Friday, April 8th, 2005
at Space 1026

located at 1026 Arch Street, 2nd Floor (between 10th and 11th Streets)

Featuring
SUMMI KAIPA (poet & prose writer; San Francisco)
EMILY ABENDROTH (poet; Philadelphia)
TISA BRYANT (fiction author: Providence)

TISA BRYANT was born in Tucson, AZ, and raised in Massachusetts. In 2004, she both earned an MFA from Brown University’s Program in Literary Arts and was named Zora Neale Hurston Scholar to Naropa University. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Bombay Gin, Cross Cultural Poetics, Curve, Hatred of Capitalism, Long Journey Home, Mosaic, Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry, and in gallery exhibits for artists Laylah Ali. She is the author of a chapbook, Tzimmes, from A+ Bend Press. Two prose projects, [the curator], and Unexplained Presence, are forthcoming. She is co-editor of the new annual publication, Encyclopedia, and is Adjunct Professor of English at Rhose Island College and at Rhode Island School of Design.

EMILY ABENDROTH is a writer who lives and works in Philadelphia. She recently completed her MA in Creative Writing at Temple University where she teaches literature and poetry courses. In these moments, she is working in pulses on a feral and disparate collection of work that attempts to wade in frameworks, access points and contact zones that might be surfaced in exploring notions of animal motion and animal disappearance within the landscapes we inhabit.

SUMMI KAIPA When not busy learning about social justice forms of psychotherapy, having life-changing events, or baking cheesecakes from scratch, Summi Kaipa whittles away at a years-long experimental memoir. She has penned several chapbooks, including The Epics (published by Leroy Press) and I Beg You Be Still (by Belladonna). Kaipa also founded the magazine, Interlope, which focues its efforts on publishing innovative work by Asian American writers. She lives in a little home in Berkeley, California.