We invite you to the first reading for fall 2017 for Non-Standard Lit at Gym Standard, Sunday, October 1 at 5 pm, featuring one extraordinary reader and one extraordinary performer: Francesco Levato & baby.

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Francesco Levato is a poet, a literary translator, and a new media artist. Recent books include Endless, Beautiful, Exact; Elegy for Dead Languages; War Rug, a book length documentary poem; Creaturing (as translator); and the chapbooks A Continuum of Forceand jettison/collapse. He has collaborated and performed with various composers, including Philip Glass, and his cinépoetry has been exhibited in galleries and featured at film festivals in Berlin, Chicago, New York, and elsewhere. He founded the Chicago School of Poetics, holds an MFA in Poetry and a PhD in English Studies, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Literature & Writing Studies at California State University San Marcos.

“baby” – baby is “baby” – baby is “baby” – is “leni riefenstahl” – is “baby” – is ___________ – is “authored by … uhhh” – is “authored by … ummm” – is “authored by a bunch of really f*&@CKED up individuals” – is “wonders where responsibility lies” – is “wonders where beauty lies” – is “an ethical / conundrum” – is “millions of people died, elisabeth! millions of people died!” – is “dead serious” – is “unserious” – is “really serious” – is “leni! it’s leni!” – is “leni needs a facelift” – is “watch me give her a facelift” – is “baby” – email baby @ “whoisbaby.123@gmail.com” – email baby right now! please!

We are located at:

Gym Standard
2903 El Cajon Blvd., Unit #2
San Diego, CA 92104

Contact:

nonstandardlit@gmail.com

Please join us at Tiger Tiger! for drinks and food afterwards!

Francesco