Subtext continues its monthly series of experimental writing with readings by Lindsay Hill & Chris Putnam at Richard Hugo House on Wednesday, February 7, 2007. Donations for admission will be taken at the door on the evening of the performance. The reading starts at 7:30pm.  

Lindsay Hill was born in San Francisco in 1952.  Graduate of Bard College.  Began writing under influence of Robert Duncan, Tarn, Rexroth and Rilke.  First book Avelaval (Oyez, Berkeley 1974).  Work has appeared in numerous journals including Sulfur, Caliban and New American Writing.  Four other books including most recent Contango (Singing Horse).  Past co-editor of poetry/poetics journal Facture. Current focus on sentence-based collage writing.  Living in Portland, OR with wife, Nita, and children Ian and Helena.  Member of the Spare Room poetry collective.

C.E. Putnam maintains P.I.S.O.R. (The Putnam Institute for Space Opera Research). Some of his chapbooks include Manic Box (2001), Did you ever hear of a thing like that? (2001), Things Keep Happening (2003), and Crawlspace, a forthcoming collaboration with Daniel Comiskey. For this February reading, C.E. Putnam will read cosmic-sex/earthly-love poems. See http://www.pisor-industries.org