tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-126515072024-03-13T04:08:39.589-07:00ARTIFACT*a series of innovative writing & chapbook press<br><a href="http://www.artifactsf.org">www.artifactsf.org</a>artifact reading serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265222119719560324noreply@blogger.comBlogger197125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12651507.post-13543772065382086322010-02-17T16:10:00.000-08:002010-02-21T13:25:01.252-08:00ARTIFACT: SATURDAY : 2.27: BENKA : GILES: WOLTAG<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s.ngeo.com/wpf/media-live/photologue/photos/2010/02/04/cache/40730_990x742-cb1266522082.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 414px; height: 310px;" src="http://s.ngeo.com/wpf/media-live/photologue/photos/2010/02/04/cache/40730_990x742-cb1266522082.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Please join us on <span style="font-weight: bold;">SATURDAY, February 27, 2010</span><br /><br />for an evening with:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jen BENKA</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Samantha GILES</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Laura WOLTAG</span><br /><br />*7PM DOORS | 7:30PM READING BEGINS*<br />[Show up before 7PM & you'll be lugging chairs!]<br /><br />Address:<br />3263 Kempton Ave Oakland CA, 94611<br /><br />$4 donation requested for the readers.<br /><br />BYOB<br /><br />Questions? Comments?<br />Please contact us at artifactsf@gmail.com.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jen Benka</span> is the author "A Box of Longing With Fifty Drawers," a collection of poems published by Soft Skull Press. She recently relocated to Oakland after close to a decade in New York City where she organized events including a 24-hour marathon reading of the complete poems of Emily Dickinson and a poetry protest during the Republican National Convention, and worked as the managing director of Poets & Writers. Before that, she lived in Milwaukee, her native land, where she worked at several activist organizations, wrote comics and played in a rock band.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Samantha Giles</span> received her MFA from Mills College where she was managing editor of 580 Split. Her work has appeared at/in Deep Oakland, Vert, Work, The Press Gang, Shampoo, and Cricket Online Review. She is the Executive Director of Small Press Traffic.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Laura Woltag </span>grew up in Belfast, NY, home of John L Sullivan and the Bare-Knuckle Boxing Hall of Fame, which is really just seven miles from Angelica, NY, home of the first Republican Party Convention and a landfill that exhibits much of New York City's trash. She works for a non-profit in Berkeley and attends classes at San Francisco State University. Her work has been published by her friends in The Stump.<br /><br /><br />--<br />Artifact Reading Series<br />Artifact Press<br />Digital Artifact<br /><br />www.artifactsf.org<br />www.artifactseries.blogspot.com<br />www.digitalartifactmagazine.com<br /><br />Artifact is a Member of the Intersection for the Arts Incubator ProgramBrent Cunninghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15120606584372602345noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12651507.post-79581208804537632222009-11-02T11:26:00.000-08:002009-11-02T11:30:09.551-08:00ARTIFACT : SUNDAY : 11.8 : MUMOLO : WAGNER : WOLFF<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Please join us on <span style="font-weight: bold;">SUNDAY, November 8th</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">for an evening with:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">Sara MUMOLO</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">Catherine WAGNER</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">Rebecca WOLFF</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">*7PM DOORS | 7:30PM READING BEGINS* </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;">***Please note different day & earlier time of this reading***</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">Address:</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">3263 Kempton Ave Oakland CA, 94611</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">$4 donation </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">requested for the readers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">BYOB</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">Questions? Comments?</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Please contact us at artifactsf@gmail.com.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sara Mumolo</span> works at Studio One Arts Center and co-curates the Studio One Reading Series. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Typo, Article Journal, 1913: a journal of forms, Shampoo, Action Yes and Berkeley Poetry Review, among others. The Mumolos are from the port-town of Brindisi, Italy where Virgil died and where the fountain of Benito Mussolini habitually conks out.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Catherine Wagner</span>'s new book, My New Job, is just out from Fence Books. Her other books are Macular Hole (2004) and Miss America (2001; both Fence). A selection from her new project, an epic romance, appears in the fall issue of Verse; recent chapbooks include Articulate How (Big Game Books/Dusie, 2008), Hole in the Ground (Slack Buddha, 2008) and Bornt (Dusie, 2009). She is permanent faculty in the MA program in creative writing at Miami University in southwest Ohio, where she lives car-free with her six-year-old son Ambrose. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rebecca Wolff</span> is the author of three books of poems, including The King (W. W. Norton, 2009). Her novel The Beginners is forthcoming in 2011 from Riverhead Books. She is the editor and publisher of Fence and Fence Books, and a fellow at the New York State Writers Institute. She lives in Athens, New York.</span>artifact reading serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265222119719560324noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12651507.post-50632062574018392602009-10-05T15:05:00.000-07:002009-10-19T15:10:26.186-07:00We're BACK : 10.23.09 : CROSS : STAITI : YANKELEVICH<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PUz3Tw-2l8A/StzFCt7r4nI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/Fa-K2PJe-eA/s1600-h/artifact+10.23.09.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 315px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PUz3Tw-2l8A/StzFCt7r4nI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/Fa-K2PJe-eA/s320/artifact+10.23.09.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394403104163357298" /></a><br /><br /><br />Hey Everybody!<br /><br />Please join us on FRIDAY, October 23rd<br />for an evening with:<br /><br />Erika STAITI<br />Matvei YANKELEVICH<br />Michael CROSS<br /><br />*7:30 DOORS | 8PM READING BEGINS* <br />[Show up before 7:30 & you'll be lugging chairs & making punch!]<br /><br />Address & Directions:<br />3263 Kempton Ave Oakland CA, 94611<br /><br />$4 donation requested for the readers.<br /><br />BYOB<br /><br />Questions? Comments?<br />Please contact us at artifactsf@gmail.com.<br /><br />MICHAEL CROSS is the author of In Felt Treeling (Chax Press), and the chapbooks Cede (Vigilance Society) and Throne (Dos Press). He is also the editor of Atticus/Finch chapbooks and co-editor of ON: Contemporary Practice. When he's not trying to finish a dissertation on the writing of Louis Zukofsky, he is working on other projects, such an anthology of the George Oppen Lectures at San Francisco State and a fantasy book project on the writing of Leslie Scalapino. He was born at Kaiser Permanente in Walnut Creek, and continues to call the East Bay his home.<br /><br />ERIKA STAITI lives in North Oakland where she watches many movies on her 12 inch laptop with crappy speakers.<br /><br />MATVEI YANKELEVICH is the author of *Boris by the Sea* (Octopus, 2009) and the long poem, *The Present Work* (Palm Press, 2006) and the forthcoming book . His writing has appeared in Boston Review, Damn the Caesars, Fence, Open City, Tantalum, Zen Monster, and many other zines. His translations have appeared in journals including Calque, Circumference, Harpers, New American Writing, and The New Yorker. His translation of *Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms* (Ardis/Overlook, 2009) has received praise from the TLS, The Guardian, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He is a co-translator of *OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism* (Northwestern, 2006), and his translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky's poem "Cloud in Pants" is included in *Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky* (FSG, 2008). He teaches at Hunter College and Columbia University, and edits the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse. Recently he edited a portfolio of Contemporary Russian Poetry and Poetics for the magazine Aufgabe.artifact reading serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265222119719560324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12651507.post-52454457453375657112009-06-12T12:56:00.000-07:002009-06-21T12:57:59.293-07:00ARTIFACT : 7.11.09 : KENOWER : NEALON : HEJINIAN<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cmbenham%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cmbenham%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cmbenham%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> 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<br />for an evening</span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="">w/
<br /></span>
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lyn HEJINIAN
<br />Andrew KENOWER
<br />Chris NEALON</span><span style="">
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<br />*7:30 DOORS | 8PM READING BEGINS*</b> [Show up before 7:30 & you'll be lugging chairs & making punch!]</span> </p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style=""><span style="">Address & Directions:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style=""><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3263+Kempton+Ave+Oakland+CA,+94611&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=47MySvyAJ5DwtAOe9cXEBw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">3263 Kempton Ave Oakland CA, 94611</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="">*Carpooling from BART can be arranged.</span> *</p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style=""><span style="">
<br />$3 donation requested for the readers.
