Woolf at the Berkeley Rep: 02-23 thru 02-27

Apologies to ye Artifacters that this isn't exactly poetry, but it is the almost-poetry of Ms. Woolf, as performed by the Berkeley Repertory Theater.

The Berkeley Rep is kindly extending a special 20% discount to see their world premier adaptation of Virginia Woolf's TO THE LIGHTHOUSE this weekend. The offer was originally for Small Press Distribution supporters, but they encouraged SPD to pass it along.

For details, go to http://www.berkeleyrep.org/smallpress

Dates are Friday Feb 23rd, Sat Feb 24, Sun Feb 25, and Tuesday Feb 27th.

About the show:
For the past two years, Obie Award-winning director Les Waters has shown Bay Area audiences the best and worst of family dynamics in the luminous Eurydice, dark and disturbing Finn in the Underworld; breathtaking The Glass Menagerie; and edgy, enthralling The Pillowman. Now he reflects on yet another family with To the Lighthouse, a bold world-premiere adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s landmark novel. Just as Virginia Woolf’s innovative style exploded the boundaries of prose, this production explores and explodes the boundaries of theatre -- with brilliant new music by composer Paul Dresher (whose venues include the Carnegie Hall, San Francisco Symphony and Project Artaud) to further illuminate the lives of the Ramsay house and its inhabitants.

ARTIFACT: 2:17:07: Scalapino: Morgenstern: Roy

ARTIFACT presents...

A launch party for TANTALUM: a magazine that redefines the fictive

Leslie Scalapino
Chana Morgenstern
Camille Roy

Saturday, Feb. 17, 2007
7:30PM, reading begins promptly at 8PM
$3 donation goes to the readers & drinks!
2921B Folsom St. @ 25th St. SF 94110
www.artifactsf.org

BIOS:

Camille Roy is a writer and performer of fiction, poetry, and plays. She edited Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative with Mary Burger, Robert Gluck, and Gail Scott (CoachHouse 2005). Earlier books include CHEAP SPEECH, a play, from Leroy, and CRAQUER, a fictional autobiography from 2^nd Story Books , as well as SWARM (two novellas, Black Star Series), among others. In 1998 she was the recipient of a Lannan Writers At Work Residency at Just Buffalo Literary Center. She is a founding editor of the online journal Narrativity (http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/narrativity). She teaches fiction at San Francisco State University.

Leslie Scalapino’s new book of poetry, Day Ocean State of Stars’ Night, is a collection of the last eight years. She is the author of thirty books of poetry, inter-genre fiction-poetry-criticism and plays, including recently Zither & Autobiography (Wesleyan University Press), The Tango (Granary Press), Orchid Jetsam (Tuumba), Dahlia’s Iris—Secret Autobiography and Fiction (FC2 Publishers), and a reprint of Defoe by Green Integer. Scalapino’s Selected Poems, 1974-2006/It’s go in horizontal is forthcoming from University of California Press at Berkeley in spring 2008. Her CDs include ‘Can’t’ is ‘Night’ and Other Poems and way.

Chana Morgenstern was born and raised in Jerusalem and now resides in San Francisco . She is currently at work on Home, a multimedia interview project she conducted with Israelis and Palestinians. For two years she served as resident writer and teacher of San Francisco School of the Arts Creative Writing Department. She has her MFA in fiction from Bard College and is working on an upcoming novel. Her plays and monologues have been performed at the New College Theater and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum. She is the author of the chapbook Touching New Jersey (Little Red Press) and the recipient of Miriam Ylvisaker Fellowship in Fiction. Recent works of hers can be read in Red Letters Journal, On our Backs Magazine,
El Pobre Mouse, Shifter Magazine, Marjorie Wood Gallery and Tantalum.

New Yipes : 2.18 Vanitas #2 Reading

Sunday, Feb 18

at 21 GRAND
416 25th St, corner B'way
6 blocks north of 19th St BART
in Oakland

7 pm

A FREE EVENT in celebration of VANITAS magazine (ed. Vincent Katz)

Featuring 3 films by RUDY BURCKHARDT in Glorious Sixteen Millimeter

And readings by

Bill Berkson
Mary Burger
Kate Colby
Norma Cole
Del Ray Cross
Brent Cunningham
Susan Gevirtz
Robert Glück

Duncan McNaughton
Laura Moriarty
Kit Robinson
Stephanie Young

as they leap from the pages of http://www.vanitasmagazine.com/

and into the annals of http://newyipes.blogspot.com

Clayton Eshleman reads at Mills 2/15 @ 5:30PM

Mills College
Contemporary Writers Series:
Clayton Eshleman

The Chana Bloch Reading of Writers in Translation presents Clayton Eshleman
reading from his translation of Cesar Vallejo.

