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What lit fans are saying about The Third Area…
“Beautiful. I was transported. Can't wait for the next third Thursday.” – L.H.
“Thank you so much for seamlessly organizing such a great night . . . the place was standing room only with excellent poetry and a great audience. A wonderful start to the series . . .” – C.M.
Door 7:00 pm / Stage 8:00 pm
$5 recommended donation
Featured Poets:
Cecilia Woloch
Ilya Kaminsky
David Hernandez
Lynne Thompson
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Cecilia Woloch is the author of four award-winning collections of poems, most recently Late (BOA Editions 2003) and Narcissus (Tupelo Press 2008.) A fifth collection of poems is slated for publication by BOA Editions in 2009. She is a lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Southern California, and is the founding director of Summer Poetry in Idyllwild and The Paris Poetry Workshop. She spends part of each year traveling and teaching in Europe. |
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Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa in 1977. In 1993, his family received asylum from the American government and left Ukraine for the United States. He received his BA from Georgetown University. His book, Dancing in Odessa, won the Tupelo Dorset Prize, and he has also received a Whiting Prize and the 2005 Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches comparative literature, poetry, and translation at San Diego State University. |
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David Hernandez's poetry collections include Always Danger, winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, and A House Waiting for Music. Earlier this year, HarperCollins published his first YA novel Suckerpunch, and will follow it up next year with No More Us for You. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, The Kenyon Review, FIELD, TriQuarterly and The Southern Review. David lives in Long Beach and is married to writer Lisa Glatt. |
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Lynne Thompson was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, by parents born in the Windward Islands, West Indies. She received her B.A. from Scripps College and a J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law. She currently serves as the Director of Employee and Labor Relations at the University of California, Los Angeles. An active member of the Los Angeles literary scene and a Pushcart Prize nominee, her poetry has been widely published and anthologized. |
for more information contact: press3rdarea@gmail.com
About The Third Area
Sarah Maclay serves as artistic director, with curating collective members Frankie Drayus (finalist for the May Swenson Poetry Prize), Dina Hardy (2008 Stegner Fellow), Tess. Lotta (curator of Literati Cocktail reading series and editor for Media Cake eMagazine) and Stephany Prodromides (chapbook manuscript finalist for the 2008 Center for Book Arts and co-host of Redondo Poets reading series) hosting the series on the third Thursday of the month. The Third Area showcases outstanding established and up-and-coming poets as featured guests.
For The Third Area contact: Tess. Lotta at press3rdarea@gmail.com.
ABOUT PHARMAKA
Pharmaka is a 501c3 organization dedicated to building a sustainable, creative community in downtown Los Angeles through cross cultural programming and contemporary art exhibitions.
101 W. 5th Street | Los Angeles, CA 90013
info@pharmaka-art.org | 213.689.7799 | www.pharmaka-art.org
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The 3rd Area: Poetry at Pharmaka press contact: Tess. Lotta at press3rdarea@gmail.com.
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