Books & Bookshelves

Reading of works by Alden Van Buskirk

2011-12-18T16:45:00.000-08:00

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

2011-10-16T19:43:00.000-07:00

will read on

Tuesday, October 18th at 7:30 pm.

Burns & Dressen: August 30th at Moe's

2011-08-20T13:39:00.000-07:00

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...!

2011-05-16T17:22:00.000-07:00

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/

Ken Irby & Susan Thackrey

2010-10-25T12:24:00.000-07:00

will be reading on

Saturday, November 6th at 7:30pm

at

Canessa Park Gallery

708 Montgomery St. / Washington St.
SF CA 94111

Refreshments will be provided. Doors open at 7pm.
Admission: $5. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Co-sponsored by The 99 Books Reading Series & Canessa Park.

Omnidawn: 4 Readers

2010-10-16T12:15:00.000-07:00

Anna Rabinowitz
Norma Cole
Craig Santos Perez
Paul Legault

will read on

on Wednesday, October 20th at 7:30 pm.

Susanne Dyckman, Debrah Morkun, Michelle Puckett and Kim Gek Lin Short

2010-09-16T13:24:00.000-07:00

will read on

September 30th at 7:30 pm.

Dunstan Christopher, Owen Hill, Genine Lentine & James Maughn

2010-08-07T18:58:00.000-07:00

will read on

Wednesday, August 18th at 7:30 pm.

BOOK RELEASE PARTY & READING

Please join us for the first of our chapbook release parties featuring authors from a new series. These little books are co-published by Poetry Flash & g.e. collective, based at Books & Bookshelves in San Francisco.

The following poets will read from their chapbooks, which will be available for sale at the reading:

Genine Lentine/Poses

James Maughn/World Book: From A to Bee

Dunstan Christopher/Motives

Owen Hill/Songs

Duncan McNaughton & Larry Kearney

2010-07-13T16:25:00.000-07:00

will read on

July 14th at 7:30 pm.

Joseph Hall & Rauan Klassnik

2010-07-06T09:57:00.000-07:00

will read on

Tuesday, July 6th at 7:30 pm.

What about Auden?

2010-07-06T09:53:00.000-07:00

Tuesday, June 29th beginning at 7:30 pm

there will be

an evening of work by W.H. Auden with various readers hosted by Bill Berkson.

Steven Felicelli, Christy Fremon & Anita Mohan

2010-06-23T12:18:00.000-07:00

will be reading on

Tuesday, June 22nd at 7:30 pm.

Britta Austin, Marisa Crawford, Michael McCarrin & Sarah Fran Wisby

2010-06-07T13:22:00.000-07:00

of Small Desk Press

will be reading on

Wednesday, June 9th at 7:30 pm.

Marisa Crawford is the author of The Haunted House from Switchback Books. She grew up in New York and in Connecticut, and graduated from the University of Massachusetts, where she studied Creative Writing and Women’s Studies. She received her MFA from San Francisco State University and lives in San Francisco where she works as a retail copywriter and sometimes teaches high school students about poetry & feminism. Some of her poems have appeared in Action, Yes, Shampoo, and Invisible Ear.

Sarah Fran Wisby is the author of Viva Loss, a book of fables and speculations published by Small Desk Press. she has recent work in Eleven Eleven journal and Transfer magazine, and was just awarded a writing residency at the Art Farm in Nebraska, where she will head in September.

Michael McCarrin manages the website for Small Desk Press, and works days at Pottery Barn, where he converts the paragraphs that describe the products in their catalog into the bulleted lists that describe those products on their website. His writings are available for free online at www.potterybarn.com.

Britta Austin grew up on a retired farm in the Pacific Northwest, where she studied the fine arts of tree fort building, river wading, and chicken herding. She now lives in San Francisco where she tends to her small family of old manual typewriters and bikes about town admiring street trees and dreaming of the forest. Her first book, Artifacts, was released from Watchword Press in January 2010.

Denise Newman, John Sakkis & Angelos Sakkis

2010-05-18T14:24:00.000-07:00

will read on

Wednesday, May 26th at 7:30 pm

in celebration of the release of The Post-Apollo Press' first two
books of 2010: /Maribor/ by Demosthenes Agrafiotis, translated by John
Sakkis and Angelos Sakkis and /The New Make Believe/ by Denise Newman.

C.J. Sage & J.P. Dancing Bear

2010-05-18T14:22:00.000-07:00

will read on

Thursday, May 13th at 7:30 pm.

a group reading of John Ashbery's /Europe/ moderated by Bill Berkson

2010-05-07T15:10:00.000-07:00

will happen on

Tuesday, May 11th, at 7:30 pm.

Beverly Dahlen, George Albon & Stephen Vincent

2010-05-04T15:27:00.000-07:00

will be reading on

Tuesday, May 4th at 7:30 pm.

Abraham Burickson & Michael McGriff

2010-04-27T14:47:00.001-07:00

will be reading on

Tuesday, April 27th at 7:30 pm.

Abraham Burickson is a poet, essayist, and conceptual artist. His work has appeared widely, in such publications as Blackbird, The Painted Bride Quarterly, Time Out Chicago, The New Orleans Review, and the Best New Poets 2008 Anthology. He is the director of the performance group Odyssey Works and the author of a chapbook of poems, Charlie, published by Codhill Press. He currently teaches writing at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA.

Michael McGriff is the author of Dismantling the Hills (Pitt Poetry Series, 2008), To Build My Shadow a Fire: The Poetry and Translations of David Wevill (Truman State University Press, 2010), and a forthcoming volume of poetry, The Sequence of the Night (Copper Canyon Press). He is also the translator, with Mikaela Grassl, of Tomas Transtromer's The Sorrow Gondola, due out this May from Green Integer Books. He lives in San Francisco and co-edits Tavern Books.

Cecil Giscombe & Kit Robinson

2010-04-20T09:35:00.001-07:00

will be reading on

Wednesday, April 21st at 7:30 pm.

C. S. Giscombe lives in Berkeley and teaches at the University of California. His recent poetry books are Prairie Style and Giscome Road; his book of linked essays-about Canada-is Into and Out of Dislocation. Giscombe is the 2010 recipient of the Stephen Henderson Award, given by the African American Literature and Culture Society. He is a long-distance cyclist.

Kit Robinson is the author of The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems, 1976-2003 (Adventures in Poetry, 2009), Train I Ride (BookThug, 2009), The Crave (Atelos, 2002) and 16 other books of poetry. A co-author of The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, San Francisco, 1975-1980 (Mode A, 2006-2010), Robinson lives in Berkeley, works as a freelance writer and plays Cuban tres guitar in the Latin dance band Conjunto Arsenio.

