poetry

House Reading: Chris Nagler, Suki Bishop, & Mary Diaz

David Buuck — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:35:48 -0400

Start: 05/11/2008 - 19:00

End: 05/11/2008 - 21:32

Timezone: US/Pacific

Sunday May 11 - 7pm pronto
@ David Buuck's
Oakland (email for address)
BYOB

Suki Bishop has most recently been published in Dirty Girls, Best Lesbian Erotica 2007, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Blithe House Quarterly. She was a finalist for the 2006 Rauxa Prize for erotic fiction and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. You can check out her website: sukibishop.com for stories and upcoming events.

Christian Nagler is a fiction writer, translator, and performer. In 2005 he received his M.F.A. from Brown University. His work has appeared most often in the form of handmade artist's books. Recently, he has been performing with Anna Halprin's Sea Ranch Collective, and with Severine La Pan Vaux's Dance company in France, and translating the works of the Salvadoran philosopher and economist Alberto Masferrer. He teaches community art at San Francisco State and is working on a novel.

Mary Diaz is a San Francisco based artist, poet and performer. She most recently completed her MFA from the California College of the Arts. She has collaborated with dancers, actors and video artists on a myriad of projects and guerilla performances and her experimental play, Up in Arms: an Oratorio at Tense Borders starring Kevin Killian, was featured in this year's Poet's Theater Jamboree hosted by Small Press Traffic. She is currently teaching writing and math at San Quentin State prison, and finishing her thesis manuscript, Can't in Arms: Come Round

Michael Basinski, David Larsen, and Jeanne Heuving

Wendy Kramer — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:06:49 -0400

Start: 05/24/2008 - 19:30

End: 05/24/2008 - 21:00

Timezone: US/Pacific

Artifact Reading Series
in collaboration with Nonsite Collective
hosts an evening of improvization, performance, and reading

Michael Basinksi, David Larsen, and Jeanne Heuving
Saturday, May 24th
6PM doors/6:30PM reading starts

The Oakland Art Gallery at Frank Ogawa Plaza
199 Kahn's Alley
Oakland CA 94612

Watch for related Nonsite events and curricular materials to be announced on this website soon!

SPT Poets Theater 08

David Buuck — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:55:38 -0500

Start: 01/18/2008 - 19:30

End: 01/25/2008 - 22:00

Timezone: US/Pacific

SMALL PRESS TRAFFIC — POETS THEATER 2008

Please join us for two nights of plays and performance, featuring new work by writers and artists, along with new interpretations of Poets Theater classics. This is our annual fundraiser, so come out and support SPT – there will be wine & refreshments, raffle items, video, books, and all sorts of festivities to go along with this year’s batch of plays and performances…

FRIDAY JANUARY 18, 7:30pm:

“The Obituary Show” by CA Conrad
“Up in Arms: a scene at Tense Borders” by Mary Diaz
“INARMS” by Arnold J. Kemp
“a fierce vexation of a dream: a tragical mirth” by sara m. larsen
“Yoda in His Youth” by Dana Ward
“RJ: Romeo and Juliet (from The Code Poems)” by Hannah Weiner, dir. Suzanne Stein

FRIDAY JANUARY 25, 7:30pm:

1980s POETS THEATER REVIVIFIED: THREE PLAYS RE-EXAMINED, RE-ANIMATED, & RE-STAGED

“Particle Arms” by Alan Bernheimer (excerpts)
“Third Man” by Carla Harryman (excerpts)
“Creative Floors” by Kit Robinson

And stay tuned for news about our Poets Theater Cabaret and other upcoming events, through our website — http://www.sptraffic.org/html/events.htm — and our new blog: http://smallpresstraffic.blogspot.com/

Unless otherwise noted,our events are presented in:
Timken Lecture Hall
California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco

see you there!
David Buuck, Cynthia Sailers, & Stephanie Young
PT08 Co-curators
Small Press Traffic

Small Press Traffic Poets Theater 08

David Buuck — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:22:21 -0500

SMALL PRESS TRAFFIC — POETS THEATER 2008 Please join us for two nights of plays and performance, featuring new work by writers and artists, along with new interpretations of Poets Theater classics. This is our annual fundraiser, so come out and support SPT – there will be wine & refreshments, raffle items, video, books, and all sorts of festivities to go along with this year’s batch of plays and performances… FRIDAY JANUARY 18, 7:30pm: “The Obituary Show” by CA Conrad “Up in Arms: a scene at Tense Borders” by Mary Diaz “INARMS” by Arnold J. Kemp “a fierce vexation of a dream: a tragical mirth” by sara m. larsen “Yoda in His Youth” by Dana Ward “RJ: Romeo and Juliet (from The Code Poems)” by Hannah Weiner, dir. Suzanne Stein FRIDAY JANUARY 25, 7:30pm: 1980s POETS THEATER REVIVIFIED: THREE PLAYS RE-EXAMINED, RE-ANIMATED, & RE-STAGED “Particle Arms” by Alan Bernheimer (excerpts) “Third Man” by Carla Harryman (excerpts) “Creative Floors” by Kit Robinson And stay tuned for news about our Poets Theater Cabaret and other upcoming events, through our website — http://www.sptraffic.org/html/events.htm — and our new blog: http://smallpresstraffic.blogspot.com/ Unless otherwise noted,our events are presented in: Timken Lecture Hall California College of the Arts 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco see you there! David Buuck, Cynthia Sailers, & Stephanie Young PT08 Co-curators Small Press Traffic

