currently at work on Green-Wood, a long piece about the 500-acre Victorian cemetery across the street from her home in Brooklyn, New York. She moved from Brooklyn to Portland, Oregon in January.

CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ, a native Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guahan (Guam), is a co-founder of Achiote Press and author of from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Tinfish Press, 2008). His poetry, essays, reviews, and translations have appeared in New American Writing, Pleiades, The Denver Quarterly, The Colorado Review, and ZYZZYVA, among others.

1 comment:

rodney k said...

P.S. That's one of the famed "parrots of Green-Wood" in the picture above.