Halloween poetry reading in LA Oct. 30

Mostly Dead Poets: A Halloween Poetry Reading at the Ruskin Art Club

WHAT: A scary poetry reading at the Ruskin Art Club

WHEN: Sunday, October 30, 2011, at 2 p.m. (the day before Halloween)

WHERE: Ruskin Art Club, 800 S Plymouth Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90005.
(Directions: Take Wilshire Boulevard to Plymouth and turn south. The Ruskin
Art Club is on the southeast corner of 8th and Plymouth.)

COST: $10 per person.

MORE INFO: Eric Howard, (323) 420-6954; Ruskin Art Club (323) 936-4632,
http://www.facebook.com/RuskinArtClub


Wear your Halloween costume a day early and come to a scary
Halloween reading at the Ruskin Art Club. The reading will feature Brendan
Constantine and Laurel Ann Bogen reading creepy poems, including Edgar Allan
Poe's "The Raven," "October Knob and Broom," "Also Frankenstein," and
"Postcard Written Under Halloween Flashlight." A special guest will read
from "Flight among the Tombs" and from "Death's Jest Book." Refreshments
served.

BIOS:

Brendan Constantine was born in 1967 and raised in Los Angeles. The
second child of two working actors, his parents named him for Irish
playwright Brendan Behan. He is an ardent supporter of Southern California¹s
poetry communities and one of its most recognized poets. He has served these
communities as a teacher of poetry in local schools and colleges for the
last fifteen years. In addition to this, he has led similar classes in
hospitals and shelters for the homeless. In 2002 he was nominated for Poet
Laureate of the state.

His work has appeared in numerous journals, most notably "Ploughshares,"
"The Los Angeles Review," "The Cortland Review," "RUNES," and LA Times
Bestseller "The Underground Guide to Los Angeles." New work can be found in
the spring editions of "Ninth Letter" and "The Boxcar Poetry Review," as
well as the anthology "Bright Wings," forthcoming from Columbia University
Press and edited by Billy Collins. His collection, "Letters To Guns," was
released in February 2009 from Red Hen Press.

Mr. Constantine is currently poet in residence at the Windward School in
West Los Angeles and the Idyllwild Arts Summer Youth Writing Program in
Idyllwild, California. He holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and
lives in Hollywood at Bela Lugosi¹s last address.

Laurel Ann Bogen is the author of ten books of poetry and short fiction,
including "Washing a Language;" "Fission;" "The Last Girl in the Land of the
Butterflies," and "Rag Tag We Kiss." Her New and Collected Poems is
forthcoming from Red Hen Press. From 1996 to 2002 Bogen was literary curator
at the L.A. County Museum of Art, and, since 1990 has been an instructor of
poetry and performance for the UCLA Extension Writers¹ Program, where she
received the Outstanding Instructor of the Year award in 2008. Well known
for her lively readings, Bogen was selected "Best Female Poet/Performer" by
"L.A. Weekly" and has read her work at Cornell University, The Savannah
College of Art and Design, The Knitting Factory (NYC), The L.A. Metropolitan
Transit Authority, MOCA and LACE. Bogen is a recipient of the Pacificus
Foundation's Curtis Zahn Poetry Prize and of two Academy of American Poets
awards, and her work has appeared in over 100 literary magazines and
anthologies.