Artifact : 5.12 : Banerjee : Kaipa : Wilson

Artifact presents . . .

Neelanjana BANERJEE
Summi KAIPA
Emily WILSON

Saturday, May 12, 2007
7:30PM, reading begins at 8PM

2921B Folsom St. @25th St. SF 94110

$5 donation goes to Digital Artifact online magazine - coming in June!

www.artifactsf.org
artifactsf@gmail.com

BIOS

Neelanjana Banerjee's writing has been published in the Asian Pacific American Writers' Journal, Kitchen Sink, Nimrod, Ellipsis, Suspect Thoughts and others. She is putting the finishing touches on her MFA thesis for San Francisco State University, a collection of short fiction entitled "Misbehaving." She also works as an editor and journalist for non-profit media organization New America Media and Hyphen magazine.

Summi Kaipa has authored several chapbooks, including "The Epics" (Leroy Press), "One: I Beg You Be Still" (Belladonna), and most recently "The Language Parable" (Corollary Press). For eight years, she was the editor of Interlope, a magazine publishing innovative writing by Asian Americans, and in 2002, she received a Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize to write and produce her first play. Once a resident of SF's bustling Mission District, Kaipa now resides in a quiet neighborhood in North Berkeley, where she studies for a doctorate in psychology, cooks delicious meals, and makes slow progress on her first full-length manuscript. Occasionally, she emerges from her shell to charm friends and admirers with a benshi or a reading.

Born in NYC and educated at UCBerkeley, Emily Wilson is a visual artist and writer. Chlorine, a photographic/prose collaboration with Amanda Davidson, may be found online at marjoriewoodgallery.com. Emily has shown her paintings at Southern Exposure and The Lab, as well as Portland's Pulliam-Deffenbaugh Gallery; the Mark Wolfe Gallery in San Francisco has scheduled a show of her work in October. Emily is currently working on Failure: A Novel.

SPD's Bee-In! May 14th

Join us for a celebrity spelling bee to support SPD!

Tickets are selling out fast! Don't miss your chance to attend this exciting event with even more spellers added to the roster!

THE BEE-IN, A Spelling Bee to Benefit Small Press Distribution will be an old fashioned spelling bee but with alcohol and more fun! The proceeds will help support the work of SPD, the nation's only remaining non-profit distributor of literary small press books.

Drinks, Nibbles & Spelling!

Monday, May 14th - Crown Point Gallery, 20 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco

Doors Open @ 6:30 (Bee starts at 7:30 and lasts for about an hour)

Cocktails courtesy of Craft Distillers, pouring Hangar One Vodka

MC: NPR commentator Laura Sydell (All Things Considered)

Judge: San Francisco Chronicle Book Editor Oscar Villalon

Spellers (With More to Come!):

• Cookbook guru Mollie Katzen (The Enchanted Broccoli Forest )
• "Sexpert" Susie Bright (Best American Erotica )
• Author and Stanford professor Tobias Wolff (Old School )
• Ex-stripper Stephen Elliott (Happy Baby )
• Jack Spicer biographer and former New York state Spelling Bee champion Kevin Killian (Little Men )
• Political commentator George Lakoff (Don't Think of an Elephant! )
• Former San Francisco Supervisor Matt Gonzalez
• Writers with Drinks diva Charlie Anders (Choir Boy )
• Author and teacher Melanie Abrams (Playing forthcoming from Grove/Atlantic)
• New York Times bestselling novelist Beth Lisick (Everybody Into the Pool )
• "Riot grrrl" Michelle Tea (Rose of No Man's Land ).
• Best-selling fiction writer Daniel Mason (The Piano Tuner )
• Award-winning author Nona Caspers (Heavier than Air )
• Novelist Marc Lecard (Vinnie's Head )
• Novelist, poet, teacher and literary magazine editor Maxine Chernoff (Among the Names )
• Poet and former SPD Board Member Forest Hamer (Rift )
• Cultural leader Penny Cooper
• (NEW!!) Journalist, subculture skipper, and novelist Kemble Scott (SoMa)

General Admission Tickets: $50

Patron Tickets: $250


www.spdbooks.org/bee/

For Directions to Crown Point Gallery, please click here.

Parking: at 5th & Mission garage or at lot on 3rd between Howard & Folsom

10 Brecht Poems as Plays

Here's something you don't see all the time: Brecht's poetry performed dramatically:

April 26-28, 2007
At FURY factory Festival - San Francisco 7 PM

Travelling Jewish Theatre 470 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA
415-626-0453 ext. 108
www.foolsfury.org
$15 General Admission / $12 Student, Senior

10 Brecht Poems will be presented as part of a special NET (Network of Ensemble Theatres) weekend. This festival within a festival will feature performances, workshops and panels focused on the growing cultural movement of ensemble theatre in America. A full NET weekend pass is available.

