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Hosted by Pharmaka Art Gallery in Gallery Row—the heart of the art scene in downtown Los Angeles.
Directions to Pharmaka
101 West 5th St
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Phone: 213.689.7799
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Third Area proudly presents:
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Featured Poets:
C.K. Williams
David Oliveira
Douglas Kearney
Holly Prado
March 19, 2009 Features
C. K. Williams is the author of ten books of poetry, the most recent of which is Collected Poems (2006). The Singing won the 2003 National Book Award and Repair received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Recently he was awarded the Twentieth Annual Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Other awards include fellowships from the Lila Wallace Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. He teaches in the Writing Program at Princeton.
David Oliveira is the author of A Little Travel Story (Harbor Mountain Press, 2008), and a chapbook, In the Presence of Snakes (Brandenburg Press). He is also co-editor of How Much Earth: the Fresno Poets. A California native, Oliveira was publisher of Mille Grazie Press in Santa Barbara; and a founding editor of Solo, a national journal of poetry.He is professor of English at Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia, Phnom Penh.
Douglas Kearney’s work as a poet, performer and librettist has been featured in many fine publications and venues. His first book, Fear, Some, was published in 2006 (Red Hen Press). His second manuscript, The Black Automaton, was chosen by Catherine Wagner for the National Poetry Series and will be published by Fence Books in 2009. He lives in the Valley with his wife and teaches at CalArts. For more info, visit
www.douglaskearney.com.
Holly Prado has published several collections of her work including These Mirrors Prove It: Selected Poems and Prose, 1970-2003, Esperanza, and Specific Mysteries, all on Cahuenga Press. Her poetry has appeared in numerous magazines including Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Exquisite Corpse, and Kenyon Review, and her essays and reviews have appeared in The Los Angeles Times Book Review. Since she moved to Los Angeles in the 1960s, she has been active as a poet and educator.
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ABOUT THE 3rd Area
Sarah Maclay, poet (most recently The White Bride) and visiting assistant professor at Loyola Marymount University, serves as artistic director, with curating collective members Frankie Drayus (finalist for the May Swenson Poetry Prize), Dina Hardy (2008 Stanford University 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 last Thursday of the month. The Third Area showcases outstanding established and up-and-coming poets as featured guests.
The 3rd Area is a monthly reading series celebrating some of the most vibrant new work by local, regional, national and international poets, both established and emerging. Our aim is to bring you a different aesthetic bouquet every month: one month, maybe roses—the next, kumquats and birds of paradise. Or a month, say, of cedar and Spanish moss. The next: white lilies, spiked with penguins. As the series unfolds, you’ll get to savor both subtle and wild combinations of words, of images, of silence, across boundaries of poetics, gender, ethnicity, and age. Why “the third area”? We find ourselves drawn to the following quotes:
Poetry . . . isn't meant to be understood but to be received in a state of grace. No one should say, "this is clear,” because poetry is obscure. And no one should say, "this is obscure," because poetry is clear. What we need to do is search out poetry energetically and virtuously so that it will surrender to us. But we need to have forgotten poetry completely before it can fall naked into our arms.
—Federico Garcia Lorca, circa 1930
What comes between two things is the quality of thirdness. It can be an interruption, it can be a cushion. But I see it as a rebellious force, something that breaks up binary thinking, positions such as Self and Other, the mind/body separation, all the classic dualisms. If you mix a third into it, then you have a more pluralistic and less stable structure, with less equilibrium. I'm interested in what comes between two things and pushes them a little bit off balance, perhaps.
—Alice Fulton, in an interview with
Barbara J.Petoskey, The Writers Chronicle, May/Summer, 1998
Third—any thing that comes after first and second; a portion
—un-named dictionary
. . . there is the third part of the life of a human being, a part that we cannot ignore, an intermediate area of experiencing, to which inner reality and external life both contribute. It is an area which is not challenged, because no claim is made on its behalf except that it shall exist as a resting-place for the individual engaged in the perpetual human task of keeping inner and outer reality separate yet inter-related . . . this third area might turn out to be the cultural life of the individual.
—Donald Winnicott
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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.
The 3rd Area: Poetry at Pharmaka
press contact: Tess. Lotta at press3rdarea@gmail.com.
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