Literary Reading: Shanna Compton & Elise Miller November 16, 2005

New Women's Reading Series at Bowery Poetry!

The Women's Studio Center, one of the fastest growing arts organizations in NYC, is hosting a monthly reading series and open mic at the Bowery Poetry Club on the third Wednesday of the month. The open mic is from 7:30 - 8:00; arrive early to sign up. On November 16th, the reading will feature Elise Miller and Shanna Compton.

Elise Miller hosts and curates the monthly reading series, East Side Oral, ?the reading series your mother warned you about,? at The Living Room on the lower east side. The next show is Sunday, October 9. Elise?s first novel, Star Craving Mad, was published by Warner Books and was optioned by Madonna?s production company. Personal essays from her collection, COCK-CRAZY, can be read on nerve.com, smallspiralnotebook.com, and freshyarn.com. Reach her at elisemiller.com.

Shanna Compton's book Down Spooky won the 2004 Winnow Press Open Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Best American Poetry 2005, Verse, McSweeney's, Gastronomica, No Tell Motel, Unpleasant Event Schedule, Eye-Rhyme, and elsewhere. She is the former curator of both the Frequency Series and the Soft Skull Sneak Peek Series. She is an editor at large for LIT at New School University (and served as editor for issues 7-10) and the Associate Publisher of Soft Skull Press. She recently edited an anthology of essays on the subject of video games called GAMERS: Writers, Artists & Programmers on the Pleasures of Pixels. She teaches poetry & publishing at Bowery Arts & Science and the New School (first class January 2006). Her micropress Half Empty/Half Full specializes in poetry chapbooks and broadsides. Originally from Texas, she has lived in Brooklyn, NY since 1995.

The Women's Studio Center is a visual and literary arts center based in Long Island City. For more about them, go to www.womenstudiocenter.org.

For directions to the Bowery Poetry Club, go here: http://www.bowerypoetry.com/