DATE: Saturday, October 20, 2007
TIME: 2 PM

LOCATION: Angels Gate Cultural Center, Building A (gallery) 3601 South Gaffey Street, San Pedro, CA

ADMISSION IS FREE

Robert Sward has taught at Cornell University, the Iowa Writes' Workshop, and UC Santa Cruz. A Fulbright scholar and Guggenheim Fellow, he was chosen by Lucille Clifton to receive a Villa Montalvo Literary Arts Award. His 25 books include Four Incarnations (Coffee House Press), now in its second printing; Heavenly Sex; The Collected Poems; and God is in the Cracks (Black Moss Press). He served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War and now lives in Santa Cruz.

Fred Voss dropped out of the U.C.L.A. PH.D. program in English Literature and spent 30 years working as a machinist in steel mills and factories and writing poetry and prose about it. His poetry has twice been the subject of feature programs on the U.K.'s BBC Radio 4 and Ambit Magazine recently published an excerpt from his novel MAKING AMERICA STRONG. His collection Carnegie Hall with Tin Walls is available from Bloodaxe Books.

Joan Jobe Smith, founding editor of Pearl and Bukowski Review, has written 17 books of poetry, most recently a duet with her husband poet Fred Voss, Teatime @ the Bouquet Morale, a 2006 Nerve Cowboy chapbook competition winner.

Patricia Cherin, Angels Gate Trustee (or Board Member), is the author of two chapbooks, Park Quest (Doom-Ah Press) and Familiarities (with Gerald Locklin: Lummox Press). She lives in Long Beach and is Coordinator of the CSUDH Humanities M.A. External degree program.

Geoff Nicholson is an English novelist, author of 14 novels including Footsucker, Still Life with Volkswagens and The Hollywood Dodo. He divides his time unequally between Los Angeles and London.

Lance Lee lives in Los Angeles, and publishes widely in this country and in England, where part of his family lives. His latest book of poetry, Human/Nature, came out last year from Birch Book Press. He is a past Creative Writing Fellow for the NEA, and published in other fields as well.

Steve De France is a widely published poet, playwright, and essayist both in America and Great Britain. In England he won a Reader's Award in Orbis Magazine for his poem "Hawks." In the United Sates he won the Josh Samuels Annual Poetry Competition for his poem, "The Man who Loved Mermaids." He has received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Chapman University for his writing. Most recently, one of his poems has been nominated for The Best of the Net by Poetic Diversity.



For more information, please contact:

Angels Gate Cultural Center
3601 South Gaffey Street, San Pedro, California 90731
Phone: 310-519-0936, Fax: 310-519-8698