Poets Rod Smith & Mel Nichols at Art Produce, Friday 2/22, 6 pm

[Agitprop Reading Series]

Hello Agitprop Friends,

I'm writing to announce a reading and reception at Art Produce this Friday, 2/22 at 6 pm featuring poets Rod Smith and Mel Nichols. Agitprop has often collaborated with Art Produce, and we are thrilled that they are going to be hosting these two fabulous poets who have come all the way from Washington, DC just to read to us!

Rod Smith is the author of more than 10 collections of poetry, most recently, Deed (University of Iowa Press, 2007). He is editor & publisher of Edge Books and is also co-editing The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley (University of California Press). Manager of the famed Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC and curator of its renowned reading series, Smith is a central member of the vibrant DC poetry community. With an MFA from George Mason University, Smith has taught in the MFA programs at Bard College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/smithr/

Mel Nichols’s most recent books are Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon (Edge, 2009) and Bicycle Day (Slack Buddha, 2008). Other recent work can be found in Poetry, New Ohio Review, and The Brooklyn Rail. She teaches at George Mason University, where she received her MFA, and the Corcoran School of Arts and lives in Washington, DC. Her Flarf poem “I Google Myself” was recently featured on Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alina-gregorian/reading-series-mel-nichols_b_1701919.html

Please join us for a reading & reception on Friday 2/22

Rod Smith & Mel Nichols

Art Produce, 3139 University Ave, North Park

6pm w/reception to follow

Free & open to the public.

artproduce.org