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San Rafael, CA, 94901
POETS PANEL ON PRISON WRITING ETC AT BEYOND BAROQUE
Date: Sunday, July 18, 2010Time: 3:00pm - 7:00pmLocation: 681 Venice Bl. Venice, CA 90291 Phone 1-310-822-3006Description
18 July, Sunday - 3 PM
POETS PANEL moderated by S.A. GRIFFIN
The POETS PANEL will include: RAFAEL F J ALVARADO, co-founder of World Wide Word Radio Network, host of The Moe Green Poetry Discussion and Co-founder of H.I.P., the Hollywood Institute of Poetics; HUGO MACHUCA, recently received parole from prison, was among the first inmates to partake in Honor Yard Program of the California State Prison at Lancaster, founded C.R.O.P. (convicts reaching out to people), and currently works at The Catalyst Foundation. LUIS RODRIGUEZ is founder/editor of Tia Chucha Press, has published fourteen books in poetry, fiction, nonfiction and children's literature, and is best known for his memoir, Always Running, La Vida Loca, Gang Days in LA (Simon & Schuster). HANNAH WEHR, founder of Use Your Words Creative Writing Workshops, is a member of H.I.P. and mentors, tutors and teaches in juvenile incarceration facilities across Los Angeles. A.RAZOR, member of H.I.P., has been published in various underground zines and publications and has traveled extensively. S.A. GRIFFIN, editor of The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry is author of seven collections of poetry including They Swear We Don’t Exist (Bottle of Smoke). From April-June, he toured the United States with his Poetry Bomb, ‘Elsie’s.
2010 BAY AREA POETRY MARATHON: Sat., July 31st event
Date: Saturday, July 31, 2010Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pmLocation: CCA Writers' StudioStreet: 195 DeHaroCity/Town: San Francisco, CA--------------JULY READERS
* MELANIE FARLEY (bio to come)
* DANA TEEN LOMAX (bio to come)
* CATHERINE MENG is the author of Tonight's the Night (Apostrophe Books 2007) & some chapbooks. She lives in Berkeley.
* ERIN MORRILL (bio to come)
* PATRICIA POWELL is the author of the novels Me Dying Trial, A Small Gathering of Bones, The Pagoda, and most recently The Fullness of Everything. She teaches in the MFA program at Mills College in Oakland.
* JAIME ROBLES’s most recent book is Anime, Animus, Anima (Shearsman 2010). Her poetry has been published in numerous magazines, including Conjunctions, First Intensity, New American Writing, ShadowTrain, and Volt.
* ELENI STECOPOULOS is the author of Armies of Compassion (Palm Press 2010). She is currently writing an interdisciplinary book on the poetics of healing and a long poem titled Earth Also is a Private Language.
THE CCA WRITERS' STUDIO,
195 DeHaro, San Francisco
(at the base of Potrero Hill at the corner of 15th & DeHaro)
"An ear and mind opener... this event delivers the real thing: edgy stuff, poetry with a real bite!" --SAN FRANCISCO magazine
At the Bay Area Poetry Marathon, poets from across the U.S. and the Bay Area celebrate innovative poetry in a series of readings throughout the summer. Past readers include: Anita Amirrezvani, Rae Armantrout, Dodie Bellamy, Charles Bernstein, Lee Ann Brown, Maxine Chernoff, Norma Cole, Gillian Conoley, Robert Creeley, Diane DiPrima, kari edwards, Edward Foster, Kathleen Fraser, Gloria Frym, Forrest Gander, C.S. Giscombe, Jewelle Gomez, Noah Eli Gordon, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian, Brenda Hillman, Paul Hoover, Fanny Howe, Kevin Killian, Jane Miller, Laura Mullen, Michael Palmer, D.A. Powell, Bin Ramke, Lisa Robertson, Elizabeth Robinson, Leslie Scalapino, David Shapiro, Tom Sleigh, Cole Swensen, Truong Tran, Anne Waldman, C.D. Wright, John Yau, Al Young, Matthew Zapruder, and many others.
To read a review of a Marathon event, go to
http://www.kqed.org/arts/literature/article.jsp?essid=17560
For more info, contact curator Donna de la Perrière at baypoetry@gmail.com
_________________________________________Emotional Rescue - Lust, anger, and confusion
Date: Tuesday, July 6, 2010Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pmLocation: The Cornelia Street cafeStreet: 29 Cornelia StreetCity/Town: New York, NYErica Miriam Fabri and Robin Andre, Thomas Fucaloro, Jud Newborn, and Jackie Sheeler shake up the poetry scene with this interactive reading. The audience names an emotion, the performers react. Bliss, obsession or melancholia? You decide!
