Final Night of Poets Theatre Jamboree: 1.27.06

Small Press Traffic is pleased to present the final night of our Poets
Theater Jamboree 2006 edition....Friday, January 27 at 7:30 pm.
All seats are $10 and first come, first served.

Timken Lecture Hall, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
For directions and a map, please see
http://www.sptraffic.org/html/fac_dir.html


Poets Theater for Friday, January 27, 2006

PIECE FOR RECORDER, ONE HAND MOVING (1961)
By Jackson Mac Low
Performed by the Anachronism is Not Enough Quartet
Brent Cunningham
Graham Foust
Amy Hezel
Jared Stanley


Musical Interlude with Bound to Get Fuller
Alli Warren & Brandon Brown


EUPHEMISMS
Written & Directed by Sean Finney
A: Ruby Des Jardins
B: Sean Finney


Musical Interlude with Bound to Get Fuller
Alli Warren & Brandon Brown


GATHA IN C FOR THERESA SALOMON (2001-02)
By Jackson Mac Low
Performed by David Buuck


Musical Interlude with Bound to Get Fuller
Alli Warren & Brandon Brown


THE LATE EDUCATION OF SASHA WOLFF, OR, THE SON AND HEIRESS (An Excerpt)
Written & Directed by Shonni Enelow
Taylor Brady as Sasha Wolff
Kathleen Miller as Jenny Daly
Dan Fisher as The Media
Chana Morgenstern as Jenna Jameson
Shonni as herself



IS THAT WOOL HAT MY HAT? (1980)
By Jackson Mac Low
Conducted by Brent Cunningham
Performed by the Max Fischer Players
Melissa Benham
Kyle Kaufman
Sara Larsen
Jay Thomas


Musical Interlude with Bound to Get Fuller
Alli Warren & Brandon Brown



DONNING CHEADLE
Written & Directed by Geraldine Kim
Ben Baker as Don Cheadle
Malia Jackson as Cameragirl
Bowman Chan as Korean Dad
anonymous as Korean Mom



B-ROLL: SHORT DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
By Margaret Tedesco
With Special Guest Appearances by ???


Musical Interlude with Bound to Get Fuller
Alli Warren & Brandon Brown


SURVIVOR::XANADU // ROMANCING THE ROMANCE
Written & Directed by Neil Alger
Music by Ryan Moya
Image Consulting by Erica Freyberger
Tune in for the final episode of this award-winning reality show,
SURVIVOR: XANADU, to see which surviving contestant will walk away
with the million dollar prize. Expect intrigue, avarice, and lots of
of other inappropriate nouns, verbs, and adjectives on this wild ride
through untamed island jungles. Not for the faint of heart or
apathetics.

ARTIFACT: 1.14.06 : Neil Alger, Liz Young, & Stephanie Young

The Artifact Reading Series

1.14.06 : Saturday
7:30pm / reading will promptly begin at 8pm

2921 Folsom Street Apt. B (bottom buzzer)
415.647.7689 or email artifact109@yahoo.com

BYOB! donations also happily accepted.

readings & such by:

Neil Alger
Liz Young
Stephanie Young

BIOS

Neil Alger went to Brown and read a lot of books there; but not all of them. He takes pictures because he's really really terrible at drawing (although, he Did just start his first paint by number). He also spends a lot of time sitting at his desk at Small Press Distribution thinking about books, and talking to Brent about Hooke Press. He enjoys his friends. He uses his words.

Liz Young is a Bay Area poet working toward her Ph.D in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley. She is currently in the midst of a dissertation which examines the impact of Translation on the development of the Catullan corpus in late Republican Rome and the 20th c. United States. Last year she organized the Cabinet of the Muses inter-arts poetry festival. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals including Aufgabe, Crowd, Kiosk, The Poker and The Common Weal.

Stephanie Young's first book, Telling the Future Off, was recently published by Tougher Disguises Press. She's the editor of Bay Poetics, due out from Faux Press in 2006, and hosted a series of readings in her home from 2003-05. Stephanie lives in Oakland by the lake, works at Mills College, and wishes she had more time to spend here:
http://stephanieyoung.org/blog.

1913 reading: February 1st : 7pm : The Lab

A 1913 Literary Evening
Presented by The Lab
www.thelab.org

Wednesday, Feb. 1st, 7pm
2948 16th Street San Francisco
$5-15 admission


Readers

Hillary Burrill
Chris Chen
Joshua Clover
Stacy Doris
Scott Inguito
Susan Maxwell


Please join 1913, a journal of forms, in celebrating the publication of its second issue where Bay Area contributors will read from their interdisciplinary work. Dedicated to printing the finest in contemporary poetry, art, poetics, and their intersections, 1913 numéro deux includes a chapbook by Brazilian poet Josely Vianna Baptista with original artwork by collaborator Francisco Faria, as well as a section of contemporary French poetry. Other contributors include Fanny Howe, John Taggart, John Yau, Sally Keith, Chet Weiner, Jen Hofer, Cort Day, and Lisa Robertson. http://www.journal1913.org

Just released Scott Inguito's "Lection" from Subday Press

O*U*T N*O*W from

"The
the
minimal
ems

of
some
po-
kind"

lection : a variant reading or transcription of a text or copy
-
Remade remastered remixed new composition from the far left & far right words, building in & on the words of others, notes & noted words, a revolution happening as it is conceived. Truncated in the trunk & heart of these constructed concentrations.
- Hank Lazer

Scott Inguito's poem, soweto lash dismay, a visual poem rendered in pencil on paper, has recently appeared in 1913: a journal of forms. Other poems will appear in Bay Poetics, el pobre Mouse and the magazine Mrs. Maybe. His chapbook, Dear Jack, is forthcoming from Momotombito Press. Scott lives in San Francisco and teaches at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, CA.