Michael Kelleher reads in San Francisco

Nonsite admin — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:00:00 -0400

Start: 09/28/2007 - 19:30

End: 09/28/2007 - 22:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-7

Please join us for Michael Kelleher's first San Francisco reading, celebrating the imminent publication of his new book, Human Scale. The reading will take place at Taylor Brady and Tanya Hollis' apartment on Friday, September 28th. We'll start gathering around 7pm, with the reading starting promptly at 8pm.

I'll supply some snacks and drinks, but if you feel like bringing something of your own, that would be much appreciated. Please reply to info at nonsitecollective dot org if you need directions. And feel free to forward widely and wildly.

Boadiba @ the SFSU Poetry Center

Nonsite admin — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:20:31 -0400

Start: 10/04/2007 - 16:30

End: 10/04/2007 - 18:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-7

BOADIBA performing her own works
& poems of the late Haitian poet PAUL LARAQUE

4:30 pm @ the Poetry Center
HUM 512, SFSU, free

• Boadiba, Haitian poet long resident in the Bay Area, has at last had her work collected into a book, new from Ishmael Reed Publishing Company. Under Burning White Sky collects 25 years of poetry, seeringly honest poems that reflect the author’s deep knowledge of her Haitian heritage and experiences gained through many travels.

Boadiba is the co-translator, with Jack Hirschman and Paul Laraque, of Open Gate, the first major anthology of Haitian Creole poetry (Curbstone Press, 2001). Along with her own poems, she will also read from the works of the late Paul Laraque, Haitian Creole poet whose work appeared in the U.S. in the volume Camourade, translated by Jack Hirschman (Curbstone Press, 1988).

"Election night in Port Au Prince. Silence shot with electric sparks. A wedding cake house wrapped in the mantle of its shadowy lawns, its hedges of violets, its tall trees. In the gallery enclosed with decorative wrought iron, two little girls scream in unison, support for their respective presidential candidates. "Viva so-and-so!" screams one. "Viva such-and-such!" answers the other. They work each other up to a hypnotic pitch that makes their nannies fear the neighbors' ears. Picking the girls up and putting them in a basement room, they let them get drunk with political fervor. The older one with honey skin loves the black man, who, with his voice, put a spell on the workers and the poor of the capital. The younger one with skin of molasses loves the sophisticated dandy, the self-made millionaire backed by the white Americans.

Ron Silliman reading @ Mills College

Nonsite admin — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:13:55 -0400

Start: 10/02/2007 - 17:30

End: 10/02/2007 - 19:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-7

Mills Hall Living Room
Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94613

Since its inception in 2002, Ron Silliman’s weblog has become one of the most widely read and influential locations for discussion of contemporary poetry and poetics. His near-daily analysis of historic and current writing often spurs intense debate. This work is only one extension of Silliman’s long-term editorial and critical commitment. He edited In the American Tree (National Poetry Foundation, 1986), an important anthology of language poetry, and between 1979 and 2004, wrote a single poem entitled The Alphabet. Volumes from that project have included VOG, Jones, Lit, N/O, Paradise, ®, Toner, What and Xing. Charles Bernstein says of Silliman’s most recent book, Under Albany (Salt, 2004), “This constructivist memoir provides an exquisitely rich exploration of the relation of context to reference, subtext to meaning, back story to presented experience, and composition to poetics." Silliman works as a market analyst in the computer industry.

Jen Scappettone & C.S. Giscombe read at David Buuck's house

Nonsite admin — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:23:08 -0400

Start: 09/15/2007 - 19:00

End: 09/15/2007 - 23:30

Timezone: Etc/GMT-7

Please come & hear Jen Scappettone & C.S. Giscombe read, as we celebrate Jen's return & Cecil's arrival.

Sat. Sep 15, 7pm (reading starts promptly at 8!)
at David Buuck's house
(email David or the Nonsite administrator for directions)

C.S. Giscombe's books include HERE, GISCOMBE ROAD, AT LARGE, INTO AND OUT OF DISLOCATION, INLAND, and PRACTICAL GEOGRAPHY. He teaches at UC-Berkeley.

Jennifer Scappettone's first book of poems, FROM DAME QUICKLY, will be out next year from Litmus; she is currently at work on EXIT 43 for Atelos. She moved from Berkeley 2 years ago, & now lives and teaches in Chicago.

PS and come see Jen talk on ambient poetics Friday the 14th at Small Press Traffic!