EOAGH reading series presents "Disposed Messenger" with Steve Dickison and Susan Gevirtz.
About the Authors (taken from Unnameable Books):
Susan Gevirtz has books out from Kelsey Street Press, Trafficker, Post-Apollo, Burning Deck, a+bend, Potes and Poets, Little Red Leaves, Reality Street, Avenue B, and Leave Books. Her most recent is AERODROME ORION & STARRY MESSENGER. She teaches at California College of the Arts. She was an associate editor of HOW(ever), a journal of modernist/innovative directions in women's poetry and scholarship, and served on the editorial advisory boards of the journal AVEC and the online journal HOW2. She has collaborated with interdisciplinary artist Margaret Tedesco and sound artist Andrew Klobucar at The Lab in 2001, written a play (MOTION PICTURE HOME) which was performed in 2002, and collaborated with the sound artist/musician Scanner (aka Robin Rimbaud) on an audio piece titled AERODROME ORION in 2006. She received the New Langton Arts Bay Area Award in Literature in the Spring of 2000.
Steve Dickison is the director of The Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University, where he curates an extensive public reading series and directs a collection of circa 3,000 original recordings of poets and writers (1954-present). He is editor and publisher of the poetry press Listening Chamber, and with David Meltzer co-edits SHUFFLE BOIL, an occasional music magazine with poet, artist and musician contributors. He organized the exhibition POETRY AND ITS ARTS: BAY AREA INTERACTIONS 1954-2004 at the California Historical Society in 2005, and also the book exhibition RECENT VISITORS: POETS AND PUBLISHERS ON THE BOLINAS SCENE IN THE SEVENTIES. DISPOSED, a book of poetry, was published by the Post-Apollo Press in 2007. WEAR YOU TO THE BALL, a live poetry-sound collaboration with composer Bill Dietz, was performed in May 2009 in London and Berlin.
