Wednesday, May 12th
7:30PM
Jeff Clark was born in 1971 in southern California. He was a first- team all-league middle linebacker for the Mission Viejo Diablos, and their defensive high-point player for 1989. He went to UC Davis for football, attended three practices, and then after a few months practicing with Davis's baseball team, he developed an interest in poetry and became immersed in the Davis music community. He went to the Iowa Writers Workshop, in 1995 returned to the Bay Area, and in 1997 his first book, The Little Door Slides Back, was published by Sun & Moon. Its first printing sold out, was let go by Sun & Moon, and was reissued in 2004 by Farrar Straus Giroux, who published his second book, Music and Suicide, the same year. He has also written Ruins (Turtle Point Press, 2009) and 2A (Quemadura, 2006; with Geoffrey G. O'Brien). Since 1996 Clark has made his living as a book designer, first with Wilsted & Taylor in Oakland, CA, and now as Quemadura (www.quemadura.net). He lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
Geoffrey G. O’Brien is the author of Green and Gray and The Guns and Flags Project, both from The University of California Press, and coauthor (in collaboration with the poet Jeff Clark) of 2A (Quemadura, 2006); his third collection, Metropole, is forthcoming from The University of California Press in 2011. A chapbook, Poem with No Good Lines, is recently out from Hand Held Editions and another, Hesiod, will be out in July from The Song Cave. He is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley and also teaches at San Quentin State Prison.
http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520250192
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