Please join the Los Angeles poetry community and High Energy Constructs in honoring the life and work of poet, artist, and (trans)gender activist, kari edwards. kari died of heart failure at age 52 on December2, 2006. kari’s life and work was an ongoing revolution of body and language, as well as a revelation of human potential.

Friends and poets, Stan Apps, Marcus Civin, Jen Hofer, Mary Kite, Eileen Myles, Michael Smoler, Justin Veach, and others will gather to read, perform, and speak in memory and tribute to the spirit of kari edwards, on Thursday, December 21, 2006, at 7 pm. For more information regarding this gathering please call 323.227.7920.

kari’s most recent book of writing, have been blue for charity,

can be viewed and read at: http://www.blazevox.org/bk-ke.htm