PUNK HOSTAGE PRESS, IRIS BERRY & A. RAZOR are curating up some real beast mode this year for Beast Crawl 2015...
Co-Curators: Iris Berry & A. Razor
Event Readers
TEKA-LARK FLEMING
Teka-Lark Fleming is the BlkGrrrl Show host & producer, a KPFK Feminist Magazine producer, a KChung DJ, BlkGrrrl Book Fair founder, LA Weekly contributor, freelance journalist and poet. Her book of dialog poetry entitled QUEEN OF INGLEWOOD is in the works on Punk Hostage Press.
DENNIS CRUZ
Dennis Cruz is a Los Angeles native who has been writing prose, poetry and fiction for over 20 years. His most recent collection of poetry MOTH WING TEA, was published by Punk Hostage Press. His next collection, THE BEAST IS WE, will also be available on Punk Hostage Press this Fall.
ANNETTE CRUZ
Annette's work unflinchingly peels back the skin of being and exposes all that festers there with an effect that is both visceral and raw, but ultimately, kind. Her first Punk Hostage Press release, DANGEROUS INTERSECTIONS is coming out later this year.
RICH FERGUSON
Pushcart-nominated poet Rich Ferguson has shared the stage with Patti Smith, Wanda Coleman, Ozomatli, and other esteemed poets and musicians. He is also a featured performer in the film, What About Me? (sequel to the double Grammy-nominated 1 Giant Leap). He has been widely anthologized, and was a winner in Opium Magazine’s Literary Death Match, LA. His poetry collection 8th & AGONY is out on Punk Hostage Press. EVERYTHING IS RADIANT BETWEEN THE HATES will be available later in 2015 from Punk Hostage Press as well.
CLS FERGUSON
Crystal Lane Swift “CLS” Ferguson, PhD, speaks, signs, acts, publishes, sings, performs, writes, paints, teaches and rarely relaxes. She and her husband, Rich Ferguson, are raising their Bernese Mountain Boarder Collie Mutt, Sadie, in Hollywood, CA.
ALICIA YOUNG
Alicia Young is a poet, brazen hussy, former undertaker, spitting contest champion, and the baddest woman on the planet with a set of nun-chucks while any Southern rock is playing.