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Frances Richard’s book of poems, See Through, was published by Four Way Books in 2003; two chapbooks—Anarch., from Woodland Editions, and Shaved Code, from Portable Press at YoYo Labs—were published in 2008. She has been a member of the editorial teams at Cabinet Magazine and the literary journal Fence, and writes frequently about contemporary art. In 2005, with Jeffrey Kastner and Sina Najafi, she organized an exhibition and accompanying monograph titled Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Fake Estates.” She teaches at Barnard College and the Rhode Island School of Design, and lives in Brooklyn.

“I am transported by Frances Richard's poems, their permanent liquidity, their 'breathing surface.' Throughout the cycle that makes up the book, a narrative trace of a mother's suicide weaves the watery texture of experience…Fragments of memory move through the details of objects to haunt language. Then the haunting is our carriage, taking us beyond narrative even as it shatters. See Through is an exquisite achievement.” – Claudia Rankine

Genine Lentine’s chapbook Mr. Worthington's Beautiful Experiments on Splashes is just out from Diagram/New Michigan Press. Her poems, essays, and interviews have appeared in American Poetry Review, American Speech, Diagram, Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, O, the Oprah Magazine, and Tricycle. The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden, her collaboration with Stanley Kunitz and photographer, Marnie Crawford Samuelson was published by W.W. Norton in 2005. Ongoing projects include Listening Booth, Spacewalks and The Heinous Task Table, all of which took shape in a 2009 Project Space residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts. She is the Artist-in-Residence at the San Francisco Zen Center for 2009-10.

"These clear, refreshing acts of attention seem to wake us to another way of seeing, and to the problems and pleasures of saying what we see. Have we taken the act of speech for granted all along? In her short, formally inventive pieces--and especially in her dazzling long poem about language's power and limits that anchors this collection--Lentine sounds like no one else. Her wry, astonished, aching voice is a fresh presence in American poetry." --Mark Doty

Nothing Is Hidden is a monthly series of readings and artist talks at SF Zen Center. For 2010, the series will be dedicated to celebrating the 40th anniversary of Shunryu Suzuki’s classic book Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind and will feature contemporary writers and artists whose work, while not necessarily engaging the book overtly, embodies the robust compassion and engaged curiosity at its heart.

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