VOTM: What’s the most unusual experience you’ve ever had at a reading?
DURBIN: Several years back I was asked to read/perform for the Les Figues Press garden party. I was feeling inspired by Hannah Weiner at the time. Instead of reading from my own work, I decided to create elaborate, conceptual hats based off of books by Les Figues Press series. The writers wore the hats and walked down the garden path while I read from their works.
Kate Durbin is a Los Angeles-based writer, cultural worker, and transmedia artist. She is author of The Ravenous Audience (Akashic Books, 2009), and co-author of Abra, forthcoming in iOS and artist book editions, with the help of a grant from Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago. She has also written five chapbooks. She is founding editor of Gaga Stigmata, and her tumblr project, Women as Objects, archives the teen girl tumblr aesthetic. Her projects have been anthologized and featured by Poets and Writers, Salon.com, Huffington Post, The New Yorker, Spex, NPR, Hyperallergic, poets.org, and many others. She is the winner of an &Now Innovative Writing Award.
Come see Kate Durbin at 826LA Echo Park on Friday, April 5.