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The Third Area is a monthly reading series celebrating some of the most vibrant new work by local, regional, national and international poets, both established and emerging. Sarah Maclay, award-winning poet (most recently, The White Bride), editor, and visiting assistant professor at LMU, serves as artistic director, with curating collective members Frankie Drayus (finalist for the May Swenson Poetry Prize), Dina Hardy (2008 Stanford University Stegner Fellow), Tess. Lotta (editor for Media Cake eMagazine and blogger), Stephany Prodromides (chapbook manuscript finalist for the 2008 Center for Book Arts and co-host of Redondo Poets reading series), Jan Wesley (author of Living in Freefall and Pushcart nominee), Lynne Thompson (author of Beg No Pardon and winner of the 2008 GLCA New Writers Award), and Cynthia Underwood (currently attending  the MFA program for poetry at Vermont College) to host the series on the last Thursday of the month. Originally conceived as literary programming for Pharmaka Art, The Third Area runs currently at Frank Pictures Gallery.

 
::current show::
The Third Area: Poetry at Pharmaka
 
 
 
Friday, February 5, 2010
door 7pm <> stage 8pm
suggested donation: $5
 
D.A. Powell
John Cross
Dina Hardy
Kiki Petrosino
 
Frank Pictures Gallery
Bergamot Station, A-5
2525 Michigan Avenue
Santa Monica, CA  90404
310.828.0211 tel
 
__Frank Pictures Gallery Sessions

D. A. Powell's most recent collection, Chronic (Graywolf, 2009) was chosen as a Best Book of 2009 by the Los Angeles Times and Publishers Weeklyand was just selected as a 2009 finalist by the National Book Critics Circle. His awards include the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Powell's recent work has appeared in Boston Review, A Public Space, Cincinnati Review and Poetry. He lives in San Francisco, where he also teaches.

John Cross earned an undergraduate degree from the UCLA, and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared in Volt, ForkliftOhio, Fact-Simile and other journals and received the 2001 Mary Roberts Rinehart Award.  His chapbook, staring at the animal, won the Snowbound Chapbook Award from Tupelo Press.  He teaches at Westridge School for Girls in Pasadena, where recently, his seventh grade students, while studying Dada, joyously disrupted the campus. 

 

 

Dina Hardy earned degrees from Pratt Art Institute and the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Agni, Black Warrior Review,Phoebe, Smartish Pace, Southeast Review and Meridian's Best New Poets 2006 anthology. She is a 2008-2010 Stegner Poetry Fellow at Stanford University.

Kiki Petrosino’s debut poetry collection, Fort Red Border, was released in 2009 from Sarabande. A Baltimore native and recent graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, her poetry has appeared inFENCE, VerseDaily, The Iowa Review, and the Best New Poets anthology. She lives and works in Iowa City.