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David Levi Strauss is a writer and critic in New York, where his essays and reviews appear regularly in Artforum, Aperture, and The Nation. He edited the literary journal Acts and published a book of poetry, Manoeuvres, in San Francisco before moving to New York in 1993. His essays have appeared in numerous collections, including Broken Wings: The Legacy of Landmines in Cambodia and Mozambique, with photographer Bobby Neel Adams.  His book of essays on art and politics, Between Dog & Wolf, was published in 1999 by Autonomedia/Semiotext(e).  His most recent book is Between The Eyes: Essays on Photography, from Aperture Press in 2003.

"David Levi Strauss, who is a poet and storyteller as well as being a renowned commentator on photography . . . looks at images very hard . . . and comes face-to-face with the unexplained. Again and again. The unexplained that he encounters has only little to do with the mystery of art, and everything to do with the mystery of countless lives . . . by the light of his intelligence and compassion, David Levi Strauss talks about what is being systematically erased, and what we need to remember for tomorrow."­  --John Berger

Jason Zuzga's poetry has been or will be published in journals such as FENCE, jubilat, VOLT, LIT, The Yale Review, Gulf Coast, Spork, and Fulcrum. He was New Media Coordinator at Alfred A. Knopf until leaving the east coast to attend the University of Arizona, where he will receive an MFA in both poetry and nonfiction this May. He was a Winter Poetry Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown in 2001-2002. He will be the James Merrill Writer-in-Residence in Stongington, Connecticut from September 2005 to August 2006, after which he will enter the English PhD program at the University of Pennsylvania to study natural history writing.

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     May 7: poets Austin Publicover & Dlyn Fairfax Parra

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