Friday, 4.27 : kari edwards memorial

Frances Blau, Marcus Civin, Rob Halpern, Joseph Lease, Kevin Killian, Roxi Hamilton and Elizabeth Treadwell Jackson would like to invite you to:

a memorial celebration
of the life and work of
kari edwards (1954-2006)

Friday, April 27, 2007 at 7:30 PM
Co-Sponsored by Small Press Traffic and the CCA MFA Writing Program

Presenters will include:
Charlie Anders, Frances Blau, Taylor Brady, Marcus Civin, Amanda
Davidson, Donna de la Perriere, Rob Halpern, Roxi Hamilton, Brenda
Iijima, Kevin Killian, Joseph Lease, Wendy Loomis, Akilah Oliver,
Leila Rauf, Ellen Redbird, Leslie Scalapino, Sherman Souther, Eleni
Stecopoulos, Eileen Tabios, Justin Veach, Maggie Zurawski

The memorial will also feature video of kari edwards

ALL ARE WELCOME

California College of the Arts, San Francisco Campus
1111 Eighth Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

The memorial will celebrate kari edwards' indomitable spirit and
compassionate revelation of body and language. Focusing on kari's
considerable legacy, the memorial will include poetry, performance and
visual art. Despite our deep sadness for kari's untimely passing,
kari's commitment to justice in general and transgender issues
specifically and hir ingenuity as an artist inspire all of us.

Contact
Small Press Traffic: 415-551-9278 www.sptraffic.org
or Marcus Civin: Marcus_Civin@hotmail.com
for more information about kari, please visit the blog: transdada3.blogspot.com


did I not say
despite the body
there is a universe
despite the universe
born waves of existence
did I not say
saying I must go
did I not say
death does not annihilate
it only breaks up conjunctions


kari edwards, did I not say, www.listenlight.net
from the unpublished manuscript Bharat Jiva

Digital Artifact : Call for Submissions : April 30th

DIGITAL ARTIFACT
Call for Submissions
**Deadline April 30th**

Digital Artifact, a new, online journal created in conjunction with the Artifact Reading Series and Press, seeks work that interrogates the role of narrative in contemporary culture. We're specifically interested in how the internet, digital culture, global and non-Western literature, pop culture, eroticism, documentary, philosophy, politics and war are creating hybrid texts and new forms of narrative and literature.

The first issue of the journal will be dedicated to examining Narrative and Global Digital Culture. What is the impact of the internet and global culture on language and conceptions of narrative? We invite creative responses that explore this question, whether through fiction, criticism, experimental prose, or web-based audio-visual work.

A series of salons focusing on related topics will be held in conjunction with production of the web journal. To find out more about participating in the salons, email digitalartifact@gmail.com . Find out more about Artifact online at artifactsf.org.

We look forward to reading your work!
Chana Morgenstern, Amanda Davidson and the Editorial Team


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We accept e-mail submissions only. Send submissions to digitalartifact@gmail.com by April 30th. In the subject heading, include your last name and the word "submission." Do not send previously published work, and let us know immediately if the work has been accepted elsewhere. One submission per person, please. Include a brief (50-100 word) bio with your work. We will get back to you within three months.

**We accept text pieces up to 2,000 words in length. Please paste your work as plain text directly into the e-mail. You may also send a text document as an attachment in addition to pasting the content, if formatting is important to the piece.

**For images, we accept visual files in pdf, jpeg, and gif format. Please send a low-res (72 dpi) version for submission review.

**For sound, send mp3 files, zipped if possible, at a length of 5 minutes or less.

**For video footage, email QuickTime files, compressed for web, again in the vicinity of 5 minutes or less. If we have difficulty looking at your video due to compatibility issues, we will email you with information about uploading your submission to the Digital Artifact YouTube account.

Artifact : 4.21 : Cunningham : Ratcliffe : Saidenberg

Artifact presents...

Brent CUNNINGHAM
Stephen RATCLIFFE
Jocelyn SAIDENBERG


Saturday, April 21, 2007
7:30PM, reading begins at 8PM

2921B Folsom St. @25th St. SF 94110

$5 donation goes to readers & drinks!

www.artifactsf.org
artifactsf@gmail.com


BIOS

Brent Cunningham's first book, Bird & Forest, was published in 2005 by Ugly Duckling Presse in Brooklyn. Since 1999 he has worked for Small Press Distribution in Berkeley. Recent writing and visual art can be found in Vanitas, Encyclopedia, Bay Poetics, and on his blog at www.brentcunningham.blogspot.com. As the co-founder of Hooke Press (www.hookepress.com), he and Neil Alger have published delightful chapbooks by Norma Cole, Kevin Killian and Lauren Shufran.

Stephen Ratcliffe's most recent book is REAL (Avenue B, 2007). Previous books include Portraits & Repetition (The Post-Apollo Press, 2002) and SOUND/(system) (Green Integer, 2002). Listening to Reading, a collection of essays on contemporary experimental poetry, was published by SUNY Press in 2000. He lives in Bolinas, California and teaches at Mills College in Oakland.

