Poets Sophie Sills & Frank Montesonti: Saturday, 12/1 7pm
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Agitprop Reading Series
Nov 26, 2012, 3:15:05 PM11/26/12
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Dear Friends,
We hope you can join us this Saturday, December 1 for our last reading of 2012. We’re thrilled to host poet (Elemental Perceptions: A Panorama) and editor (Peacock Online Review) Sophie Sills in her debut reading at Agitprop. We’ll also welcome back former San Diegan poet Frank Montesonti to celebrate the publication of his first book, Blight, Blight, Blight, Ray of Hope and his soon-to-be-released second full-length collection, Hope Tree.
Sophie Sills' book of poetry, Elemental Perceptions: A Panorama was released from BlazeVOX Books in the winter of 2010. Her poems and literary criticism have appeared in Elimae, Cricket Online Review, thethe poetry, Jacket2, and other journals. She completed her MFA at Mills College, lives in Los Angeles, teaches at National University and publishes Peacock Online Review.
Of Elemental Perceptions: A Panorama, former Agitprop reader Brandon Brown writes: “One thing I really like about Sophie Sills and Aristotle is their shared sense that music emerges most directly from a sense of awe in apprehending the object...Do you think atoms fuck? That’s the crass way of reading Sills’ insistence on the body’s endlessly reducible parts playing out a drama in which their connection is constantly extinguished and constantly renewed.”
Frank Montesonti is the author of Blight, Blight, Blight, Ray of Hope, winner of the 2012 Barrow Street Book Contest. He has been published in literary journals such as Tin House, Black Warrior Review, AQR, Poet Lore, and Poems and Plays, among many others. His second collection, Hope Tree, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in 2013. He has an MFA from the University of Arizona and teaches poetry at National University. A former resident of San Diego, he now lives in Los Angeles, California.
D.A. Powel writes: “Frank Montesonti's wit reminds me of the Depression, when all the great novelists wrote dialogue for movies. He can be as glib as the blonde bomb shell in a 1930s suspense film or as deadpan as the morose sidekick...Indeed, the dangers of the world are presented as an integral part of a grand comedy.”
There is no cover charge for reading, but libations and donations to the gallery are always welcome. We hope to see you there and for festivities before and after.
Agitprop (Map)
Saturday, December 1, 7pm
2837 University Avenue in North Park (Entrance on Utah, across from KFC)
San Diego, CA 92104
Contact: K. Lorraine Graham: klorraine(at)gmail(dot)com
Join the Facebook Event page.
For more information about the Agitprop Reading Series and Space, visit our webpage, join our Facebook group, or sign up to receive email announcements from us.
We hope you can join us this Saturday, December 1 for our last reading of 2012. We’re thrilled to host poet (Elemental Perceptions: A Panorama) and editor (Peacock Online Review) Sophie Sills in her debut reading at Agitprop. We’ll also welcome back former San Diegan poet Frank Montesonti to celebrate the publication of his first book, Blight, Blight, Blight, Ray of Hope and his soon-to-be-released second full-length collection, Hope Tree.
Sophie Sills' book of poetry, Elemental Perceptions: A Panorama was released from BlazeVOX Books in the winter of 2010. Her poems and literary criticism have appeared in Elimae, Cricket Online Review, thethe poetry, Jacket2, and other journals. She completed her MFA at Mills College, lives in Los Angeles, teaches at National University and publishes Peacock Online Review.
Of Elemental Perceptions: A Panorama, former Agitprop reader Brandon Brown writes: “One thing I really like about Sophie Sills and Aristotle is their shared sense that music emerges most directly from a sense of awe in apprehending the object...Do you think atoms fuck? That’s the crass way of reading Sills’ insistence on the body’s endlessly reducible parts playing out a drama in which their connection is constantly extinguished and constantly renewed.”
Frank Montesonti is the author of Blight, Blight, Blight, Ray of Hope, winner of the 2012 Barrow Street Book Contest. He has been published in literary journals such as Tin House, Black Warrior Review, AQR, Poet Lore, and Poems and Plays, among many others. His second collection, Hope Tree, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in 2013. He has an MFA from the University of Arizona and teaches poetry at National University. A former resident of San Diego, he now lives in Los Angeles, California.
D.A. Powel writes: “Frank Montesonti's wit reminds me of the Depression, when all the great novelists wrote dialogue for movies. He can be as glib as the blonde bomb shell in a 1930s suspense film or as deadpan as the morose sidekick...Indeed, the dangers of the world are presented as an integral part of a grand comedy.”
There is no cover charge for reading, but libations and donations to the gallery are always welcome. We hope to see you there and for festivities before and after.
Agitprop (Map)
Saturday, December 1, 7pm
2837 University Avenue in North Park (Entrance on Utah, across from KFC)
San Diego, CA 92104
Contact: K. Lorraine Graham: klorraine(at)gmail(dot)com
Join the Facebook Event page.
For more information about the Agitprop Reading Series and Space, visit our webpage, join our Facebook group, or sign up to receive email announcements from us.
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