Rent a Car and Listen! So and So Reading #25 -- Jennifer Firestone and Sarah Rosenthal in May 2008

The So and So Series Reading No. 25
Held at the Distillery in South Boston, MA on May 17, 2008

If you haven't seen the Manila Broadsides, our collaboration with Rope-a-Dope press that puts our poets on paper--awesomely, you're missing out. Scott Chasse's redunkulous broadside was like looking at an old school version of Britney, Paris, and Lindsay on it. Jealous much?
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For more information on the Manila Broadsides, a project that combines visual art and poetry, visit: http://manilabroadsides.blogspot.com/

This month's poets are Jennifer Firestone, and Sarah Rosenthal. Dorothea Lasky was unable to attend due to an allergic reaction.

About the Poets:
Jennifer Firestone is the co-editor of Letters To Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics, and Community, forthcoming in October from Saturnalia Books. She is the author of Holiday (published by Shearsman Books), Waves (published by Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), and From Flashes and snapshot (both published by Sona Books). Her work has appeared in HOW2, LUNGFULL!, Can We Have Our Ball Back, Fourteen Hills, MIPOesias Magazine, Dusie, 580 Split, Saint Elizabeth Street and others. She is the Poet in Residence at Eugene Lang College (The New School For Liberal Arts), and she lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their infant twins.

Sarah Rosenthal is the author of How I Wrote This Story (Margin to Margin, 2001), sitings (a+bend, 2000), not-chicago (Melodeon, 1998), and Manhatten (Spuyten Duyvil, forthcoming). Her poetry, fiction, reviews, essays, and interviews have appeared in numerous journals including How(2), Bird Dog, Fence, Lungfull, Denver Quarterly, and Boston Review. Her poetry has been anthologized in Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006), The Other Side of the Postcard (City Lights, 2005), and hinge (Crack Press, 2002). Sarah has created a commissioned, multimedia installation based on her poetry for the San Francisco Exploratorium Museum. She is the recipient of the Leo Litwak Fiction Award, the Primavera Fiction Prize, and a grant-supported writing residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Her collection of interviews, A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Avant-Garde Writers of the Bay Area, is currently being considered by several publishers. She writes curricula on writing and reading for the Developmental Studies Center, a nonprofit publishing house, and teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University.