A Book Party for IN THE WORKS by Doug Lang
with readings by DC poets from the book.
Our great friend and teacher Doug Lang passed away in November. We will be celebrating his work with short readings from the new Edge Book IN THE WORKS.
IN THE WORKS is available here: https://aerialedge.com/ols/products/in-the-works-doug-lang
Doug Lang was from Swansea in Wales, and lived in Washington, D.C. from 1973 until his passing in November 2022. Lang taught at the Corcoran College of Art & Design from 1976 to 2013. In the 1950s and 1960s he worked at British Home Stores department store and the Home & Colonial supermarket, both in Swansea, and at the Steel Company of Wales. He attended Coleg Harlech in North Wales, 1965-1967, where his teaching career began in an unofficial capacity as a tutor to fellow students. Lang taught writing at the American-based Aegean School of Fine Arts in Greece in 1968 and 1969 and worked in television news at the BBC in London, 1970-1973. His novel, Freaks, was published by New English Library in 1973. From 1976 to 1978 Lang ran the influential Folio Books Reading series, which brought together poets from New York, the West Coast, D.C.and elsewhere including John Ashbery, Charles Bernstein, Ted Berrigan, Tim Dlugos, Barbara Guest, Alice Notley, Ron Padgett, Susan Howe, Tom Raworth, and many others. Lang is also the author of Hot Shot (Jawbone, 1977), Magic Fire Chevrolet (Titanic, 1980), dérangé (Primary Writing, 2013), and Epistrophy (dry imager, 2020).
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.