Heather Fuller’s fourth book is Dick Cheney’s Heart, from Edge Books. She recently she had the honor of writing the intro to Buck Downs’ selected poems, Unintended Empire, and contributed to the #MeToo Poetry Collective. She divides time between the North Carolina coast and Baltimore, where she works as a cardiac RN and sidelines in animal advocacy, one pit bull at a time.
Suzanne Stein’s poetry publications and performance documents include The Kim Game, TOUT VA BIEN, and Passenger Ship; her book-length poem New Sutras is forthcoming this summer. With the poet Steve Benson, she is the author of DO YOUR OWN DAMN LAUNDRY, which collects the 36 improvisational dialogues they performed together between 2011 and 2012. She was the founding editor, and for eight years editor in chief, of Open Space, SFMOMA'S interdisciplinary publishing platform. Suzanne lives in and is of California.
Mark Wallace is the author and editor of more than fifteen books and chapbooks of poetry, fiction, and essays. Most recently he has published a novel, Crab, and a book-length prose poem, Notes from the Center on Public Policy. Selections of his multi-part long poem The End of America, which he has been writing since 2005, have appeared in several chapbooks and in a number of journals. He lives in San Diego, California.
Location:
Bridge Street Books is located 5 blocks from Foggy Bottom Metro, next to Four Seasons in Georgetown at the end of M street
open Monday - Saturday: 11:00am - 9pm
Sunday: 12pm - 6pm
(202) 965-5200
In business for over twenty years, Bridge Street is one of a rare breed these days--a successful independent bookseller. It has what is certainly the best poetry section in Washington, well-stocked in alternative poetry and poetics as well as mainstream. Bridge Street also has extremely good selections in Philosophy, Politics, Cultural Theory, Women's Studies, Film, Music, and other areas. They also have a plethora of quality sale books.
Manager (& well-known poet!) Rod Smith has been organizing readings in the Washington Area since 1988 and has brought Rae Armantrout, Charles Bernstein, Lee Ann Brown, John Cage, Kevin Davies, Lyn Hejinian, Lisa Jarnot, Alice Notley, Tom Raworth, Lisa Robertson, Leslie Scalapino, Chris Stroffolino and many other important writers to DC.