ARTIFACT: SATURDAY : 2.27: BENKA : GILES: WOLTAG

Please join us on SATURDAY, February 27, 2010

for an evening with:

Jen BENKA
Samantha GILES
Laura WOLTAG

*7PM DOORS | 7:30PM READING BEGINS*
[Show up before 7PM & you'll be lugging chairs!]

Address:
3263 Kempton Ave Oakland CA, 94611

$4 donation requested for the readers.

BYOB

Questions? Comments?
Please contact us at artifactsf@gmail.com.

Jen Benka 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.

Samantha Giles 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.

Laura Woltag 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.


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ARTIFACT : SUNDAY : 11.8 : MUMOLO : WAGNER : WOLFF

Please join us on SUNDAY, November 8th
for an evening with:

Sara MUMOLO
Catherine WAGNER
Rebecca WOLFF

*7PM DOORS | 7:30PM READING BEGINS*

***Please note different day & earlier time of this reading***

Address:
3263 Kempton Ave Oakland CA, 94611

$4 donation requested for the readers.

BYOB

Questions? Comments?
Please contact us at artifactsf@gmail.com.


Sara Mumolo 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.

Catherine Wagner'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.

Rebecca Wolff 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.

We're BACK : 10.23.09 : CROSS : STAITI : YANKELEVICH

Hey Everybody!

Please join us on FRIDAY, October 23rd
for an evening with:

Erika STAITI
Matvei YANKELEVICH
Michael CROSS

*7:30 DOORS | 8PM READING BEGINS*
[Show up before 7:30 & you'll be lugging chairs & making punch!]

Address & Directions:
3263 Kempton Ave Oakland CA, 94611

$4 donation requested for the readers.

BYOB

Questions? Comments?
Please contact us at artifactsf@gmail.com.

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.

ERIKA STAITI lives in North Oakland where she watches many movies on her 12 inch laptop with crappy speakers.

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 : 7.11.09 : KENOWER : NEALON : HEJINIAN

Dear Friends,

Please join us on Saturday, July 11th
for an evening

w/

Lyn HEJINIAN
Andrew KENOWER
Chris NEALON

*7:30 DOORS | 8PM READING BEGINS* [Show up before 7:30 & you'll be lugging chairs & making punch!]

Address & Directions:

3263 Kempton Ave Oakland CA, 94611

*Carpooling from BART can be arranged. *

$3 donation requested for the readers.

BYOB

Questions? Comments?
Please contact us at artifactsf@gmail.com.

See you then!

Melissa Benham

Michael Nicoloff

Brent Cunningham

ARTIFACT : 5.2.09 : BOLDT : CLOVER : FARMER

ARTIFACT PRESENTS:

Saturday, May 2th at 7PM

Lindsey BOLDT
Joshua CLOVER
Steve FARMER

$3 donation requested for the readers!

BYOB

The address & directions are:
3263 Kempton Ave
Oakland, CA 94611

We will be organizing a few cars to pick up from the Downtown Oakland 19th St. BART at 6:45PM 7:00PM, 7:15PM.

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.

If you're lost & need help finding your way call:
Melissa at 415-517-5176 (however I'll just be asking someone else)
Brent at 415-314-0649

email us at artifactsf@gmail.com if you have any questions!

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.

ARTIFACT : 4.4.09 : FISHER : DAVIDSON : OAKES

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.

Cassandra Smith & her compatriots of The Dollhouse have invited us into their home and for that we are deeply appreciative (& blushing quite a bit)!

We are going to kick it off on:

Saturday, April 4th at 7PM
w/
Kaya OAKES
Dan FISHER
Amanda DAVIDSON
We're going back to our $3 cover-charge (as opposed to $5), as well as our BYOB air!

The address & directions are:
3263 Kempton Ave
Oakland, CA 94611

If you're lost & need help finding your way call:
Melissa at 415-517-5176 (however I'll just be asking someone else)
Brent at 415-314-0649

email us at artifactsf@gmail.com if you have any questions!


BIOS

Amanda Davidson 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 Parted in the Middle. She hopes that by the time you are reading this bio, her website partedinthemiddle.com 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 Digital Artifact Magazine, the Web based, narrative little cousin of the Artifact Reading Series. Look online at digitalartifactmagazine.com for submission details on Issue 3: We Made This for You Out of Nothing.

Dan Fisher 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 Bay Poetics, Viz, Lament, Work, Cricket Online Review, among other places. He also makes collages and drawings under the name Fish Fishtofferson. He's really excited about being back in a house.

Kaya Oakes is the author of Slanted and Enchanted: Indie Culture in America (Henry Holt, 2009), and Telegraph (Pavement Saw Press, 2007). Her poems and essays have previously appeared in Kitchen Sink Magazine, Parthenon West Review, Coconut, Volt, and many other publications. She teaches writing at UC Berkeley. Her website is http://www.oakestown.org.

ARTIFACT & ACHIOTE PRESS

ARTIFACT and ACHIOTE PRESS present...

Scott INGUITO

JTH (Johnny HERNANDEZ)

Margaret RHEE

françois LUONG

Saturday, January 24, 2009
7PM Doors/7:30 Reading

@ Oakland Art Gallery
Frank Ogawa Plaza
199 Kahn's Alley
Oakland Ca 94612

Directions here.

$5 suggested donation

About Achiote Press:

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.

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.

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.

BIOS

Scott Inguito lives in San Francisco, teaches writing in San Jose, and paints in his garage. His most recent writing project, PANDAFUCK, is inspired by the pointless, the ill-tuned yet well-intentioned, the black and white of it all. You can find his paintings at scottinguito.com.