<br />
<br />BYOB
<br /></span></b><span style="">
<br /><b style="">Questions? Comments?</b>
<br />Please contact us at artifactsf@gmail.com.
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<br />See you then!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="">Melissa Benham<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="">Michael Nicoloff<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="">Brent Cunningham</span><span style="">
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<br /> <!--[endif]--></span></p> artifact reading serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265222119719560324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12651507.post-70913481964192815992009-04-24T12:15:00.000-07:002009-04-24T12:23:52.774-07:00ARTIFACT : 5.2.09 : BOLDT : CLOVER : FARMER<span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >ARTIFACT PRESENTS: </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Saturday, May 2th at 7PM</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Lindsey BOLDT</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Joshua CLOVER</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Steve FARMER</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">$3</span> donation requested for the readers!</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >BYOB</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">The<span style="font-weight: bold;"> address & directions </span>are:</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3263+Kempton+Ave+oAKLAND&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=iBHySZffHJrEtAOdhJnkCg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">3263 Kempton Ave</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Oakland, CA 94611</span></a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">We will be organizing a few cars to pick up from the Downtown Oakland 19th St. BART at 6:45PM 7:00PM, 7:15PM. </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">Please email artifactsf@gmail.com if you would like to be picked up or if you’ve got a car & wouldn’t mind picking up some folks. </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">If you're lost & need help finding your way call:</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">Melissa at 415-517-5176 (however I'll just be asking someone else)</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">Brent at 415-314-0649</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">email us at artifactsf@gmail.com if you have any questions! </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">We’d like to thank David Buuck, Rob Halpern & Arnold J. Kemp for being so flexible and moving their reading to Sunday, May 3rd. If you would like more information about that reading, please contact David Buuck at dbuuck@mindspring.com. It is sure to be a wonderful evening. </span>artifact reading serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265222119719560324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12651507.post-96618576707025062009-03-17T17:28:00.000-07:002009-03-18T12:02:09.762-07:00ARTIFACT : 4.4.09 : FISHER : DAVIDSON : OAKES<span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >ARTIFACT is happy to announce our re-re-invention of itself as a house reading series (again). We started off that way & we're excited to get back to our roots. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Cassandra Smith & her compatriots of The Dollhouse have invited us into their home and for that we are deeply appreciative (& blushing quite a bit)! </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >We are going to kick it off on:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Saturday, April 4th at 7PM </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >w/</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Kaya OAKES</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Dan FISHER</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Amanda DAVIDSON</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >We're going back to our<span style="font-weight: bold;"> $3 cover-charge </span>(as opposed to $5), as well as our <span style="font-weight: bold;">BYOB</span> air!</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >The address & directions are:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3263+kempton+ave+oakland,+ca+94611&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=cknASe3XD4GEsQOi4P0v&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >3263 Kempton Ave</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Oakland, CA 94611</span></a><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >If you're lost & need help finding your way call:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Melissa at 415-517-5176 (however I'll just be asking someone else)</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Brent at 415-314-0649</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">email us at artifactsf@gmail.com if you have any questions!</span><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >BIOS</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Amanda Davidson</span> will perform with the assistance of an audio tape, a part of her ongoing homage to lost technologies. With Judith Jordan, she makes a pants-pocket sized zine called <span style="font-style: italic;">Parted in the Middle</span>. She hopes that by the time you are reading this bio, her website <a href="http://partedinthemiddle.com/" target="_blank">partedinthemiddle.com</a> will be loaded up with new and breathtaking film clips, but even if it isn't, she hopes that you will visit the site and enjoy the cartoon. Davidson also co-edits <span style="font-style: italic;">Digital Artifact Magazine</span>, the Web based, narrative little cousin of the Artifact Reading Series. Look online at <a href="http://digitalartifactmagazine.com/" target="_blank">digitalartifactmagazine.com</a> for submission details on<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Issue 3:</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> We Made This for You Out of Nothing.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dan Fisher </span>lives on the island. No one seems to know exactly where the island is. You can get to the island via 4 bridges and a tunnel. His poems have appeared in <span style="font-style: italic;">Bay Poetics, Viz, Lament, Work, Cricket Online Review,</span> among other places. He also makes collages and drawings under the name Fish Fishtofferson. He's really excited about being back in a house.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kaya Oakes</span> is the author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Slanted and Enchanted: Indie Culture in America</span> (Henry Holt, 2009), and <span style="font-style: italic;">Telegraph </span>(Pavement Saw Press, 2007). Her poems and essays have previously appeared in <span style="font-style: italic;">Kitchen Sink Magazine, Parthenon West Review, Coconut, Volt,</span> and many other publications. She teaches writing at UC Berkeley. Her website is </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.oakestown.org/" target="_blank">http://www.oakestown.org</a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ></span>artifact reading serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265222119719560324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12651507.post-1613285547854323732009-01-03T13:13:00.000-08:002009-01-03T13:21:33.474-08:00ARTIFACT & ACHIOTE PRESS<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5COwner%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Trebuchet MS"; panose-1:2 11 6 3 2 2 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:647 0 0 0 159 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} p {mso-margin-top-alt:auto; margin-right:0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><b><span style="">ARTIFACT and ACHIOTE PRESS present...</span></b><b style=""><span style=""> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><b style=""><span style="">
<br />Scott INGUITO<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><b style=""><span style="">JTH (Johnny HERNANDEZ)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><b style=""><span style="">Margaret RHEE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><b style=""><span style="">françois LUONG<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><b style=""><span style="">
<br /><span style="">Saturday, January 24, 2009</span>
<br />7PM Doors/7:30 Reading
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<br />@ <a href="http://oaklandartgallery.org/home_new.asp"><st1:placename style="font-weight: bold;" st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Oakland</st1:placename></st1:placename><span style=""> </span><st1:placename style="font-weight: bold;" st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Art</st1:placename></st1:placename><span style=""> </span><st1:placename style="font-weight: bold;" st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Gallery</st1:placename></st1:placename></a>
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<br />199 Kahn's Alley
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<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">About <a href="http://www.achiotepress.com/index.htm">Achiote Press</a>:</p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> Achiote: a shrub or small tree indigenous to Central and South America. Introduced to the Pacific and Asia by the Spanish in the 17th century, Achiote now has firm transnational roots. Achiote produces pink flowers and red spiny seed pods. Peoples have used the seeds as a dye for clothing, arts and crafts, as body paint in times of war and celebration, as spice and coloring for food. Other parts of the Achiote tree have been used to make various medicinal remedies for sunstroke, burns, fever, sore throat, blood disease, eye and ear infections, and hypertension. Achiote has also been used as an aphrodisiac. We named our press after the Achiote tree because we believe poetry has the very same powers to enrich our surroundings, inspire our passions, enhance our senses, and heal our wounds. </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > To us, Achiote represents the unrepresentable, transnational, migratory, and adaptive. Achiote Press asks what it means to bear witness, to use adaptation as resistance, to cross borders, to map ourselves onto a dislocated world, to speak in exile, and to suffer diasporic hunger. </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > Achiote Press was founded in 2006. Every season, we publish two chapbooks: a single-author chapbook and a chap-journal featuring poetry, prose, essay, or translation by authors from diverse cultural and aesthetic backgrounds. In addition, we publish special project chapbooks, including chap-anthologies and collaborative work. </p>
