Ellipsis Magazine Reading @ New College Oct. 8

Ellipsis Magazine Ruling the Bay

Sunday, October 8th

7:00 PM

at the Creamery at the New College of California

780 Valencia St.

San Francisco, CA 94110

Readers:

Neeelanjana Banerjee

Will Skinker III

Ryan Newton

Paul Corman Roberts

Jacqueline Motzer

Artwork:

Stacy Elaine Dacheux

ARTIFACT : 10.7.06 : KAPIL : LUOMA : TREADWELL : ARTWORK BY LARSEN

THE ARTIFACT READING SERIES PRESENTS

READINGS BY:

Bhanu KAPIL
Bill LUOMA
Elizabeth TREADWELL

Artwork by:
David LARSEN

October 7, 2006
7:30PM (reading begins at 8PM)
First come first served!

2921B Folsom St. @ 25th
SF CA 94110



***This reading is a Fundraiser to support the Artifact Reading Series, Small Press, & Public Writing Projects.***

All in attendance are kindly asked to give a $5 Donation.
However no one will be turned away for lack of funds!

All proceeds from this reading have been generously donated by the illustrious writers and artist to fund further projects of Artifact. We thank them from the bottom of our hearts! Buy their books! They are golden!!!

Bring cash and/or your checkbook as there will be lovely books to buy to round out your already brilliantly collected collection.


BYOB

MORE INFO

artifactsf@gmail.com
www.artifactsf.org

BIOS

Bhanu Kapil teaches writing at Naropa University. Her publications include The Vertical Interrogation ofStrangers (Kelsey Street Press) and Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works.)

Bill Luoma is the author of Works & Days, Dear Dad and the unpublished sound sequence Some Math. He lives and works in the bay area.

Bill will also be curating a selection of visual art by printmaker David Larsen (b. 1970), whose many flyers for poetry readings can be seen in the employee restroom at Pegasus Bookstore (2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley).

Elizabeth Treadwell is the author of five books, the most recent of which is Cornstarch Figurine. Two new poetry collections, Wardolly and Birds & Fancies, are due out next year, from Chax Press and Shearsman Books respectively. A graduate of the Native American Studies program at UC Berkeley and the Creative Writing Program at SF State, she currently lives with her immediate and near her extended family in her hometown of Oakland. From 1997-2002, she published Outlet magazine and Double Lucy Books, and since 2000 she has been director of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center in San Francisco. She is currently working on a manuscript titled Virginia or the mud-flap girl. More info: elizabethtreadwell.com.

Fundraising & our calendar for 2006

Dear Friends,

Hope you’re all well! We’re excited to announce that Artifact’s readings in the months of September-November will be dedicated towards raising funds for our 2007 program. As you may know, we’ve recently begun collecting a small donation, which we’ve split between the readers and our direct expenses (snacks, cocktails, chairs, etc.). For the next three months, our generous readers have donated their shares of “the hat” towards our first step of procuring and writing grants to support our future projects. We are hoping to raise $1000 with these readings in order to work with Nancy Quinn Associates, a wonderful organization that will help us throughout the grant-writing process and planning our budget.

Artifact has been expanding since its inception as a reading series in 2004, with a small press and a public writing program in the past year. In order to pay our fabulous readers, produce four chapbooks in 2007, and fund an exhibition of our pilot public writing project (which you can read about here: http://www.artifactsf.org/projects/ ) we need to raise about $10,000. In addition to investing in grants support, we look to you our community to help support the growth of Artifact.

In the months of September, October and November we will feature the readers, artwork by local artist/writers, books to buy, as well as snacks, wine, and cocktails. We will be asking a 5$ donation towards our cause, however, no one will be turned away for a lack of funds.

Please arrive at the reading by 8PM. Due to recent serious overcrowding being a dangerous fire hazard, we ask that no one arrive after 8PM. We’d rather not begin limiting our audience to 50 & locking the door!

Here’s the calendar for the next three months…

Sept 16: Garrett Caples, Andrew Joron, and Justin Sirois w/artwork by Renee Evans!

