On next Thursday, November 8, Literary Arts will host the Small Doggies Reading Series at our center at 925 SW Washington. The reading begins at 7:30
pm and is free and open to the public. There will be poetry by Brian S. Ellis, fiction by Vanessa Veselka, music by Rick Klaras, and to quote the hosts Carrie Seitzinger
and Matty Byloos: a "possible special guest. If it happens, it'll be a
surprise."
Brian S. Ellis is a writer and performer based out of Jamaica Plain, MA. He's
represented Boston at the National Poetry Slam and the Individual World
Poetry Slam; co-founded the Whitehaus Family Record, a venue and arts
collective in Jamaica Plain; been published online and in print in
Danse Macabre and Lunchbox Quarterly; has published Uncontrolled
Experiments in Freedom (2008) and Yesterday Won't Goodbye (2010) with
Write Bloody Press. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize
twice.
Vanessa Veselka has been at various times a teenage runaway, an expatriate, a union
organizer, and a student of paleontology. Her work appears in The
Atlantic, Tin House, Zyzzyva, The FSG anthology Bitch: Feminist Response
to Pop Culture, and Maximum Rock ’n’ Roll. Her debut novel, Zazen, won
the 2012 PEN / Bingham Prize for fiction.
The
Small Doggies Reading Series began in September of 2010, in Portland,
Oregon. Hosted by Smalldoggies Magazine and Press editors Carrie Seitzinger and Matty
Byloos, the series was originally conceived as a way to bring the
Portland literary community together with local and traveling writers
from all over the country. The series typically features one musical guest
together with 3-4 writers, who are drawn from across all styles, genres,
and stages of one's career.
Small Doggies Press
supports, defends, and publishes the most beautiful, challenging, and
artful prose and poetry that they can find. They believe that the author has
all the power, and their job is to create a context within which the author,
and most importantly the author's work, can flourish and find the intelligent,
curious readership that it deserves.