<br /> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><b style=""><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><b style=""><span style="">BIOS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" face="trebuchet ms"><b style=""><span style="">Scott Inguito</span></b><span style=""> lives in <st1:city st="on">San Francisco</st1:city>, teaches writing in <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">San Jose</st1:city></st1:place>, and paints in his garage. His most recent writing project, <b style="">PANDAFUCK,</b> is inspired by the pointless, the ill-tuned yet well-intentioned, the black and white of it all. You can find his paintings at <a href="http://scottinguito.com/" target="_blank">scottinguito.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" face="trebuchet ms"><span style="">Originally from <st1:city st="on">Strasbourg</st1:city>, <st1:country-region st="on">France</st1:country-region>, <b style="">françois luong</b> currently lives in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">San Francisco</st1:place></st1:city>. Other work of his has appeared or is forthcoming in <i style="">Cannibal, Parthenon West Review, New American Writing,</i> and elsewhere. He is also working on a translation into English of <i style="">chutes, essais, trafics</i> by Rémi Froger and into French <i style="">wide slumber for lepidopterists</i> by a.rawlings. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><b style=""><span style="">JTH</span></b><span style=""> (Johnny Hernandez) is a writer who has been born and raised in and around southern <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state>. JTH currently resides in Emeryville and has been the recent recipient of the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placetype st="on">Academy</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename st="on">American Poets</st1:placename></st1:place> award for 2008. A recent graduate of the <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename st="on">California</st1:placename> at <st1:city st="on">Berkeley</st1:city> in English, JTH is pursuing an MFA degree from <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Mills</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">College</st1:placetype></st1:place>. Achiote Press published his first collection entitled <i style="">U. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><b style=""><span style="">Margaret Rhee</span></b><span style=""> is an interdisciplinary writer and artist. Currently she is a doctorate student in the program in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. She has written academic articles on representation, race, and sexuality for <i style="">Amerasia Journal; </i>the anthology,<i style=""> Crash Course: Reflections on the Film 'Crash' for Critical Dialogues About Race, Power and Privilege; </i>and the journal,<i style=""> Sexuality Research and Social Policy.</i> Previously she worked as writer and editor in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:city> for <i style="">YOLK Magazine, Chopblock.com, </i>and<i style=""> Back Stage</i>. She earned her BA in creative writing at the <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename st="on">Southern California</st1:placename>, and her MA in Ethnic Studies at <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">San Francisco</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">State</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>. She is Kundiman fellow, where in the hot, humid, and gorgeous summers of <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Virginia</st1:place></st1:state>, she fell in love with poetry. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> artifact reading serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265222119719560324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12651507.post-5259115827774985692008-11-02T10:05:00.000-08:002008-11-14T23:36:09.407-08:00ARTIFACT : 11.22.08 : PLACE : PATTERSON : ROBINSON<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PUz3Tw-2l8A/SR570Ec6b9I/AAAAAAAAAIg/iANaFUFCdvQ/s1600-h/11.22.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 354px; height: 199px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PUz3Tw-2l8A/SR570Ec6b9I/AAAAAAAAAIg/iANaFUFCdvQ/s320/11.22.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268784748548485074" border="0" /></a>
<br /><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5COwner%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="address"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Trebuchet MS"; panose-1:2 11 6 3 2 2 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:647 0 0 0 159 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><b><span style="">ARTIFACT presents...</span></b><span style="">
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<br /><b style="">Elizabeth ROBINSON<o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on"><b style=""><span style="">Vanessa PLACE</span></b></st1:address></st1:street><b style=""><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><b style=""><span style="">G.E. PATTERSON</span></b><span style="">
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<br /><b style="">Saturday, November 22, 2008</b>
<br />7PM Doors/7:30 Reading
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<br />@ <a href="http://www.oaklandartgallery.org/home.asp"><st1:placename style="font-weight: bold;" st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Oakland</st1:placename></st1:placename><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><st1:placename style="font-weight: bold;" st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Art</st1:placename></st1:placename><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><st1:placename style="font-weight: bold;" st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Gallery</st1:placename></st1:placename></a>
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<br />199 Kahn's Alley
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<br /></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><b style=""><span style="">Bios<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><b style=""><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="">A veteran of the slam-poetry scene, <b style="">G.E. Patterson</b> was a featured poet-performer in <st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on">New York</st1:state></st1:place>’s Panasonic Village Jazz Fest. He is also the author of two poetry collections, <i style="">Tug</i> (Graywolf Press) and <i style="">To and From</i> (Ahsahta Press). His writing can be found in several magazines and anthologies, including <i style="">Blues Poetry, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Poetry 180, Isn’t It Romantic, American Letters and Commentary, nocturnes: (re)view of the arts, Open City, Provincetown Arts, Seneca Review, Swerve, Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics, </i>and<i style=""> St. Mark’s Poetry Project’s Poets and Poems.</i><b style=""> </b>After living for several years in the Northeast and on the West Coast, G.E. Patterson now makes his home in <st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on">Minnesota</st1:state></st1:place>, where he teaches. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p face="trebuchet ms" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p face="trebuchet ms" class="MsoNormal"><st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on"><b style=""><span style="">
<br /></span></b></st1:address></st1:street></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on"><b style=""><span style="">Vanessa Place</span></b></st1:address></st1:street><span style=""> is a writer, lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press. She is the author of <i style="">Dies: A Sentence</i> (Les Figues Press), a 50,000-word, one-sentence novella; the post-conceptual novel <i style="">La Medusa</i> (Fiction Collective 2), and, in collaboration with appropriation poet Robert Fitterman, <i style="">Notes on Conceptualisms</i> (Ugly Duckling Presse (December 2008)). Her nonfiction book, <i style="">The Guilt Project: Rape and Morality will</i> be published by Other Press in 2010. Place is also a regular contributor to X<i style="">-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly</i>, and is a co-founder of Les Figues Press, described by critic Terry Castle as “an elegant vessel for experimental American writing of an extraordinarily assured and ingenious sort.”</span></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal">
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<br />Kathleen FRASER
<br />Katy LEDERER
<br />Will SKINKER
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<br />Saturday, October 25, 2008
<br />7PM Doors/7:30 Reading*** (note new time!)
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<br />@ <st1:placename st="on">Oakland</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Art</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Gallery</st1:placename>
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<br /><b>BIOS</b><o:p></o:p></span></p> <u1:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></u1:p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><b><span style=""><u1:p></u1:p>Kathleen Fraser</span></b><span style=""> has published eighteen books of poems, most recently <i>W I T N E S S</i> (2007, Chax); <i>Discrete Categories Forced Into Coupling</i> (2004, Apogee), and the collaged work <i>hi dde violeth i dde violet</i><b> </b>(2004,<b> </b>Nomados). Her collected essays, <i>Translating the Unspeakable, Poetry and the Innovative Necessity</i> (2000), are part of the Contemporary Poetics Series. <st1:place st="on"><st1:placetype st="on">U.</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename st="on">Alabama</st1:placename></st1:place> Press. Her <i>il cuore : the heart</i>, Selected Poems, 1970-1995, is available from Wesleyan University Press. Fraser has collaborated on artist books with Sam Francis, Mary Ann Hayden, David Marshall and Nancy Tokar Miller. Twenty wall pieces from <i>ii ss</i>, a collaboration-in-progress with NY painter Hermine Ford, were recently shown at the Pratt Institute of Architecture in <st1:city st="on">Rome</st1:city> and a capsule version of this show will open at Melville House, in the Dumbo gallery area of <st1:place st="on">Brooklyn</st1:place>, on Nov. 6.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <u1:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></u1:p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><b><span style="">.</span></b><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <u1:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></u1:p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="">In 1973, Fraser founded The American Poetry Archive, during her tenure as Director of The Poetry Center at <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">San Francisco</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">State</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>. Between 1983 and 1992, she published and edited <i>HOW(ever),</i> a journal for poets and scholars interested in modernist/ innovative directions in writing by 20th century women—up-dated to the current electronic journal <i>How2 </i>@<a href="http://www2.blogger.com/www.how2journal.com"> www.how2journal.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <u1:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></u1:p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><b><span style="">.</span></b><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <u1:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></u1:p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="">Fraser is winner of a Guggenheim and two N.E.A. Fellowships in Poetry, and the Frank O’Hara Award for innovative achievement. She currently teaches in the graduate writing program at <st1:placename st="on">California</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">College</st1:placetype> of the Arts/SF and lives for the spring months of each year in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region>, lecturing widely on American poetry and translating Italian poets. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <u1:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></u1:p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="">
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<br /><b>Katy Lederer</b> is the author of the poetry collections, <i>Winter Sex</i> (Verse Press, 2002) and <i>The Heaven-Sent Leaf</i> (BOA Editions, 2008) as well as the memoir <i>Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (</i>Crown, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2003 and Esquire Magazine named one of its eight Best Books of the Year 2003.