Jon Cotner & Andy Fitch

2010-04-14T13:48:00.001-07:00

will be reading on

Monday, April 19th, at 7:30 pm.

TEN WALKS/TWO TALKS updates the meandering and meditative form of Basho's travel diaries. Mapping 21st-century New York, Cotner and Fitch tap their predecessor's collaborative tendencies in order to construct a descriptive/dialogic fugue. The book combines a series of sixty-minute, sixty-sentence walks around Manhattanand a pair of dialogues about walking--one of which takes place during a late-night "philosophical" ramble through Central Park.

Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch have performed their dialogic improvisations at festivals and conferences across the United States, as well as in Toronto and Berlin. In 2007, Kenneth Goldsmith included an early excerpt from their now-completed book Conversations over Stolen Food in UbuWeb's "Publishing the Unpublishable" Series. In 2008, Craig Dworkin published Andy's Sixty Morning Walks on Editions Eclipse. More recently, Jon and Andy co-edited Interdisciplinary Transcriptions--a 1036-page digital anthology containing poets, critics, anthropologists, and visual artists. Other publications include Animal Shelter (Semiotext(e)), Colorado Review, DENVER QUARTERLY, Electric Literature, Lit, n+1, and PaperMonument. Jon lives in New York City, where he is finishing his Ph.D. for SUNY Buffalo's Poetics Program. Andy is an assistant professor in the University of Wyoming's MFA Program.

Chris Martin presents Puppyflowers contributors Patrick James Dunagan, Micah Ballard, Cedar Sigo, Christina Fisher, Chris Martin & Jason Morris.

2010-03-16T16:47:00.000-07:00

on

Saturday, March 27 at 7:30 pm.

On this fateful night, Puppy Flowers, an online magazine of the arts, which braved eleven issues and nearly a decade, will finally retire into permanent archive. As it was conceived in and then cut its teeth against the Bay Area, this should be a fitting flowery finale. Come here the likes of PF contributors Patrick James Dunagan, Micah Ballard, Cedar Sigo, Christina Fisher, Chris Martin and Jason Morris! Editor Chris Martin will also be reading the work of PF muse Noel Black and the late, dearly missed kari edwards.

David Kirschenbaum presents some West Coast Boog City affiliates: Albert Flynn DeSilver, Travis Ortiz, Jill Stengel & Eileen Tabios

2010-03-16T16:39:00.000-07:00

on

Wednesday, March 17th at 7:30 pm.

Boog City presents

d.a. levy lives:
celebrating editors from
Northern California renegade presses


this Wed. March 17, 7:30 p.m. sharp, free

Books and Bookshelves
99 Sanchez St.
San Francisco


featuring readings from

Albert Flynn DeSilver
editor The Owl Press (Woodacre, Calif.)

Travis Ortiz
co-editor Atelos Publishing Project (Berkeley, Calif.)

Jill Stengel
editor a+bend press (Davis, Calif.)

Eileen R. Tabios
editor Meritage Press (San Francisco/St. Helena, Calif.)

and from New York City

David Kirschenbaum
editor, Boog City

Alan Kaufman presents "The Independents" Klipschutz, Jim Storm, John Lane & William Taylor

2010-03-16T15:21:00.000-07:00

on

Tuesday, March 16th at 7:30 pm.

Dawn-Michelle Baude & Alan Bernheimer

2010-02-18T09:34:00.000-08:00

will be reading on

Wednesday, February 24th at 7:30 pm.

Dawn-Michelle Baude’s books include Finally: A Calendar from Mindmade (formerly Seeing Eye Books, 2009) and The Flying House from Parler Press (2008). A former Bay Area resident, she made her home for 16 years in Europe and the Middle East, returning to the US in 2007. She is currently writer-in-residence at The Storm King School in the Hudson Valley, New York.

Alan Bernheimer’s most recent book The Spoonlight Institute, was published last fall by Adventures in Poetry. Earlier books include Billionesque and Café Isotope, both from the Figures, as well as Cloud Light, collaborations with Kit Robinson, from Sound & Language. A New York transplant, Bernheimer has lived in the Bay Area since 1976. His day job is doing PR for the sun.

Barbara Claire Freeman & Brenda Hillman

2010-02-09T11:06:00.000-08:00

will be reading on

Tuesday, February 16th at 7:30 pm

Brenda Hillman has published eight collections of poetry: White Dress (1985), Fortress (1989), Death Tractates (1992), Bright Existence (1993), Loose Sugar (1997), Cascadia (2001), Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005), and Practical Water (2009), all from Wesleyan University Press, and three chapbooks: Coffee, 3 A.M. (Penumbra Press, 1982); Autumn Sojourn (Em Press, 1995); and The Firecage (a+bend press, 2000). She has edited an edition of Emily Dickinson's poetry for Shambhala Publications, and, with Patricia Dienstfrey, co-edited The Grand Permisson: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (2003). Among the awards Hillman has received are the 2005 William Carlos Williams Prize for poetry and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Hillman is the Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California, where she teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programs. She is also a member of the permanent faculties of Napa Valley Writers' Conference and of Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Hillman is also involved in non-violent activism as a member of the Code Pink Working Group in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is married to poet Robert Hass.

Barbara Claire Freeman is a literary critic and professor of literature who has recently turned her full attention to writing poetry. She is the author of The Feminine Sublime: Gender and Excess in Women's Fiction (University of California Press, 1998, pbk. 2000), among many other works of criticism and theory. Formerly an Associate Professor of English at Harvard, she teaches creative writing for the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her poems have appeared in A Public Space, Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, Modern Review, New American Writing, Sycamore Review and Parthenon West Review. She is a recipient of the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Award, the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize (Sarah Lawrence College, 2007) and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Incivilities, her first book of poems has just been published Counterpath Press (November, 2009). A chapbook, St. Ursula's Silence, is forthcoming from Instance Press.

Kelsey Street Press Reading & Party

2010-01-08T11:10:00.000-08:00

on Thursday, January 28th at 7:30 pm

Kelsey Street Press will have an anniversary extravaganza reading & party!

In addition to snacks and bargain KSP books, the following KSP friends will each read from new or previous works for a few minutes:

Dale Going

Laurie Reid

Laura Moriarty

Elizabeth Robinson

Thaisa Frank

Jocelyn Saldenberg

Norma Cole

Nellie Wong

Rena Rosenwasser

Hazel White

Pat Dienstfrey

Tiff Dressen

Ramsay Breslin

Amber DiPietra

Valerie Witte

Michelle Puckett

Lauren Levin

We look forward to meeting new friends while reconnecting and recollecting!

