Both Sides and The Center

When Does It or You Begin? Memory as Innovation

If on an Autumn’s Night a Reader
I have begun to read from and record passages from books.
The fourth is recorded with artist Rachel Tredon.

PAST EVENTS

Thursday, October 27th @ 7 PM
Community and World Literary Series
Cal State University San Marcos
San Marcos, CA
with Tisa Bryant

Thursday, September 15th @ 4:30 PM
UMaine New Writing Series
University of Maine
Soderberg Center Auditorium, Orono, ME

Tuesday, May 17th @ 7:30 PM
Belladonna* | Reading Series
Dixon Place
161 Chrystie St, New York, NY
with Danielle Dutton and Renee Gladman

Saturday, June 16th @ 7 PM
Novum #2: Estranged Visions
Avenue 50 Studio
131 N Avenue 50, Los Angeles, CA
with Will Alexander and Sean Griffin

Saturday, April 9th @ 8 PM
Obscura Day 2011
Betalevel
behind the Full House Restaurant in Chinatown
(963 N. Hill St.) Los Angeles, CA
with Colin Dickey and Amarnath Ravva

Monday, March 28th @ 4:15 PM
Creative Writing Program/English & World Literature
Pitzer College
1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA

Friday, February 25th @ 7 PM
New Works in Prose and Verse
Avenue 50 Studio
131 N Avenue 50, Los Angeles, CA
with Aaron Kunin, Anne-Marie Kinney, and Joe Milazzo

Saturday, January 8th @ 7 PM
MLA Off-Site Reading
ArtShare
801 E 4th Pl, Los Angeles, CA
with 60 other writers

Friday, November 12th @ 7 PM
Pilot Books
219 Broadway E, Seattle, WA
with Jennifer Calkins, Doug Nufer, Pam Ore, and Mathew Timmons

Sunday, November 14th @ 7:30 PM
Spare Room
The Waypost
3120 N Williams Ave, Portland, OR
with Jennifer Calkins, Doug Nufer, Pam Ore, and Mathew Timmons

July 21st-August 15th
Writer-in-Residence at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
as part of NOT CONTENT, Painted Over/Under, and Public Interest
6522 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
with Jennifer Karmin

Thursday, June 24th @ 7:30 PM
Village Books
1049 Swarthmore Ave, Pacific Palisades, CA
with India Radfar

Sunday, June 13th @ 3 PM
Big City Forum in collaboration with artist Salomon Huerta
A Social Speakeasy/Dinner Party/Reading
Van Nuys, CA
with Harold Abramowitz

Thursday, May 6th @ 7 PM
New Voices Series
Franklin Pierce University
40 University Dr, Rindge, NH
with Jennifer Karmin

Friday, May 7th @ 6 PM
Symposium Books
240 Westminster St, Providence, RI
with Jennifer Karmin and Anne Shaw

Saturday, May 8th @ 3 PM
Small Animal Project
Outpost 186
186 1/2 Hampshire St, Cambridge, MA
with Jennifer Karmin and Anne Shaw

Thursday, April 8th @ 2 PM
Dewclaw AWP Off-Site Reading
Stella’s Coffeehaus
1476 S Pearl St, Denver, CO
with Claire Becker, Blake Butler, Claire Donato,
Jac Jemc, Dorothea Lasky, Dylan Nice, Matt Salesses,
Matthew Simmons, Jen Tynes, and Mike Young

Friday, April 9th @ 7:30 PM
AWP Off-Site with Chiasmus, Les Figues, & Fairy Tale Review
The Thin Man Tavern
2015 E 17th Ave, Denver, CO
with Harold Abramowitz, Teresa Carmody,
Ashley McWaters, Alissa Nutting, Lance Olsen,
Vanessa Place, Lidia Yuknavich, and Kate Zambreno

Saturday, March 20th @ 7:30 PM
A New Cadence Poetry Series
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, CA
with Amarnath Ravva

Saturday, March 6th @ 8 PM
in conjunction with an exhibit by Kate Barclay
Amy Adler’s Echo Park Studio
1296 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
hosted by Darin Klein & Friends
with Brent Armendinger

Sunday, February 21st @ 2 PM
Collaborations Collaborations Collaborations
The Lounge at Redcat Theater
631 W 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA
hosted by Harold Abramowitz
Allison Carter & Bianca D’Amico
Amaranth Borsuk & Gabriela Jauregui & Kate Durbin
Amina Cain & Teresa Carmody
Mathew Timmons & Janine Armin
Stephanie Taylor & Vanessa Place

