Conditional Love: Lonely Christopher, Maxe Crandall & Kevin Lo

SPD PRESENTS is a monthly reading series with the aim of fostering relationships between emerging writers and readers in our national small press community.

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LONELY CHRISTOPHER is a poet and filmmaker. He is the author of the poetry collection Death & Disaster Series (Monk Books, 2014) and the short story collection The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, which was a 2011 selection of Dennis Cooper’s Little House on the Bowery imprint of Akashic Books. His first novel, THERE, is forthcoming in 2017. His plays have been produced in New York City and China. His film credits include the feature MOM (which he wrote and directed), the shorts We Are Not Here and Petit Lait (which were adapted from his stories), and Crazy House (for which he wrote the screenplay). He lives in Brooklyn.

Maxe Crandall is a poet and playwright who lives in Brooklyn, NY and Berkeley, CA. Maxe is the author of the chapbooks Together Men Make Paradigms and Emoji for Cher Heart. The play Together Men Make Paradigms premiered at Dixon Place and was short-listed for the Leslie Scalapino Award. Their art and writing about art has appeared in the show Bring Your Own Body: Transgender Between Art and Archives and Transgender History in 99 Objects. A recipient of the Poetry Project’s Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship and the Poets House Emerging Poets Fellowship, Maxe teaches in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University.

KEVIN LO is a composer, choreographer, and writer recently moved to Oakland from Melbourne, Australia, whose sonic improvising work generally unfolds from preparing and re-preparing instruments as morphological substrate, using violins/the insides/outsides of a piano (depending on availability) with metallic and magnetic objects; sometimes utilizing electronics; often employing extremely close recording techniques.

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