at:
Gallery 1412
Saturday 23 May 2015 at 730p. Free admission. Donations accepted. Books will be available for sale.
Gallery 1412 is at 1412 18th Avenue, just north of Union St on the east side of Capitol Hill in Seattle.
The reading features poets coming together across various borders for, among other things, a Seattle launch of Donato Mancini's
Loitersack from New Star (Vancouver).
Loitersack is a labyrinthine commonplace book where critical, theoretical and paraliterary tendencies intersect in the forms of poetry, poetics, theory, theory theatre, laugh particles and many many questions.
Sarah Dowling is the author of
Down (Coach House),
Security Posture and
Birds & Bees. Sarah's poetry was included in the anthology
I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women. She teaches at the University of Washington Bothell and is international editor at Jacket2.
Donato Mancini makes visual and procedural poetry, bookworks, and visual art. His main books are: SNOWLINE (2015),
Buffet World, Fact 'N' Value, Æthel and Ligatures. Notable exhibitions of Mancini’s visual artworks have included exhibitions through Artspeak, Western Front, Gallery Atsui, Malaspina Printmaker's Society, and CSA. Mancini's published critical writing includes work on the archive, time and memory in
Anamnesia: Unforgetting (2011), and a discourse analysis of poetry reviews in
You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence (2012).
Maged Zaher was born in Cairo, and currently lives in Seattle. He is the author of four books of poetry and the translator of an anthology of contemporary Egyptian poetry. He won the weekly Stranger's Genius award in literature in 2013.
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