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Denise Leto and Amber DiPietra, Tuesday, October 18th
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Denise Leto is a San Francisco Bay Area poet, writer, and Senior Editor at the University of California, Berkeley. Waveform, a collaborative chapbook written with poet Amber DiPietra, is out from Kenning Editions. Her selected poetry, reviews, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Beauty is a Verb, Cinco Puntos Press; Somatic Engagement, Chain Link Book Series; Puerto del Sol; Wildhorses on Fire: Other Letters; The Wolf Magazine: Arts Council of England; Aufgabe; 26: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics; The Seneca Review; Xantippe; Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multi-Cultural Poetry, Penguin; MELUS: The Journal for the Society of Multi-Ethnic Literature in the US; and Featured Poet on Kelsey Street Press Blog, May 2011. She was guest editor for the journal Sinister Wisdom; co-founder of Three Guineas
Press; a Fellow for the University of Michigan’s Research and Practice Symposium on Movement, Somatics, and Writing; and an Honorary Fellow and Artist in Residence at Djerassi Resident Artist Program as well as a former fellowship juror. She has presented her work at readings, conferences, and multi-media art performances most recently at “Breaking Ranks: Human/Nature,” at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin, California and at the Subterranean Art House for the event “Feminist Embodiment, Somatics, and Disability Poetics.” Among other projects, she is currently working on a docu-book, Day Jobs: What Poets, Writers, Artists, and Dancers Do for Living. |
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Amber DiPietra lives and works as an advocate and peer counselor in the Bay Area disability community. She is also an energy worker and teacher of expressive somatics. Read more about Write To Connect (life writes for radical and everyday embodiments) and her palmetry practice at www.writetoconnect.blogspot.com . Poems and prose pieces by Amber have appeared in Make, A Chicago Literary Magazine, Mirage Period[ica], Tarpaulin Sky, Mrs. Maybe, the Somatic Engagement Anthology, the Beauty Is a Verb anthology, Monday Night and TRY!. Her chapbook Waveform is a long collaborative poem co-written with Denise Leto, published by Kenning Editions. Amber also veers toward performance art with the Olimpias Collective, Axis Dance and recently, a solo piece she did at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. |
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