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<br />Her poems and prose have appeared in <i>The American Poetry Review, <st1:city st="on">Boston</st1:city> Review, The <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:city> Review, GQ</i>, and elsewhere. She has been anthologized in <i>Body Electric</i> (Norton), From<i> Poe to the Present: Great American Prose Poems </i>(Scribner), and <i>Isn't It Romantic? (</i>Verse Press) among other compilations.
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<br />Educated at the <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename st="on">California</st1:placename> at <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Berkeley</st1:place></st1:city> and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she serves as a Poetry Editor of <i>Fence Magazine</i>. Her honors and awards include an Academy of American Poets Prize, fellowships from Yaddo (2001; 2004; 2005), MacDowell (2007), and the New York Foundation for the Arts (2005-2006), and a Discover Great New Writers citation from Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers Program.
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<br />Will Skinker</b>'s work has appeared in <i>Weigh Station</i>, <i>Mirage/Periodical</i>, <i>Shuffle Boil</i>, <i>Ellipsis</i>, <i>word for/word</i>, <i>digital artifact</i>, and <i>The Denver Quarterly</i>; his poems have been in <i style="">The Night Palace</i> and <i style="">Morning Train</i> from Auguste Press, which has also recently published his book <i style="">Mascara</i>.
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<br />He grew up in the mountains of <st1:state st="on">Virginia</st1:state> and moved to <st1:state st="on">Oregon</st1:state>, then <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state> in 2000. He lives in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">San Francisco</st1:place></st1:city> with his fiancee Yolanda and their two cats, Tootie and Pablo.</span></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><link style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cmbenham%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cmbenham%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cmbenham%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> 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you<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.hookepress.com/everyday/piespiespies2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.hookepress.com/everyday/piespiespies2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />REALISMS OF THE EVERYDAY: A CLASS<br /><br />Poets <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1221893953_0">Laura Moriarty</span> and Brent Cunningham will be teaching a weekly <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1221893953_1">evening class</span> for writers and poetry readers starting October 7th. Together they taught a popular "Martian Poetics" class in the Spring. The new class, "Realisms of the Everyday," will take place Tuesday evenings at <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1221893953_2">Small Press Distribution</span> in northwest Berkeley. New students especially welcome!<br /><br />For questions, contact <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1221893953_3">brent@spdbooks.org</span>. Information and sign-up for the class can be found here:<br /><br /><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.hookepress.com/everyday/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1221893953_4">http://www.hookepress.com/everyday/</span></a><br /><br />CLASS DESCRIPTION: A great deal of poetic invention has found its way forward by revaluing or returning to the “real”: the ordinary, the everyday, the mundane, the colloquial, the immediate, the tangible. In this class we will explore the problems and potentials of the real from the perspective of working writers. We will take a look at actuality and everydayness as aesthetic tactics, aesthetic forms, and aesthetic inspirations. We will notice our existence in what we think of as everyday life and note how others have solved the problem of both occupying and representing this “life.” We will focus especially on the difficult problem of defining the “real”: is it what we continuously think, what we immediately perceive, what we actually do, what lasts, what would exist without us, or something else? Is it all of these things? Is it some specific (secret, discoverable?) combination? And, practically speaking, what does it mean to one’s writing to value certain ideas of reality over others? We will often write during class. We will do exercises that use “what is” as their generative engine. In place of in-class workshopping, each student will receive a 30-minute individual consultation with one of the instructors outside of class hours. For interested students there are additional opportunities for one-on-one meetings outside of class at (cheap) hourly rates. There will be opportunities to browse the thousands of small press titles at SPD. And there will be a 30% discount on all SPD books for all students of this class! Throughout, we will attempt to complicate our presumptions about what really is, while also recognizing the undeniable power and vitality of is-ness.<br /><br />LAURA MORIARTY'S A Semblance: Selected & New Poetry 1975-2007 is just out from Omnidawn Publishing. Other recent books are Ultravioleta, a novel, from Atelos and Self-Destruction, a book of poetry, from Post-Apollo Press. She has taught at <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1221893953_5">Mills College</span> and <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1221893953_6">Naropa University</span> among other places & is currently Deputy Director of Small Press Distribution. She received a Poetry Center Book Award in 1984 for Persia. She has also been awarded a Gerbode Foundation grant, a residency at the Foundation Royaumont in France, a New Langton Arts Award in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1221893953_7">Literature</span> and a grant from the Fund for Poetry.<br /><br /><br />BRENT CUNNINGHAM is a writer, publisher and visual artist currently living in Oakland with his fiancee and new daughter. His first book of poetry, Bird & Forest, was published by <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1221893953_8">Ugly Duckling Presse</span> in 2005. After receiving his MA in English from SUNY Buffalo in 1998, he began working for Small Press Distribution (SPD) in Berkeley, the nation's only not-for-profit distributor of literary books. He currently holds the position of Operations director. A board member of Small Press Traffic since 2001, he was a founding curator of SPT's "Poets Theater Jamboree," an annual ritual of amateur experimental theater. In 2005 he and Neil Alger founded Hooke Press, a chapbook press dedicated to publishing short runs of poetry, criticism, theory, writing and ephemera. Hooke has published four titles so far, with two more on the way.artifact reading serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265222119719560324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12651507.post-73354576920518076132008-07-16T13:00:00.000-07:002008-07-16T20:19:29.390-07:00ARTIFACT & SPT : 7.26.08 : Nakayasu : Levin : Bernes<a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_PUz3Tw-2l8A/SHbtrN6lOtI/AAAAAAAAAGA/TuU7xQIciuM/s1600-h/JULY+2008+copy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_PUz3Tw-2l8A/SHbtrN6lOtI/AAAAAAAAAGA/TuU7xQIciuM/s400/JULY+2008+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221622144708197074" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Artifact & Small Press Traffic present...<br /><br />Sawako NAKAYASU<br />Lauren LEVIN<br />Jasper BERNES<br /><br />Saturday, July 26, 2008<br />6PM Doors/6:30 Reading<br /><br />@ Oakland Art Gallery<br />Frank Ogawa Plaza<br />199 Kahn's Alley<br />Oakland Ca 94612<br /><br />$5 suggested donation<br /><br /></span> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="">BIOS<br /><br /></span><span style="">JASPER BERNES is the author of <em><span style="">Starsdown</span></em> (in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni). He is a graduate student at UC Berkeley and lives in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Albany</st1:place></st1:city> with Anna Shapiro and their son, Noah.</span><span style=""><br /><br />LAUREN LEVIN grew up in <st1:city st="on">New Orleans</st1:city> and just moved from <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Grand</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Lake</st1:placetype></st1:place> to Temescal. Her chapbooks are <i style="">Adventures</i> (Your Beeswax Press) and <i style="">In Fortune</i> (a collaboration done for the dusie e-chaps project). Lauren edits the magazine <i style="">Mrs. Maybe</i> with Jared Stanley. There's news, and conversation about skeptical occultism, at the magazine <a href="http://mrsmaybeseance.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;color:#000000;" >blog</span></a>.<br /><br />SAWAKO NAKAYASU is a poet & translator living in the US & Asia. Her most recent book is a translation of Takashi Hiraide’s <i style="">For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut</i> (New Directions, 2008), and forthcoming books are <i style="">Hurry Home Honey</i> (from Burning Deck) and <i style="">Textures Notes</i> (from Letter Machine, a new press.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;" ></span>artifact reading serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265222119719560324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12651507.post-22205857551897361512008-07-14T11:46:00.001-07:002008-07-14T12:11:01.758-07:00links to photos of Artifacts of the past<div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/206/469381212_131831efb3_o.