Indy BOOK TOUR Reading featuring:

Anna Joy Springer: Author of The Vicious Red Relic, Love, and punk singer formerly of Bay Area bands Blatz, The Gr’ups, and Cypher in the Snow.

Janice Lee: Author of Daughter, Writer, Artist, Editor of [out of nothing], Designer, Curator.

 Leon Baham: Author of Ponyboy, Sigh: A Word Problem.

 Local Portland guest Cooper Lee Bombardier: Writer, Artist, and Trans Activist

 Where:

The Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC)

1001 SE Division St
Portland, Oregon
97202 USA

www.iprc.org

 When:

Saturday, August 4, 2012 at 8:00 p.m. sharp!

(doors 7:30)

$3 - 5 donation (No one turned away)

RSVP here.

 Who:

 Anna Joy Springer is a prose writer and visual artist who makes grotesques - creating hybrid texts that combine sacred and profane elements to evoke intensely embodied conceptualemotional experiences in readers. Formerly a singer in the Bay Area bands, Blatz, The Gr’ups, and Cypher in the Snow, Anna Joy has toured the United States and Europe being a wild feminist punk performer, and also toured with the all-women spoken word extravaganza, Sister Spit. She is author of the illustrated novella, The Birdwisher (Birds of Lace). She received her MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University, and is now Associate Professor of Literature at University of California at San Diego, where she truly loves teaching courses in Experimental Writing, Graphic Texts, and Postmodern Feminist Literatures.

“There is only one Anna Joy Springer. Only one. Her words take me from kitten to monster and back again in a way only she can do.” – Kathleen Hanna, leader singer of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre

Janice Lee is a writer, artist, editor, designer, curator. She has been published in numerous journals, including antennae,Everyday Genius, Action Yes, elimae, & Black Warrior Review, and is the author of two highly acclaimed novels: KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Publishing, 2010): a multidisciplinary exploration of cyborgs, brains, and the stakes of consciousness; and DAUGHTER (Jaded Ibis Press, 2011). She is currently Co-Editor of the online journal [out of nothing], Co-Founder of the interdisciplinary arts organization Strophe, & Reviews Editor at HTMLGIANT. Most recently, she was selected by John D’Agata as the Black Warrior Review Nonfiction Grand Prize winner.

 “Janice Lee is a genius.” – Eileen Myles, author of Inferno (a poet's novel)

 “Daughter is quantum. There is a girl, there is an octopus, there is language... No other book ever written has entered my body and been so physically pure. There is not distance between the state of narrative and the matter of being. I turn the page of her body.” – Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water

 Leon Baham is from the Inland Empire. He now lives in Seattle. He is currently working on his first long book titled The Book of Imaginary Boys. Ponyboy, Sigh: A Word Problem (Birds of Lace, 2011) is a hybrid story-essay by Leon Baham wherein Ponyboy, of The Outsiders fame, is submerged in a queer (un)conciousness that swims through the murky waters of desire, fear, love, brotherhood, race, violence, mothers, tenderness and memory. A complication of faggotry with an inquisitive chorus and echo like a bloody cave.

 Portland Guest Cooper Lee Bombardier is a visual artist and writer from the South Shore of Boston. He has been a construction worker, a cook, a carpenter, a union stagehand, a welder, a shop steward, a dishwasher, a truckdriver, and a housepainter, among other things; now he is busy pursuing both an MS in Writing/Book Publishing and an MFA in Creative Writing/Nonfiction at Portland State. His writing appears in many periodicals including Original Plumbing, Suspect Thoughts, Unshod Quills, Pathos, Lambda Literary Review, The Rearguard, OUT Magazine, Cavalcade Literary Journal, Queerocracy, and his essay on trans identity and the world of competitive facial hair is coming out soon on The Rumpus. His work appears in four anthologies, including the forthcoming book Sister Spit: Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road, from City Lights Books. A veteran of the original Sister Spit tours, he has performed all over the country. He was a Lambda Literary Foundation Fellowship in 2011. Cooper is currently based in beautiful Portland, Oregon, where he lives with his handsome old one-eyed dog and the threat of never-ending rain.

 “Cooper Lee Bombardier's enormous bright-as-a-carnival paint and prose hits you like twangy pop culture tarot cards – full of caution and wishes, charms against heartbreak. They are tattoos ripped from secret scarred and hopeful skin.” – Michelle Tea

For latest updates on the tour: http://janicel.com/events/daughter-vrrl-book-tour-august-1-19

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Trans/Scribe Writing Workshop is for trans/genderqueer writers of all gender expressions led by Portland trans writers Carter Sickels and Cooper Lee Bombardier.

This 5-week workshop will be a creative space to explore writing fiction and nonfiction from trans experiences; strengthen writing skills and learn more about the elements of craft; and to give and receive constructive feedback in a supportive environment. You’re encouraged to write about whatever is important to you, which may or may not include elements of trans/genderqueer identity. Each student will have the opportunity to share work with the group, and to meet in a one-on-one conference with Cooper or Carter. This is a class that will encourage you to write and to find your voice in a positive setting. Writers of all levels are encouraged to register! There will be a max of 15 students.

***Please email Carter at asickels@gmail.com to register. You will be sent a link to register.

Deadline to register is June 12, 2012, and a $50 deposit is due at that time, the remainder payable at the first class. Payment accepted by check, cash, or Paypal. ***


Start Date: Tuesday June 19
End Date: Tuesday, July 17

Time: 7-9 pm

Location: Q Center on N. Mississippi Avenue, Portland

Tuition: $150


Carter Sickels is the author of the novel The Evening Hour (Bloomsbury 2012). He has published short stories and essays in various journals, and most recently has a piece in the anthology The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to Their Younger Selves (Scholastic 2012). Carter lives in Portland, Oregon. www.cartersickels.com

Cooper Lee Bombardier is a writer and artist. He's been published in many periodicals and anthologies, including Cavalcade Literary Journal, Original Plumbing, Unshod Quills, and the Sister Spit anthology forthcoming on City Lights Books. He is currently pursing both a MS in Writing/Publishing and an MFA in Creative Writing/Nonfiction.A veteran of Sister Spit and other tours, he has performed and shown art widely across the nation. He lives in Portland, OR www.cooperleebombardier.com

LIT! PDX

Thursday, May 3, 2012 9:00pm

Bad Roommate Zine - 1st edition
edited by Nicole J. Georges

INTENDED FOR OLDER READERS - 18 & over please

This is an anthology of comics & stories describing some of the most awkward, bizarre, maladjusted, disgusting and depraved roommates I could find.
It's a funny zine, and will make 90% of humans feel better about their living situations.
(The 10% who still feel bad, please send me your stories for the next issue!)

Topics include:
Vermin, bad pets, stealing, lying, bodily fluids, food stealing, attempted murder,
and more. All stemming from our simple desire to save money and/or live with other humans!
This half-legal sized zine is a hulking 72 pages full of frights & delights.

Contributors include:
Carrie McNinch
Lisa Eisenberg
Kat
Ali Liebegott
Max Clotfelter
J.T. Yost
Marc Parker
Leda Zawicki
Cooper Lee Bombardier
Alex Buck
Jameson Gardner
Kelly Froh
Lacey Prpic Hedtke
Gabby Holden
John Isaacson
Laura Moulton
Sky Nash
Nicole J. Georges
A.M. O'Malley
Lilly Pepper
Woodrow White , and MORE!

By ordering this, you are asserting that you are 18 years old or over.

WARNING: Do not read this zine while you are eating.