April 22, 2012

Improved Lighting Reading Series ANNEX 
presents poetry readings by 

Anne Boyer
Cody-Rose Clevidence
CAConrad
Magdalena Zurawski

Sunday, April 22, 4 pm
La La Land
@ The Art Experience
641 MLK Blvd.
Fayetteville, Arkansas
$1-5 suggested donation

Improved Lighting ANNEX hosts irregular poetry readings in unpredictable locations in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Our regular reading series occurs monthly on Saturdays at Nightbird Books.  Contact improvedlighting@gmail.com.

Author Bios and Links 
Anne Boyer is the author of The Romance of Happy Workers (Coffeehouse Press, 2008) and the forthcoming novel, Joan (Bloof Books). She lives in Kansas and teaches at the Kansas City Art Institute.

Read Anne Boyer’s My Common Heart from Spooky Girlfriend Press.

Cody-Rose Clevidence is the author of Everything That is Beautiful is Edible (Flowers & Cream Press, 2012) and lives in the Arkansas Ozarks.

Read two poems by Cody-Rose Clevidence in Diagram.

CA Conrad is the author of A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon (Wave Books, 2012), The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010), Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a collaboration with Frank Sherlock, The City Real & Imagined (Factory School Press, 2010). He lives in Philadelphia and writes with his friends at PhillySound, and he is a co-foudner of PACE: Poet-Activist Community Extension.

Visit CAConrad's author page at Wave Books.

Magdalena Zurawski was born in Newark, NJ in 1972 to Polish immigrants. Her first novel, The Bruise (Fiction Collective 2, 2008), won the Lambda Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Read an excerpt from The Bruise by Magdelena Zurawsi from Fiction Collective 2.