Date: February 15, 2007
Time: 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Free to all

Location: Mills Hall Living Room

5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland CA 94613

2.2.07 : SPT : Last Night of Poets Theater!

Poets Theater at Small Press Traffic
Friday, FEBRUARY 2, 2007 at 7:30 P.M.

all seats $10--this is a fundraiser for SPT
arrive promptly (or early as these events have been selling out!)

“Hooligan’s Island,” / Written & Directed by Scott MacLeod

“Self/Cell” / Text by Olivia E. Sears / Images by Aline Mare / Music by Craig Bicknell

“The Deathperts” / Written & Directed by Chana Morgenstern

Selections from “James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet” (1982)
Written by John Cage / Directed by Marie Carbone / With Gillian Conoley,
Patricia Dienstfrey, Dale Going, Brenda Hillman, Denise Liddell Lawson, Denise
Newman, giovanni singleton and Carol Snow

“The Gunfight” / Written & Directed by Brent Cunningham

"FEED" / Written & directed by Juliana Spahr


Small Press Traffic
Literary Arts Center at CCA
1111 -- 8th Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
415.551.9278
http://www.sptraffic.org

links! they are down!

as most of you know, blogger has been a mess since switching over to their new non-beta world. & I inadvertantly screwed up this blog by reinstalling our template. thankfully I kept a list of most of our links but need some time to get them up.

arghhhhh....

robots are no longer my friends.

1/24 : SPD New Lit Generation Reading & Party--City Lights

Small Press Distribution & City Lights Bookstore present...

NEW LIT GENERATION READING & PARTY
This Wednesday January 24, 2006 -- 7:30 PM

with readings by Ben Lerner, Dana Teen Lomax, Aimee Suzara, Jay Thomas, Eric Foster and Indiana Pehlivanova

City Lights Bookstore
261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway (North Beach)
San Francisco, California 94133
Tel + 415.362.8193

POETRY TRADING POST Trade a poem or story for a free book!

See more info at http://www.spdbooks.org/GENnewlitevents.asp

or MySpace.com/SPDbooks

1. 25 : Saidenberg & Moriarty @ Modern Times

Reading: Thursday, 1/25, at 7:30
Jocelyn Saidenberg and Laura Moriarty
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street at 20th Street
415-282-9246
http://www.mtbs.com/

Books will be available at the reading and can be ordered from Small
Press Distribution:

Negativity:
http://www.spdbooks.org/Details.asp?BookID=1891190253

Ultravioleta
http://www.spdbooks.org/Details.asp?BookID=189119024

1.19 : Poets Theater Jamboree @ SPT

FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 2007 at 7:30 P.M.
“Tarantula” / Written & Directed by Marc Arthur.

“Orgasm” / Written by Dodie Bellamy / Directed by Margaret Tedesco

“Bowl, Cat and Broomstick” (1917) / Written by Wallace Stevens / Directed
by
Dana Teen Lomax & Danna Lomax

“The Haunted House” / Written & Directed by Brandon Downing

“Pig Angels of the Americlypse” & “Spine” Written by Rodrigo Toscano /
Directed by Stephanie Young

“The Party” / Written by Lisa Jarnot / Directed by Kevin Killian

All tickets are $10. This is a fundraiser to benefit Small Press Traffic

Small Press Traffic
Literary Arts Center at CCA
1111 -- 8th Street San Francisco, CA 94107
415.551.9278
http://www.sptraffic.org

New Yipes: 1/21: Melissa Benham | Sean Labrador | films by Glenn Wait

Sunday, January 21 at
21 GRAND | 416 25th St
corner B'way | Oakland
6 blocks north of 19th St BART
7 pm | $4 | or whatever

Melissa Benham, a native Jersey girl, now happily resides near Children's Fairyland with her giant panda, Brent Cunningham. She is the author of codeswitching (Subday Press), and the chapbooks repronounceable and surrealistic object vs. narrated dream. For the last two years, she's been the curator & host of the Artifact Reading Series in SF with Chana Morgenstern. Currently, Melissa is single-handedly building a small human mechanism who hopefully will share her passion for unicorns and scratch 'n' sniff stickers.

The poet formerly known as Sean Manzano Labrador--a week after graduating from Mills he will be marrying the lovely Jennifer Dearinger, and both will share the last name Manzano--is a journeyman Bay Area student/poet doing time at UCB, UCSC, SFSU, and Mills. He wants to add other institutions to his nomadism. He believes in localizing his terminologies and defining his geographies within this narrow corridor. Lately he teaches the Sestina, the Pantoum, the Ghazzal, as well as Queer, Feminist, and Postcolonial theory and Critical Pedagogy in UC Berkeley's Upward Bound High School outreach Program. The last two collaborative sestinas included one twinning Donna Haraway ("A Cyborg Manifesto") and Huey Newton (founder of the Black Panther Party), and the other sestina married Horatio Alger and Tupac.