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/206/469381212_131831efb3_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=artifact&w=65093383%40N00&z=t&s=rec">more photos from Melissa Benham</a><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3275/2598966502_f709db8408_b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3275/2598966502_f709db8408_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/nicoloff/tags/artifact/">more photos from Michael Nicoloff</a><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3203/2445580349_f4fb29b4e4.jpg?v=0"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3203/2445580349_f4fb29b4e4.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=artifact&w=68037724%40N00&z=t">more photos by Alan Bernheimer</a><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/5/5119068_01b6c4e796_b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/5/5119068_01b6c4e796_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=artifact&w=53238367%40N00&z=t">more photos of ye olde artifact by Stephanie Young</a><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/44/115161610_40fcf9917c_b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/44/115161610_40fcf9917c_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=artifact&w=11577697%40N00">more photos from Alli Warren</a><br /></div>artifact reading serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265222119719560324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12651507.post-33752615127970980162008-06-06T13:11:00.000-07:002008-06-09T14:38:47.858-07:00Artifact: 6.28.08 : Bernheimer : Day : Sailers<a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3094/2556171181_8ed2e4366a_o.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3094/2556171181_8ed2e4366a_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">ARTIFACT PRESENTS...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Alan Bernheimer</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Jean Day</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Cynthia Sailers</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Saturday, June 28th</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Doors 6PM/Start 6:30PM</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">@Oakland Art Gallery</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Frank Ogawa Plaza</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">199 Kahn's Alley </span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Oakland Ca 94612</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">$5 suggested donation</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">BIOS</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">CYNTHIA SAILERS is the author of <st1:place st="on"><st1:placetype st="on"><i style="">Lake</i></st1:PlaceType><i style=""> <st1:placename st="on">Systems</st1:PlaceName></i></st1:place> (Tougher Disguises, 2004). She is currently writing a dissertation on perversion and group psychology for the Wright Institute in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Berkeley</st1:place></st1:City>. She is a board member of Small Press Traffic and previously co-curated the New Yipes Reading Series (formerly New Brutalism). Currently she lives in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Alameda</st1:place></st1:City>.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </o:p><br /><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">JEAN DAY’s many publications include the recent <i>Enthusiasm: Odes & Otium </i>(Adventures in Poetry, 2006) and <i>Daydream (The Eponym) </i>(Belladonna, 2008). New and recent works appears online at <i>mark(s)</i> <<a href="http://www.markszine.com/" target="_blank">http://www.markszine.com/</a>><i> </i>and in forthcoming issues of <i>The Siennese Shredder</i>, <i>Model Homes</i>, <i>Van Gogh’s Ear</i>, and <i>Sal Mimeo.</i> Her poems have also appeared in a number of anthologies, among them <i>Nineteen Lines: A Drawing Center Writing Anthology</i>, <i>The Best American Poetry 2004</i>, <i>Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women</i>, <i>From the Other Side of This Century: A New American Poetry, 1960-1990</i>, and <i>In the American Tree</i>. She has spent much of the past three decades working for literary publishers in the San Francisco Bay Area, first as wearer-of-all-hats at Small Press Distribution and currently as associate editor of the journal <i>Representations</i>, published by the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:placename st="on">California Press</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Alan Bernheimer</span> was born a New Yorker in 1948. Coastal inclination since. <st1:place st="on">Europe</st1:place> before the age of reason. Graduated from <span class="yshortcuts"><span id="lw_1213046890_0">Yale</span></span> in 1970 and worked with words at various jobs. High-tech marketing for a long spell. A San Francisco Bay Area resident for thirty-some years. His most recent book is <i>Billionesque</i> (The Figures, 1999). Actor, playwright, director with SF Poets Theater in early 1980s and again more recently. Produced poetry radio show on KPFA 1979-80, <i>In the American Tree</i>. Literary nonprofit board member, currently Small Press Distribution. Heaven on earth: <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:City>.</p>artifact reading serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265222119719560324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12651507.post-40404974926136454782008-05-07T16:50:00.000-07:002008-05-14T11:54:34.580-07:00Artifact & Nonsite Collective present...<a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PUz3Tw-2l8A/SCY2EUh0B2I/AAAAAAAAAF4/UWNufKR8Skw/s1600-h/may+2008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PUz3Tw-2l8A/SCY2EUh0B2I/AAAAAAAAAF4/UWNufKR8Skw/s400/may+2008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198902267703723874" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Saturday, May 24th<br /><br />Michael BASINSKI<br />Jeanne HEUVING<br />David LARSEN<br /><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /><!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="">Please note our new earlier time:</span></b></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />6PM, Reading begins promptly at 6:30PM<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">$5 suggested donation<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.oaklandartgallery.org/about/?directions"><u1:p style="font-weight: bold;"></u1:p><st1:place st="on"><b><st1:placename st="on">Oakland</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Art</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Gallery</st1:placename></b></st1:place></a><br /><st1:placename st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Frank</st1:placename></st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Ogawa</st1:placename></st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on"><st1:placetype st="on">Plaza</st1:placetype><br /></st1:placetype>199 Kahn’s Alley<br /><st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Oakland</st1:city></st1:place> <st1:state st="on"><st1:state st="on">CA</st1:state></st1:state> <st1:postalcode st="on"><st1:postalcode st="on">94612</st1:postalcode></st1:postalcode><o:p></o:p></st1:city></st1:place></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="">BIOS</span></b></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="">Michael Basinski</span></b></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> is The Curator of The Poetry Collection State University of New York at <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Buffalo</st1:place></st1:city></st1:place></st1:city>. He performs his work as a solo poet and in ensemble with BuffFluxus. Among his many books of poetry are <i>Of Venus 93</i> (Little Scratch Pad); <i>All My Eggs Are Broken</i> (BlazeVox); <i>Heka</i> (Factory School); <i>Strange Things Begin to Happen When a Meteor Crashes in the Arizona Desert</i> (Burning Press); <i>The Idyllic Book</i> (Michel Letko, Houston, Texas); <i>Mool, Mool3Ghosts and Shards of Shampoo</i> (Bob Cobbing's Writers Forum); <i>Cnyttan and Heebie-Jeebies</i> (Meow Press); <i>By and The Doors</i> (House Press); <i>Un-Nome, Red Rain Two, Abzu and Flight to the Moon</i> (Run Away Spoon Press): Poemeserss (Structum Press) and many more. See (or hear): RadioRadio on UBUWEB (see Basinski and BuffFluxus). His poems and other works have appeared in <i>Dandelion, BoxKite, Antennae, Unbearables Magazine, Open Letter, Torgue, Leopold Bloom, Wooden Head Review, Basta, Kiosk, Explosive Magazine, Deluxe Rubber Chicken, First Offense, Terrible Work, Juxta, Kenning, Witz, Lungfull, Lvng, Generator, Tinfish, Curicule Patterns, Score, Unarmed, Rampike, First Intensity, House Organ, Ferrum Wheel, End Note, Ur Vox, Damn the Caesars, Pilot, 1913, Filling Station, Public Illumination</i> and in others.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><u1:p></u1:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><u1:p><span style=""> <o:p></o:p></span></u1:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="">Jeanne Heuving</span></b></span><span style="font-size:100%;">'s cross genre <i>Incapacity </i>(Chiasmus Press) won a 2004 Book of the Year Award from Small Press Traffic, and her book of poems <i>Transducer</i> (Chax Press) is just out. She has published multiple critical pieces on avant garde and innovative writers, including the book <i>Omissions Are Not Accidents: Gender in the Art of Marianne Moore.</i> She is concluding work on a new critical manuscript, <i>The Transmutation of Love in Twentieth Century Poetry</i>, which focuses on the poetics of Pound, H.D., and Robert Duncan as well as several contemporary poets. She is a member of the Subtext Collective, on the editorial advisory board of HOW2, and is a professor in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences program at the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placetype st="on"><st1:place st="on"><st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> of <st1:placename st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Washington</st1:placename></st1:placename></st1:placetype></st1:place>, Bothell and in the graduate program in English at UW, Seattle. She is the recipient of grants from the Fulbright Foundation, NEH, and UW Simpson Humanities Center. In 2003, she was the H.D. Fellow at the Beinecke Library at <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on"><st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Yale</st1:placename></st1:place> <st1:placetype st="on"><st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:placetype></st1:placename></st1:place>.