Brent Armendinger & Genine Lentine

2010-01-01T22:15:00.000-08:00

will be reading on

Tuesday, January 4th at 7:30 pm

Genine Lentine is the author of Mr. Worthington's Beautiful Experiments on Splashes from Diagram/New Michigan Press. Her poems, essays, and interviews have appeared in American Poetry Review, American Speech, Diagram, Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, O, the Oprah Magazine, and Tricycle. The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden, her collaboration with Stanley Kunitz and photographer, Marnie Crawford Samuelson was published by W.W. Norton in 2005. Ongoing projects include Listening Booth, Spacewalks and The Heinous Task Table, all of which took shape in a 2009 Project Space residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts. She is the Artist-in-Residence at the San Francisco Zen Center for 2009-10.

Brent Armendinger was born in Warsaw, New York, and educated at Bard College, the University of Michigan, and the city of San Francisco. He is the author of two chapbooks, Undetectable (Diagram/New Michigan Press) and Archipelago (Noemi Press). He teaches creative writing at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. He is the founder of the Poem-Booth Project; for more information, call 1-877-EAT-POEM from the nearest pay phone.

Geoff Bouvier & Janet Holmes

2009-11-23T15:33:00.000-08:00

will be reading on

Tuesday, December 8th at 7:30 pm

Janet Holmes is the author of five books, most recently THE MS OF MY KIN (Shearsman) and F2F (U Notre Dame). She is a professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Boise State University, where she edits Ahsahta Press.

Geoff Bouvier's first book, Living Room, won the 2005 APR/Honickman Prize. His second book, Glass Harmonica, is scheduled to appear in 2011 from Quale Press. He is currently the visiting poet at the University of California-Berkeley.

Laura Moriarty & Standard Schaefer

2009-10-27T12:37:00.000-07:00

will be reading on

Tuesday, November 3rd at 7:30 pm

Laura Moriarty and Standard Schaefer will read from a collaborative work-in-progress, The Jejune Project, a poetic and narrative investigation of the Jejune Institute.

Schaefer's Water and Power appeared in 2005. His Desert Notebook just came out but was destroyed by rain during shipping and so is again forthcoming. He teaches at California College of the Arts and is about to move to Portland, OR.

Moriarty's most recent book is A Semblance: Selected and New Poetry 1974-2007. Her A Tonalist is due in the spring. She is the Deputy Director of Small Press Distribution.

Barry Gifford & Jim Nisbet

2009-10-15T09:17:00.000-07:00

will be reading

Tuesday, October 20th at 7:30 pm.

Jim Nisbet has published nine novels, the most recent of which, The Octopus On My Head, was released in July, 2007, and by Editons Payot et Rivages (Paris) under the title Comment j'ai trouvé un boulot in November, 2008. Titles have been published in French, along with a miscellany of additional translations into German, Japanese, Italian, Polish, Hungarian, Greek and, forthcoming, Russian and Romanian. In April, 2010, Overlook Press (New York) will publish a new Jim Nisbet novel, Windward Passage, simultaneously with a new edition of the acclaimed Lethal Injection, out of print since 1989. This rollout will be followed by Jim's entire backlist, a total of eight additional titles, including the first American publication of Ulysses' Dog. The Rivages/Thriller edition of Windward Passage [Passage au vent perhaps?] will follow. PM Press will issue a novella, A Moment of Doubt, in the fall of 2010. Nisbet has also published five volumes of poetry: Poems for a Lady, Morpho (with Alastair Johnston), Gnachos for Bishop Berkeley, Small Apt (with photographs by Shelly Vogel), and Across the Tasman Sea. Two "audio narratives" -- stories told via sound effects -- have been issued under the title The Visitor. (You can listen to both if you step into the ARCHIVES.) And innumerable individual poems, essays, stories and excerpts have appeared in nearly as many newspapers, magazines and anthologies. Nisbet has twice won the Pangolin Papers Annual Fiction Award, and thrice been nominated by that magazine for a Pushcart Prize in short fiction. His novel, Dark Companion, was shorted-listed (with four other nominees) for the 2006 Hammett Prize. For more information please visit: http://www.noirconeville.com

Barry Gifford's novels have been translated into twenty-eight languages. His book Night People was awarded the Premio Brancati in Italy, and he has been the recipient of awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Library Association, the Writers Guild of America, and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. David Lynch's film Wild at Heart, which was based on Gifford's novel, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990, and his novel Perdita Durango was made into a feature film by Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia in 1997. Barry Gifford co-wrote with director David Lynch the film Lost Highway(1997); he also co-wrote with director Matt Dillon the film City of Ghosts(2003), as well as the libretto for Ichiro Nodaira's opera, Madrugada(2005). Mr. Gifford's books include The Phantom Father, named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Wyoming, named a Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year, and which has been adapted for the stage and film; The Sinaloa Story; The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room: A Barry Gifford Reader; Do the Blind Dream?; and The Stars Above Veracruz. His most recent books are The Cavalry Charges (essays), and Memories from a Sinking Ship (fiction). Mr. Gifford's writings have appeared in Punch, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Sport, the New York Times, El Pais, El Universal, La Repubblica, Brick, Projections, La Nouvelle Revue Française and many other publications. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information please visit http://www.BarryGifford.com

Lee Ann Brown, Robert Glück, Kevin Killian, Scott MacLeod and Camille Roy

2009-10-07T17:50:00.000-07:00

will be reading on

Sunday, October 11th at 6 pm

to celebrate The Book of Practical Pussies.

Drawings by Michelle Rollman with texts by D-L Alvarez, Dodie Bellamy, Lee Ann Brown, Bob Glück, Kevin Killian, Scott MacLeod, Yedda Morrison, Camille Roy and Jocelyn Saidenberg.

Editor & publisher of Tender Buttons press, Lee Ann Brown loves her 16-year-old cat, Bim. Author of Polyverse, and The Sleep That Changed Everything, The 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time and SOP DOLL! A Jack Tale Noh which features a chorus of black cats. Lives in NYC & NC.

Robert Glück is the author of nine books of poetry and fiction, including two novels, Margery Kempe and Jack the Modernist and a book of stories, Last year he and artist Dean Smith completed the film Aliengnosis. Glück teaches at San Francisco State University.

Kevin Killian is a San Francisco poet and the author of ACTION KYLIE. His new book comes out in November from City Lights, a book of stories called IMPOSSIBLE PRINCESS.

Artist and writer Scott MacLeod has been based in the Bay Area since 1976 and currently lives in Oakland. He has exhibited and published widely yet randomly in the USA and Europe.