Oct 7: Bhanu Kapil, Bill Luoma, and Elizabeth Treadwell w/artwork by David Larsen

Nov 18: Amanda Davidson, Rodney Koeneke, and Stephen Vincent (artist TBA)

Thank you so much for your support and we look forward to seeing you at the next reading!

If you are interested in donating additional funds to Artifact, you can do so online through our fiscal sponsor Intersection for the Arts @ https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=1380 and entering “Artifact” in the FSP donors only field. Please note that these donations will be tax-deductible!

Thanks again for your help and support!

xo,

Chana & Melissa

ARTIFACT : 9.16.06 : Caples : Joron : Sirois : Evans

The Artifact Reading Series presents

Readings by:

Garrett Caples
Andrew Joron
Justin Sirois

Artwork by:
Renee Evans

September 16, 2006
7:30PM (reading begins at 8PM)
First come first served!

2921B Folsom St. @ 25th
SF CA 94110

***This reading is a FUN-draiser!!!!
to support the Artifact Reading Series, Small Press, & Public Writing Projects.

All proceeds from this reading have been generously donated by the illustrious writers and artist to fund further projects of Artifact. We thank them from the bottom of our hearts! Buy their books! They are golden!!!
More on this later!****

All in attendance are kindly asked to give a $5 donation.
However no one will be turned away for lack of funds!

(FYI, there's no donation too small...don't make us start a kissing booth)

BYOB

Bring cash and/or your checkbook as there will be lovely books to buy to round out your already geniusly collected collection.

INFO
artifactsf@gmail.com
www.artifactsf.org
415.647.7689


BIOS

Born in Lawrence, MA, Garrett Caples is a freelance writer living in Oakland, CA. He is the author of two collections of poetry, The Garrett Caples Reader (NY: Black Square Editions, 1999) and er, um (SF: Meritage Press, 2002). He received a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2003. A collection of articles on hip hop, The Philistine's Guide to Hip Hop, with an introduction by Shock-G of Digital Underground, appeared in 2004 from Ninevolt Magazine. He currently writes on Bay Area hip hop for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Anthology appearances include Fetish (NY: 4 Walls 8 Windows, 1998), Isn't It Romantic? (Seattle: Wave Books, 2004), and Bay Poetics (Newton, MA: Faux Press, 2006). Among his current projects, he is editing a lost manuscript of Philip Lamantia's called Tau, along with the poems of John Hoffman, which will be published together in a single volume by City Lights in 2007.

For some 20 years, Andrew Joron has been a mainstay of the Bay Area's experimental poetry scene, beginning as a "science fiction poet" before moving on to what Charles Borkhuis described in "Land of the Signifieds" (1992) as an amalgam of "Late Surrealism and Textual [i.e. Language] Poetry." "The pilot alone knows/That the plot is missing its/Eye," opens one poem in Joron's latest book, Fathom (Black Square Editions, 2003), giving an indication of the solemn humor and linguistic play motivating his work. Named one of the Village Voice's "Top 25 Books of 2003," Fathom consolidated Joron's reputation as much with its prose assessment of poetry in the post-9/11 world, "The Emergency," as with the poems themselves. Three years after publication, Fathom continues to be reviewed, while Calvin Bedient in the Spring 2006 Chicago Review likens Joron to Adorno and Debord. Joron's essay on 19th-century American decadent George Sterling recently appeared in the anthology Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006) and will be republished, along with "The Emergency," in a volume of selected prose, The Cry at Zero, due next year from Counterpath Press.

Justin Sirois is founder of narrow house recordings and works for the Social Security Administration. His work has appeared in Drill, The DC Poetry Anthology, Poets Against the War, and Newtopia Magazine. His new chapbook, Silver Standard, (Newlights Press) includes the projects 'bell and 'quiet colossus, two interactive poems from thepixelplus.com about the macro economics of late capitalism, outsourcing, and cellular ring tones. He lives somewhere in between Baltimore, Maryland and Washington DC.

Renee Evan's bio coming soon! Her minuscule works are beyond belief Just you wait. They will knock your socks off.