[New York, NY]

Emily Francis Weiss Rabkin, Steven Zultanski & Chris Cooper
April 17, 2011, 5:30 pm
at Zinc Bar

I T ' S   F O R   Y O UAn Interdisciplinary Festival of Collaborative Firsts A month of Sundays at the Zinc Bar curated by Ugly Duckling Presse authors Rob Fitterman & Jen Bervin Sundays in April, 5:30-7:30 pm (please note new time for this series) With authors Emily Francis Weiss Rabkin, Steven Zultanski & Chris Cooper. Chris Cooper composes and improvises for electronics, tape, and prepared guitar. He's played in a number of avant-rock bands improvisational ensembles, including Caroliner Rainbow, Deerhoof, Barn Owl, The BSC, and Fat Worm of Error. Under his solo moniker, Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase, Cooper has released three albums, Gimpy Flighted Wings Entrapped by Post-Fence of Garish Land, Glistening Inn, and Seashard. Emily Francis Weiss Rabkin is a writer from Chicago, living in Brooklyn. She studied poetry with Elizabeth Willis at Wesleyan University. She was the founder of the Backyard Theater in Chicago and a rag-tag theater project in Philadelphia. In New York, she works for the Quakers, makes family with the queers, and is on the look-out for collaborators. In May, she will head to The Wassaic Project for a residency to develop a project related to this performance. "Yay! Synchronicity in the universe!" is a performance-essay on collaborating with someone who is not around. Steven Zultanski is the author of Pad (Make Now) and Cop Kisser (BookThug). He co-curates the Segue reading series, blogs for Harriet, and is a PhD candidate in ye olde SUNY Buffalo Poetics Program.