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Les Figues Press Performs

Since 2005, Les Figues Press has cultivated innovative writing and generated a unique global discourse in arts and literary communities. Through its practice of publication and curation, Les Figues aims to extend the definition of what constitutes writing, creating a space that generates opportunities for speculations and experiments that affect real change. www.lesfigues.com

Moderators

Teresa Carmody

Teresa Carmody’s writing includes fiction, creative nonfiction, inter-arts collaborations, and hybrid forms. She is the author of three books, including Maison Femme: a fiction (2015) and The Reconception of Marie (2020). Her work has appeared in The Collagist, Los Angeles Review... Read More →

Speakers

Harold Abramowitz

Charles R. Drew University

Harold Abramowitz’s books include Blind Spot, Not Blessed, Dear Dearly Departed, and Man’s Wars And Wickedness: A Book of Proposed Remedies & Extreme Formulations for Curing Hostility, Rivalry, & Ill-Will (with Amanda Ackerman). Harold co-edits the short-form literary press eohippus... Read More →

Amanda Ackerman

Amanda Ackerman is the author of the chapbooks The Seasons Cemented (Hex Presse), I Fell in Love with a Monster Truck (Insert Press Parrot #8), and Short Stones (Dancing Girl Press). She has co-authored Sin is to Celebration (House Press), the Gauss PDF UNFO Burns... Read More →

Sissy Boyd

Sissy Boyd studied with Martha Graham and danced with many diverse and avant-garde companies in NYC. In L.A. she studied poetry with Holly Prado, and playwriting with John Steppling. Her play “Green Shoes,” was directed by Wes Walker. Another play formed the text for a short... Read More →

Vincent Dachy

Vincent Dachy has written quite a few things, most often on Mondays, and published: Tribulations of a Westerner in the Western World, Les Figues Press, 2006, Scraps from the bottom of my pocket, Artwords Press, 2013, as well as texts and photographs in various places. He acts... Read More →

Sandra Doller

Associate Professor, California State University-San Marcos, founder & editrice de 1913 Press, 1913 Press

Sandra Doller is a maker of books, chapbooks, performances, translations, and collaborations. Her new work, Leave Your Body Behind, is due out from Les Figues Press in May 2015. The founder & editrice of 1913 Press & 1913 a journal of forms, Doller lives in California, at the bot... Read More →

Lily Hoang

Lily Hoang is the author of five books, including A Bestiary (PEN USA Award Finalist and winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Nonfiction Contest) and Changing (recipient of a PEN Open Books Award). She teaches in the MFA program at UC San Diego.

Paul Hoover

Paul Hoover is the author of fifteen poetry books, most recently Desolation: Souvenir (Omnidawn, 2012), Sonnet 56 (Les Figues, 2009), Edge and Fold (Apogee Press, 2006), Poems in Spanish (Omnidawn, 2005), and two full-‐‐length volumes in Spanish translated by María Baranda... Read More →

Michael du Plessis

Michael du Plessis teaches Comparative Literature at USC and is the author of Songs Dead Soldiers Sing (Transparent Tiger, 2007) and The Memoirs of JonBenet by Kathy Acker (Les Figues, 2012), as well as essays and reviews on topics such as Goth culture, French literature... Read More →

Frances Richard

Frances Richard is the author of Anarch. (Futurepoem, 2013), The Phonemes (Les Figues Press, 2012), and See Through (Four Way Books, 2003), as well as the chapbooks Shaved Code (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2008) and Anarch. (Woodland Editions, 2008). The Anarch. Film ... Read More →

Martin Glaz Serup

Martin Glaz Serup lives in Copenhagen. He has published seven children’s books, several chapbooks, as well as seven collections of poetry, most recently Roman nights (2013, published in Sweden 2014), of which excerpts in English are published in Action Yes and Poetry Wales, and... Read More →

Divya Victor

Director, Creative Writing Program. Associate Professor, Michigan State University

Divya Victor is the author of CURB from Nightboat Books. CURB is the winner of the 2022 PEN America Open Book Award and the winner of the 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. It was also a finalist for the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award (Poetry). She is also the author of KITH (Fence... Read More →

Matias Viegener

MFA Writing Program, CalArts

Matias Viegener is a writer, artist and critic who works solo and collaboratively in the fields of writing, visual art, and social practice. His new book, 2500 Random Things About Me Too, is published by Les Figues Press, and he’s the editor of I'm Very Into You, the corresp... Read More →

Christine Wertheim

California Institute of the Arts

Christine Wertheim is author of mUtter-bAbel (Countertpath Press) and +|'me'S-pace (Les Figues), editor of the anthology Feminaissance, and with Matias Viegener co-editor of Séance and The n/Oulipean Analects. She organized the conferences, Séance (2004), Noulipo (2005), Impunities... Read More →

Colin Winnette

Colin Winnette is a writer living in San Francisco. His most recent book is COYOTE, forthcoming from Les Figues Press in the fall of 2014.

Friday March 27, 2015 4:00pm - 5:15pm PDT
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