Jessica Hutchins and Anthony McCann - Reading, pie eating, and musical interlude
Saturday April 8th 8:00pm
Machine Project
1200 D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026
213 483 8761

On Saturday April 8th at 8pm, Machine will be hosting a reading by Machine Poet Laureate Anthony McCann and the ineffable Jessica Hutchins. The reading will be preceded by a musical performance featuring the New Jersey folk trio Subtle Souvenir, accompanied by pie and ice cream, and followed by casual socializing until the beer runs out. Please bring your own beer. Pie $3.95

Jessica Z. Hutchins sculptures and stories express insights into the dark humor of American masculinity, naturophilia and the paranoiac. Fans of Machine Project will recall Dark Pastoral, her leather body builder torso mechanical bull, which brought us great amusement and remarkabley few injuries. Hutchins celebrates her reunion with poet Anthony McCann with a reading of her recent work, Skidmarks & Tears, another abject and vaguely autobiographical tale from the highway rest area north of Los Angeles where she resides. Readers have deemed the story “mentally, emotionally and physically unhealthy”.

Anthony McCann will be in town to do his last reading at Machine as an out-of town-guest. In the fall he will be moving to LA and will then be able to drop by your work to read his poems to your boss and co-workers, to slip them under the door of your apartment or read them to your family from your front stoop through a megaphone. That said, the reading at Machine will use the traditional poem delivery method. His new book Moongarden just came out from Wave Books at the beginning of the month. Maureen McLane said the following about his first book in the Chicago Tribune: "Anthony McCann's Father of Noise, his first book, is terrific: an intelligent, surreal, original bulletin from contemporary America, its landscape, its violent history, its wild humor, its experience of and secret longing for disaster."

Read Anthony McCann's poetry here

You will enjoy this reading. We can't force you to come, but we can force you to look at this picture.