Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Thurs. Koeneke's Musee Mechanique Release Reading

Dear Friends,

A brief reminder that this Thursday is the release party for my new
book, Musee Mechanique. Details below--hope you can make it.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12 @ 7:30 p.m.
Modern Times Bookstore (888 Valencia bet. 19th & 20th)

RODNEY KOENEKE
A Release Party in celebration of his new book of poems, Musee
Mechanique

with Ecstatic Monkey members KAYA OAKES and HL HAZUKA

http://www.ecstaticmonkey.com/events.htm
http://www.mtbs.com/events.html
http://www.spdbooks.org/Details.asp?BookID=0975922807

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Ellipsis Magazine Reading @ New College Oct. 8

Ellipsis Magazine Ruling the Bay

Sunday, October 8th
7:00 PM

at the Creamery at the New College of California
780 Valencia St.
San Francisco, CA 94110

Readers:

Neeelanjana Banerjee
Will Skinker III
Ryan Newton
Paul Corman Roberts
Jacqueline Motzer


Artwork:

Stacy Elaine Dacheux

Friday, September 22, 2006

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


THE ARTIFACT READING SERIES PRESENTS

READINGS BY:

Bhanu KAPIL
Bill LUOMA
Elizabeth TREADWELL

Artwork by:
David LARSEN

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

2921B Folsom St. @ 25th
SF CA 94110



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

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

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

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


BYOB

MORE INFO

artifactsf@gmail.com
www.artifactsf.org

BIOS


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

Bill Luoma is the author of Works & Days, Dear Dad and the unpublished sound sequence Some Math.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

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

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



Friday, September 01, 2006

Fundraising & our calendar for 2006

Dear Friends,

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

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

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

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

Here’s the calendar for the next three months…

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks again for your help and support!

xo,

Chana & Melissa




ARTIFACT : 9.16.06 : Caples : Joron : Sirois : Evans























The Artifact Reading Series presents


Readings by:

Garrett Caples
Andrew Joron
Justin Sirois

Artwork by:
Renee Evans

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

2921B Folsom St. @ 25th
SF CA 94110


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

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


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

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


BYOB

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

INFO
artifactsf@gmail.com

www.artifactsf.org
415.647.7689


BIOS

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

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

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

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


Thursday, August 31, 2006

New Yipes: 9/17 : Reddin : Apps : Nath

7 pm
Sunday 9/17
at 21 GRAND
416 25th St @ B'way
6 blocks north of 19th St BART
Oakland, CA
where for lack of $4
none will be turned away

Brought to you by Ugly Duckling Presse:

Elizabeth Reddin is a recorded talking thoughts performer who lives in Brooklyn,
New York City. She also plays music in a story band called LEGENDS. She
teaches math and reading classes to adults who are working on getting their GED.
Her record label, Deerhead Records, will soon be releasing, with the help of UDP
and the universe, a live recording of Midwinter Day by Bernadette Mayer.

Stan Apps is a poet and essayist from Los Angeles. His chapbook Soft Hands
was published by Ugly Duckling Presse and is now sold out. Upcoming books
include a full-length collection, Info Ration, from Make Now Press, and a chapbook,
Princess of the World in Love, from Cy Press. Stan's writing has appeared in
Combo, PomPom, Greeting, Mirage/Periodical, New York Nights and elsewhere.
Stan co-organizes the Last Sunday of the Month reading series at the Smell, and
co-edits, with Mathew Timmons, a fledging chapbook press called Insert Press.
Stan posts essays and provisional thoughts at his blog Refried Oracle Phone at
http://oracularvaginatakesherplace.blogspot.com .

Kirthi Nath, a South Asian American artist, explores issues of identity, memory,
and desire in a body of work that speechlessly widens gestures of love. On 9/17
she screens "Letting Go" (shot on location in San Francisco and Torrance) and
"Come On, Big Empty" (made in collaboration with Amanda Davidson). Her films
have shown in several festivals and events including the Moondance International
Women's Festival, the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival, Ladyfest
(Olympia, Scotland, Bay Area and Texas), and a solo show at The Yerba Buena
Center for the Arts. Her writing has appeared in Interlope, Berkeley Poetry Review,
and 30 ft. Honey Slick. Nath completed her MFA in Visual Arts at UC San Diego
and currently lives in San Francisco where she teaches video production and
distribution to youth at the Bay Area Video Coalition. She also has an intense
passion for ladybugs and swimming.

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IN THE CARDS:

October 29: Stacy Doris, Tyrone Williams, and video by Karla Milosevich

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

The Lab: Poetry Marathon: 8/12

The LAB presents

The 2006 Bay Area Summer Poetry Marathon

Saturday, August 12, 7-10 PM
$3-$15 sliding scale admission

This event takes place at The LAB, 2948 16th Street @ Capp, San Francisco

From its inception during the summer of 2000, the Boston Poetry Marathon developed a national reputation among experimental poets. An annual weekend-long event, it featured approximately 40 readers (poets primarily but also artists from mixed genres). Everyone, from the distinguished poetic elder to the excited emerging poet, read for 20 minutes each. Boston Marathon readers included Charles Bernstein, Anselm Berrigan, Frank Bidart, Maxine Chernoff, Norma Cole, Robert Creeley, Forrest Gander, Paul Hoover, Fanny Howe, Laura Mullen, Jena Osman, Maureen Owen, Heather Ramsdell, David Shapiro, Tom Sleigh, Juliana Spahr, Cole Swensen, Anne Waldman, John Yau, and many others. When co-founders/co-curators Donna de la Perriere and Joseph Lease moved to the Bay Area in 2003, they moved the Poetry Marathon to San Francisco. A tremendous success, the 2004 and 2005 Bay Area Summer Poetry Marathons took place as four day-long events at The LAB. Each Saturday event featured over 15 readers.

