Janey Smith's popular poetry parties, Live at 851, were forced to find a new home at the end of last year when the abandoned apartment in which they were held was boarded up and protected by the police. After a few stints in the basement of a Tenderloin retail shop, the series returns to the original building... in Smith's apartment. Featuring Rauan Klassnik, visiting from Washington in support of his new book The Moon's Jaw; Alana Siegel, who just published Archipelago, which, in the words of Jerome Rothenberg, "adds a new presence & intelligence to a major subset of postmodern American poetry;" Steven Seidenberg, whose just-published first book Itch is a fascinating combination of philosophy and poetry; and poet TJ Lyons. This is definitely a BYOB affair. Be prepared to mingle.
