April 5th & 6th Poetry Readings at Books & Bookshelves

Two readings at Books & Bookshelves, April 5 and April 6

Readings begin around 7:30 p.m.



Amber DiPietra and Marjorie Stein

Thursday, April 5


Amber DiPietra is a poet who lives and works as a disability advocate in the Bay Area. Read about her embodied writing classes at http://www.writetoconnect.blogspot.com/. Her work has been featured in anthologies such as the best-selling Beauty is a Verb, and she recently presented a solo performance piece at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. In 2011 Kenning Editions published Waveform, a chapbook-length poem written with Denise Leto.



Marjorie Stein was born in 1958 in rural southwestern Michigan. She traveled to San Francisco during spring break in 1978 and decided to stay. Marjorie lives in Santa Rosa, California, where
she works as a sustainability analyst for green building design. She currently serves as an Assistant Editor for VOLT. Marjorie's work has appeared in The Denver Quarterly, New American Writing, VOLT, zaum, Phoebe, Poetry Motel, Pavement, Saw Press, and other publications. An Atlas of Lost Causes, published in 2011 by Kelsey Street Press, is her first book.



George Quasha and Alana Siegel

Friday, April 6



George Quasha is a poet and artist who explores a common principle in language, sculpture, drawing, video, sound, and performance. His books include Somapoetics (1973), Ainu Dreams (1999), Axial Stones: An Art of Precarious Balance (2006), An Art of Limina: Gary Hill's Works and Writings (2009, with (Charles Stein), Verbal Paradise (preverbs) (2010), and Scorned Beauty Comes Up From Behind (preverbs) (just published). Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (video art) and an NEA Fellowship (poetry), he now lives in Barrytown, New York. See http://www.quasha.com/.


Alana Siegel is a poet, photographer, printer, and performer. Archipelago, a poem in five movements, is forthcoming from Station Hill Press. The Occupations by the ge collective is available from Books & Bookshelves. 27 Lunar Mansions, a book of dreams, is soon tobe
printed. Alana lives, performs, and reads throughout the San Francisco Bay area.

Books & Bookshelves is located at 99 Sanchez at 14th Street, in the Duboce Triangle, between the Castro and the Lower Haight. Readings are free but BYOB.

Reading of works by Alden Van Buskirk

A night of poetry by Alden Van Buskirk as read by friends and admirers- including Jack Hirschman, Matt Gonzalez, Clive Matson, John Ceely, David Highsmith, and Garrett Caples.

Tuesday, December 20th, 7:30 PM
Books & Bookshelves, 99 Sanchez St @ 14th, San Francisco

Michael Gottlieb & Monica Peck

will read on

Tuesday, October 18th at 7:30 pm.

Burns & Dressen: August 30th at Moe's

Books & Bookshelves' g.e. collective has published two more books: Avery Burns' for and Tiff Dressen's for Aeolus, both edited by Valerie Witte.

The poets will read at Moe's in Berkeley on Tuesday, August 30th at 7:30pm.

Here's the announcement:

TUESDAY, August 30, 7:30
Moe's Books
A reading featuring two recent chapbooks from the ge collective

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for, by Avery Burns
"a little rib / a potato / just right / at 10 / at night"
-from for

Avery Burns lives with his family in Concord, CA. During the daylight hours, he works in the SF Financial District at a Bank, while at night he has a clear view of Venus out the bedroom window. Avery continues into his second decade of hosting occasional readings and art shows at Canessa Park Gallery in SF. He also continues to work on lyric& books and the possibility of another issue of 26 Magazine. He wrote a series of poems in homage to Robert Creeley in the early weeks of April 2005.

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for Aeolus, variations on the element, by Tiff Dressen
". . . An 'infinite rhythm' recurs in these passages from mythic to lyric-so that the poet discovers, in the codes of the breath, a primeval play of elements, 'sounds / we could wrap / ourselves around.'"-Andrew Joron, on for Aeolus

Tiff Dressen lives in Oakland, works at UC Berkeley, and peregrinates in between. Her lifelong pursuit is the synchronization of her left and right brain. She makes little books of poetry on occasion and frequently finds herself meditating on the color of Ionian sea and the Ionian sky. She is currently reading the The Hart Crane Voyages by Hunce Voelcker, an excellent copy of which she found at Moe's.

Moe's Books · www.moesbooks.com · 2476 Telegraph Ave. · Berkeley CA 94704 · (510) 849-2087

A Trafficker Press Reading with Ariel Goldberg, Erika Stiati, and Taylor Brady...!

will be reading on

Friday, June 17th at 7pm (please note the earlier start time...)

at the

Harvey Milk Center @ 50 Scott Street/Duboce Street, SF 94117

to be followed by a "promenade" to the reception & book signing at Books & Bookshelves.

This reading is delighted to be co-sponsored by Poetry Flash & 99 Books.

About Trafficker:

Founded in 2007 by Erin Morrill and Andrew Kenower, Trafficker Press is an East Bay chapbook press focused on publishing inadvertently excellent, often queer, poetry and hybrids by variant writers in editions of 150 to 200. Recent titles by Trafficker include False Intimacy by Brian Whitener, Photographer without a Camera by Ariel Goldberg, In the Stitches by Erika Staiti. Forthcoming chapbooks include writings by Taylor Brady, Lauren Shufran, Marianne Morris, David Buuck, Corina Copp, and Monica Peck among others. For more information on our books visit: http://www.traffickerpress.com/