WHAT:
Was it divine intervention or did the devil make you do it? Do you blame your first English teacher or that old Beat you met at City Lights? Why are you (gasp) a poet? Erika Staiti, Suzanne Stein, and Dodie Bellamy ponder the nature of “influence” in this seventh installment of the Canessa Gallery Reading Series.
Erika Staiti lives in North Oakland. She is currently running a Fassbinder marathon.
Suzanne Stein is a poet. Two of several projects forthcoming this year: a chapbook, Passenger Ship, from Ypolita press, and Signs of Life from O Books. Former co-director and film curator at four walls gallery, she works currently as community producer at SFMOMA. Stein is editor and publisher of the small press TAXT and lives in Oakland. Please visit www.taxtpress.blogspot.com or www.i-caved.blogspot.com
Dodie Bellamy's chapbook Barf Manifesto is just out from Ugly Duckling Presse. Other books include Academonia, Pink Steam, and The Letters of Mina Harker. Her book Cunt-Ups won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for poetry. In January 2006, she curated an installation of Kathy Acker’s clothing for White Columns, New York’s oldest alternative art space. She lives in San Francisco with writer Kevin Killian and three cats.
WHERE:
Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street (at Columbus), SF
TICKETS:
Open to the public ($3 at the door)
Friday, December 26, 2008
Sunday, December 7, 2008
December 6/Teresa Miller/Taylor Brady/Susan Gevirtz
WHAT:
When is a poem more than the sum of its parts? Teresa K. Miller, Taylor Brady, and Susan Gervirtz piece the “fragments” together in this sixth installment of the Canessa Gallery Reading Series.
Teresa K. Miller is the author of Forever No Lo (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2008). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in ZYZZYVA, Word For/Word, DIAGRAM, Tarpaulin Sky, MiPOesias, Coconut, Shampoo, Cricket Online Review, and others. Originally from Seattle, she currently teaches in Oakland.
Taylor Brady is active in the Nonsite Collective (www.nonsitecollective.org), and is the author of books including Yesterday’s News, Occupational Treatment, and Snow Sensitive Skin, co-authored with Rob Halpern.
Susan Gevirtz’s books include Aerodrome Orion & Starry Messenger, forthcoming
from Kelsey Street; Broadcast; THRALL; Omatic & After St. John; Hourglass Transcripts; Spelt, a collaboration with Myung Mi Kim; Black Box Cutaway, PROSTHESIS : : CAESAREA; Taken Place; Linen minus; Domino: point of entry; Korean and Milkhouse; and the critical study Narrative's Journey: The Fiction and Film Writing of Dorothy Richardson. Her many essays have appeared in literary magazines and scholarly journals. An Assistant Professor for 10 years at Sonoma State University, she now teaches in the MFA in Poetry program at Mills College. With Greek poet Siarita Kouka she runs The Paros Symposium, an annual meeting of poets and translators from Greece and the U.S.
WHERE:
Canessa Gallery
708 Montgomery Street, SF
TICKETS:
Open to the public ($3 at the door).
When is a poem more than the sum of its parts? Teresa K. Miller, Taylor Brady, and Susan Gervirtz piece the “fragments” together in this sixth installment of the Canessa Gallery Reading Series.
Teresa K. Miller is the author of Forever No Lo (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2008). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in ZYZZYVA, Word For/Word, DIAGRAM, Tarpaulin Sky, MiPOesias, Coconut, Shampoo, Cricket Online Review, and others. Originally from Seattle, she currently teaches in Oakland.
Taylor Brady is active in the Nonsite Collective (www.nonsitecollective.org), and is the author of books including Yesterday’s News, Occupational Treatment, and Snow Sensitive Skin, co-authored with Rob Halpern.
Susan Gevirtz’s books include Aerodrome Orion & Starry Messenger, forthcoming
from Kelsey Street; Broadcast; THRALL; Omatic & After St. John; Hourglass Transcripts; Spelt, a collaboration with Myung Mi Kim; Black Box Cutaway, PROSTHESIS : : CAESAREA; Taken Place; Linen minus; Domino: point of entry; Korean and Milkhouse; and the critical study Narrative's Journey: The Fiction and Film Writing of Dorothy Richardson. Her many essays have appeared in literary magazines and scholarly journals. An Assistant Professor for 10 years at Sonoma State University, she now teaches in the MFA in Poetry program at Mills College. With Greek poet Siarita Kouka she runs The Paros Symposium, an annual meeting of poets and translators from Greece and the U.S.