<u1:p><br /><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /><!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></u1:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="">David Larsen</span></b></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> has been self-publishing his poetry in the Bay Area for 15 years. From 1999-2002 he co-edited the <i>San Jose Manual of Style</i>, and was a curator of the New Yipes film and poetry series during its 2005-2007 run. A collection of his poetry called <i>The Thorn</i> (Faux) came out in 2005, and his translation of <i>Names of the Lion</i> by Ibn Khalawayh will appear soon from Atticus/Finch. This summer, David leaves <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">San Francisco</st1:place></st1:city></st1:place></st1:city> for the state where he was born in 1970.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><u1:p></u1:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />also...<br /><br /><b>Salon with Michael Basinski</b><br /><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Sunday May 25th<br />7:00-9:00 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Please email Tanya Hollis for street address at <a href="mailto:tanya@tanyahollis.com" target="_blank">tanya@tanyahollis.com</a><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Come meet Michael Basinksi, visual-performance-fluxus etc. poet and curator, in the wake of the May 24 Artifact reading.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Archival materials will be on display in Tanya's studio for your enjoyment--and you can touch them too! :)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p face="trebuchet ms"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>artifact reading serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265222119719560324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12651507.post-35882087900124413402008-04-23T23:05:00.000-07:002008-04-23T21:22:49.409-07:00Artifact : 4.26.08 : Armantrout : Giscombe : Warren<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PUz3Tw-2l8A/R_Kc7z9LXKI/AAAAAAAAAFw/69kKvR2-ZX8/s1600-h/ARTIFACT+4.26+small.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PUz3Tw-2l8A/R_Kc7z9LXKI/AAAAAAAAAFw/69kKvR2-ZX8/s400/ARTIFACT+4.26+small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184378672429882530" border="0" /></a><br /><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Artifact presents:<br /><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Rae ARMANTROUT<br />C.S. GISCOMBE<br />Alli WARREN<br /><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Saturday, April 26, 2008<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">***Please note our new earlier time:</b><br />6PM, Reading begins promptly at 6:30PM</p><p class="MsoNormal">$5 suggested donation</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p style="font-weight: bold;"> ***New Location:</o:p><br /><st1:place st="on"><a href="http://www.oaklandartgallery.org/about/?directions"><st1:placename st="on"><b style="">Oakland</b></st1:placename><b style=""> <st1:placename st="on">Art</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Gallery</st1:placename></b></a><br /><st1:placename st="on">Frank</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Ogawa</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Plaza</st1:placetype></st1:place><br />199 Kahn’s Alley<br /><st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Oakland</st1:city> <st1:state st="on">CA</st1:state> <st1:postalcode st="on">94612</st1:postalcode></st1:place></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Bios</b><o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Rae Armantrout’s</b> most recent book of poetry, <i>Next Life</i> (Wesleyan, 2007), was chosen as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2007 by The New York Times. Other recent books include <i>Collected Prose</i> (Singing Horse, 2007), <i>Up to Speed</i> (Wesleyan, 2004), <i>The Pretext </i>(Green Integer, 2001), and <i>Veil: New and Selected Poems</i> (Wesleyan University Press, 2001). Her poems have been included in anthologies such as <i>Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology </i>(1993), <i>American Women Poets in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century: Where Language Meets the Lyric Tradition</i>, <i>(</i>Wesleyan, 2002), <i>The Oxford Book of American Poetry </i>(Oxford, 2006) and <i>The Best American Poetry </i>of 1988, 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2007.. In 2007 she received an award in poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Armantrout is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename st="on">California</st1:placename>, <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">San Diego</st1:city></st1:place>.<br /><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">C.S Giscombe </b>was born in <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Dayton</st1:city>, <st1:state st="on">Ohio</st1:state></st1:place>. Later he attended the State University of New York at <st1:city st="on">Albany</st1:city> and <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Cornell</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>.<span style=""> </span>He currently teaches at <st1:city st="on">Berkeley</st1:city> and has <span style=""> </span><br />taught previously at <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Penn State</st1:city>, <st1:state st="on">Illinois</st1:state></st1:place> State, Cornell, among others. Giscombe also worked as editor of Epoch magazine throughout the 80s. His books are <i style="">Postcards, Here, <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Giscome Road</st1:address></st1:street>, <span style=""> </span>Into and Out of Dislocation</i> (FSG/ North Point) and his newest book, <i style="">Prairie Style</i> will be out from Dalky Archive in Fall 2008. Giscombe was the recipient of <span style=""> </span>the Carl Sandburg Award for <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Giscome Road</st1:address></st1:street> and grants and fellowships from the NEA, the Illinois Arts Council, the Fund for Poetry, the Council for the International Exchange for Scholars, etc. <span style=""> </span>He is also a long-distance cyclist.<br /><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Alli Warren</b> was born a Reagan baby and raised in the smog and wind of the <st1:place st="on">San Fernando Valley</st1:place>. Duration Press recently published <i>NO CAN DO</i>. <i> </i>Other chapbooks include <i>COUSINS </i>(Lame House Press), <i>HOUNDS</i>, <i>Yoke </i>(Faux Press), and <i>Schema</i> (House Press)<i>. </i>Alli lives in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">San Francisco</st1:place></st1:city>, works at Small Press Distribution, and co-curates The New Reading Series at 21 Grand.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>artifact reading serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265222119719560324noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12651507.post-42387234184250005192008-04-23T09:59:00.000-07:002008-04-23T10:04:08.931-07:00New Yorker: Armantroutonly Rae Armantrout could get a poem not about sailboats in the <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/04/07/080407po_poem_armantrout">New Yorker </a>(April 7, 2008)<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Integer</span><br /><br /><div id="articletext"> <p>1.</p> <p>One what?<br /></p> <p>One grasp?<br /><br />No hands. </p> <p>No collection<br /></p> <p>of stars. Something dark<br /></p> <p>pervades it.</p><p><br /></p> <p> </p> <p>2.</p> <p>Metaphor<br />is ritual sacrifice.</p> <p>It kills the look-alike.</p> <p><br />No,<br />metaphor is homeopathy.</p> <p><br />A healthy cell<br />exhibits contact inhibition.</p><p><br /></p> <p> </p> <p>3.</p> <p>These temporary credits<br />will no longer be reflected<br />in your next billing period.</p><p><br /></p> <p> </p> <p>4.</p> <p>“Dark” meaning<br />not reflecting,</p> <p>not amenable<br />to suggestion.</p><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p> </div>artifact reading serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265222119719560324noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12651507.post-15752936648730444562008-04-21T22:38:00.000-07:002008-04-21T22:50:10.153-07:00sneak peek for may 24th...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.hallwalls.org/perf-lit-images/MikeBasinski.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.hallwalls.org/perf-lit-images/MikeBasinski.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/110/284395649_ed12efa8b5_b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/110/284395649_ed12efa8b5_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://jacketmagazine.com/px-writers/heuving-jean.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 349px;" src="http://jacketmagazine.com/px-writers/heuving-jean.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>artifact reading serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265222119719560324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12651507.post-31637717386468787682008-04-20T22:27:00.000-07:002008-04-21T22:38:10.345-07:00Repost: Help Tom Clark<span style="font-weight: bold;">I'm reposting this from Dale Smith's blog because Tom Clark's in some dire straits after the collapse of New College...</span><br /><br />Tom Clark needs your help. He is stranded with no salary and no medical insurance to cover costs due to a recent stroke. He also needs funds for medications to aid in the recovery of his wife, Angelica Clark, from surgery on her hip.<br /><br />After 25 years on the faculty of the New College of California’s Poetics Program, payment on his salary and his insurance was abruptly stopped when the school came under scrutiny of federal and state auditors last fall.