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.
****************
IN THE CARDS:
October 29: Stacy Doris, Tyrone Williams, and video by Karla Milosevich
Thursday, August 31, 2006
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
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)
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.
************
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/
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.
************
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
Juliana Spahr
Christopher Nealon
WITH ARTWORK BY
Servando Garcia
Manuel Perez
Sandra Miller
Ben Doyle
Joshua Beckman
Megan Breiseth
Scott Inguito
CURATED BY
2921B FOLSOM
SF CA 94110
$3 DONATION
BYOB
INFO
artifactsf@gmail.com
Monday, July 31, 2006
8.5.06 Bios
Chris Nealon grew up in Binghamton, NY; went to Williams College and
lived in Boston after that, then Ithaca, NY, then Seattle, before
moving to SF to teach at Berkeley. He has written two books,
Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Emotion Before Stonewall (2001), and The
Joyous Age (2004). Chris lives in San Francisco and in Washington,
DC.
Juliana Spahr's books include This Connection of Everyone with Lungs
(U of California P, 2005), Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You (Wesleyan U
P,2001), Everybody's Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective
Identity (U of Alabama P, 2001), and Response (Sun & Moon P, 1996).
Scott Inguito's poems have appeared in Fence, Aufgabe, 1913: a journal
of forms, DANTA, and Parlour Games. Recent work may be found in
Anthology of Latino Poets from University of Arizona Press, and Bay
Poetics from Faux Press. His chapbook, lection , is out from Subday
Press. Scott lives in San Francisco.
lived in Boston after that, then Ithaca, NY, then Seattle, before
moving to SF to teach at Berkeley. He has written two books,
Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Emotion Before Stonewall (2001), and The
Joyous Age (2004). Chris lives in San Francisco and in Washington,
DC.
Juliana Spahr's books include This Connection of Everyone with Lungs
(U of California P, 2005), Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You (Wesleyan U
P,2001), Everybody's Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective
Identity (U of Alabama P, 2001), and Response (Sun & Moon P, 1996).
Scott Inguito's poems have appeared in Fence, Aufgabe, 1913: a journal
of forms, DANTA, and Parlour Games. Recent work may be found in
Anthology of Latino Poets from University of Arizona Press, and Bay
Poetics from Faux Press. His chapbook, lection , is out from Subday
Press. Scott lives in San Francisco.
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Poetry Marathon
The LAB presents
2006 Bay Area Summer Poetry Marathon
Saturday, July 15, 7-10 PM
Saturday, August 12, 7-10 PM
$3-$15 sliding scale admission
Tickets available at the door or call 415-864-8855 for advance reservations
This event takes place at The LAB, 2948 16th Street @ Capp, San Francisco
The LAB is pleased to host the third annual Bay Area Summer Poetry Marathon. 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. Hear some of the most exciting established and emerging poets from the Bay Area and beyond. July 15th readers include Lee Ann Brown, Maxine Chernoff, Norma Cole, Steve Dickison, Steffi Drewes, Kathleen Fraser, and Barbara Tomash. Come join us to hear this year's exciting line-up!
2006 Bay Area Summer Poetry Marathon
Saturday, July 15, 7-10 PM
Saturday, August 12, 7-10 PM
$3-$15 sliding scale admission
Tickets available at the door or call 415-864-8855 for advance reservations
This event takes place at The LAB, 2948 16th Street @ Capp, San Francisco
The LAB is pleased to host the third annual Bay Area Summer Poetry Marathon. 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. Hear some of the most exciting established and emerging poets from the Bay Area and beyond. July 15th readers include Lee Ann Brown, Maxine Chernoff, Norma Cole, Steve Dickison, Steffi Drewes, Kathleen Fraser, and Barbara Tomash. Come join us to hear this year's exciting line-up!
Thursday, July 06, 2006
our new website unveiled!!!
after what seems like a millennia, we finally have it up & running!!!!
www.artifactsf.org
there are a few things left to be updated, like the staff page, photo credits (thank you Jessamyn Harris, Alli Warren, & Michael Nicoloff for their lovely pics), & the links (which are the same as the blog), but all in due time.
thank you to the genius of Jay Thomas for building the site. I thank myself for designing the site (you're quite welcome) & I also thank Jack Bessey for consulting on it.
www.artifactsf.org
there are a few things left to be updated, like the staff page, photo credits (thank you Jessamyn Harris, Alli Warren, & Michael Nicoloff for their lovely pics), & the links (which are the same as the blog), but all in due time.
thank you to the genius of Jay Thomas for building the site. I thank myself for designing the site (you're quite welcome) & I also thank Jack Bessey for consulting on it.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
7.11-8.12 : Five Habitats: Squatting at Langton
Five Habitats: Squatting at Langton
Tuesday July 11 - Saturday August 12
Opening Reception: Tuesday, July 11, 7-10 pm
Reading by Dodie Bellamy: Wednesday, July 12, 7 pm
Admission: $8/$5 Members, students, and seniors
New Langton Arts
1246 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-3817
For further information: 415.626.5416
www.newlangtonarts.org
Five Habitats: Squatting at Langton is a laboratory-style, experiential exhibition modeled after Jock Reynolds' 1978 show Five Habitats for Five Members at Langton's original location, 80 Langton Street. In 2006, Langton challenges artist curators John Baldessari, Keith Boadwee, Matthew Higgs, Joseph del Pesco, and Anne Walsh to each invite five artists working across disciplines for one-week intervals to occupy and activate the gallery space. Korean-born architect Kyu Che designed five habitats in the gallery to be transformed by the artists into open studios, exhibition spaces, lounges, working stations, discussion forums, screening venues, performance settings, and more.
