WHAT:
I mean there’s the thing and then what the thing really means. Don’t let what the thing means scare you away from the thing, okay? Linda Norton, Cedar Sigo, and giovanni singleton take on “resistance” in this 13th installment, and the second season opener, of the Canessa Gallery Reading Series.
Linda Norton is the author of the chapbook Hesitation Kit (Etherdome, 2007) and the essay The Great Depression and Me (Counterpath Press online, 2007). Her collages illustrate both these works, and appear on the covers of other books and magazines as well. Her poem Landscaping for Privacy was set to music by New York composer Eve Beglarian, and is available on the cd Tell the Birds and on iTunes. She is senior editor at the oral history office in the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, and was for many years the New York publicist and an acquisitions editor at the University of California Press, where she started the New California Poetry series with Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, and Calvin Bedient. She is currently in search of a publisher for her recently-completed manuscript, The Public Gardens: Poem and History, and is back at work on her memoir and meditation, My Little Brown Book.
Cedar Sigo is 31 years old and moved to San Francisco in 1999. His books include two editions of Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse) and most recently Expensive Magic (House Press). He has given readings at The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, The Bowery Poetry Club, Beyond Baroque, The San Francisco Poetry Center, Small Press Traffic, and The San Francisco Art Institute, among others.
giovanni singleton, a native of Richmond, VA and former debutant, founded nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts, a journal committed to experimental work of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. She has received fellowships from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Workshop, the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Writers Workshop, and Cave Canem. Over the past 15 years, she has taught poetry at Saint Mary’s College and at museums and schools throughout the Bay Area. Her work has appeared in a number of publications including Five Fingers Review, Aufgabe, Proliferation, Chain, Callaloo, MiPOesias.com, Alehouse, Beyond the Frontier: African America Poets for the Millennium, the Best of Fence: An Anthology, and What I Say: Innovative Poetries by Black Artists in America (forthcoming).
WHEN:
Saturday, August 15, 8pm
WHERE:
Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street, SF
TICKETS:
Open to the public ($5 at the door). Refreshments provided.
Coming up next: September 19, 8pm – Julien Poirier, Cynthia Sailers, and Jacqueline Waters on “the un/familiar” . . .
