10/23/09

MARY BURGER & LEE ANN BROWN

The Bard Roving Reading series is happy to announce the start of its second season!

Friday November 6th 6:30 pm
Bard Hall, Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson NY


MARY BURGER

Mary Burger's latest book A Partial Handbook for Navigators is about spending time in different kinds of places (Interbirth Books). Her recent catalog essay 'But What If the Object Began to Speak?', studies objects in places in artist Amy Trachtenberg's permanent installation 'Groundwork' (Oro Editions). Mary lives in Oakland and works at a landscape architecture firm in San Francisco, focusing on public park water conservation, greenway development, and related urban/environmental reintegrations.

LEE ANN BROWN

Lee Ann Brown was born in Japan and grew up in North Carolina. She is the author of numerous volumes of poetry including The Sleep That Changed Everything (Wesleyan), and Polyverse (Sun & Moon), and a song cycle, The 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, as well as the recent Sop Doll! A Jack Tale Noh, co-written with Tony Torn, recently seen at Howl Festival, starring Felix Bernsetin as "Jack," and Julie Patton as "Cat-Witch." She also teaches at St. John's University in NYC, and edits Tender Buttons press. With her family and friends, she is creating the French Broad Institute in Marshall, NC, a mountain hideout for artistic practice and performance.