November 18 at 3 PM in Brooklyn: Jess Arndt, Kathe Burkhart, Frances Richard

Mark your calendars! Next regular QT reading at Dixon Place:
Tues, Nov. 27: Wayne Koestenbaum + Gary Lutz! But first...

QT: Queer Readings at Dixon Place
and the Dumbo Arts Center
present
Text and the City:
A not-entirely-queer reading entirely not at Dixon Place
Sunday, November 18, 2007
3:00 PM
Dumbo Arts Center: 30 Washington Street, Brooklyn

Featuring:
Jess Arndt
Kathe Burkhart
Frances Richard

Right after that (Nov. 18, 5 PM onward), please come hear QT curator Sara Marcus and many other poets read at the EOAGH Release Party @ Unnameable Books, 456 Bergen Street (near Flatbush), Brooklyn, NY.

An avid student of old fashioned mixologies, vast piracy, and assorted buggery, Jess Arndt is attempting to combine the three in her yet to be finished first novel, Shanghaied. Set in Gold Rush San Francisco, the story weaves and staggers through the opium dens, brothels and sailor holes of the Barbary Coast, continuously distracted by the gold-lust and tarts. Having just finished her MFA at Bard College, she trades her time between Brooklyn and a small island off the northwest coast of Washington State. She has most recently been published in Velvet Mafia: Dangerous Queer Fiction, Instant City Journal, Encyclopedia Literary Journal, Bottoms Up! Writing About Sex from Soft Skull Press, and Baby Remember My Name, a new anthology edited by Michelle Tea. She has a short story coming out from Inconvenient Press later this fall, in collaboration with visual artist Xylor Jane.

Kathe Burkhart is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. She is the author of three books of fiction: Between the Lines (Hachette Litteratures, 2006), Deux Poids, Deux Mesures/The Double Standard (Hachette Litteratures, 2002/Participant Press, 2005), and From Under the 8 Ball (LINE, 1985). Her visual art has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally, including the 1993 Venice Biennale, SMAK Museum (Gent, Belgium), Museum of Modern Art, Weatherspoon Museum, and P.S.1. She teaches art and feminist theory at New York University, and divides her time between New York and Amsterdam.

Frances Richard's book of poems, See Through, was published by Four Way Books in 2003. In 2005 she co-curated, with Jeffrey Kastner and Sina Najafi, "Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates," an exhibition mounted jointly at the Queens Museum of Art and White Columns Gallery, with a catalogue published by Cabinet Books. Recently awarded a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital, Ms. Richard writes frequently about contemporary art, teaches at Barnard College and the Rhode Island School of Design, and lives in Brooklyn.