The goal of Moles Not Molar is to put writers and artists pursuing exciting, innovative and experimental textual projects into contact and dialogue with each other and their diverse audiences, creating exposure and engagement across regional and generic lines.
Emily Abendroth and Justin Audia have been co-curating this series out of various gallery and community spaces in Philadelphia since the Winter of 2004. To contact them, send an email to molesnotmolar@gmail.com.
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OUR NEXT & FINAL EVENT OF THE SEASON IS ON FRIDAY, MAY 22ND @ 7:30 PM.
All information is below.
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The Moles Not Molar
Reading & Performance Series
Consecrates Its Passage Into Summer Hibernation Via One Final Rowdy Sonic Celebration and Its Wild Gyrations of Poetic Spectacula!!!
on Friday, May 22nd, 2009
@ 7:30 PM
at the CRANE ARTS COMMUNITY SPACE
located inside The Crane Arts Building at 1400 N. American St.
(two blocks north of Girard Ave. between 2nd & 3rd streets)
Featuring
JENNIFER KARMIN (Poet; Chicago)
ISH KLEIN (Poet & Filmmaker; Philadelphia)
MATTHEW KLANE (Poet; Albany)
JENNIFER KARMIN's text-sound epic, Aaaaaaaaaaalice, will be published by Flim Forum Press in 2009. She curates the Red Rover Series and is co-founder of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented nationally at festivals, artist-run spaces, and on city streets. Karmin teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the Chicago Public Schools. New poems are published in Cannot Exist, MoonLit, Otoliths, Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press) and Not A Muse (Haven Books).
ISH KLEIN’s poems have been published in Bridge,The Canary, Gare du Nord, The Hat magazine, X-connect, Spork and Gut Cult. Her book, "Union!" came out April 2009 through the Canarium Press. Her films have screened all over the world and at Philadelphia's ICA. You can see some of them on youtube by searching “ishkleinfilms.”
MATTHEW KLANE is founder and editor of Flim Forum Press. His new book is B_____ Meditations (Stockport Flats Press, 2008). Other recent work can be found in Absent, Otoliths, Open Letters Monthly and The New Chief Tongue. He currently lives and writes in Albany, New York. See: www.matthewklane.blogspot.com.
For directions please go to www.cranearts.com/visit_crane_arts.html