Sunday, December 13th @ 7 PM
Book Party Reading Series
Mandrake Bar
2692 S. La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
with Jennine Capó Crucet

Saturday, November 21st @ 7:30 PM
Beyond Baroque
An Evening With LES FIGUES and SIDEBROW Presses
681 Venice Blvd, Venice, CA
with Harold Abramowitz, Paul Hoover, and Anna Joy Springer

October 15th-17th
The &Now Conference of Innovative Writing
University at Buffalo, SUNY
Buffalo, NY
Peripatetic Landscapes
with Amarnath Ravva, josé felipe alvergue,
and Jennifer Karmin
Les Figues Press: A Sampler
with Alta Ifland, Vanessa Place, Pam Ore,
Lily Hoang, and Teresa Carmody
Reading as (Innovative) Event
with Teresa Carmody, Jennifer Karmin,
Anna Joy Springer, and Janice Lee

Sunday, October 4th @ 12 PM
West Hollywood Book Fair
[Short (Story)]: Writing Short Fictional Forms
647 N. San Vicente Blvd, West Hollywood, CA
moderated by Teresa Carmody
with Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Janet Sarbanes,
and Jennine Capó Crucet

Friday, September 25th @ 7:30 PM
Small Press Traffic
On the Inverted I
1111 8th St/California College of the Arts
San Francisco, CA
with Anne Tardos

Sunday, August 23rd @ 4:30 PM
Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Rd, Glendale, CA
with Amarnath Ravva

Tuesday, July 28th @ 7 PM
Marshall Auricular Hour
The French Broad Institute of Time and the River
68 N. Main St, Marshall, NC
with Steve Davidowski, Jennifer Karmin, and Kristin Prevallet

Saturday, March 7th @ 7 PM
Agitprop Reading Series
Agitprop Gallery
2837 University Ave, San Diego, CA
with Saehee Cho

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Dear Navigator
Dewclaw
Joyland
La Petite Zine
Little Red Leaves
MINIMALBOOKS
onedit
Sidebrow
summer stock

Sometimes I post at Gentle Nights and on the Les Figues Press blog.

Photo by Elizabeth Hall

Unraveling Readings: Eric Baus on writers reading the work of other writers in Jacket2.

Both Sides and The Center reviewed by Andrea Quaid in Jacket2.

Photos of Both Sides and The Center by Harold Abramowitz.

The first online issue of summer stock: a lit journal for animals is out and I have a piece within it.

I wrote poems with Cynthia Gray for Writing Machine.

Crosswalks and intersections: Eric Baus on Jacket2: Selected Readings on PennSound.

A French translation by Nathanaël of my story “Black Wings” is now out in the current issue of Jet d’encre.

I have a new chaplet out from Belladonna*.

My story “The Maid” (originally published in Joyland) was recently selected by Lily Hoang for Wigleaf as one of the Top 50 [very] short fictions of 2011.

Mini blog post on her circle ezine.

At Frances Farmer Is My Sister, Kate Zambreno writes about “I Go To Some Hollow, trauma, romance novels, and macrobiotics.”

Commonplace Book.

On her blog Supernumerary, Roz Ito writes about Hollow here and here.

Writer Evelyn Hampton wrote a response to Hollow in the new edition of MINIMALBOOKS.

An interview with me and Claire Donato on Lisp Service.

Photo by Harold Abramowitz

Amina Cain is the author of I Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues Press, 2009), a collection of stories that revolves quietly around human relationality, landscape, and emptiness, and an upcoming chapbook called Tramps Everywhere (Insert Press/PARROT Series). She is also a curator (most recently for Both Sides and The Center at the MAK Center/Schindler House) and a teacher of writing/literature. A recording of her story “Attached to a Self” was included in the group show A Diamond in the Mud at Literaturhaus Basel in Switzerland in 2008, and in summer 2010 her work was featured at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) as part of NOT CONTENT, a series of text projects curated by Les Figues. Writing has appeared in publications such as 3rd bed, Action Yes, Dear Navigator, Denver Quarterly, Dewclaw, emohippus, Joyland, La Petite Zine, Little Red Leaves, MoonLit, onedit, Sidebrow, summer stock, The Encyclopedia Project (F-K), and Wreckage of Reason: Xxperimental Prose by Women Writers, as a chaplet through Belladonna*, and is forthcoming in [out of nothing]. Several of her stories have been translated into Polish on MINIMALBOOKS, and a French translation of “Black Wings” is just out in Jet d’encre. Her second book, a new collection of short stories, will come out with Dorothy, a publishing project, in fall 2013. She lives in Los Angeles.