Camille Roy is a writer and performer of fiction, poetry, and plays. One of the editors of Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative (CoachHouse 2005), her earlier books include CHEAP SPEECH, a play, from Leroy, and CRAQUER, a fictional autobiography from 2nd Story Books , as well as SWARM (two novellas, Black Star Series), among others.

erica lewis with Mark Stephen Finein & Cassandra Smith

2009-09-25T17:17:00.000-07:00

will be reading on

Tuesday, September 29th at 7:30.

erica lewis is a fine arts publicist in san francisco where she curates the canessa gallery reading series. her work has appeared or is forthcoming in P-Queue, Ur Vox, Shampoo, Little Red Leaves, Cricket Online Review, alice blue, BOOG CITY, Word For/Word, Work, and Try, among others. Chapbooks, collaborations with artist Mark Stephen Finein, include excerpts from camera obscura (Etherdome Press) and the precipice of jupiter (Queue Books).

Mark Stephen Finein earned his BFA from Buffalo State in 1986, specializing in surrealistic wood block printmaking, lithography, and 3D constructions. After a short stint as a graphic artist, he began performing, writing, and recording music, playing in the streets of Prague and in rock, blues, and folk clubs in Buffalo, San Francisco, Germany, England, and Wales. Now that he's shaken off the demon of representationalism, he's proud to be showing his visual artwork publicly for the first time in two decades. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in P-Queue, Little Red Leaves, and BOOG CITY; chapbooks(collaborations with poet erica lewis) include excerpts from camera obscura (Etherdome Press) and the precipice of jupiter (Queue Books).

Cassandra Smith works as an assistant editor with Omnidawn Publishing and hosts the occasional Artifact Reading Series in her large and intricate dollhouse. She focuses on visual/three-dimensional poetics and laughing. Work doesn't appear often, but she has recently finished a manuscript titled "being when wendy." She lives in Oakland.

Noel Black & Sara Larsen

2009-09-22T10:23:00.000-07:00

will be reading on

Thursday, September 24nd at 7:30 pm

sara larsen is a writer who lives in Berkeley. She co-edits TRY! magazine, a bi-monthly literary/arts zine, with david brazil, and is founder of earthworm press & projects. her chapbooks include to paradise a dashboard (autonomous earth press), doubly circulatory (artifact press), 2000 decembers (ampersand press), 23 Chromosomes for David Wojnarowitz (earthworm press & projects), and most recently, NOVUS (earthworm press & projects).

Noel Black dropped out of what used to be New College a long time ago (1998?). He still writes poems, but not as many as he wishes he did. He left San Francisco in 2001 after being evicted and now lives in Colorado Springs with his Wife, artist Marina Eckler, and son, Ursen Black. They lived in Brooklyn last year, but decided it wasn't for them and went back to Colorado Springs. He is the author, most recently, of "In The City of Word People," which will be available at the reading.

Tinker Greene & John Sakkis

2009-09-16T15:35:00.000-07:00

will be reading on

Tuesday, September 22nd at 7:30.

Originally from New England where he founded and led Poets' Mimeo Cooperative in Burlington, Vermont, Tinker Greene is a sometime wilderness traveler and photographic image-maker as well as a teacher and practitioner of poetry. He relocated to San Francisco more than two decades ago and participated in the early years of the New College Poetics Program. More recently, he has begun issuing a series of chapbooks which he distributes directly to interested parties: titles include Man Going to His Doom, Solid Smoke and Funeral Sentences. Joanne Kyger has characterized these recent poems as "'right on' and ... spare and perfect."

John Sakkis' first full length book, Rude Girl, is just out from BlazeVox Books. He is the author of numerous chapbooks including most recently: Gary Gygax, The Moveable Ones and Rude Girl. With Angelos Sakkis he translates the work of Athenian multimedia artist/ poet Demosthenes Agrafiotis; their translation of Agrafiotis's Maribor is forthcoming from The Post-Apollo Press as well as Chinese Notebook forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse. He lives in the Lower Haight and works at Small Press Distribution in Berkeley.

Daphne Gottlieb & Joseph Lease

2009-09-08T18:02:00.000-07:00

will be reading on Thursday, September 17th at 7:30 pm.

Performance poet Daphne Gottlieb is the author of Kissing Dead Girls, Final, Why Things Burn, and Pelt, as well as the graphic novel Jokes and the Unconscious with artist Diane DiMassa. She has been published in The Utne Reader, Tikkun, nerve.com, McSweeney’s, Exquisite Corpse and Instant City, as well as numerous anthologies. Based in San Francisco, Gottlieb received her MFA from Mills College.

Joseph Lease's books include Broken World (Coffee House Press) and Human Rights (Zoland Books). His poem "'Broken World' (For James Assatly)" was selected for The Best American Poetry 2002 (Scribner). His poems have been featured on NPR and published in The AGNI 30th Anniversary Poetry Anthology, Bay Poetics, Paris Review, Talisman, and elsewhere. Lease is an Associate Professor of Writing and Literature at California College of the Arts.

Stan Apps & Douglas Rothschild

2009-08-19T09:30:00.000-07:00

will be reading on Thursday, August 20th at 7:30 pm.

It could easily be observed that Douglas Rothschild has pretty much leapt from one monumental failure to the next -- except that for most of us, there has been nothing at all monumental about his failures....tasks which most of us hire someone else to do -- Mr. Rothschild painstakingly embarks on. & generally, if not falling flat on his face, at least skins his knees.... He is also the author of Theogeny from Subpress, perhaps the finest volume of its kind since A. Leyeles' Fabius Lind.

Stan Apps writes essays, poems, emails, screeds, sermonettes, and the like. He writes with an enviable speed and lack of calculation. His friend Ara Shirinyan calls him a "mass-productionist." A big brick of essays is forthcoming from Combo Books, and Sonnets is forthcoming in the g.e. series from Books and Bookshelves. Other ongoing projects include a children's book called Jakarta and a memoir titled Don't Shoot! It's Jesus! He has also published several volumes of poetry, but those were different times.

Owen Hill & Eileen Myles

2009-08-15T18:17:00.000-07:00

will be reading on Tuesday, August 18th at 7:30.

Eileen Myles is among the ranks of the officially restless, a green & prolific poet (Sorry Tree, Not Me ...) whose first collection of essays on art, poetry, queerness & culture The Importance of Being Iceland, for which she received a Warhol/Creative Capital grant is just out from Semiotext(e)/MIT. Eileen also writes novels (Chelsea Girls, Cool for You) and librettos ("Hell") and has already given at least a thousand (great) readings all over North America, Europe, Russia and Iceland since first arriving in New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet. She ran St. Mark's Poetry Project in the '80s. In 1992 she conducted an openly female write-in campaign for President. Since 1996 she's toured with Sister Spit. She's a Professor Emeritus of Writing & Literature at UC San Diego. She lives in New York.

