Black Clock 7 Sizzles
The seventh issue of Black Clock is the most provocative issue of the journal yet. It features twenty-five stories, one essay and four poems about sex and the erotic by such writers as Samuel R. Delany, Janet Fitch, Aimee Bender, Lynne Tillman, Geoff Nicholson, Francesca Lia Block, Rachel Resnick, Brian Evenson, Lisa Teasley, Seth Greenland, Tara Ison, John Haskell and others. This current issue will begin heating up newsstands and bookstores in late June.
Published by the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in association with the MFA Writing Program, Black Clock features work by prominent national writers, talented regional authors and the very best emerging writers.
Black Clock 7 includes Yxta Maya Murray’s “Girl Called Casanova”, in which the world’s greatest lover takes female form and sets out to seduce Angelina Jolie; Wanda Coleman’s “Howlin’ With the Woofdog”, about a tryst between a well-known radio DJ and a reluctant virgin; Joy Nicholson’s “Manson Girl”, a tale at once sweet, funny and chilling about the sexual dynamics of a murderous cult; and Tom Carson’s “My Mother, Marie Christ, (b. Hope Springs, TN, 1951 d. Memphis, July 4, 1985)”, about a boy named Jesus growing up in Reagan’s America who has a thing for his Mom.
Novelist, critic and CalArts MFA Writing Program faculty member Steve Erickson is the Editor of Black Clock. Dwayne Moser, adjunct faculty and CalArts MFA Writing Program coordinator, and Bruce Bauman, also an adjunct member of the Writing Program faculty, serve as Senior Editors. Gail Swanlund, Graphic Design faculty at CalArts, is the magazine’s art director.
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Aimee Bender | Black Clock 7 | Brian Evenson | Bruce Bauman | Dwayne Moser | Francesca Lia Block | Gail Swanlund | Geoff Nicholson | Janet Fitch | John Haskell | Joy Nicholson | Lisa Teasley | Lynne Tillman | Rachel Resnick | Samuel R. Delany | Seth Greenland | Steve Erickson | Tara Ison | Tom Carson | Wanda Coleman | Yxta Maya Murray
Black Clock Benefit At REDCAT
Black Clock Benefit @ Redcat
Thursday, February 15 2007, 7:30 PM
Please join us on the evening of 2.15.07 at REDCAT (631 West Second Street Los Angeles 90012) in celebrating Black Clock, the Los Angeles-based literary magazine. Tickets are issued on a sliding scale: $5, $25, or more if you’re feeling generous.
Appearing at REDCAT will be:
- AIMEE BENDER, author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, An Invisible Sign Of My Own and Willful Creatures
- FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK, author of Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books
- BEN EHRENREICH, author of The Suitors
- YXTA MAYA MURRAY, author of The Conquest, The Queen Jade and the forthcoming The King’s Gold
- SUSAN STRAIGHT, author of A Million Nightingales, Highwire Moon and I Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen And Licked Out All the Pots
- LISA TEASLEY, author of Heat Signature, Dive and Glow In The Dark
- DAVID L. ULIN, author of The Myth of Solid Ground and editor of The Los Angeles Times Book Review
and
- STEVE ERICKSON, editor of Black Clock and author of Our Ecstatic Days and the forthcoming Zeroville, in conversation with MICHAEL SILVERBLATT, host of KCRW’s “Bookworm.”
This event is co-hosted by the CalArts MFA Writing Program and the School of Critical Studies. For ticket information please call REDCAT at (213) 237-2800 or visit www.redcat.org.
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Aimee Bender | Ben Ehrenreich | Benefit | David L. Ulin | Francesca Lia Block | Lisa Teasley | Michael Silverblatt | Reading | REDCAT | Steve Erickson | Susan Straight | Yxta Maya Murray
Black Clock 6 Features American Poets
The current issue of the literary journal, Black Clock, is devoted to poetry. Previous issues have included poetry in their thematic mix, but never exclusively as in Black Clock 6. This current issue is now on newsstands and in bookstores
“From the beginning, poetry has set the tone for each issue of Black Clock, which nonetheless has been slanted toward prose and fiction, said Black Clock editor, novelist, critic and CalArts MFA Writing Program faculty member Steve Erickson. “It seemed time for poetry to stop serving as prologue and afterthought and have an issue of its own.
Published by the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in association with the MFA Writing Program, Black Clock features work by prominent national writers, talented regional authors and the very best emerging writers. Black Clock 6 includes nearly 70 poets ranging from newly published poets Shana Cleveland and Maggie Lopez to such established writers as Heather McHugh and David Trinidad
The magazine’s poetry editor, Arielle Greenberg, selected the majority of the works in Black Clock 6.
“The work in the all-poetry issue is uniformly daring but in no other way uniform,” said Greenberg. “I hope people will get a big kick out of it. Steve and I each solicited a lot of poets. I was looking for work that struck me as strange, enticing, risk-taking, sometimes disturbing, but always with a heart beating inside it. I chose to begin and end the issue with work by two of my most beloved poets, Michael Burkard and Jean Valentine, who have both been mentors to me. Their book-ending the issue is a kind of personal homage.
Dwayne Moser, adjunct faculty and CalArts MFA Writing Program coordinator, and Bruce Bauman serve as Senior Editors of Black Clock. Gail Swanlund, Graphic Design faculty at CalArts, is the magazine’s art director.
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Arielle Greenberg | Black Clock 6 | Bruce Bauman | David Trinidad | Dwayne Moser | Gail Swanlund | Heather McHugh | Jean Valentine | Maggie Lopez | Michel Burkard | Shana Cleveland | Steve Erickson