Originally from Strasbourg, France, françois luong currently lives in San Francisco. Other work of his has appeared or is forthcoming in Cannibal, Parthenon West Review, New American Writing, and elsewhere. He is also working on a translation into English of chutes, essais, trafics by Rémi Froger and into French wide slumber for lepidopterists by a.rawlings.

JTH (Johnny Hernandez) is a writer who has been born and raised in and around southern California. JTH currently resides in Emeryville and has been the recent recipient of the Academy of American Poets award for 2008. A recent graduate of the University of California at Berkeley in English, JTH is pursuing an MFA degree from Mills College. Achiote Press published his first collection entitled U.

Margaret Rhee 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 Amerasia Journal; the anthology, Crash Course: Reflections on the Film 'Crash' for Critical Dialogues About Race, Power and Privilege; and the journal, Sexuality Research and Social Policy. Previously she worked as writer and editor in Los Angeles for YOLK Magazine, Chopblock.com, and Back Stage. She earned her BA in creative writing at the University of Southern California, and her MA in Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. She is Kundiman fellow, where in the hot, humid, and gorgeous summers of Virginia, she fell in love with poetry.

ARTIFACT : 11.22.08 : PLACE : PATTERSON : ROBINSON

ARTIFACT presents...

Elizabeth ROBINSON

Vanessa PLACE

G.E. PATTERSON

Saturday, November 22, 2008
7PM Doors/7:30 Reading

@ Oakland Art Gallery
Frank Ogawa Plaza
199 Kahn's Alley
Oakland Ca 94612

Directions here.

$5 suggested donation

Bios

A veteran of the slam-poetry scene, G.E. Patterson was a featured poet-performer in New York’s Panasonic Village Jazz Fest. He is also the author of two poetry collections, Tug (Graywolf Press) and To and From (Ahsahta Press). His writing can be found in several magazines and anthologies, including 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, and St. Mark’s Poetry Project’s Poets and Poems. After living for several years in the Northeast and on the West Coast, G.E. Patterson now makes his home in Minnesota, where he teaches.

Vanessa Place is a writer, lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press. She is the author of Dies: A Sentence (Les Figues Press), a 50,000-word, one-sentence novella; the post-conceptual novel La Medusa (Fiction Collective 2), and, in collaboration with appropriation poet Robert Fitterman, Notes on Conceptualisms (Ugly Duckling Presse (December 2008)). Her nonfiction book, The Guilt Project: Rape and Morality will be published by Other Press in 2010. Place is also a regular contributor to X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, 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.”

Elizabeth Robinson's most recent books are Inaudible Trumpeters (Harbor Mountain Press) and, if I am lucky, The Orphan & Its Relations, hot off the press from Fence. Robinson has been a recipient of grants from the Fund for Poetry and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She has also been a winner of the National Poetry Series and the Fence Modern Poets Prize. Her work is forthcoming in The Best of Fence: the first nine years and American Hybrid, a Norton anthology. Robinson is a co-editor of EtherDome Chapbooks and Instance Press.

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ARTIFACT : 10.25.08 : FRASER : LEDERER : SKINKER

Artifact presents...

Kathleen FRASER
Katy LEDERER
Will SKINKER

Saturday, October 25, 2008
7PM Doors/7:30 Reading*** (note new time!)

@ Oakland Art Gallery
Frank Ogawa Plaza
199 Kahn's Alley
Oakland Ca 94612

http://www.oaklandartgallery.org/about_new/?directions

$5 suggested donation

BIOS

Kathleen Fraser has published eighteen books of poems, most recently W I T N E S S (2007, Chax); Discrete Categories Forced Into Coupling (2004, Apogee), and the collaged work hi dde violeth i dde violet (2004, Nomados). Her collected essays, Translating the Unspeakable, Poetry and the Innovative Necessity (2000), are part of the Contemporary Poetics Series. U. of Alabama Press. Her il cuore : the heart, 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 ii ss, a collaboration-in-progress with NY painter Hermine Ford, were recently shown at the Pratt Institute of Architecture in Rome and a capsule version of this show will open at Melville House, in the Dumbo gallery area of Brooklyn, on Nov. 6.

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In 1973, Fraser founded The American Poetry Archive, during her tenure as Director of The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. Between 1983 and 1992, she published and edited HOW(ever), a journal for poets and scholars interested in modernist/ innovative directions in writing by 20th century women—up-dated to the current electronic journal How2 @ www.how2journal.com

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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 California College of the Arts/SF and lives for the spring months of each year in Italy, lecturing widely on American poetry and translating Italian poets.

Katy Lederer is the author of the poetry collections, Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and The Heaven-Sent Leaf (BOA Editions, 2008) as well as the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (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.

Her poems and prose have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, The Paris Review, GQ, and elsewhere. She has been anthologized in Body Electric (Norton), From Poe to the Present: Great American Prose Poems (Scribner), and Isn't It Romantic? (Verse Press) among other compilations.

Educated at the University of California at Berkeley and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she serves as a Poetry Editor of Fence Magazine. 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.



Will Skinker's work has appeared in Weigh Station, Mirage/Periodical, Shuffle Boil, Ellipsis, word for/word, digital artifact, and The Denver Quarterly; his poems have been in The Night Palace and Morning Train from Auguste Press, which has also recently published his book Mascara.

He grew up in the mountains of Virginia and moved to Oregon, then California in 2000. He lives in San Francisco with his fiancee Yolanda and their two cats, Tootie and Pablo.