Saturday April 12, 2008

07:00 PM : Tangent Reading Series @ Clinton Corner Cafe

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SATURDAY, 4/12 @ 7 p.m.
THE TANGENT READING SERIES: Poet David Abel reads with Bay Area poet/translator Chris Daniels. Clinton Corner Café, 2633 SE 21st Ave. (503) 230-8035. Admission is free.

DAVID ABEL is an editor, bookseller, raga singer, and poker player residing in Portland, Oregon. Since 2002 he's organized Portland's experimental Spare Room poetry reading series and has collaborated with composer John Berendzen on several projects, most recently Liminal performance group's "sung lecture," The Theory of Love. He was the proprietor of the obscure yet beloved Bridge Bookshop in New York City in the late 1980s. Abel's recent publications include the chapbooks Twenty- (Crane's Bill), Let Us Repair (wax paper scissors), and Black Valentine (Chax), with a full-length collection of poetry forthcoming from Chax Press later this year.

CHRIS DANIELS, son of renowned language artist David Daniels, is a poet and noted translator of Portuguese-language poetry. His translation of The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro, by Fernando Pessoa, has just been published by Shearsman Books. In 2003, Manifest Press published his translation of selected poems by Brazilian writer Josely Vianna Baptista, On The Shining Screen of the Eyelids. He lives in San Francisco.

ABOUT TANGENT
Launched by Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand in 2006, The Tangent Reading Series is in its third year of bringing poets and writers from around the country together with Portland's vibrant literary community. Past readers include Jim Dine, Dodie Bellamy, Matthew Stadler, K. Silem Mohammad, Alicia Cohen, Kevin Killian, Dana Teen Lomax, Vincent Katz, Maryrose Larkin, Robert Fitterman, and Jane Sprague, among others. You can find a full listing of our events to date at: http://www.thetangentpress.org/readings.html