when –July 6, 2010 @ 6:30pm
where Annenberg Community Beach House, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, CA, tel (310) 458 2257

Admission is free. Reservations are recommended.

Red Hen Press takes reading on the beach to a new level of awesome. Their upcoming event at the historic oceanside Annenberg Community Beach House will feature readings by Charles Harper Webb, winner of the 2005 Benjamin Saltman Award, Ron Koertge, poet and novelist featured in Best American Poetry, and Nickole Brown, an Oxford University English Literature scholar and poet.

Charles Harper Webb was a rock guitarist for fifteen years and is now a licensed psychotherapist and professor at Cal State University, Long Beach. He has written five books of poetry, including Liver, which won the 1999 Felix Pollak Prize, and Reading the Water, which won the S.F. Morse Poetry Prize and Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His manuscript, Amplified Dog, is winner of the 2005 Benjamin Saltman Award, and is published by Red Hen Press.

Ron Koertge received his BA from the University of Illinois and his MA from the University of Arizona. He taught English at Pasadena City College from 1965 to 2001. Koertge is the author of many books of poetry including Fever, Sex Object, 12 Photographs of Yellowstone, The Hired Nose, The Father Poems, The Jockey Poems, Men Under Fire, Diary Cows, Life on the Edge of the Continent, High School Dirty Poems, Making Love to Roget’s Wife, and Geography of the Forehead. He is also the recipient of an NEA fellowship in Literature (Poetry) and a California Arts Council grant (Poetry). Koertge’s work has been included in Best American Poetry (1999). His latest work, Indigo was published by Red Hen Press in 2009.

Nickole Brown‘s books include her debut, Sister, a novel-in-poems published by Red Hen Press, and the anthology, Air Fare, that she co-edited with Judith Taylor. She graduated from The Vermont College of Fine Arts and was the editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and the Kentucky Arts Council. She worked at the independent, literary press, Sarabande Books, for ten years. Currently, she is the Editor for the Marie Alexander Series in Prose Poetry at White Pine Press and works as the National Publicity Consultant for Arktoi Books. She lives in Louisville, KY, where she is Lecturer at the University of Louisville and Bellarmine University and teaches at the low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Murray State.