<br /><br />Tom Clark has been an important voice in postwar American poetry since the 1960s. For a decade he was the poetry editor for The Paris Review. His many books appeared with Black Sparrow for nearly thirty years, and his biographies of Jack Kerouac, Charles Olson, and Edward Dorn have provided essential perspectives on the lives of these New American authors. He is a passionate and devoted teacher who deserves far greater recognition for his services to American poetry communities.<br /><br />He needs your help now.<br /><br />There will be a Tom Clark benefit reading in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, April 26, at 7 pm. A painting by Austin painter Philip Trussell will be auctioned, and broadsides and chapbooks by Clark will be available for purchase. Sliding scale donations are required at the door. Beer and wine will be available. All proceeds will be directed to Clark.<br /><br />I am collecting donations as well from those of you outside of Austin who are willing to contribute. Please send what you can immediately to:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tom Clark</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">c/o Dale Smith</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2925 Higgins Street</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Austin, Texas 78722 </span><br /><br />*<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Background to the Situation</span><br /><br />When the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) put the New College of California on probation in July 2007, I wondered what would happen to that 37-year-old institution. By November, the federal Department of Education refused to release $3 million in financial aid. That month, the school stopped paying faculty salaries. Since then, the school has lost its accreditation and it has closed doors indefinitely, stranding many former instructors with no income and a loss of health benefits. A <a style="color: rgb(204, 255, 255);" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/28/BAT3V9LUJ.DTL"><i>February 28 article in the San Francisco Chronicle</i></a> provides more details.<br /><br />With Hoa Nguyen, Renee Gladman, Leslie Davis, Jeff Conant, Michael Price, and others, I attended the college in the mid 1990s, studying in the Poetics Program with David Meltzer, Lyn Hejinian, Gloria Frym, Adam Cornford, and Tom Clark. It’s a drag to think of that program’s disintegration, particularly since luminaries such as Robert Duncan, Joanne Kyger, and Diane di Prima had taught there over the years too.<br /><br />I remember hearing Clark Coolidge, Lorenzo Thomas, Alice Notley, Barbara Guest, and others read there over the years, and I recall the cultural, material, and historic grounding of study in poetics at that time.<br /><br />The attraction to the program centered on the fact that faculty in the Poetics Program were all poets, and yet instead of teaching in the traditional workshop format, instructors taught courses in poetics and in the material production of poetry.<br /><br />My first semester included classes in Shelley, Backgrounds to Romantic Culture, and Lyn Hejinian’s class in poetic theory called, “The Language of Paradise.” Other semesters focused on Early Modern, Modernist, and American Renaissance periods, providing students with a thorough grounding in the theoretical, historical, and material backgrounds to the periods studied.<br /><br />One semester I took Hejinian’s class on Stein, Clark’s on Olson, and Meltzer’s class on backgrounds to modernism, in which we read about John Reed, the IWW, and other revolutionary social movements that joined art and politics to influence change. I also was fortunate enough to study the art of letterpress printing with Jeff Conant.<br /><br />Students were engaged with the creative possibility provided through poetry, and we worked to discover ways to increase our awareness of the art through study, conversation, and learning the skills necessary to publish magazines and chapbooks on our own. We learned how to extend conversations in poetry to existing audiences. And we learned how to listen to the ongoing dialogues that compose much of the contemporary verse we discovered in California and beyond at that time.<br /><br />My years at New College grounded me in a serious education from which I could move forward on my own once the formal course work had been completed. I wrote a thesis on Philip Whalen, took my degree, and moved to Austin, where, with Hoa Nguyen, we began to produce magazines, books, essays, poetry, and host readings. New College’s emphasis on the material production of the poem as a social tool of engagement stuck with me. And as testament to the concreteness of this plan of study provided by New College, I was later accepted to a PhD program at the University of Texas based on this prior period of study and the resulting years of production.<br /><br />By academic standards, the school was funky. But in terms of what was provided intellectually and creatively, it was essential and instructive.<br /><br />Help those who have seen their livelihood damaged by the mismanagement of New College administration.<br /><br />Send what you can today.<br /><br />Please help Tom Clark.artifact reading serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265222119719560324noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12651507.post-25255325567539226142008-04-18T11:03:00.000-07:002008-04-18T11:05:54.782-07:00The (New) Reading Series @ 21 Grand: Sunday, 4.20 : Myles & Nicoloff<b>The (New) Reading Series @ 21 Grand<br />Sunday, April 20, 2008<br />6:30 pm // $3</b><br /><strong></strong><br /><br /><strong>Eileen Myles & Michael Nicoloff </strong><br /><br />LIVE @ <em>21 Grand<br />416 25th St at Broadway</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_clQnjBe_mD4/R_al_qqZRPI/AAAAAAAAACo/6Wxbja2C3B0/s1600-h/eileen-book-case-lrg.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185514534166152434" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_clQnjBe_mD4/R_al_qqZRPI/AAAAAAAAACo/6Wxbja2C3B0/s320/eileen-book-case-lrg.jpg" border="0" /></a>EILEEN MYLES was born in Cambridge, MA in 1949. In 1974, she moved to New York where she studied poetry with Paul Violi, Alice Notley and Ted Berrigan. Her latest book is Sorry, Tree in which she describes "some nature" as well as the transmigration of souls from the east coast to the west. Bust Magazine calls Myles "the rock star of modern poetry" and Holland Cotter in The New York Times describes her as "a cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant garde." She has been a professor of writing at UCSD since 2002.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.eileenmyles.com/home.html">All Things Myles</a><br /><br /><a href="http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_archive.html#111085328103289938">CA Conrad talks with Eileen Myles</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_clQnjBe_mD4/R_amZ6qZRQI/AAAAAAAAACw/kMDbFRDbE20/s1600-h/nicoloff.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185514985137718530" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_clQnjBe_mD4/R_amZ6qZRQI/AAAAAAAAACw/kMDbFRDbE20/s320/nicoloff.jpg" border="0" /></a>MICHAEL NICOLOFF is the author of the chapbook "'Punks'" which was put out in print form by Taxt Press in 2007 and can now be found on the website <a href="http://www.deepoakland.org/">Deep Oakland</a>. His poetry and reviews have appeared in such fine publications as The Recluse, Mirage #4/Period(ical), The Orgasm Zine, and Traffic. Born and raised in Olympia, WA, he has hopped between coasts for the last several years. Right now, though, he lives on Alcatraz--the street--in Oakland, CA.artifact reading serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265222119719560324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12651507.post-28374268416008792772008-04-10T13:54:00.000-07:002008-04-10T13:56:34.169-07:00SPD: OPEN HOUSE : 4.12.08<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://spdbooks.org/Images/ohs2008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://spdbooks.org/Images/ohs2008.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Small Press Distribution</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> Spring Open House & Book Sale</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Saturday, April 12th</span><br />12 Noon - 4PM<br /><br />20-5-% off all books!<br />Readings at 2PM<br /><br />Poetry Trading Post<br />Trade a poem or story for a fee book!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Joanne Kyger</span>, Bay Area master poet, has two recent books. About Now:<br />Collected Poems and Not Veracruz. She lives in Bolinas.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Marjorie Welish</span> is a poet, painter, teacher and art critic. Her most<br />recent book Isle of the Signatories is just out from Coffee House.<br />She lives in New York.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Taylor Brady </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rob Halpern</span> are the co-authors of Snow Sensitive<br />Skin, from which they'll read together at this event. Brady is an<br />education activist and the author of several books, most recently<br />Occupational Treatment. Halpern is a teacher and the author of<br />Rumored Place. Both are active in the Nonsite Collective and live in<br />San Francisco.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Free & Open to All!</span><br /><br />SPD<br />1341 7th St. (@ Gilman)<br />Berkeley, CA<br />510-524-1668artifact reading serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265222119719560324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12651507.post-14278172385375763422008-04-01T11:08:00.000-07:002008-04-01T11:07:13.668-07:00Pegasus : 4.4.08 : Vitiello & Burger<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" >READING AT PEGASUS BOOKS<br /><br />Poets CHRIS VITIELLO & MARY BURGER<br /><br />Friday, April 4th, 7:30 pm<br />Free!