Patrick Dunagan and Julien Poirier, Wednesday, March 23rd

Patrick James Dunagan lives in San Francisco and works at Gleeson Library Geschke Center for the University of San Francisco. A graduate of the Poetics Program New College of California, his writings have appeared in: Amerarcana, Art-voice, Big Bell, Chain, Critical Flame, Fulcrum, Jacket, ON, Polis, Rain Taxi, SF Bay Guardian, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Try!, and Vanitas. Recent chapbooks include: from Chansonniers (Blue Press, 2008), Spirit Guest & Others (Lew Gallery Editions, 2009), Easy Eden w/ Micah Ballard (PUSH, 2009) and her friends down at the french cafe had no english words for me (PUSH, 2010).

About There are People Who Think That Painters Shouldn't Talk: A Gustonbook:

GUSTONBOOK is a workman's notebook of sorts sketched out in response to years spent contemplating the work and life of painter Philip Guston in relation to the ongoing world, i.e. exhibitions, books on/about Guston, other books/art works amid daily walks, drinks, and talks. More explorations than explanations, the entries contained situate the eye of memory as witness to the immediate surrounds of now: day to day, hour by hour, the concern never (always) changing. As Guston once said, gesturing out the window, “Who wants that? And you can't have it anyway.”  

Julien Poirier started in San Francisco in 1970, grew a few inches in Berkeley (he lives there now) and then moved to New York City where he went to school, taught poetry and other things to public school kids in the 5 boroughs, helped start the Ugly Duckling Presse Collective, and edited New York Nights newspaper to make endless war stink worse. His books include Absurd Good News (Insert Press, 2006), the newspaper novella Living! Go and Dream (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2005) and the newly released "omniscooter"  El Golpe Chile ño (available at www.uglyducklingpresse.org ).

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