The Moles Not Molar
Reading & Performance Series

on Friday, October 16th, 2009
@ 7:30 PM

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

presents
RACHEL LEVITSKY (Poet; New York City)
ROB RAY (Sound Artist; Troy, NY)
MECCA JAMILAH SULLIVAN (Fiction; Philadelphia)

ROB RAY is an artist and engineer examining the role of electronic and industrial technologies on the public and on public space. This examination results in a variety outcomes ranging from interactive artworks, to experimental films, photographs, and audio works. His interactive works, Undisclosed Location #1 and Bucky's Animal Spirit, were recently selected for the "Without You I am Nothing" exhibition at Green Lantern (Chicago), the "(re)load" exhibition at Antena (Chicago) and the "Squirrel!" exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center at Woodside (Troy, NY). Recent filmworks include "Canaries in the Coalmine," winner of the DIGIT 2009 Excellence in Cinematography prize, and "State Champion/Owner Operator" available at Melinda Fries' ausgang.com. Rob also collaborates with Jason Soliday and Jon Satrom as a member of the Chicago-based circuit-bent multimedia noise trio I Love Presets.

RACHEL LEVITSKY’s second book, NEIGHBOR, is published by Ugly Duckling Presse (2009). Levitsky’s first full length volume, Under the Sun was published by Futurepoem books. She’s released five chapbooks of poetry, Dearly (a+bend, 1999), Dearly 356, Cartographies of Error (Leroy, 1999), The Adventures of Yaya and Grace (PotesPoets, 1999) and 2(1x1)Portraits (Baksun, 1998). Levitsky writes poetry plays, three of which (one with Camille Roy) have been performed in New York and San Francisco. With Jan Lauwereyns, she is currently guest editing DWB, in the 2010 issue of the Dutch language magazine, “The Empire of Women.” She was the founder and is now a collective member of Belladonna* a multi-faceted feminist avant-garde writing confluence.

MECCA JAMILAH SULLIVAN’s writing has appeared and is forthcoming in Best New Writing, Crab Orchard Review, American Visions, Bloom, GLQ, Philadelphia Stories, Lumina, X-24 Unclassified, Baobab South African Journal of New Writing and other publications. Her writing honors include the Charles Johnson Student Fiction Award from Crab Orchard Review and the James Baldwin Memorial Playwriting Award from New World Theatre, and her short story, “Wolfpack,” was shortlisted for the 2010 Eric Hoffer Award from Best New Writing. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.