[San Francisco]

Reflections on the Personal: an evening with Dodie Bellamy, Sarah Wintz, and Claudia Rankine
March 4, 2012, 5:00 pm
at Artist Television Access

Dodie Bellamy is most recently the author of the buddhist and, for UDP, the book-length essay Barf Manifesto. She has written a novel, The Letters of Mina Harker (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004); a collection of fiction, memoirs, and essays, Pink Steam (Suspect Thoughts, 2004); an epistolary collaboration on AIDS with the late Sam D’Allesandro, Real (Talisman House, 1994); and a cross-genre collection of pedagogical essays and fictions, Academonia (Krupskaya, 2006). Her book Cunt-Ups (Tender Buttons, 2002), a radical feminist revision of the "cut-up" pioneered by William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Poetry. With her partner Kevin Killian, she has edited over 150 issues of the literary/art zine Mirage #4/Period(ical) She is currently writer in residence at California College of the Arts. Sarah Wintz was a contributing editor for UDP's Emergency Index in 2011. Her poems and nonfiction have been published in 6x6, Jacket, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Try!, Physical Poets, Model Homes, and Ceptuetics, and her first book, Walking Across a Field We Are Focused on at This Time Now, is forthcoming from UDP. Claudia Rankine is the author of four collections of poetry, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, and the plays, Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue, commissioned by the Foundry Theatre and Existing Conditions (co-authored with Casey Llewellyn). Rankine is also co-editor of American Women Poets in the Twenty-First Century series with Wesleyan University Press. She has also produced the Situation videos in collaboration with John Lucas and organized the OPEN LETTER PROJECT.