WHERE:
Canessa Gallery
708 Montgomery Street, SF
TICKETS:
Open to the public ($3 at the door).
Saturday, November 15, 2008
November 22/Benjamin L. Pérez/David Harrison Horton/Jason Morris
WHAT:
Sometimes you just have to shoot from the hip. Bad boy poets Benjamin L. Pérez, David Harrison Horton, and Jason Morris hit us with their best shot in this evening of “(m)ad libs,” the fifth installation of the Canessa Gallery Reading Series.
David Harrison Horton edits the zine WORK and co-edits (with Stephanie Young) Deep Oakland. Horton is an artist, curator, and writer. His paintings, sculptures, sound installations and videos have been exhibited in New York, Berlin, Paris, Caracas, Minneapolis and San Francisco. He curated the Salon Salon Reading and Performance Series in Oakland in 2002 and is the author of the chaps Pete Hoffman Days and BeiHai, and the limited edition altered book project Stein's Tender Buttons. His creative work has been published in Cricket Online Review, Femme Toupee, and Alice Blue, among others. He currently lives and writes in a tiny studio apartment that overlooks Lake Merritt in Oakland, California.
Benjamin L. Pérez teaches American History and English at Expression College for Digital Arts. He earned his BA in Religious Studies at UC Berkeley and went on to complete advanced degrees in Native American Studies at UCLA and American History at UC Davis; he received his MFA in Creative Writing at Mills College. Pérez’s poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in various academic and popular print and online publications, including Watchword, Sacramento News and Review (SN&R), Cricket Online Review (COR), the American Indian Culture and Research Journal (AICRJ), and Ishmael Reed’s Konch. In 2005, Spuyten Duyvil published his experimental and transgressive work, The Evil Queen: A Pornolexicology, which made Dennis Cooper’s top-10 list for that year. He is currently putting the final touches on a “bi-textual” work: CUNTIONARY/Repent at Your Leisure (or The Folklore of Hell).
Jason Morris was born in Vermont in 1977. His poems have appeared in Mirage #4 Period(ical), Forklift Ohio, TRY, Salt Hill & elsewhere. He is the editor of Big Bell Magazine.
WHERE:
Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street (at Columbus), SF
TICKETS:
Open to the public ($3 at the door)
Sometimes you just have to shoot from the hip. Bad boy poets Benjamin L. Pérez, David Harrison Horton, and Jason Morris hit us with their best shot in this evening of “(m)ad libs,” the fifth installation of the Canessa Gallery Reading Series.
David Harrison Horton edits the zine WORK and co-edits (with Stephanie Young) Deep Oakland. Horton is an artist, curator, and writer. His paintings, sculptures, sound installations and videos have been exhibited in New York, Berlin, Paris, Caracas, Minneapolis and San Francisco. He curated the Salon Salon Reading and Performance Series in Oakland in 2002 and is the author of the chaps Pete Hoffman Days and BeiHai, and the limited edition altered book project Stein's Tender Buttons. His creative work has been published in Cricket Online Review, Femme Toupee, and Alice Blue, among others. He currently lives and writes in a tiny studio apartment that overlooks Lake Merritt in Oakland, California.
Benjamin L. Pérez teaches American History and English at Expression College for Digital Arts. He earned his BA in Religious Studies at UC Berkeley and went on to complete advanced degrees in Native American Studies at UCLA and American History at UC Davis; he received his MFA in Creative Writing at Mills College. Pérez’s poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in various academic and popular print and online publications, including Watchword, Sacramento News and Review (SN&R), Cricket Online Review (COR), the American Indian Culture and Research Journal (AICRJ), and Ishmael Reed’s Konch. In 2005, Spuyten Duyvil published his experimental and transgressive work, The Evil Queen: A Pornolexicology, which made Dennis Cooper’s top-10 list for that year. He is currently putting the final touches on a “bi-textual” work: CUNTIONARY/Repent at Your Leisure (or The Folklore of Hell).
Jason Morris was born in Vermont in 1977. His poems have appeared in Mirage #4 Period(ical), Forklift Ohio, TRY, Salt Hill & elsewhere. He is the editor of Big Bell Magazine.
WHERE:
Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street (at Columbus), SF
TICKETS:
Open to the public ($3 at the door)
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