Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Tangent Reading this Saturday, 2/28: Alli Warren, Brandon Brown & Tom Fisher

Alli Warren and Brandon Brown bring it to Portland this Saturday with poetry’s one-man incredible string band, Tom Fisher. Feel free to stick around to feed and water the poets afterwards.
Tangent presents
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 at 7 PM
ALLI WARREN, BRANDON BROWN & TOM FISHER
Clinton Corner Café, 2633 SE 21st Avenue (@ Clinton) Portland, OR

ALLI WARREN was born in the 1980s and remains extant. Recent publications include No Can Do (Duration Press), and a collaboration with Michael Nicoloff entitled Bruised Dick. Alli co-curates The (New) Reading Series at 21 Grand, and lives in San Francisco’s Mission District.

BRANDON BROWN is from Kansas City, Missouri. His friends have published his poetry in chapbook form including Memoirs Of My Nervous Illness (Cy Press), 908 1078 (Transmission Press), Kidnapped (Duration Press), Camels! (TAXT), and the forthcoming Wondrous Things I Have Seen (Mitzvah Chaps). He co-curates The (New) Reading Series at 21 Grand in Oakland and lives in San Francisco.

TOM FISHER is working on two manuscripts: one on not writing and modernism; one on songs, selves and sorceries. He lives in Portland, OR and teaches at Portland State University.

2 comments:

Maurice Burford said...

They're coming to our town first.

It sucks none of us Nu-Black Mountain kids could make it to your & Kasey's reading (except Lacey).

You gotta come down here and hang.

rodney k said...

Hi Alex,

I'd love that. Made it down once this summer but only for a couple days & most of you were gone. I wish "Nu" as a prefix in front of anything had won out over "post."

"That's so Nu-Modern!"