ERICA MIRIAM FABRI is the author of the poetry collection Dialect of a Skirt (Hanging Loose Press, 2009). Erica has performed, and facilitated workshops, at venues including Cooper Union, NYU, Columbia University, Poet’s House, The Robin Hood Foundation, and the PEN Prison Writing Program. She is also a spoken word mentor for Urban Word NYC, a non-for-profit organization dedicated to bringing spoken word, poetry and hip-hop arts to inner-city teens. Erica is involved in a music and poetry, The Robin and the Lady Poet, with her partner, ROBIN ANDRE. Robin grew up and worked with multi-platinum group the Fugees, later signing to RCA and touring with The Dave Mathews Band. Robin lives in NYC and you can see him perform weekly at the Village Underground.
THOMAS FUCALORO has the sexiest legs in poetry, he just hasn't learned how to use them - yet he walks.
JUD NEWBORN is an author, poet, lyricist, and filmmaker. Co-author of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose (Oneworld, 2007), Jud is also a leading Holocaust scholar and served as Founding Historian for NYC’s Museum of Jewish Heritage. Today he works as Special Projects Curator for the Cinema Arts Centre on Long Island. Jud’s poetry and articles have appeared in publications including The Nation, The New York Times, The Little Magazine, Newsday, The Chicago Tribune, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. His prose, poetry, and lyrics have been set to music by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Shulamit Ran, country songwriters Jane Mariash Bach and Steve Nelson, composer Avraham Sternklar, and concert pianist Jeffrey Biegel.
JACKIE SHEELER is a poet, songwriter, and activist who enjoys performing random acts of kindness almost as much as random acts of righteous indignation. Her third book, a New & Selected Poems, will be published by NY Quarterly in the fall. Jackie is presently working on a solo album of original songs. Jackie is included in the forthcoming Uphook Press anthology, hell strung and crooked.
Call for Poets - Ekphrasis Exhibit
Arts and Culture Commission of Contra Costa County - new Art Exhibit
CrossRoads - Emerging Avenues in Art
Online at www.ac5.org after the opening
Deadline for submission July16th
The Moe Green Poetry Discussion with guest Cornelius Eady
Join Rafael F J Alvarado and Brett-Candace as they talk to Cornelius Eady
Cornelius Eady is the author of seven books of poetry: Brutal Imagination (2001), a National Book Award finalist; The Autobiography of a Jukebox (1997) reissued in 2007; You Don’t Miss Your Water (1995); The Gathering of My Name (1991); Boom, Boom, Boom (1988); Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (1986), winner of the 1985 Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets; and Kartunes (1980). He is also co-editor with Toi Derricote of Gathering Ground (2006).
Eady’s work in theater includes the libretto for an opera, “The Running Man,” a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1999. His play, Brutal Imagination, won Newsday’s Oppenheimer Award in 2002.
He has received the Prairie Schooner Strousse Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Born in Rochester, New York, Eady has taught poetry at SUNY Stony Brook, Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, The Writer’s Voice, the 92nd Street Y, The College of William and Mary, Sweet Briar, and American University. In 1996 Eady and poet Toi Derricote founded Cave Canem, a non-profit organization for black poets. Eady is Associate Professor of English at Notre Dame.Poetry in Motion
Start Time: Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 9:00pmEnd Time: Friday, July 2, 2010 at 12:00amLocation: After 5 ClubStreet: 3708 gentian BlvdCity/Town: Columbus, GA
JustUsPoets and Al Faruk Temple #145 Presents Poetry in Motion.....This Month Feature is Greenville Sc own "Moody Black" good music, good food and drinks and a poetically good time for all to enjoy!!!!
Black & Tan hosting the The Mas Tequila Review
Date: Friday, June 25, 2010Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pmLocation: Stories Books & Cafe 1716 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026 || (213) 413-3733
H.I.P., Hollywood Institute of Poetic
presents
Black & Tan hosting the
The Mas Tequila Review
Featuring
larry colker
Michael C Ford
Ron koertge
, ellaraine lockie,
Luivette Resto
Hannah Wehr
June 25
at 8pm
hosted by
Bryan Sander & Brett-Candace
At
Stories Books
1716 sunset
NYC Poets Set to Ignite LA: Peter Carlaftes, Kat Georges, George Wallace
Date: Sunday, June 13, 2010Time: 4:00pm - 7:00pmLocation: Beyond BaroqueStreet: 681 Venice Blvd.City/Town: Venice, CADescription
Live L.A. Performance by poets from New York City's Three Rooms Press!
PETER CALAFTES, GEORGE WALLACE and KAT GEORGES
PETER CARLAFTES, comic author, screenwriter, playwright, actor and poet, authored A Year on Facebook (humor), Triumph for Rent (3 Plays) and hot off the press—Drunkyard Dog (poems from both sides of the bar).
