Friday, April 20th, 2007
at Nexus Gallery

located at 1400 N. American Street

Featuring:
DOUGLAS KEARNEY (Poet; Los Angeles)
NAIMA LOWE (Writer & Filmmaker; Philadelphia)
JEN BERVIN (Poet & Visual Artist; New York City)

DOUGLAS KEARNEY is a poet, performer and teacher currently living in the L.A. area. His poetry has appeared in several journals and anthologies including Callaloo, nocturnes, jubilat, Bum Rush the Page and Saints of Hysteria. He has been a featured performer at venues across the country, including the Bowery Poetry Club (NY), the Orpheum (Minneapolis), as well as Los Angeles’ World Stage and Ruskin Art Club. His first full-length collection of poetry, Fear, Some is now available through Red Hen Press.

NAIMA LOWE is a writer, performer and filmmaker living in Philadelphia, PA. Her multi-disciplinary approach to art-making tends to deal with race, sexuality, myth, and violence. Her movie Birthmarks is about a series of small darks scars on her father's back that he got when the Newark Police beat him up in 1967, and the ways that fathers and daughters create beauty out of trauma, and art out of living.

JEN BERVIN, a poet and visual artist, is currently collaborating with Margot Ecke on Measureless as Noon - an artist book in development with Granary Books. Her books include A Non- Breaking Space (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2005), Nets (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2004), and Under What Is Not Under (2001). Bervin's large-scale sewn composites of Emily
Dickinson's fascicle marks have been exhibited recently in the US and France. She teaches at New York University, Pratt Institute, and Poets' House and is an editor for jubilat. She was a recently a fellow at The Camargo Foundation in France and lives in Brooklyn, New York.