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Poet Michael C. Ford’s Birthday Bash

A Literary LA Event

To celebrate Michael’s 85th birthday, friends and writers from the LA literary scene will come together to read his new poetry collection, share memories, and reflect.

Join us as we celebrate Michael’s new poetry collection, In Case of Flood Stand on This Book... It's Dry English, and his 85th birthday! The reading will be hosted by Mike Sonksen.

Special guests: Adelaide Jarnot, Sasha Brenner, Louie Hillcoat, Olive Gamble, and Alexandra Nagler— all recently published in Mystic Boxing Commission’s Under the Tree anthologies.

Michael C. Ford has been publishing steadily since 1970 and is credited with over 28 volumes of print documents. He has been featured on approximately 65 spoken word tracks since 1985, including episodes from California Artists Radio Theatre productions, as well as four solo recordings. His debut vinyl, Language Commando, received a Grammy nomination in 1987, and his book of selected poems, Emergency Exits (1998), earned a Pulitzer nomination on the first ballot. His poetic narrative, VIETNAM / PEACE CASUALTIES, published online for the November 3rd Club, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2006. His first CD, Fire Escapes, was released in 1995 by New Alliance Records & Tapes. In 2010, he produced 20TH Century Goodbye, a collaboration with original music by the East Coast post-punk alternative band Psychic TV. Hen House Studios has been promoting and marketing his 2014 CD, Look Each Other in the Ears. This album, available in both vinyl and CD formats, features an impressive lineup of musicians, including surviving members of the 1960s theater rock quartet, The Doors.

Mike Sonksen, a third-generation Angeleno, is a poet, an essayist, and the author of Letters to My City. He teaches at Verbum Dei Jesuit High School.

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