‘Lectric Collective Reading

Join the ‘Lectric Collective for a reading on their cross-countrytour, featuring Dan Hoy, Rob Fitterman, Ariana Reines, and Rachel
Zucker at Microscope Gallery.

The ‘Lectric Collective is a group of California-based writers that
have formed a collective in order to incite conversation between
contemporary poetry and other art forms. This summer, the collective
is driving across America, working to document the poetic landscape of
the United States and incite cross-genre collaboration through
readings, interviews, and other public happenings.
Dan Hoy lives in Brooklyn, NY and is the author of Omegachurch (Solar
Luxuriance, 2010), Polaroid (Wrath of Dynasty, 2010), and Glory Hole
(Mal-O-Mar, 2009). He currently contributes to the collective blog
www.montevidayo.com, and previously co-edited SOFT TARGETS
(2006-2007), a magazine of art, literature, and philosophy. His
personal site is www.thepinupstakes.com.

Robert Fitterman is the author of 10 books of poetry including: The
Sun Also Also Rises, war the musical, Metropolis XXX: The Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire(Edge Books), Metropolis 16-29 (Coach House
Press), Metropolis 1-15 (Sun & Moon Press), This Window Makes Me Feel
(www.ubu.com). Metropolis 1-15 was awarded the Sun & Moon “New
American Poetry Award (2000)” and Metropolis 16-29 was awarded the
Small Press Traffic “Book of the Year Award (2003)”. With novelist
Rodrigo Rey Rosa, he co-authored the film What Sebastian Dreamt which
was selected for the Sundance Film Festival (2004) and the Lincoln
Center LatinBeat Festival (2004). He has been a full-time faculty
member in NYU’s Liberal Studies Program since 1993. He also teaches
poetry at the Milton Avery School of Graduate Studies at Bard College.

Ariana Reines is the author of The Cow (Alberta Prize, Fence: 2006),
Coeur de Lion (Mal-O-Mar:2006, Fence: October 2011), Save the World
(Mal-O-Mar: 2010), and Mercury (Fence: November 2011). TELEPHONE, her
first play, was commissioned and produced by the Foundry Theatre in
2009, with two Obies, and was published in PLAY A JOURNAL OF PLAYS.
Volumes of translation include The Little Black Book of Grisélidis
Réal: Days and Nights of a Revolutionary Whore (2009) by Jean-Luc
Hennig and Preliminary Notes Toward a Theory of the Young Girl (2012)
by TIQQUN, both for Semiotext(e), and My Heart Laid Bare (2009) by
Charles Baudelaire, for Mal-O-Mar. She met members of the ‘lectric
collective as Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at UC Berkeley in
2009.

Rachel Zucker is the author of seven books, most recently, Home/Birth:
a poemic (co-written with Arielle Greenberg) and Museum of Accidents.
She lives in New York with her husband and their three sons. Currently
she teaches at New York University and is studying to become a
childbirth educator.

At this reading, letterpress postcards will be distributed to the
audience to be used as a canvas for creating a response (visual or
other) to contemporary poetry, to be included in a wall-sized
installation in Oakland, CA and an eventual publication.

More about the collective and their project can be found at
www.lectriccollective.com.”