Friday, October 13th, 2006
at Nexus Gallery

located at 137 North 2nd Street (between Arch and Race)

Featuring
SINA QUERYAS (Poet; Philadelphia)
JESS ARNDT (Fiction Writer; New York City)
ANGELA RAWLINGS (Poet; Canada)

SINA QUERYAS edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets in 2005. Her latest collection of poetry, Lemon Hound, was published this Spring with Coach House. She is co-curator of the Belladonna Reading Series in NY, and recently left Brooklyn for Philadelphia. She teaches creative writing at Haverford.

JESS ARNDT spends her time, when not slinging drinks, awash in tales of the sea, sailors, and assorted buggery. Having just finished her MFA in Fiction from Bard College, she is currently holed up in Bushwick Brooklyn wrestling with her first novel, a high stakes adventure story set in 1850s Barbary Coast San Francisco. She has most recently been published in On Our Backs Magazine, Velvet Mafia: Dangerous Queer Fiction, Instant City Journal, Encyclopedia, and Bottoms Up!: Writing About Sex from Soft Skull Press.

ANGELA RAWLINGS is a poet, editor and multidisciplinary artist who has presented work throughout Canada and the U.S. In 2001, angela received the bpNichol Award for Distinction in Writing when she graduated from York University. Since then, she has worked with a variety of literary organizations, including The Mercury Press, The Scream Literary Festival, Sumach Press, Word: Canada’s Magazine for Readers + Writers, The Lexiconjury Reading Series, and the TV documentary series Heart of a Poet. angela is the co-editor of Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry (The Mercury Press, Fall 2005), an anthology featuring over forty innovative poets from across the country. Angela’s first book-length poem, Wide slumber of lepidopterists (Coach House Books, 2006), was hailed by The Globe & Mail as “one cool collection, a fresh combination of unashamedly brain and unabashedly horny”.