Small Press Traffic Events
Zoe Whittall & Eileen Myles Reading
Small Press Traffic Reading Series (special day)
Saturday, April 19, 7:30 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
Info: 415.551.9278 or www.sptraffic.org
Cost: $5-10 sliding scale, FREE to current Small Press Traffic members and the CCA community
Zoe Whittall is the author of the novel Bottle Rocket Hearts (Cormorant, 2007) and two volumes of poetry, including the recent Emily Valentine Poems (Snare, 2006) and The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life (McGilligan, 01). The Globe and Mail recently called her, "the cockiest, brashest, funniest, toughest, most life-affirming, elegant, scruffy, no-holds-barred writer to emerge from Montreal since Mordecai Richler." Her stories and poetry have been anthologized widely in books like Baby Remember My Name, edited by Michelle Tea, Red Light; Superheroes, Saints & Sluts, edited by Anna Camilleri; Brazen Femme, edited by Anna Camilleri and Chloe Brushwood-Rose; With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn, edited by Amber Dawn and Trish Kelly; and Breathing Fire Two: Canada's New Poets, edited by Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane. She was born on a sheep farm in rural Quebec and has lived in Toronto since 1997.
Over the last three decades Eileen Myles has written, produced, and performed a multitude of poems, plays, articles, libretti. In 1992 she conducted an openly female "write-in campaign" for president of the United States. She has toured internationally with Sister Spit's Rambling Road Show and is considered "America's best known unofficial poet." In Sorry, Tree (Wave Books, 2007), Myles describes "some nature" as well as the transmigration of souls from the East Coast to the West. She's a "rock star of modern poetry," according to Bust magazine, and we're glad to have here back at SPT.
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