Friday, May 11th , 2007
at Nexus Gallery

located at 1400 North American Street

Featuring
LAURA MULLEN (Poet & Prose Writer; Louisiana)
BRIAN KIM STEFANS (Poet & Media Artist; Philadelphia)
DAVID GATTEN (Filmmaker; New York City)

LAURA MULLEN is on the faculty at Louisiana State University. She is the author of five books: The Surface (1991); After I Was Dead (1999); The Tales of Horror (1999); Subject (2005) and Murmur (2007), and a chapbook, Turn, from dove tail press (2006). She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Prize, and several MacDowell Colony Fellowships.

BRIAN KIM STEFANS lives in Philadelphia and teaches in New Jersey. His newest books are Kluge: A Meditation (Roof Books, 2007), What Is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers (Factory School, 2006) and Before Starting Over: Selected Writings and Interviews 1994-2005 (Salt Publishing,2006). He is the editor of the /ubu (“slash ubu”) series of e-books at www.ubu.com/ubu and the creator of arras.net, devoted to new media poetry and poetics, where most of his work, including his own series of Arras e-books, can be found.

DAVID GATTEN, filmmaker, Henry James fan, recent Guggenheim fellow and aspiring audio book artist, makes bookish films about letters and libraries and ghosts that are filled with words, some of which you can read. His work has shown in museums, festivals, biennials, galleries, access centers, elementary schools, storefronts, on sides of buildings and once on a barge that was floating down river. You can find his films in the permanent collections of the Whitney and the Art Institute of Chicago but he can rarely find his glasses. He likes Philadelphia because the people are kind and there are more books once owned by William Byrd than in any other city in the world. He lives and works by the water in Brooklyn, NY.