& TOM COMITTA
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Doors open at 7pm
Reading at 7:30pm
Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA
90012
Suzanne Stein’s publications include The Kim Game (Area Sneaks 2015), TOUT VA BIEN (Displaced Press 2012), and Hole in Space (OMG! 2008). Poems, talk performances, and prose have appeared in War and Peace, ON:Contemporary Practice, Counterpath; and at New Langton Arts, Artists Television Access, the Berkeley Art Museum and elsewhere; audio performances are archived at PennSound.
Tom Comitta is the author of ◯ (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013), SENT (Invisible Venue, 2014) and ___ _____ __ _______ (Aggregate Space, 2014). From 2011-12, he co-wrote and co-conducted nine operas with The San Francisco Guerrilla Opera Company. These operas were staged at numerous sites around the Bay Area, including Civic Center BART and the Berkeley Art Museum. In 2012, he staged National Novel Writing Night Month (NaNoWriNiMo), a futurist improvement on the write-a-novel-in-a-month contest in which he composed and published novels written in a night. Comitta lives in Oakland, CA where he works as a book designer and facilitates multimedia writing workshops at elementary schools. Forthcoming work includes First Thought Worst Thought: Collected Books 2011-2014 (Gauss PDF) and The City of Nature (Make Now Books).