Fair Weather Reading Series

w/Annie Guthrie & Janice Lee

Saturday, May 21
7pm (doors at 6:30)
lemonade and snacks served

Curator: Kristen E. Nelson
Location: outdoor courtyard
Description: This series celebrates LGBTQ writers, female writers, writers of color, emerging writers, and other underrepresented groups. Everyone is welcome to attend!

Sometimes there will be music. Sometimes there will be dancing. Sometimes there will be video. Sometimes there will be swimming. Sometimes there will be surprises. Sometimes there will be raffles. Sometimes there will be fancy food. Sometimes there will be fancy drinks. Sometimes it will rain and you should bring an umbrella. Sometimes it will be chilly and you should bring a blanket. It is called the Fair Weather Reading Series for all of these reasons and more.

Annie Guthrie is a writer from Tucson. Her first book of poems, The Good Dark, was published with Tupelo Press in 2015. She teaches creative writing courses in “Oracular Writing” at the University of Arizona Poetry Center and offers apprenticeships in project and manuscript consultation (www.annieguthrie.net). She has work published in several journals including 1913, A Journal of Forms; Cutbank; Drunken Boat; Fairy Tale Review; Many Mountains Moving;Omniverse; H_NGM_N; Ploughshares; Tarpaulin Sky, and more. She has received several awards including an Academy of American Poets Prize, an Arizona Commission on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and TPAC Individual Artist Grant. Guthrie is also a jeweler. She published a book on the craft of jewelry making, Instant Gratification with Chronicle Books and has a studio at the Splinter Brothers Warehouse.

Janice Lee is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press, 2010), Daughter(Jaded Ibis, 2011), Damnation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), Reconsolidation(Penny-Ante Editions, 2015), and most recently, The Sky Isn't Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016). She also has several chapbooks Red Trees, Fried Chicken Dinner (Parrot/Insert Press), The Other Worlds (Eohippus Labs), andThe Transparent As Witness (Solar Luxuriance), a collaboration with Will Alexander. She is Editor of the #RECURRENT Novel Series, Assistant Editor atFanzine, Executive Editor of Entropy, and CEO/Founder of POTG Design. She currently lives in Los Angeles and teaches at CalArts and Pitzer College.