Owen Hill is the author of eight or nine slim volumes of poetry, The latest is Against The Weather from Blue Press. His second novel is The Incredible Double, just out from PM Press. He curates the reading series at Moe's Books in Berkeley.

Jeanne Powell, Bill Vartnaw & Q.R. Hand

2009-08-15T18:13:00.000-07:00

will be reading on Tuesday, August 11th at 7:30.

Originally published in 1968 classic, Black Fire, an anthology of African American writing, edited by Amiri Baraka (Leroy Jones) and Larry Neal, which has recently been reproduced by Black Classics Press, Q. R. Hand, Jr. is the author of three poetry books, i speak to the poet in man (jukebox press) how sweet it is (Zeitgeist Press) and whose really blues, new & selected poems (Taurean Horn Press). He is an original member of the Wordwind Chorus, a Bay Area quartet that has performed poetry with jazz for over twenty years. Wordwind has one cd, we are of the saying. He has also been anthologized in the The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder's Mouth Press) and New American Underground Poetry Vol. 1: The Babarians of San Francisco—Poets from Hell (The Press of San Francisco). Martha Cinader Mims on the website, About.com: Poetry, wrote: “In many ways the story of his life is an aspect of the legend of his generation, his personal approach to poetry inextricable from his focus on the civil rights movement and social service.”

Jeanne Powell is the author of MY OWN SILENCE and WORD DANCING. She writes poetry and fiction, film reviews and in-your-face essays. And she teaches history every summer to at-risk youth. http://www.redroom.com/author/jeanne-powell

With the publication of Suburbs of my Childhood this year from Beatitude Press, Bill Vartnaw is the author of two books of poetry. He moved to San Francisco is 1973 and established Taurean Horn Press following the Bay Area Poets Coalition's first Summer Solstice Festival the next year. To date, Taurean Horn Press has published fourteen books, including his own In Concern: for Angels (1984). Vartnaw's work has appeared in various literary magazines over the last 35 years and in a Mini-Taur poemphlet, If You Should Die a Fool, You Will Be No Less Wiser For It (1975). More information about poet/publisher is available at http://www.redroom.com/author/bill-vartnaw

Alli Warren & David Buuck

2009-07-11T16:24:00.000-07:00

will be reading on

Thursday, July 16 at 7:30 pm

Alli Warren is the author of the chapbooks Schema, Yoke, Hounds, Cousins, No Can Do, and with Michael Nicoloff, Bruised Dick. Mitzvah Chaps will soon a publish a work variously known as That's What She Said, To From Where, What Kinds of Flutes We Should Use, and Alienated Beaver. She works in Berkeley and lives in Oakland.

David Buuck lives in Oakland. He is the author of The Shunt & several booklets of cross-genre writing. He is the founder of BARGE (the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics) & a writing teacher.

Minnie Singh, Christine Choi & Graham Emory

2009-07-11T16:23:00.000-07:00

will be reading on

Tuesday, July 7th at 7:30

Minnie Singh has a PhD in English from Columbia University and an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. Her work has appeared in various journals and little magazines. She lives in San Francisco.

Christine Choi draws pictures, writes poems, feeds birds and lives in San Francisco. She is pursuing an MFA in Writing from the California College of the Arts, and has published two chapbooks, Zoo Song (2005, Turtle Light Press), and Clockwork and Onions (2007, One Bean Press). She is currently collaborating with New York-based composer Ken Suguro on her new work “Blue Whale.”

Graham Emory Guest has published works in all three: fiction, philosophy, and music. He is currently living in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.

Christopher Sweeney, Adrian Shirk and Robert Snyderman

2009-05-28T11:22:00.000-07:00

will be reading on

Monday, June 15th at 7:30

Christopher Sweeney (born 1987) is an American poet, publisher and student popularly credited as the editor-in-chief of Correspondence, a biannual literary journal distributed by the collectively organized small press The Corresponding Society. He was raised in Pleasantville, New York, and matriculated at the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn with a thesis concentration in poetry and supplemental courses of study in continental philosophy and French. He lived in a tenement in East Williamsburg for a year before relocating to Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy neighborhood and sharing an apartment primarily with his colleagues Robert Snyderman and Lonely Christopher as well as Adrian Shirk. Sweeney has studied French, German and Latin and recently has begun translating works by poets such as Stéphane Mallarmé.

Adrian Shirk is a contributing editor of Correspondence. She was born on a stifling hot Labor Day in Brooklyn, 1988, and raised in Portland, Oregon, collectively by musicians and social workers. She writes short fiction, long poems, family mythology, literature-to-be-read-aloud and how-to’s. She is trying to sell “a vision of eternal oranges and sunshine door-to-door in a land where people [eat] apples and it rains a lot.” Shirk is a student in The Writing Program at Pratt Institute.

Robert Snyderman is a poet. He was born in Pennsylvania. He has experimented with writing poetry as a means to document as well as a means to ‘exorcise’ as well as a means to making a modest living. He spent a year doing a lot of experimental theater in New York City. He directed, designed and wrote five plays during that time. He is currently searching for a new home. His first book, entitled CLOTH/FACE, was co-written with Christopher Sweeney, and will come out from Seven CirclePress this fall.

Truong Tran, Judy Roitman, Stanley Lombardo & Allegra Chabay

2009-05-26T15:13:00.000-07:00

will be reading on

June 11, 2009 at 7:30 pm

Truong Tran is a poet and visual artist. His publications include The Book of Perceptions, Placing The Accents, dust and conscience (awarded the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Prize in 2002), within the margin and Four Letter Words. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including two San Francisco Arts Commission’s Individual Artist Grants in poetry, The Arts Council of Silicon Valley Grant, The California Arts Council Grant, The Creative Work Fund Grant, The Fund For Poetry Grant and most recently The SF Arts Commission Grant in Visual Arts. Truong lives in San Francisco in an apartment at the corner of Haight and Ashbury that is rumored to be the former home of Janis Joplin.

Judith Roitman's No Face: Selected and New Poems came out in 2008 from First Intensity Press. Her work has appeared in the journals First Intensity, Spectaculum, FO A RM, Black Spring, Bird Dog, the anthology 31 (from Crane's Bill Books), and online in Locus Point, among other places.

Stanley Lombardo is notorious for his translations of epic and other poetry — Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Inferno and even Sappho. He grew up in New Orleans, studied in Texas, and lives in Kansas.

