I'm reading with a lot of cool people in LA this weekend

Come and catch a gala reading at the the smell! The reading will begin at 6:30. The smell is at 247 South Main Street, between 2nd & 3rd Street in Downtown L.A. (enter through the alley). It's more or less behind Jalisco's.

Featuring:

Mark Wallace
K. Lorraine Graham
Wendy Walters
Mairead Byrne
James Thomas Stevens

MARK WALLACE is author of numerous books, including Temporary Worker Rides A Subway (Green Integer), Haze (Edge), Dead Carnival (Avec Books), and about 10 more. He edits Submodern Fiction , and co-edited Telling It Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990s.

K. LORRAINE GRAHAM is the author of Terminal Humming (Slack Buddha) and Dear [Blank] I Believe in Other Worlds (Phylum). She has published poems in Rock Heals, No Tell Motel, Submodern Fiction, and Dusie.

JAMES THOMAS STEVENS is author of Combing the Snakes from His Hair (Michigan UP), (dis)Orient (Palm Press, 2005), Mohawk/Samoa: Transmigrations (Subpress), The Mutual Life (Plan B), and A Bridge Dead in the Water (Salt). He's a member of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation in Upstate New York.

MAIREAD BYRNE's publications include three chapbooks, An Educated Heart (Palm Press, 2005), Vivas (Wild Honey, 2005), and Kalends (Belladonna* 2005), as well as poems in 5AM, The Argotist Online, Conduit, The Denver Quarterly, The Drunken Boat, Free Verse, MiPOesias, and Volt.

WENDY S. WALTERS is author of Birds of Los Angeles (Palm Press). She teaches at RISD in Providence, RI.