Lection is a saddlestapled chapbook, edition of 111, 21 hand-numbered and signed by the author, 36 pages.

To Order, visit our site online and order using Paypal:
http://www.subdaypress.org

Or send $6 to:
Subday Press c/o Summer Rodman PO Box 547896 Orlando, FL

ARTIFACT: 1.14.06 : Neil Alger, Liz Young, & Stephanie Young

The Artifact Reading Series

1.14.06 : Saturday
7:30pm / reading will promptly begin at 8pm

2921 Folsom Street Apt. B (bottom buzzer)
415.647.7689 or email artifact109@yahoo.com

BYOB! donations also happily accepted.

readings & such by:

Neil Alger
Liz Young
Stephanie Young

BIOS

Neil Alger went to Brown and read a lot of books there; but not all of them. He takes pictures because he's really really terrible at drawing (although, he did just start his first paint by number). He also spends a lot of time sitting at his desk at Small Press Distribution thinking about books, and talking to Brent about Hooke Press. He enjoys his friends. He uses his words.

Liz Young is a Bay Area poet working toward her Ph.D in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley. She is currently in the midst of a dissertation which examines the impact of translation on the development of the Catullan corpus in late Republican Rome and the 20th c. United States. Last year she organized the Cabinet of the Muses inter-arts poetry festival. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals including Aufgabe, Crowd, Kiosk, The Poker, and The Common Weal.

Stephanie Young's first book, Telling the Future Off, was recently published by Tougher Disguises Press. She's the editor of Bay Poetics, due out from Faux Press in 2006, and hosted a series of readings in her home from 2003-05. Stephanie lives in Oakland by the lake, works at Mills College, and wishes she had more time to spend here: http://stephanieyoung.org/blog.

Ellipsis Magazine editors speak to you from your radio or computer 1/9/06 10pm

On the radio tonight...

Mr. Jesse Morse and Mr. Richard Froude will be representing the literary magazine, Ellipsis on the radio this Monday 9th January, 10pm PST.

There will also be call ins from the great Jackie Motzer and the terrific Tara Blaine.

Poetry, prose, discussion, and maybe one or two laughs too.

If you live in Portland, you can listen to it on KBOO 90.7 FM

If you don't live in Portland you can listen online at: http://www.kboo.fm/listen.php

Ellipis Magazine's premiere issue is just out, featuring an interview with Artifact's Melissa Benham, as well as writing by Anne Waldman, Laird Hunt, Daniel Wallace, Tom Clark, and others. Ellipsis … Literary Serials and Narrative Culture is a monthly magazine dedicated to the reprise of a classic narrative practice. Our goal is to reintroduce the literary serial to the landscape of popular interest. Each issue features serials written by an array of today’s most intriguing authors, as well as interviews and articles highlighting writers from other media. Ellipsis provides literature from every corner of the culture in portions that are digestible but leave the reader hungry for more. http://www.waywardcouch.com/ellipsis/news.html

1/13: talk by Maxine Chernoff

Talk by Maxine Chernoff: The Double World

Reading, Empathy and Transformation

Friday, January 13, 2006, 7-9 p.m.

The Women's Building, Room A
3543 18th St. at Guerrero
www.womensbuilding.org

$10-20 sliding scale
Light snacks and refreshments will be provided


This talk is the first in a series of events sponsored by the Teaching Collective designed to enrich curriculum and classroom planning for teachers, serve as inspiration for writers and, most of all, create a space for learning and dialogue in the bay area creative writing and creative teaching communities. The night's event includes a presentation by Maxine Chernoff and time for Q&A and discussion.

Maxine Chernoff has been a writer for 34 years. She has written 7 books of poetry, most recently AMONG THE NAMES and six books of fiction including SOME OF HER FRIENDS THAT YEAR: NEW AND SELECTED STORIES. Lately, she has been writing poetry and essays including the one you will hear tonight. She has also been translating the works of Friedrich Hölderlin with Paul Hoover. Some of the poems have appeared in Conjunctions, Triquarterly, 26, Circumference, and Chicago Review. Her novel A BOY IN WINTER is being made into an independent film in Canada. She edits NEW AMERICAN WRITING with Paul Hoover and is Chair of CW at SFSU.

Teaching Collective (TC) is the frontier of creative teaching. We are working artists who teach and teachers seeking new ways to learn. As individuals and as a community, we engage in an ongoing process of looking at how we make art and teach others to do the same, seeking a balance between the exquisite mystery of art-making and the rewards of close examination and collective inquiry.

Poets' Theater Jamboree 2006 : 1.13.06

Small Press Traffic is pleased to present
the first night of our Poets Theater Jamboree 2006 edition....

Friday, January 13 at 7:30 pm. All seats are $10 and first come, first served.

POETS THEATER JANUARY 13

"A Play, A Play" by Paolo Javier, directed by Del Ray Cross

Entre act: Music by Brumit

"The Laureate" written and directed by Michelle Bautista. Performed by Michelle Bautista, Rona Fernandez, Caroline King, Rhett Pascual and Dennis Somera

Entre act: Music by Brumit

"A Vinculum" by Chris Vitiello, directed by Mary Burger

INTERMISSION

Scenes from "The Lady Contemplation" (1662) by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, performed by Carol Treadwell & Elizabeth Treadwell

Entre act: Music by Brumit

"Asphodel In Hell's Despite" by John Wieners, directed by Kevin Killian

Entre act: Music by Brumit

"Who is the Real JT LeRoy" written & directed by Mattilda (a/k/a Matt Bernstein Sycamore)

Timken Lecture Hall, California College of the Arts, San Francisco

For directions and a map, please see
http://www.sptraffic.org/html/fac_dir.html