Friday, September 21st, 2007
at Nexus Gallery

located inside The Crane Arts Building at 1400 N. American St. (two blocks north of Girard Ave. between 2nd & 3rd streets)

Featuring
SUEYEUN JULIETTE LEE (Poet; Philadelphia)
JILL MAGI (Poet; Brooklyn)
BERNADINE MELLIS (Filmmaker; Massachusetts)

SUEYEUN JULIETTE LEE grew up three miles from the CIA. Her work has appeared in journals such as MiPoesias, Glitterpony, 26, and Chain. Her first book, That Gorgeous Feeling, will be out next spring from Coconut Books. She also edits Corollary Press, a small chapbook series devoted to new work by writers of color.

JILL MAGI is the author of Threads (Futurepoem), a hybrid book of poetry, prose, and collage, Torchwood (Shearsman, forthcoming in early 2008), and the chapbook Cadastral Map (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs). Her visual work, essays, poems, and prose have appeared in HOW2, The Tiny, The New Review of Literature, Aufgabe, Jacket, anthologized in Fiction from the Brooklyn Rail, as well as in the forthcoming books Letters to Poets: Conversations on Poetry, Politics, and Community (Saturnalia Press), the )((eco (lang)(uage(reader)) (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), and the 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets (Outside Voices). Jill’s visual work has been exhibited at the International Meeting of Visual Poetry, the Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Open Studios 2007. She lives in Brooklyn, teaches at The Eugene Lang College and Goddard College, and runs Sona Books, a community-based chapbook press.

Her father's role as lead attorney in Earth First! activist Judi Bari's civil case against the FBI prompted BERNADINE MELLIS to make The Forest for the Trees, her first documentary. Bernadine also directed The Odyssey, a collaborative adaptation of Homer's 24-chapter epic, made up of 24 shorts by 24 different mostly queer/trans/lady filmmakers. Her short experimental films include Born and Farm-In-The-City, a collaboration with sound artist EE Miller. Bernadine currently lives in Massachusetts, where she is teaching in the Film Studies department at Mt. Holyoke College for the year.  She is on the Programming Committee of Philadelphia's Black Lily Film & Music Festival showcasing work solicited from an international, multi-racial, multi-cultural pool of women directors and producers.