Allegra Chabay was raised between a city of outlaws and a city of coal and ash. She lives and learns, and currently teaches in Oakland, Berkeley and San Francisco. She sometimes dreams of living on a mango farm near a large body of warm salt water, and intends to learn to play the harmonium this summer.

Susanne Dyckman, Stephen Hemenway, and Laura Walker

2009-05-04T11:29:00.000-07:00

will be reading on

May 26, 2009 at 7:30

Born in Chicago, Susanne Dyckman has lived on both coasts of the U.S.,
finally settling in Albany, California, where for five years she has
hosted the Evelyn Avenue reading series. She is the author of two
chapbooks and a full length book of poetry, equilibrium's form
(Shearsman Books). She has been an editor of Five Fingers Review, as
well as a thesis advisor for the University of San Francisco's MFA in
Writing program. She currently works for Children's Hospital,
Oakland.

Stephen Hemenway is the author of Fold Books. His poetry has appeared
in Five Fingers Review, 26, Santa Clara Review, Big Ugly Review and
Fourteen Hills. He lives in Oakland and pushes pixels for a living.

Laura Walker grew up in North Carolina and now lives in Berkeley. She
is the author of rimertown/ an atlas (UC Press, 2008) and swarm lure
(Battery Press, 2004). Her work has appeared in various journals,
including 26, Five Fingers Review, Xantippe, and Bird Dog. She teaches
creative writing at University of San Francisco and UC Berkeley
Extension.

Farrah Field and Jared White

2009-04-29T11:48:00.000-07:00

will be reading on

May 6, 2009 at 7:30

Farrah Field's poems have appeared in many publications including the
Mississippi Review, Margie, The Massachusetts Review, Typo, Harp &
Altar, 42Opus, La Petite Zine, Pebble Lake Review, Another Chicago
Magazine, Fulcrum, and forthcoming in Ekleksographia. Rising is her
first book of poetry and won Four Way Books’ 2007 Levis Prize. She
lives in Brooklyn and blogs at adultish.blogspot.com.

Jared White was born in Boston and has lived in Brooklyn for about
eight years, near two big bridges. His poems have appeared in previous
issues of Barrow Street, Cannibal, Coconut, Fulcrum, Harp & Altar,
Horse Less Review, The Modern Review, Sawbuck, and Word For/Word,
among other journals. A chapbook of poems entitled Yellowcake will
appear in the upcoming chapbook collection, Narwhal, from Cannibal
Books. He maintains an occasional blog, No No Yes No Yes, at jaredswhite.blogspot.com..

Tim Atkins, Kevin Killian and Leslie Scalapino

2009-03-18T18:25:00.000-07:00

will be reading on

April 14th, 2009 at 7:30

Reader's biographies coming soon.

Leah Candelaria-Tyler, Les Gottesman and Erik Noonan

2009-03-13T17:47:00.000-07:00

will be reading on

Friday, March 27th at 7:30

Leah Candelaria-Tyler was born, raised and educated in New Mexico. In 2005 she moved to San Francisco to attend New College. Then in 2008 she, Chris and Faye (dog) headed up to Seattle. During rainy evenings, Leah works on her poetry and painting, scrapes at linoleum blocks, digs in paper, chops garlic and stirs the pot. The recession bothers her. Foghorns, 5 Fulton and Ocean Beach have recently been replaced by woodpeckers, the 76 Express and The Sound – the buildings are made of brick.

Les Gottesman was formerly a Poetics student at New College, and is now at California College of the Arts. He has published 3 chapbooks (one of which is available tonight) under his own imprint, Omerta Press.

Erik Noonan does various jobs at a high school, among them teaching. Pastis with cold water and an admixture of cooking & talk. He took French at night so he could read Malherbe, because Bunting mentions him. Erik lives and writes in San Francisco.

As always, free as a non-domesticated cephalopod but BYOB.

Matt Hart, Dobby Gibson, & Russell Dillon

2009-03-10T17:25:00.000-07:00

Wednesday, March 11th at 7:30

Russell Dillon was born in New York during the mid '70s and hasn't been able to get over it. However, in an effort to put the past behind him, he's attended a number of schools in various places, learned things at each one of them, and received degrees from Emerson College and the Bennington Writing Seminars. His work has appeared or is forth coming in Alligator Juniper, Big Bell,Forklift, Ohio, 5A.M. and Tight, among others. He currently lives in San Francisco, where he does almost everything life asks of him. A chapbook, Secret Damage,has just been released from Forklift, Ink.

Matt Hart is the author of Who's Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006) and three chapbooks, Revelated (Hollyridge Press, 2005), SONNET, (H_NGM_NBooks, 2006), and Simply Rocket (Lame House Press, 2007). A new collaborative chapbook with poet Ethan Paquin, Deafening Leafening, is forthcoming from Pilot Books in 2009, as well as a manuscript entitled You Are Mist (available momentarily). Born in Evansville, Indiana in 1969, Hart studied philosophy at both Ball State University and Ohio University before going on to receive his MFA in poetry from the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. His poems, reviews, and essays have been published in numerous journals, including The Agriculture Reader, Conduit, Gulf Coast, The Harvard Review, Lungfull!, Ploughshares, and Spinning Jenny. Online his work can be seen in such journals as Coldfront, DIAGRAM, Fou, H_NGM_N, Konundrum Engine Literary Review, Octopus, and TYPO. Six times nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and in 2003 for Best American Poetry, he was the 2007John Ciardi Fellow in Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, as well as the 2005 Winter Residency Fellow at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. In 1995 he co-founded Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking and Light Industrial Safety, which he still edits and co-publishes, and which, this Spring, will celebrate the publication its 20th issue. A twenty year veteran of the punk rock/alternative music scene, his music has appeared in major motion pictures and on MTV. He currently plays in the experimental noise-poetry band Travel and the Go-Kart records pop-punk band, Squirtgun. He has lived in Cincinnati, Ohio since 1993 where he is an Assistant Professor in the Academic Studies Department at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, a four year college of art and design. His wife Melanie teaches art at the Rees-Price Academy in Cincinnati Public schools. His daughter, Agnes, is two and thinks she's a hummingbird.

Dobby Gibson holds an MFA in fiction from Indiana University. His poem shave appeared in The Iowa Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Fence, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a $25,000 McKnight Foundation poetry fellow-ship and two Pushcart nominations, as well as much critical acclaim for his first collection, Polar (Alice James Books). His new book, Skirmish, was just released from Gray wolf press.

