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Rebecca Brown & Charles Alexander
an evening of readings

Saturday, October 26
7:30 p.m.
$5 Suggested Donation

photo by: Andre Auge

Rebecca Brown is the author of twelve books of prose including American Romances, The Gifts of the Body, Annie Oakley’s Girl, The Last Time I Saw You, and The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary. Her play “The Toaster”, commissioned by New City Theater, premiered at On the Boards. Her installation GOD MOTHER COUNTRY AND ROCK & ROLL is on display at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle through January 2102. She wrote libretto for “The Onion Twins,” a dance opera produced by Better Biscuit Dance Company. An adaptation of The Terrible Girls was presented by About Face Theater (Chicago). Her altered books have been exhibited in the USA and Canada. Her work has been translated into Japanese, German, Italian, etc. She has read from her work and lectured in Tokyo, London, Berlin, Rome, New York and elsewhere. She teaches at MFA programs in writing at Goddard College in Vermont and the University of Washington at Bothell. She recently curated an exhibit on the theme of Devotion at the Hedreen Gallery and collaborated with Noah Saterstrom for an installation at the University of Arizona Poetry Center. She is currently working on a new piece for the NorthWest Film Forum and co-curating a series of talks and lectures for the Northwest Photographic Center. She lives in Seattle with her wife, two cats, and a squirrel.

Charles Alexander is the founder and director of Chax Press, in Tucson, where he has lived all but three of the past 29 years. His books include Hopeful Buildings (Chax 1990), Arc of Light / Dark Matter (Segue 1992), Near or Random Acts (Singing Horse 2004), and Certain Slants (Junction 2007). Pushing Water was published in its entirety by Cuneiform Press in 2011, and Little Red Leaves Textile Editions has just issued his chapbook, Some Sentences Look for Some Periods. He is recipient of the distinguished Arizona Arts Award, and is a former director of Minnesota Center for Book Arts, of Black Mesa Press, and of the Tucson Poetry Festival. Book arts works by Alexander are included in collections at the Getty Museum Library, the State University of New York at Buffalo Poetry Collection, the New York Public Library, the University of Wisconsin Special Collections Library, the University of Arizona Special Collections Library, the Stanford University Library, the Beinecke Library at Yale University, and at other major collections nationally and internationally. He currently is Senior Lecturer at the University of Arizona and serves on the faculty for Naropa University's Summer Writing Program.