Friday, September 15, 2006 7:30 PM at Skylight Books

Arthur Magazine and the Nightjar Review Present…

“They’re Coming To Take You Away: The Poetry of of Alex Mitchell, John Tottenham, and Peter Relic”

Three Los Angeles poets bring their work to Skylight for a evening of laughter, languor, and imagistic transgressions.

Alex Mitchell has been called both “a rock’n’roll addicted sweetly emotional fellow traveler” and “a bruiser with a bruised heart” in the pages of Arthur Magazine. Mitchell is the author of Life Is A Phantom K-Mart Horse Starting Up In The Middle Of The Night (Yahara Design Press), a book of prose-poems about both his misspent Florida boyhood and his hard-knock years in Hollywood. He is not afraid to show off his Miami Dolphins tattoo.

John Tottenham is the author of The Inertia Variations (Kerosene Bomb Publishing), a masterful poetic tome on the art of getting nothing done. In his eight-line poems, Tottenham succeeds in “discharging himself of will, while subtly sublimating his own state of stagnation” (Arthur Magazine). The Inertia Variations are currently being adapted into song form by Matt Johnson of The The.

Peter Relic is the recipient of the 2006 Da Capo Best American Music Writing Award. He he has written for publications including Rolling Stone, MOJO, and the Los Angeles Times. His poems (as published in the Nightjar Review) prompted betablog to write: “Utilizing the Malaysian stanza form known as the pantoum (Victor Hugo, Baudelaire, and John Ashberry all used it), Relic toggles between being trenchant and ludicrous, all rendered with a definite sense of craft.”

THE EVENT IS FREE AND ALL AGES ARE WELCOME.

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