Chris Daniels & David Abel

2009-03-10T17:18:00.000-07:00

Tuesday, March 10 at 7:30 pm

Chris Daniels son of the well-known language-artist maestro David Daniels, was born in New York City in 1956. He dropped out of high school and never went to college. He lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is working on a gigantic anthology of Lusophone poets in English translation.On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids, his translation of Brazilian poet Josely Vianna Baptista, was published by Manifest Press in 2003. Shearsman Books in the UK are in the process of publishing three volumes of his translations of Fernando Pessoa: The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro appeared in 2007, and The Collected Poems of Álvaro de Campos Vol. 2 is nearing completion. His long poem/manifesto porous nomadic (or, para encontrar o acontecimento impalávrel:) appeared recently in a special section of Crayon 5, "on beauty."

David Abel was born in Salt Lake City in 1956. He attended several colleges without attaining an undergraduate degree, but returned for an interdisciplinary graduate degree in the initial, confused years of the Avery School of the Arts at Bard College in the Hudson River valley. He works as a freelance editor and bookdealer in Portland, Oregon, where he is a founding organizer of the Spare Room reading series.Two recent chapbooks, Black Valentine and Twenty-, were published by Chax Press (2006) and Crane's Bill Books (2007), respectively. He is the author of numerous artist's books and objects, created in collaboration with Katherine Kuehn, Anna Daedalus, and others, and performs often in intermedia works of his own and others' devising -- most recently the Demagnetic Cabaret; the Sixth Annual Richard Foreman Mini-Festival; and The New Talkies: Portland-San Francisco Neo-Benshi Cabaret.

Julien Poirier, Derek Fenner & Ryan Gallagher

2009-02-19T12:13:00.000-08:00

Thursday, February 19th at 7:30

Derek Fenner is an artist/writer and the author of MY FAVORITE COLOR IS RED and his recently published his first assemblage novel, I NO LONGER BELIEVE IN THE SUN: LOVE LETTERS TO KATIE COURIC. He is a graduate of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and currently resides in Lowell, MA. He is the project director of "Unlocking the Light: Integrating the Arts in Juvenile Justice Education", a program he designed to incorporate art in the educational classrooms for students and teachers in MA Department of Youth Services residential facilities. He is one of the founders of Bootstrap Press.

Ryan Gallagher lives in Lowell, MA with his wife and daughter. He is the author of PLUM SMASH AND OTHER FLASHBULBS published in 2005 and THE COMPLETE POEMS OF GAUIS VALERIUS CATULLUS, a project he began at the Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics where he completed his MFA and where he was the recipient of the William Burroughs scholarship. He received his B.A. in Literature from Boston College. He also studied Thangka painting, traditional Tibetan Buddha paintings, for two years and is an accomplished oil painter. Ryan currently teaches high school literature and is one of the founders of Bootstrap Press.

Julien Poirier was born in San Francisco in 1970. As well as writing poems, he has done time as an editor (Ugly Duckling Presse, Gneiss Press) and as a public school poetry teacher in New York City. He prefers to work to a captive audience of 5th-graders in the outer boroughs of that city. Books include Absurd Good News (Insert Press, 2006) and Living! Go and Dream (UDP, 2005).

Post Valentine's Day Reading

2009-02-15T13:32:00.000-08:00

February 15, 2009

Valentine's Day songs and poems from Alex Cory, Jay Dillamuth, Kevin Killian, Rebecca Bella, Brice Hobbs, Adam DeGraff, Genevieve George, Emily Howard, Micah Ballard and Sunny Lyn Thibodeax, David Highsmith and MORE.

Alan Kaufman & Clara Hsu

2009-01-13T13:37:00.000-08:00

January 13, 2009

Alan Kaufman's novel Matches was published by Little, Brown and Company in the Fall of 2005. David Mamet has called Matches "an extraordinary war novel," and Dave Eggers has written that "there is more passion here then you see in twenty other books combined." Kaufman's critically-acclaimed memoir, Jew Boy (Fromm/Farrar,Strauss, Giroux), has appeared in three editions, hardcover and paperback, in the United States and Great Britain. He is the award-winning editor of several anthologies, the most recent of which, The Outlaw Bible of American Literature, was recently reviewed on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. There are two more volumes in Kaufman's Outlaw anthology series: The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and The Outlaw Bible of American Esaays. He has taught in the graduate and undergraduate schools of the Academy of Art University and in writing workshops in San Francisco. His work has appeared in Salon, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Partisan Review and The San Francisco Examiner. Kaufman has been widely anthologized, most recently in Nothing Makes You Free: Writings From Descendents of Holocaust Survivors (WW Norton). Kaufman is a member of PEN American Center. Kaufman's papers and manuscripts are on deposit in the Special Collections Library of the University of Delaware and he is profiled in the Europa Biographical Reference Series.

Clara Hsu: When she was a little girl, Clara wanted to be a hermit and martial artist living in the mountains of China. Life's mysterious path took her to the United States. In this reality, she practices the art of multi-dimensional being: mother, musician, philanthropist, activist, purveyor of Clarion Music Center (a world music shop of exotic musical instruments), traveler, and ultimately, poet. Clara was a nominee for the Pushcart Prize in poetry (2001). Some of her poems can be found in the Homestead Review, the North Coast Review, the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, and the internet journal Red River Review. Her poem on censorship was published in 2003 by the North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance. Clara gives feature readings at various Bay Area venues and benefit events, but her home is the Sacred Grounds Café (Hayes and Cole), where poetry reading happens every Wednesday night. In December 2005, Clara sold her music business of 23 years to focus on her art and her unusual performance ensemble Lunation, which combines Chinese and original poetry with Asian traditional instruments. She is also developing the concept of the Poetry Hotel, organizing free social activities for the poet community in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Lisa Robertson, Eric Selland & Carol Snow

2008-12-05T14:06:00.000-08:00

December 5, 2008

Lisa Robertson is a Canadian writer currently living between California, where she is Artist in Residence at CCA, and France. Current projects include a translation of Situationist Michele Bernstein's novel All the King's Horses (published in installments in the London arts journal The Happy Hypocrite), and a recorded sound work in collaboration with Stacy Doris, commissioned by The Kootenay School of Writing in Vancouver. A new collection of poems is forthcoming from Coach House Press.

Eric Selland is a poet and translator living on the San Francisco peninsula. His translations of modernist and contemporary Japanese poets have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies. He has also published articles on Japanese modernist poetry and translation theory. He is the author of The Condition of Music (Sink Press, 2000), Inventions (Seeing Eye Books, 2007), and an essay in The Poem Behind the Poem: Translating Asian Poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2004). He is currently editing an anthology of 20th Century Japanese avant-garde poetry.

