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FATHER-DAUGHTER POETRY SPECTACULAR Mel Weisburd, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Coastlines, the historic literary magazine of 1950s Los Angeles, and Stefi Weisburd, winner of the 2002 The Nation/Discovery Prize and the 2005 St. Lawrence Book Award Sunday, March 19, 2:00 PM, in the courtyard at Dutton's Brentwood Bookstore Poems on Art, Science, Politics, History, Travel, Love, Life... Introduction by Suzanne Lummis Mel Weisburd will read from his new book A Life of Windows & Mirrors, which selects from 60 years of work and includes a cycle of poems on his role in the early struggle to control smog in LA., as well as a prose tribute to the poet Tom McGrath. "Weisburd mixes the outer world of technology and politics with a deeply felt inner landscape, and all of it expressed in the intellectually and emotionally complex language of a true poet," notes Estelle Gershgoren-Novak, editor of Poets of the Non-Existent City: L.A. During the McCarthy Years (UNM press, 2002). Mel has published in The California Quarterly, The Transatlantic Review, Poetry-Los Angeles, Poet Lore, Blue Mesa Review and in Walter Lowenfel's New Poets of Today. His article, "Lysergic Acid and the Creative Experience" was included in Best Articles and Stories in 1956. Leonard Wolf, in Voices from the Love Generation, later credited him for giving an account of that kind of experience well before Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg. Stefi Weisburd grew up in the literary community, surrounding Coastlines in the 50's. She was the Louis Untermeyer Scholar in Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in 2003. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, Poetry Daily, Tin House among others. Her first book The Wind-Up Gods will be published by Black Lawrence Press by early 2007. Barefoot, a collection of poems for children is forthcoming from Wordsong. Suzanne Lummis is the author of In Danger from Heyday Books and editor of Speechlessthemagazine.org, "the warmest, coolest and oddest literary magazine on the web". The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry describes her as one of the most influential Los Angeles area poets of the past 20 years. Dutton's is at 11975 San Vicente Blvd. (A block and half east of Bundy) Los Angeles, CA. 90049 Featured Book on sale. Refreshments and book signing. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
