Friday, May 23rd, 2008
at the CRANE ARTS COMMUNITY SPACE

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

Featuring
TIM HARBESON (Multimedia Artist; Philadelphia)
MORGAN LUCAS SCHULDT (Poet: Arizona)
JASON COYLE (Filmmaker; Philadelphia)

TIM HARBESON has recently returned to his hometown of Philadelphia after a dozen year stint on the coast of Maine. His experimental, solo performance project/alter ego Fence Kitchen, a perpetual work-in-progress employing original music played live and/or as recorded soundtrack, set & lighting design, and puppet/object installation and manipulation has toured extensively throughout the eastern US since 2002. A cd that serves as both document and continuance of this work, Beading the Rook, was released in 2006 by Northeast Indie Records. His puppetry has been featured at the Puppet Showplace (Brookline, MA), The ICA (Philadelphia), and the Portland Museum of Art (Portland, ME). His primary artistic concerns lie in the merging and transformation of disparate forms.

MORGAN LUCAS SCHULDT is the author of Verge (Parlor Press: Free Verse Editions, 2007) and Otherhow (Kitchen Press, 2007), a chapbook. His poems have appeared in Fence, Verse, and LIT; online at Shampoo, Coconut, Typo, and Free Verse; and in the anthologies Prose Poetry / Flash Fiction: An Anthology (2006), The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, Second Floor (2007) and Best New Poets 2007. A brief essay on the poet Larry Levis appears in A Condition of the Spirit: The Life and Work of Larry Levis (Eastern Washington University Press, 2004), and an interview with Charles Wright is forthcoming in the collection Charles Wright in Conversation: Fifteen Interviews. A graduate from the University of Arizona’s MFA program, Morgan lives in Tucson where he edits the literary magazine CUE.

JASON COYLE recently presented his video essay/performance "Blank Pages, Canvases, and Screens" at the University of Amsterdam's Cinema in Europe: Networks in Progress conference. Currently, he is working on a series of interactive video stories that develop conflicting accounts of origin and false genealogies for a fictional suburban town.