Carol Snow lives, works, and arranges words, quotes and other small mostly indoor objects in her native San Francisco. She is the author of Artist and Model, For and The Seventy Prepositions. Her new book, Placed: Karesansui Poems, is now out on Counterpath Press.

Eleven Eleven is a bi-annual journal of literature and art based at California College of the Arts. The aim of the publication is to provide a forum for risk and experimentation and to serve as an exchange between writers and artists.

Issue Five features writing by Cecco Angiolieri (translated by Brett Foster), Alfred Arteaga, Abby Baker, Aaron Belz, Terry Bisson, Michael Reid Busk, Blake Butler, Jodie Childers, Hannah Craig, Richard de Nooy, Erik Ehn, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Andy Frazee, Elisa Gabbert, Carrie Hunter, Steven Karl, Katoh Ikuya (translated by Eric Selland), Chris Kerr, Bill Lavender, Juan J. Morales, Simone Muench and Philip Jenks, Sarah O'Brien, Pilar Olabarria, Benjamin Parzybok, Barbara Jane Reyes, Lisa Robertson, Elizabeth Robinson, Sarah Sarai, Jordan Scott, Xu Smith, Carol Snow, Jack Spicer, Nicole Steinberg, Nathaniel Tarn, Rachel Tompa, Rodrigo Toscano, Daniel J. Vaccaro, St. Johnnie Walker, Robert Wexelblatt, Andrew Zawacki, and Jan Zwicky.
Issue Five also features images by Kirsten Stolle and Open End Kiss, a project by the CCA MFA Program in Social Practices.

For more information, go to http://www.cca.edu/academics/graduate/mfawriting/1111.php

Camille T. Dungy, Oscar Bermeo, & DeWayne Dickerson

2008-12-03T14:19:00.000-08:00

December 3, 2008

Dewyane Dickerson is the recipient of the 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts' Fellowship in Poetry. His first book, "chunky", became the subject of a documentary that was screened in independent film festivals throughout the country. He currently lives in Oakland with his baby daughter.

Born in Ecuador and raised in the Bronx, Oscar Bermeo is a BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) award-winning poet who now makes his home in Oakland, where he is the Editor-in-Chief for Tea Party magazine and lives with his wife, poeta Barbara Jane Reyes.
For more information on Oscar and his poetry, please visit http://www.oscarbermeo.com

Camille T. Dungy is the author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006), a finalist for the PEN Center USA 2007 Literary Award and the Library of Virginia 2007 Literary Award. Dungy has received fellowships from organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, the Dana Award, and the American Antiquarian Society. She is currently Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University.

Joseph Noble & Colleen Lookingbill

2008-11-18T15:06:00.000-08:00

November 18th 2008

Colleen Lookingbill co-edits EtherDome Press with Elizabeth Robinson, which publishes an ongoing series of first chapbooks by women. Her book of poetry, Incognita was published by Sink Press. She co-curates Canessa Park with her husband Jordon Zorker, assisting Tiff Dressen and Erica Lewis with their reading series at the gallery. Recent work has been published by New American Writing, Ploughshares, 26, and Track and Field.

Some of the journals Joseph Noble's poetry has appeared in include New American Writing, Five Fingers Review, The New Review of Literature, Hambone, Bird Dog, UrVox, and Aufgabe. Two of his essays on the poet George Oppen have appeared in Talisman and Aufgabe, and another is forthcoming in a special George Oppen issue of Sagetrieb. He was also one of the founding editors of the poetry journal 26, which he co-edited for its first five issues. His book of poetry, An Ives Set, was published in November of 2006 by lyric & Press.

Publication party celebrating the Best New Poets 2008 Anthology: Tracey Knapp, Keith Ekiss, Alexandra Teague, & Abraham Burrickson

2008-11-11T15:17:00.000-08:00

November 11th 2008

Tracy Knapp's poems have appeared in The Minnesota Review, The Carolina Quarterly, No Tell Motel, MiPoesias, La Petite Zine, Sewanee Theological Review, Painted Bride Quarterly and elsewhere. She studied ceramics at Syracuse University, and received an M.A. in English from Ohio University and an M.A. in poetry from Boston University. Tracey lives in the Castro in San Francisco, where she works as a graphic designer.

Keith Ekiss is the Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University for 2007-2009, and the past recipient of scholarships and residencies from the Bread Loaf and Squaw Valley Writers' Conferences, Santa Fe Art Institute, Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Petrified Forest National Park. His poems, and his translations of the Costa Rican poet Eunice Odio, have appeared in Blackbird, Gulf Coast, Mid-American Review, Modern Poetry in Translation , New England Review, and elsewhere. He is the Acting Artistic Director for the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco.

In addition to Best New Poets 2008, Alexandra Teague's poems are forthcoming or have recently appeared in The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, The New England Review, Notre Dame Review, Epoch, and Poetry Daily Essentials 2007. She teaches English at City College of San Francisco, and was a 2006-2008 Stegner Fellow at Stanford.

Abraham Burrickson is a poet, architect, and conceptual artist, whose work has appeared in New Orleans Review, Sycamore Review, Time Out Chicago, Blackbird, and elsewhere. In 2001 he co-founded the experimental performance group Odyssey Works, which creates 8-24hr long performances for small audiences. He has received fellowshipsfrom the Michener Center for Writers,and the Millay Colony for the Arts. He currently lives in the Bay Area.

Katy Lederer, Robyn Schiff, & John Isles

2008-10-28T16:42:00.000-07:00

October 28th, 2008

Robyn Schiff is the author of "Worth," (University of Iowa, Kuhl House Poets, 2002) and "Revolver," (University of Iowa, Kuhl House Poets, 2008). She is an associate professor at the University of Iowa, where she directs the undergraduate creative writing program.

John Isles is the author of Ark (Iowa, 2003) and coeditor of the Baltics section of New European Poets. He received an award from The Los Angeles Review in 2004 and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2005. His poems have appeared in such journals as American Letters & Commentary, the Boston Review, the Denver Quarterly, and Pleiades. He lives with his wife and their son in Alameda, California.

Katy Lederer is the author of the poetry collection, Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the Best Nonfiction Books of the Year and Esquire Magazine named one of its eight Best Books of the Year. Her second poetry book, The Heaven-Sent Leaf will be out with BOA Editions in the fall of 2008. Katy Lederer's poems and prose have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Harvard Review, GQ, and elsewhere. She has been anthologized in Body Electric (Norton), From Poe to the Present: Great American Prose Poems (Scribner), and State of the Union (Wave Books), among other compilations. She serves as a Poetry Editor of Fence Magazine. Her honors and awards include an Academy of American Poets Prize, fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a Discover Great New Writers citation from Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers Program.