Black Sun Lit and Black Square Editions will be at the 2023 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Seattle, WA, March 8-11, at table T1411. No Material by Losarc Raal and Material Exercises by Blanca Varela (translated by Carlos Lara) will be available for purchase ahead of their publication date, as well as a limited number of rare/recently discovered copies of Vestiges_00: Ex-Stasis, which features work by Stéphane Mallarmé, Andrei Platonov, George Szirtes, and many others.
To help launch the release of BSL’s Spring 2023 titles at AWP, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) will be giving away a copy of Material Exercises as part of their Bookfair Bingo bundle of recently published books in translation. Additionally, Losarc Raal will be signing copies of No Material at the BSL/BSE table Friday, March 10, from 2:44-4:44pm and performing at the following offsite events:
Thursday, March 9
Selector Records
2310 E Madison St, Seattle, WA 98112
w/ Ceremonial Abyss, John Duvernoy & Zan de Parry
5-7 PM
Thursday, March 9
Seattle Theosophical Library
717 Broadway E, Seattle, WA 98102
w/ Katy Bohinc and De Kai, Jen Currin, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Cara Diaconoff, Jared Daniel Fagen, Knox Gardner, Valerie Hsiung, Sarah Mangold, Emily J. Mundy, Janaka Stucky & Jenn Zahrt
7:30-9:30 PM
Friday, March 10
Drongo HQ
(DM @drongotapes for address)
w/ Ceremonial Abyss, Jessica Alexander, Jared Daniel Fagen, Vi Khi Nao, Zan de Parry, Cedar Sigo & Ryan Skrabalak
7-9 PM
Saturday, March 11
Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122
w/ Ceremonial Abyss
1-3 PM
Saturday, March 11
Gallery 1412
1412 18th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122
w/ Ceremonial Abyss, Steve Fisk/Lori Goldston, S. Glass & Forrest Friends
8 PM
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