Modest Aspirations - Poems and Stories (by Locklin); Hard Landing (by Smith); E/OR - Living Amongst the Mangled (by Armstrong; all books published by Lummox Press)
Three poets published by local poetry publisher Lummox Press will read from their recently published collections! Come and hear the latest from Gerald Locklin, Rick Smith, and Lummox founder...
Modest Aspirations - Poems and Stories (by Locklin); Hard Landing (by Smith); E/OR - Living Amongst the Mangled (by Armstrong; all books published by Lummox Press)
Three poets published by local poetry publisher Lummox Press will read from their recently published collections! Come and hear the latest from Gerald Locklin, Rick Smith, and Lummox founder RD Armstrong.
Gerald Locklin is now a Professor Emeritus of English at California State University, Long Beach, where he taught from 1965 through 2007, and continues as an occasional part-time lecturer there and in the Master of Professional Program at the University of Southern California. He is the author of over 125 books, chapbooks, and broadsides of poetry, fiction, and criticism, with over 3000 poems, stories, articles, reviews, and interviews published in periodicals. His most recent books include The Plot of Il Trovatore (Kamini Press, Sweden); Gerald Locklin: New and Selected Poems, and The Cezanne/Pissarro Poems, both from World Parade Books; and Modest Aspirations - Poems & Stories (Lummox Press).
Rick Smith is a clinical psychologist, in Rancho Cucamonga, California where he specializes in brain damage and domestic violence. He studied with Anthony Hecht at Bard College, George Starbuck and Frank Polite at the University of Iowa and Sam Eisenstein at Los Angeles City College. During the 70's, he joined Dan Ilves to co-edit the literary journal, Stonecloud. He has been published widely in anthologies and in small press publications such as New Letters, Onthebus, Blueline, Hanging Loose, Pinyon, Eclipse, Paper Street, Lummox Journal, Rattle, Rhino and Main Street Rag. He has three books including his latest title: Hard Landing (Lummox Press).
RD Armstrong never went to college or took a workshop on writing, publishing or any of the myriad of things that people go to a workshop for...except to find a screwdriver or some other tool. He fell into publishing in the mid-nineties when he discovered the poetry scene while washing dishes at a coffee house in San Pedro. Since then he has been published in over 300 mags, zines, anthologies etc. He has a number of books to his name, mostly published by his own Lummox Press, including his latest title: E/OR - Living Amongst the Mangled. Lummox Press has published an ongoing chapbook series since 1998 (the Little Red Books) with 60 + titles; the Lummox Journal (1995 - 2006), a monthly; and a number of perfect bound books (20), most recently the Respect Series. Visit the website for more details: www.lummoxpress.com.
THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS FEBRUARY 19, 2011.
