5:15-6:15PM Docent tours at the Guest House

          6:30PM Reading

Beach=Culture and the Red Hen Poetry Series present poets Jenny Factor and David St. John in this third evening of a four part exploration of current poetry. The Red Hen series is co-sponsored by American Composers Forum L.A.

Jenny Factor's award-winning first collection, Unraveling at the Name, was published by Copper Canyon Press. In poems that electrify and engage with a series of traditional and kaleidoscopic verse forms, Factor explores issues of shifting identity and personal narrative. Unraveling at the Name was the recipient of an Astraea Grant in Poetry, a Hayden Carruth Award, and was one of five finalists for a Lambda Literary Award. Her poems and reviews have appeared in the Paris Review and more than a dozen anthologies. Jenny currently teaches in the Antioch Low-Residency Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program in Los Angeles.

David St. John is the author of nine collections of poetry (including Study for the World’s Body, nominated for The National Book Award in Poetry), most recently The Face: A Novella in Verse, as well as a volume of essays, interviews and reviews entitled Where the Angels Come Toward Us. He is presently completing a new volume of poems entitled, The Auroras. He is also the co-editor, with Cole Swensen, of American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry. He has been honored with many of the most significant prizes for poets, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, both the Rome Fellowship and an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the O. B. Hardison Prize (a career award for teaching and poetic achievement) from The Folger Shakespeare Library, and a grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation. His work has been published in countless literary magazines, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Harper's, Antaeus, and The New Republic, and has been widely anthologized. He has taught creative writing at Oberlin College and The Johns Hopkins University and currently teaches at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he served as Director of The Ph.D. Program in Literature and Creative Writing.

A national presence in independent publishing, the fifteen year-old Red Hen Press publishes twenty titles of poetry, fiction and non-fiction every year and presents seven reading series in New York and Los Angeles. The Red Hen Poetry series at the Beach House is cosponsored by American Composers Forum Los Angeles. http://www.redhen.org; http://www.composersforum.org/chapters_about.cfm?oid=1460.

Stop by early for Beach House tours by docents from the Santa Monica Conservancy before every evening event, first come, first served.

Tickets: All events are free but seating is limited and reservations are required. If you would like to attend, please reserve online. Please plan to arrive by 6:15pm to retain your reservation. Late seating is not guaranteed. To adjust or cancel your reservation for this event, email beachhouse@smgov.net. We appreciate your keeping in touch!

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