Monday February 27th 2012. 7pm.

Hedreen Gallery. 905 12th Avenue. Seattle.

Lonely Christopher is the author of The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, published in Dennis Cooper’s Little House on the Bowery series from Akashic Books. His latest projects include the chapbook Poems in June (Corresponding Society) and the feature length film MOM (Cavazos Films). He lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.

Gregory Laynor is a poet curating readings and talks at the Hedreen Gallery. His latest poem, “It Gets Christopher,” is about the work of Lonely Christopher.

At the Hedreen Gallery, 905 12th Avenue, Seattle

Friday February 3rd, 2012 at 6 pm

A celebration of Don Mee Choi’s translation of Kim Hyesoon’s All the Garbage of the World, Unite! (from Action Books)

With readings by Don Mee Choi & Melanie Noel and an introduction by Bruce Fulton

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Don Mee Choi is the author of The Morning News is Exciting (Action Books, 2010) and has recently received a Whiting Writer’s Award. Her newly published translation is South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon’s All the Garbage of the World, Unite! (Action Books, 2011). Her previous translations include When the Plug Gets Unplugged (Tinfish, 2005), Anxiety of Words (Zephyr, 2006), and Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers (Action Books, 2008).

Melanie Noel is the author of Monarchs (forthcoming from Stockport Flats Press). Her poems have appeared in Fine Madness, Filter, Weekday, and on the audiomagazine Weird Deer. She’s also written poems for short films and installations, and from 2006-2008 co-curated APOSTROPHE, a dance, music, and poetry series, with Gust Burns, Michele Steinwald, and Beth Graczyk.

Bruce Fulton is the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He has co-translated several anthologies of modern Korean short fiction, including the prize-winning Words of Farewell: Stories by Korean Women Writers (Seal Press, 1989), A Ready-Made Life: Early Masters of Modern Korean Fiction (University of Hawai’i Press, 1998), and Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction (M.E. Sharpe, 2007). His most recent translations (with Ju-Chan Fulton) are The Red Room: Stories of Trauma in Contemporary Korea (University of Hawai’i Press, 2009) and Lost Souls: Stories by Hwang Sunwŏn (Columbia University Press, 2009).

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Kim Hyesoon is a prominent South Korean poet who has received numerous prestigious literary awards. She teaches creative writing at Seoul Institute of the Arts. Her work translated into English includes the books All the Garbage of the World, Unite! (Action Books, 2011) and Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers (Action Books, 2008), the chapbook When the Plug Gets Unplugged (Tinfish Press, 2005), and poems in the anthology Anxiety of Words: Contemporary Poetry by Korean Women (Zephyr Press, 2006). A recent interview with Kim Hyesoon appears in Guernica.

FORM AND/OR POLITICS:

A Tour of Unrelated Projects, with Andy Pressman and Jayme Yen.

Hosted by Gregory Laynor.

Friday December 9th at noon. Free Lunch series. Hedreen Gallery. 905 12th Avenue. Seattle.

Andy Pressman is co-founder of the design studio Rumors (www.rumors-studio.com). Notable work includes the art direction of Bidoun magazine, book and web design for Verso Books, and exhibition design for the Canadian Centre for Architecture. He teaches at Parsons School of Art and the Cooper Union and currently lives in Portland.

Jayme Yen is the graphic designer for the Henry Art Gallery. She has been a design fellow at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, a design researcher in the Netherlands, and has worked for clients such as McSweeney’s and HarperCollins. She can be found online at her rarely updated website www.jaymeyen.com.

Friday October 28th. At the Hedreen Gallery, 901 12th Avenue, Seattle. Noon to one.

Nadine Antoinette Maestas is a poet’s poet and believes that the empire of the sentence is an extremely oppressive totalitarian regime. Mountain biking in dangerous and remote places, she lives in Seattle, teaches at the University of Washington and North Seattle Community College, and facilitates poetry workshops at SPLAB. Co-author with Karen Weiser of Beneath the Bright Discus (Potes & Poets Press, 2000), Nadine is writing a dissertation on postmodern American anthropoetics.

M Thompson (www.m-thompson.net) has crisscrossed the U.S. playing music for people, seen the south of France as an organic farmer, and been a bicycling bag artist living in Berlin. His fiction, book reviews, and interviews have appeared in places like Unsaid, Everyday Genius, Used Furniture Review, The Collagist, elimae, and Spork,among others. In 2011, a collection of his work was shortlisted for NMP/DIAGRAM’s Chapbook Prize.

JOHN CAGE AND SUN RA WALK INTO A BAR

John Cage and Sun Ra walk into a bar. Sun Ra is wearing headphones. Someone asks Sun Ra what he’s listening to. Sun Ra hands over the headphones. And nothing’s playing.

John Cage and Sun Ra walk into a bar. Someone asks Sun Ra where he’s from. Where are you from? Saturn. Come on, where are you from? Saturn. Okay, I’ll ask you one more time, where are you from? Okay, okay, Jupiter.

John Cage and Sun Ra walk into a bar. The outerspace employment agency. Someone asks Sun Ra about a job. What’ve you been doing lately? Nothing. How long have you been doing nothing? A long time. You must be an expert at it. I’ll hire you. To do what? Nothing. How much do I get paid? Nothing.