GEORGE WALLACE, award winning poet and journalist, is author of Poppin' Johnny: New American Poems along with 18 chapbooks. He's also editor of poetrybay magazine (poetrybay.com)
Poet/playwright KAT GEORGES has three collections of poetry, Punk Rock Journal, Maiden Claiming and Slow Dance at 120 Beats a Minute. She's the founder and editor-in-chief of Three Rooms PressRonaldo Wilson Poetry Workshop Retreat
Start Time: Friday, July 30, 2010 at 10:00amEnd Time: Monday, August 2, 2010 at 5:00pmLocation: Millay Colony for the ArtsStreet: 454 East Hill RoadCity/Town: Austerlitz, NYDescription
Archives and Ephemera: Poetry Workshop Retreat with Ronaldo Wilson
What materials might we bring into the realm of the poem? With what sources can we open the life of the mind into language that captures and reveals our imaginations, intentions, and explorations? An archive is defined as "a place or collection containing records, documents," "a long term storage area," and "a repository for stored memories or information," while ephemera is marked as a "short lived thing," and "printed matter of passing interest."
This workshop asks you to bring in and work from your archives and ephemera, ideally anything that can fit in a standard sized brief case or grocery bag, depending on your records, habits, findings, and tastes. Perhaps you have a small archive of photographs, news clippings, or journals you've been collecting? Or, maybe you have a series of loose notes, sketches, objects, or partial but striking drafts that you've left untouched and wish to revisit?Throughout the week, you will focus on your own archives and ephemera as a means of generating a cycle of new poems. Students will work on in-class exercises, as well as discuss freshly drafted works. To further inspire our writing and conversation, we will look to poets who work with various modes of the archival and the ephemeral to include Cornelius Eady's Brutal Imagination, C.A. Conrad's Advanced Elvis Course, Harryette Mullen's Sleeping With the Dictionary, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's I Love Artists, Wayne Koestenbaum's Rhapsody of A Repeat Offender, and Meena Alexander's Quickly Changing River.
Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man, winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), and Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009). He is a graduate of the PhD program in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, and NYU's Graduate Creative Writing Program. Wilson has won numerous fellowships to include the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Cave Canem, Kundiman, Djerassi, and Yaddo. A co-founder of the Black Took Collective, he teaches creative writing and African American poetics at Mount Holyoke College.
Workshop Schedule: Each day begins with a fresh breakfast followed by a three- hour workshop at 10:00 AM. Total workshop time for the retreat will be twelve hours. The afternoon can be spent working in the studio, visiting local sites, swimming in a nearby lake or walking the mountain trails. Dinner is served overlooking our gorgeous meadows. Evening hours are devoted to worktime.
Fees: $600 includes tuition, private room, private studio and all meals. $375 includes tuition and meals only. Participants may purchase a thirty-minute Private Consultation with their instructor for $150. Manuscripts (15 pages maximum) must be sent in advance; portfolios can be but this is not required. Limited Scholarships, based on need, are available. Millay Colony Alumni receive a 15% discount. LIMITED TO SIX PARTICIPANTS.
To Apply: Send a letter of introduction indicating your choice of workshop and including a brief biography with a $100 deposit. Also include a work sample (10 pages of writing, 10 images on CD or a brief video clip). Applicants will be accepted on a first-come first-serve basis. Please indicate if you require lodging and studio space and if you would like to have a Private Consultation with the instructor.
Apply to: The Millay Colony for the Arts, 454 East Hill Road, Austerlitz, NY. Attention: Summer Retreats. Make Checks payable to The Millay Colony for the Arts.
For more information please get in touch with Caroline Crumpacker at 518-392-4144 or director@millaycolony.org.
http://www.millaycolony.org/workshops
SLAM ON RYE: 2nd Wednesday of Every Month
LOCATION: Prospect Theatre Project,
520 Scenic Dr. Modesto, CA, 95350
DOORS OPEN / POET SIGN-UP: 6:30 PM
SHOW STARTS: 7:30 PM
Glastonbury Poetry
Dreadlockalien to perform at Poetry&Words, Glastonbury 2010: http://bit.ly/bPRRN8via Twitter -
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Writing & Knowing Poetry Workshop
7th Annual Poetry Workshop with
Ellen Bass, Dorianne Laux, and Joseph Millar
July 25-30, 2010
at Esalen, Big Sur, CA
Please register directly with Esalen
at 831-667-3005 or visit www.esalen.org
Ellen Bass
ellen@ellenbass.com
www.ellenbass.com
Monthly spoken word in the Rebound Bookstore
- Phone:
- 415-482-0550
- Website:
- http://www.reboundbookstore.com
- Parking in Street parking lot.
