A Multi-Faceted Reading
Join Vandoren Wheeler, Jay Ponteri, and producer/songwriter Richard Jankovich at Backspace (115 nw 5th ave) on Tuesday, Feb. 19th, at 7:30 pm, for an evening of words and music. The reading of stories and poems will be soundtracked by music. The event is free and open to the public & will last one hour (no longer!).
W. Vandoren Wheeler teaches writing and literature in Portland, OR. His poems have appeared in Forklift, Isotope, and Swink, among others.
A recent transplant from Brooklyn, NY, Richard Jankovich is producer/songwriter for Burnside Project whose song, "Cue the Pulse to Begin" was the theme for Showtime's television drama Queer as Folk and went on to achieve top-40 status in Japan. Also a pocket musician, Jankovich has done remixes for of Montreal, Elk city, Mendoza Line, Dirty on Purpose, Eskobar and more. Jankovich is currently completing a full length album of new music with guest vocalists: Tanya Donelly, Craig Wedren, Dave Smalley, Robyn Hitchcock, Mark Burgess, Sal Principato, Martha Davis, Jamie Stewart, Steve Kilbey, Yuki Chikudate, Shonali Bhowmik and more. This will be Jankovich's first Portland performance.
Jay Ponteri teaches writing and literature seminars at Marylhurst University. He has published fiction and nonfiction in Clackamas Literary Review, NW Edge iii: The End of Reality, Eye-Rhyme: A Journal of New Literature, Thirsty Ear Magazine, Cimarron Review, Del Sol Review, and Puerto Del Sol. A chapbook titled In The Dream is forthcoming from Featherproof Books.
No comments:
Post a Comment