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" >Chris is visiting from <st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on">North Carolina</st1:state></st1:place>. His 2nd book, <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/vitiello/vitiello.htm">Irresponsibility</a>, was recently released from Ahsahta Press.<br /><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /><!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" >Mary lives in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Oakland</st1:place></st1:city> and is the author of <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Details.asp?BookID=0976582007"><span style="font-style: italic;">Sonny </span></a>(Leon Works) & co-edited <a href="http://spdbooks.org/Details.asp?BookID=1552451429"><span style="font-style: italic;">Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative</span></a>. She also edits <a href="http://www.2ndstorybooks.com/index.htm">Second Story Books</a>.<br /><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /><!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" >Pegasus Books Downtown<br />2349 Shattuck Avenue, <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Berkeley</st1:place></st1:city><br />(510) 649-1320. <o:p></o:p></span></p>artifact reading serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265222119719560324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12651507.post-83432384244164862882008-03-27T16:17:00.000-07:002008-03-27T16:23:36.189-07:00photos from Artifact : 3.22.08 : Buuck : Perez : Scalapino<div style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3211/2367087860_b93e34b863.jpg?v=0"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3211/2367087860_b93e34b863.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /></a>Craig Santos Perez reads<br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" > <br /></span><div style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2023/2367092742_c8767c65fd.jpg?v=0"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2023/2367092742_c8767c65fd.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2026/2367090060_b50a9a439d.jpg?v=0"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2026/2367090060_b50a9a439d.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:130%;">David Buuck performs<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2088/2366260107_692a964165.jpg?v=0"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2088/2366260107_692a964165.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /></a>Leslie Scalapino reads<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span>artifact reading serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265222119719560324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12651507.post-65858897763857313422008-03-24T15:42:00.000-07:002008-03-24T15:49:06.951-07:00yay!<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >hey all! I just want to say that Saturday's reading was a blast! the gallery is a great space, the directors are amazing, craig perez & leslie scalapino's readings & david buuck's performance were </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >spectacular & everything went swimmingly. there was even a whole slew of cute poet babies! </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >if you weren't there, too bad for you. definitely come on over for our April 26th reading with RAE ARMANTROUT, CS GISCOMBE, & ALLI WARREN! </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >hello, with a fantastic line up like that, how could you miss it???</span>artifact reading serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265222119719560324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12651507.post-59920131040542002792008-02-25T13:36:00.000-08:002008-03-20T11:13:20.364-07:00Artifact : 3 . 22. 08 : Buuck : Perez : Scalapino<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PUz3Tw-2l8A/R8R2ee9gqZI/AAAAAAAAAE4/NFWfXygcyLk/s1600-h/Artifact+3.22.08.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PUz3Tw-2l8A/R8R2ee9gqZI/AAAAAAAAAE4/NFWfXygcyLk/s320/Artifact+3.22.08.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171388538207381906" border="0" /></a></span><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="">Artifact presents</span></b></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">David BUUCK<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Craig Santos PEREZ<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Leslie SCALAPINO<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Saturday, March 22, 2008</span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">PLEASE NOTE OUR EARLIER START TIME:<br />6PM Doors, 6:30 Readings begin</span></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">$5 donation at the door (no one turned away for lack of funds)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ALSO NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION!</span><br /><a href="http://www.oaklandartgallery.org/home.asp">Oakland Art Gallery</a><br />Frank Ogawa Plaza<br />199 Kahn's Alley<br /><st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Oakland</st1:city>, <st1:state st="on">CA</st1:state> <st1:postalcode st="on">94612</st1:postalcode></st1:place></span></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><st1:place st="on"><st1:postalcode st="on"></st1:postalcode></st1:place>Just steps away from <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">12th Street</st1:address></st1:street> BART: Use the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza exit.<br /></span></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Directions may be found <a href="http://www.oaklandartgallery.org/about/?directions">here.</a></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Parking is free!!!</span> & available at the following locations:</span> <ul style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><li><span style="font-size:130%;">Dalziel Building (250 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza) Parking Garage (entrance on 16th Street at Clay Street) </span></li><li><span style="font-size:130%;">Clay Street Garage (entrance on Clay Street between 14th and 15th Streets, behind City Hall) </span></li><li><span style="font-size:130%;">City Center Garage (entrance on 11th Street between Clay Street and Broadway; also entrance on 14th Street) </span></li></ul> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b>BIOS</b></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">David Buuck</span> is a Contributing Editor at <i>Artweek,</i> and a founding editor of <i>Tripwire.</i> His ongoing project BARGE, the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics, will be organizing (de)tours this summer as part of the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on"><st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Yerba</st1:placename></st1:place> <st1:placename st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Buena</st1:placename></st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on"><st1:placetype st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:placetype></st1:placename></st1:place>'s Bay Area Now exhibition. Recent and forthcoming publications include <i>Ruts, Runts, Between Above & Below, Paranoia Agent, Unmapped Landscapes, </i>and<i> The Suck</i>. He teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute, and lives in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Oakland</st1:place></st1:city></st1:place></st1:city>.<br /><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><!--[endif]--><u1:p><o:p></o:p></u1:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Craig Santos Perez</span>, a native Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guam, has lived in <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state></st1:place></st1:state> since 1995. He is a co-founder of Achiote Press and author of several chapbooks, including <i>constellations gathered along the ecliptic</i> (Shadowbox Press, 2007), <i>all with ocean views</i> (Overhere Press, 2007), and <i>preterrain </i>(Corollary Press, 2008). His first book, <i>from unincorporated territory</i>, is forthcoming this year from Tinfish Press. His poetry, essays, reviews, and translations have appeared (or are forthcoming) in <i>New American Writing, Pleiades, The <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Denver</st1:place></st1:city></st1:city></st1:place> Quarterly, Jacket, Sentence,</i> and <i>Rain Taxi,</i> among others.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><u1:p></u1:p></span> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><u1:p></u1:p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Leslie Scalapino</span> is the author of thirty books of poetry, inter-genre or fictional prose, plays and criticism. Among recent books of poetry is: <i>Day Ocean State of Stars' Night</i> (published by Green Integer in 2007). New from UC Press, <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on"><st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Berkeley</st1:city></st1:place></st1:place></st1:city>, is: <i>It's go in horizontal/Selected Poems 1974-2006</i>. She taught for fifteen years in the <st1:placename st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Bard</st1:placename></st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on"><st1:placetype st="on">College</st1:placetype></st1:placetype> summer MFA program, this year is teaching at <st1:placename st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Mills</st1:placename></st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on"><st1:placetype st="on">College</st1:placetype></st1:placetype>, where she's also taught in the past---as well as teaching in the past at the San Francisco Art Institute and Otis Art Institute in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">L.A.</st1:place></st1:city></st1:place></st1:city></span></p> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><u1:p></u1:p></span>artifact reading serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265222119719560324noreply@blogger.com0