Jocelyn Saidenberg is the author of Mortal City (Parentheses Writing Series), CUSP (Kelsey St. Press), winner of the Frances Jaffer Book Award, and Negativity (Atelos). She is the founding editor of KRUPSKAYA Books. Born and raised in New York City, she lives in San Francisco and works as a reference librarian for the public library.

*Just a note:

This will not be the last reading of the season!

Amanda Davidson will be curating readings for May & June!

Yay for Amanda!

Sunday, 4.22 : New Yipes w/SPT: Boyer & Moor with video by McGuire

New Yipes & SPT present

Seven pm Sunday

April Twenty-Second

at 21 GRAND

416 Twenty-Fifth Street

Oakland, California

$4 would be great

ANNE BOYER is a poet, painter, fashion model, neurophysician, elevator repairwoman, ghostbuster, and empress operating out of various enclaves, conclaves, and clavier warehousesin the midwest. Her chapbook Anne Boyer's Good Apocalypse was published by Effing Press in 2006, and her book The Romance of Happy Workers is forthcoming from Coffee House Pressin 2008. She is also the creator of the art project Odalisqued (http://odalisqued.blogspot.com/) where the remains of her visual/textual collage work as well as assorted dream visions and geopolitical prophecies can be found.

"WILLIAM MOOR is the true and undeniable author of many another man's authorships. Usingmodern technology devices such as email, WILLIAM MOOR assumes an identity, the grotesquefictionality of which is only equivocated by his real appearance. To see him in person is to seehis mediocre stunt double, for in fact I, Stan Apps, am the real WILLIAM MOOR and author of all his poems. Only his numerous plagiarisms continue to inspire doubt: surely Stan Apps is notthe elected representative of the people of Arizona? All that and more: WILLIAM MORE! I thank him for participating in this great façade and self-promotional scheme." --Stan Apps

ANNE McGUIRE's feature-length films include "Strain Andromeda, The" (1993) and "Adventure Poseidon, The" (2006), which played last month at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art. Her non-kinetic visual work is on view in the show "To Here Knows When" at Soap Gallery (1142 Howard between 7th & 8th Streets, San Francisco) through May 12.

http://newyipes.blogspot.com/

Thurs, 4.19: Unitarian Center : Larsen & Harrison

Roberto Harrison and David Larsen
Thursday April 19, 2007
7:30 pm @ the Unitarian Center
1187 Franklin (at Geary), $5

Roberto Harrison edits Crayon with Andrew Levy, and the Bronze Skull chapbook series. Two full- length collections appeared in 2006, Os (subpress) and Counter Daemons (Litmus). “This gorgeous, riveting, improvisational epic shatters the singular viewpoint with burgeoning polyrhythms...brilliant and beautiful in its modulations of flux and open collectivity.” (Brenda Iijima on Counter Daemons). Harrison works as a Systems Librarian at the Medical College of Wisconsin and lives in Milwaukee.

David Larsen’s long record of self-publishing was broken in 2005 with the appearance of The Thorn from Faux Press (Cambridge, MA). That same year, a downtown Oakland reading series fastened itself to him and called itself New Yipes.

At his first reading for the Poetry Center Larsen’s poetry takes a back seat, that he may present his translation of a stirring treatise by the philologist Ibn Khalawayh (d. 371 AH/980 AD). David Larsen lives in San Francisco.

Reading @ New College : 4.20

A Poetry Reading at New College
Friday, April 20th 7pm

You're invited to kick up your heels with:

Brian Teare
Jane Mead
Catherine Meng
Nicole Collen
Susan Maxwell

New College Theater, 777 Valencia St., S.F.
The Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry from Autumn House Press

Small Press Distribution OPEN HOUSE : 4.14

SPD's Spring Open House Saturday, April 14th, 2007 12 Noon - 4 PM 20%-50% off all books! Readings at 2 PM Poetry Trading Post! Trade in a poem or story for a Free Book!

Juliana Spahr teaches at Mills College. Her most recent book is This Connection of Everyone With Lungs. The Transformation is forthcoming from Atelos Press

Will Alexander is a visiting writer at Mills College and is the author of many books of poetry, including the recent Exobiology as Goddess. He has also written numerous plays and essays.

Dodie Bellamy's Academonia is just out. Her book Cunt-Ups won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Poetry. She is a novelist, essayist, journalist and teacher.

Albert Flynn DeSilver is the author of Letters to Early Street and Walking Tooth & Cloud and is the publisher of The Owl Press. He teaches in San Francisco and Marin.

The Open House also offers open-stack browsing on our 13,000+ titles, a 20-50% discount on all books (including 20% off the Plants and Landscapes book), and ample free food and drink.

Founded in 1969, SPD now distributes more than 500 small presses to libraries, bookstores, colleges, online stores, other distributors, and individuals.

For more information, call SPD (510 524-1668 x 300) or email Alli Warren at alli@spdbooks.org.