Conditional Love w/ Bernes, Boldt, + Gentil

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

JASPER BERNES is author of two books of poetry, Starsdown (2007) and We Are Nothing and So Can You (2015). He has recently completed a scholarly book, The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization (Stanford University Press, forthcoming), about the role poetry plays in the postindustrial restructuring of labor. Poems, essays, and other writings can be found in Modern Language Quarterly, Radical Philosophy, Endnotes, Lana Turner, The American Reader, Critical Inquiry, and elsewhere. Together with Juliana Spahr and Joshua Clover, he edits CommuneEditions. He lives in Berkeley with his family.

LINDSEY BOLDT is a poet, performer, editor and energy healer who lives in Oakland, CA. She is the author of Overboard (2012) and the chapbooks, Titties for Lindsey (2013), Overboard: Rampage (2011), Oh My, Hell Yes (2009) and a new chapbook from Couch Press with an unpronounceable title (right now, y’all). With Steve Orth, she co-writes and performs plays, commentary and songs including a recently recorded audio commentary for the 1993 movie “The Pelican Brief” (forthcoming from Troll Thread). She works as the managing editor of Nightboat Books, studies plant medicine and shoots healing energy out of the palms of her hands for money and for free.

FANCIULLA GENTILE Fanciulla is a multi-disciplinary artist born in San Francisco and raised in Bolivia. She’s collaborated with many Bay Area artists on music, live performance, and film. Her recent project, The Creatrix, is a solo dark ambient sonic exploration based on a series of stories she’s been writing since January 1st 2016. The narrative traces the movements of an Alien-oracle as it travels throughout the universe to birth and to kill her descendant species. Fanciulla’s writing contains elements of science fiction, eco-horror, and erotica. She lives in the Mission district and has many jobs.

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