David Lau & Douglas Piccinnini

Friday

David Lau‘s first book of poetry, Virgil and the Mountain Cat, came out last year from UC Press.  He is co-editor of Lana Turner: a Journal of Poetry and Opinion. He teaches regularly at Cabrillo College and the University of California, Santa Cruz; for spring 2011, he is visiting faculty in the graduate program in creative writing at St. Mary’s College.  New poems are forthcoming in A Public Space and Columbia.  His other ongoing projects include Laborland, a video documentary on labor and art in California, and political organizing with the student movement in the golden state.

Douglas Piccinnini‘s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Antioch Review, The Cultural Society, EOAGH, Jacket, Lana Turner, Ping Pong, So and So, Supermachine and Verse. A chapbook, SFT, is forthcoming from The Cultural Society. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and curates the CROWD Reading Series.