Friday, January 20th, 2006
this time at Bambi Gallery

located at 1817 Frankford Ave  (between Montgomery and Berks Streets)

Featuring
SARA JAFFE (prose writer & musician; Massachusetts)
JULIA BLOCH (poet; Philadelphia)
MARISA JAHN (visual & textual artist; Massachusetts)

SARA JAFFE makes music (ex-Erase Errata, solo), writes stories (seen in Pocket Myths, Encyclopedia, Instant City), and makes homemade books and zines (Inconvenient Press).  She has just returned to the East Coast from five and a half years in San Francisco.  She is living in Western Massachusetts where she is working on her fiction MFA and still settling in.

MARISA JAHN is an interdisciplinary visual artist, curator, and educator whose creative projects frequently trespass into the territory of writing and text. As a visual artist, her work transforms natural and social scenarios in order to raise questions about intimacy, affect, and social formations. In 2000, Jahn co-founded Pond, a San Francisco-based artist-curatorial collaborative, dedicated to showcasing experimental art in the United States and abroad. Jahn is currently a visual arts master candidate in the Visual Arts Program at MIT (Massachussets Institute of Technology).

JULIA BLOCH earned an M.F.A. in poetry at Mills College. Her work has appeared recently in Five Fingers Review, Bird Dog, Mirage/Period(ical), 26: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics, Small Town, Stolen Island Review, Mary: A Journal of New Writing, Lodestar Quarterly, Orpheus, and the “new brutalism” anthology Involuntary Vision: After Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams. She is the winner of the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award and has been a finalist for the Bakeless Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Foundation Fellowship and the California Voices Award; she is also the co-founder of Bigfan Press(www.bigfanpress.com). Julia currently spends her time in San Francisco and Philadelphia, where she recently returned to graduate school and cold weather.