{"id":1224,"date":"2014-03-08T18:26:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-03-30T12:53:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T19:53:49","slug":"joan-jobe-smith-and-fred-voss-present-at-the-lava-sunday-salon-february-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2014\/03\/08\/joan-jobe-smith-and-fred-voss-present-at-the-lava-sunday-salon-february-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Jobe Smith and Fred Voss present at the LAVA Sunday Salon, February 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
On the last Sunday of each month , LAVA welcomes interested individuals to gather in downtown Los Angeles (noon-2pm), for a loosely structured conversational Salon featuring short presentations and opportunities to meet and connect with one another.<\/p>\n
At the February 2014<\/a> Salon, Poet Fred Voss read from his Bloodaxe (UK) collections Hammers And Hearts Of The Gods<\/a><\/em> and Carnegie Hall With Tin Walls<\/a><\/em> and from Tooth And Fang And Machine Handle<\/em>, his winning chapbook from Nerve Cowboy’s<\/a> (USA) 2013 Competition. Poems mostly about his working experiences, reflections on those experiences, and his 35-year life as a machinist which will include non-machine shop philosophical poems and a couple domestic-comedy \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Frank & Jane\u00e2\u20ac\u009d poems which bear a striking resemblance to his marriage to poet Joan Jobe Smith.<\/p>\n A teenager in 1950s\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 L.A., go-go girl in swinging 60s-70s, poet, writer, teacher, mentor, founding editor of PEARL, and confidante of Charles Bukowski for nearly a decade, Joan Jobe Smith read selected poems about the movies, lands of a 1,000 dances, and her friendship with Bukowski from her 2012 literary profile Charles Bukowski: Epic Glottis: His Women & His Art (& me)<\/a><\/em>, and the 2013 Bukowski Anthology<\/a><\/em>, both published by Silver Birch Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n