Week One: July 11 - 15
Curator: Matthew Higgs
Artists: Dodie Bellamy, Chris Cobb, Alexis Georgopoulos, Kevin
Killian, and Mitzi Pederson.
Kathy Acker, the novelist and theorist, died from breast cancer in 1997. Her papers are at Duke, but her clothes and accessories remain in the possession of her executor, Matias Viegener. Dodie Bellamy will display a selection of Kathy Acker's clothes during her residency at New Langton Arts, and on Wednesday, July 12 Dodie Bellamy will give a presentation, "Digging Through Kathy Acker's Stuff."
During his one-week residency at Langton, Chris Cobb creates a lounge area to listen to the music of Devendra Banhart and the Hairy Fairy Band . Cobb, a big fan of Devendra's "freak funk" music, proposes a space that welcomes visitors to listen to the band's albums. It also includes a large number of photographs of them--both in concert and back stage--taken by Cobb.
Musician, composer and artist Alexis Georgopoulos presents ARP, occupying the smallest space Kyu Che designed for the exhibition. As such, Georgopoulos has chosen the intimate idea of getting together with a friend or acquaintance to share a cup of tea, to take a moment, to slow down, and perhaps, reflect. Georgopoulos places a table, a tea set for two, and two speakers in the space. In this intimate, almost cocoon-like setting, the music Georgopoulos has composed as ARP will play as a backdrop.
San Francisco writer Kevin Killian re-stages an exhibition presented earlier this Spring at White Columns, New York, Other People's Projects: Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian . At White Columns Killian and Bellamy presented a complete run of their pioneering literary 'zine "Mirage/Period(ical)" alongside contributions from some of the artists and writers who have appeared on its pages. At Langton Killian will display 132 issues of the zine, and artworks by a variety of local and international artists.
Mitzi Pederson creates a new installation that explores ideas of tension, gravity, and systems interconnectivity. Pederson uses the "subterranean space", which is transformed into a private de-orchestrated piece, where the presence and movements of multiple bodies determines the effects on the space, ranging from calm qualities to periodic audible and visual disruptions.
Tuesday July 11 - Saturday August 12
Opening Reception: Tuesday, July 11, 7-10 pm
Reading by Dodie Bellamy: Wednesday, July 12, 7 pm
Admission: $8/$5 Members, students, and seniors
New Langton Arts
1246 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-3817
For further information: 415.626.5416
www.newlangtonarts.org
Five Habitats: Squatting at Langton is a laboratory-style, experiential exhibition modeled after Jock Reynolds' 1978 show Five Habitats for Five Members at Langton's original location, 80 Langton Street. In 2006, Langton challenges artist curators John Baldessari, Keith Boadwee, Matthew Higgs, Joseph del Pesco, and Anne Walsh to each invite five artists working across disciplines for one-week intervals to occupy and activate the gallery space. Korean-born architect Kyu Che designed five habitats in the gallery to be transformed by the artists into open studios, exhibition spaces, lounges, working stations, discussion forums, screening venues, performance settings, and more.
Week One: July 11 - 15
Curator: Matthew Higgs
Artists: Dodie Bellamy, Chris Cobb, Alexis Georgopoulos, Kevin
Killian, and Mitzi Pederson.
Kathy Acker, the novelist and theorist, died from breast cancer in 1997. Her papers are at Duke, but her clothes and accessories remain in the possession of her executor, Matias Viegener. Dodie Bellamy will display a selection of Kathy Acker's clothes during her residency at New Langton Arts, and on Wednesday, July 12 Dodie Bellamy will give a presentation, "Digging Through Kathy Acker's Stuff."
During his one-week residency at Langton, Chris Cobb creates a lounge area to listen to the music of Devendra Banhart and the Hairy Fairy Band . Cobb, a big fan of Devendra's "freak funk" music, proposes a space that welcomes visitors to listen to the band's albums. It also includes a large number of photographs of them--both in concert and back stage--taken by Cobb.
Musician, composer and artist Alexis Georgopoulos presents ARP, occupying the smallest space Kyu Che designed for the exhibition. As such, Georgopoulos has chosen the intimate idea of getting together with a friend or acquaintance to share a cup of tea, to take a moment, to slow down, and perhaps, reflect. Georgopoulos places a table, a tea set for two, and two speakers in the space. In this intimate, almost cocoon-like setting, the music Georgopoulos has composed as ARP will play as a backdrop.
San Francisco writer Kevin Killian re-stages an exhibition presented earlier this Spring at White Columns, New York, Other People's Projects: Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian . At White Columns Killian and Bellamy presented a complete run of their pioneering literary 'zine "Mirage/Period(ical)" alongside contributions from some of the artists and writers who have appeared on its pages. At Langton Killian will display 132 issues of the zine, and artworks by a variety of local and international artists.
Mitzi Pederson creates a new installation that explores ideas of tension, gravity, and systems interconnectivity. Pederson uses the "subterranean space", which is transformed into a private de-orchestrated piece, where the presence and movements of multiple bodies determines the effects on the space, ranging from calm qualities to periodic audible and visual disruptions.
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