This year, poets from across the U.S. and the Bay Area join together again to celebrate innovative poetry in a series of readings throughout the summer at The LAB. The 2006 Marathon will include established and emerging poets such as Dodie Bellamy, Taylor Brady, Lee Ann Brown, Maxine Chernoff, Diane DiPrima, Edward Foster, Graham Foust, Kathleen Fraser, Gloria Frym, Brenda Hillman, D.A. Powell, Elizabeth Robinson, Truong Tran, and many more.

August 12 readers include:

Julian T. Brolaski
Anna Eyre
Edward Foster
Gloria Frym
Brenda Hillman
D.A. Powell
Elizabeth Robinson

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Canessa Park Reading 8-13-06

Canessa Park Reading Series
708 Montgomery Street @ Columbus
San Francisco, CA
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Time 3 pm.

Come and join us for the triple threat - reading and
book release for Instance Press, Etherdome, and
Woodland Editions:

Beverly Dahlen (Instance Press)

Susanne Dyckman (EtherDome)
Kate Greenstreet (EtherDome)

Todd Melicker (Woodland Editions)
Brian Teare (Woodland Editions)

Books will be on sale so plan accordingly. This will
be another Canessa Park Event not to be missed...

Robert Duncan said of Beverly Dahlen, "The psychic
life she draws in writing may be drawn from her own
psychic life, but here its body is the text and it
speaks to the psyche of the reader as a reader."
Dahlen is the author of The Egyptian Poems (Hipparchia
Press), Out of the Third (Momo's Press) and 5 volumes
of A Reading, published variously by Momo's Press,
Chax Press, Potes and Poets, and Instance Press. A
native of Oregon, she has lived and worked in San
Francisco for many years.

Susanne Dyckman lives in Albany, CA, where she hosts a
summer backyard reading series. She is the author of
two chapbooks, Transiting Indigo (Etherdome Press) and
Counterweight (Woodland Editions). Her work has most
recently appeared or is forthcoming in the journals
26, Marginalia and First Intensity. A volume of
poetry, equilibrium' s form, will be published by
Shearsman Books, UK, in 2007.

Kate Greenstreet�s chapbook, Learning the Language,
was published by Etherdome Press in 2005. Her first
full-length book, case sensitive, will be out from
Ahsahta Press in September 2006. Visit her online at
www.kickingwind.com.

Todd Melicker is a graduate of the MFA in Writing
Program at the University of San Francisco. His work
has appeared or will appear in Five Fingers Review,
Volt,/ 26/, and /Colorado Review/. He lives in
Santa Rosa, Ca.

The recipient of Stegner, National Endowment for the
Arts, and MacDowell Colony poetry fellowships, Brian
Teare has published poetry in Ploughshares, Boston
Review, Provincetown Arts, VOLT, Verse and The
Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative Poetry, among
other publications. His first book, The Room Where I
Was Born, was winner of the 2003 Brittingham Prize and
the 2004 Triangle Award for Gay Poetry. Author of the
recent chapbooks, Pilgrim and Transcendental Grammar
Crown, he lives in Oakland, CA and is on the graduate
writing faculties of the New College of California and
California College of the Arts

Hope to see you there,
Avery Burns
Literary Director
Canessa Park Reading Series
(20 years young)

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

8/20 New Yipes: Hospodar/Staiti w. films by Enid

at 21 GRAND
416 Twenty-fifth Street
(corner Broadway)
Oakland, California
August 20 | 7 pm | $4 sugg.

YURI HOSPODAR was born in southeast Pennsylvania. He fled as
early as he could to Boston, and continued fleeing to such places
as San Luis Obispo County (gods' country), San Francisco, Prague,
back to SF, back to Boston, and then to San Francisco yet again.
Australia is quite possibly next on the list as his partner is a MARSUPIAL.
His writing has been published in a small book entitled "To You In Your
Closets" (ca. 1990), as well as some delightful anthologies and a magazine
here and there, and has not been published in many, many other places.


ERIKA STAITI grew up on Long Island and then spent four years in
Binghamton NY. Then she drove to the Pacific Northwest to work and
live somewhere nice. Last year she moved to Oakland to do MFA things
at Mills College. When she visits New York she likes to advocate for the
Bay Area. Someday she may go back or maybe she'll just stay here.

SARAH ENID's are in heavy rotation at the Edinburgh Film Castle
(http://www.castlenews.com/FILMPAGE.html), with recent showings at
SF Cinematheque and the Silver Lake Film Festival.

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NEWS OF THE FUTURE

Sept. 17: Ugly Duckling presents ELIZABETH REDDIN and STAN APPS

Oct. 29: TYRONE WILLIAMS reads with STACY DORIS

As revealed on this week's episode of http://newyipes.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

ARTIFACT : 8 . 5 . 06













THE ARTIFACT READING SERIES

SATURDAY, 8.5.06
7:30PM


READINGS BY

Juliana Spahr
Christopher Nealon



WITH ARTWORK BY

Servando Garcia
Manuel Perez
Sandra Miller
Ben Doyle
Joshua Beckman
Megan Breiseth
Scott Inguito


CURATED BY

Scott Inguito

2921B FOLSOM ST. @ 25TH
SF CA 94110

$3 DONATION
BYOB



INFO

artifactsf@gmail.com

www.artifactsf.org

415.647.7689