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Nomadic Press: Get Lit #23

Nomadic Press: Get Lit #23

April 27, 2017
Evan Karp
C4 YOURSELF, Video Poem

Christine No hosted Nomadic Press‘ Get Lit #23 on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at Ale Industries: Featuring readings/performance by (in order of appearance): K. R. Morrison…

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Deb Olin Unferth’s story collection full of surprises, emotion

Deb Olin Unferth’s story collection full of surprises, emotion

April 23, 2017
Evan Karp
Columns, Interview, NEWS, Out Loud

Deb Olin Unferth‘s new collection of stories Wait Till You See Me Dance (Graywolf) is full of surprises, with twists and turns that often leave the…

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Kazumi Chin at Quiet Lightning

Quiet Lightning @ Elbo Room

April 9, 2017
Evan Karp
C4 YOURSELF, Playlists

Quiet Lightning presents their 106th show at Elbo Room, curated by Evan Karp, Brianna Nelsun + Hannah Rubin and performed live on Apr 3, 2017: Adam Moskowitz » Katie Wheeler-Dubin »  Kazumi…

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Genny Lim by Andy Nozaka • 2014 Fred Ho Memorial

SFJazz Poetry Festival artists to ‘speak truth to power’

April 9, 2017
Evan Karp
Columns, Interview, NEWS, Out Loud

For the fifth annual SFJazz Poetry Festival, Genny Lim has curated more than four nights of interdisciplinary performances. She’s used the opportunity to invest in…

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Elif Batuman by Beowulf Sheehan

Elif Batuman, author of ‘The Idiot’

March 23, 2017
Evan Karp
Columns, Out Loud

Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (2010), was working on a book inspired by a Chekhov…

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Jenny Xie by Amos White

Quiet Lightning @ Edinburgh Castle

March 8, 2017
Evan Karp
C4 YOURSELF, Playlists

Quiet Lightning presents their 105th show at Edinburgh Castle,curated by Meghan Thornton + Olga Zilberbourg and performed live on Mar 6, 2017: Peggy Schimmelman » Jenny Xie » Logan…

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Dixie De La Tour by Benjy Feen

Decade of Bawdy Storytelling opens gateway to sexual underground

February 23, 2017
Evan Karp
Columns, Interview, NEWS, Out Loud

Shortly after Dixie De La Tour moved to the Bay Area, she received an invitation that would change her life. “I used to have a…

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Quiet Lightning @ The Stud Bar

Quiet Lightning @ The Stud Bar

February 11, 2017
Evan Karp
C4 YOURSELF, Playlists

Quiet Lightning presents their 104th show at The Stud Bar, curated by Josey Rose and Christine No and performed live on Feb 6, 2017: Joe Wadlington Heather Bourbeau Peter Bullen…

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Safe House by Kim Rosen

Reading to fund girls’ education

February 9, 2017
Evan Karp
Columns, Interview, NEWS, Out Loud

In 2006, Kim Rosen arrived at the Tasaru Safe House in Narok, Kenya, and stood before a group of Maasai girls who had run away…

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Madison Davis on her debut book, Disasters

Madison Davis on her debut book, Disasters

January 26, 2017
Evan Karp
Columns, Interview, NEWS, Out Loud

Disaster has long been an obsession for Oakland poet Madison Davis, whose debut book of that name is out this week from Bay Area press…

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Elena Rose by Sean James Mikula

Writers Resist @ Starline Social Club

January 19, 2017
Evan Karp
NEWS, Upcoming Events

On January 15, Bay Area Writers Resist, in solidarity with Writers Resist groups around the world, hosted a night of readings and recommitment to Democracy—a benefit…

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“Lies, Lies, Lies”: Stephanie Syjuco, fabric banner

A 100-day counternarrative through art

January 12, 2017
Evan Karp
Columns, Out Loud

Ingrid Rojas Contreras and Jeremiah Barber were sitting on their couch, horrified by Donald Trump’s 100-day plan. “It occurred to us that he’s such a…

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Akinyele Sadiq @ QL103 by Meghan Thornton

Quiet Lightning @ Montgomery Street BART Station

January 9, 2017
Evan Karp
C4 YOURSELF, Playlists

Quiet Lightning presents their 103rd show outside the Montgomery Street BART Station, curated by Evan Karp + Kate Folk and performed live on Jan 2, 2017: A.D. Winans…

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100 Days Action

100 Days Action

December 19, 2016
Evan Karp
NEWS

From the website: 100 Days Action is a counternarrative to Trump’s one hundred day plan. A calendar of activist and artistic strategy, 100 Days Action…

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Frances Richard, courtesy of the artist

A poet examines the place of politics in art

December 16, 2016
Evan Karp
Columns, Interview, NEWS, Out Loud

In the midst of a feud with the poet Denise Levertov about the possibilities of politically motivated art, George Oppen wrote his only essay, “The…

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Matt Carney, courtesy of the artist

Matt Carney on Reaching for the Handshake with the Void

December 15, 2016
Evan Karp
C4 YOURSELF, Columns, Interview, The Write Stuff

An interview with Matt Carney, from The Write Stuff series: What’s your biggest struggle—work or otherwise? Excess. If someone said I want to do what you do, what…

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Quiet Lightning @ the Tenderloin Museum

Quiet Lightning @ The Tenderloin Museum

December 9, 2016
Evan Karp
C4 YOURSELF, Playlists

Quiet Lightning presents their 102nd show at the Tenderloin Museum, curated by Josey Rose Duncan + Jonathan Carroll and performed live on Dec 5, 2016, QL’s seven year anniversary show: Rohan DaCosta…

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Cleve Jones by Michael Bry

Cleve Jones’ memoir says gay rights movement saved his life

December 1, 2016
Evan Karp
Columns, Out Loud

Cleve Jones’ new memoir, When We Rise: My Life in the Movement, begins with a single-sentence paragraph: “The movement saved my life.” “That’s not rhetoric,…

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A Voice from the Underworld

Memoirs of a woman of the night in SF 100 years ago

November 18, 2016
Evan Karp
Columns, Out Loud

For two months in 1913, the San Francisco Bulletin published daily installments of the autobiography of an anonymous prostitute the paper called Alice Smith. Her…

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Quiet Lightning @ The American Bookbinders Museum

Quiet Lightning @ The American Bookbinders Museum

November 13, 2016
Evan Karp
C4 YOURSELF, Playlists

Quiet Lightning presents their 101st show at The American Bookbinders Museum, curated by Kelsey Schimmelman + Christine No and performed live on Nov 7, 2016: Wesley Cohen josé vadi Kate Ambash…

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What’s Dada? World Fair at City Lights explores the answer

What’s Dada? World Fair at City Lights explores the answer

November 3, 2016
Evan Karp
Columns, Interview, NEWS, Out Loud

It started with the simple, perhaps under-asked question: “Wouldn’t it be fun if we did something really crazy?” So said City Lights events director Peter…

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jennifer-s-cheng-by-gary-tsang

With poetry, child of immigrants ponders idea of home

October 20, 2016
Evan Karp
Columns, Interview, NEWS, Out Loud, Upcoming Events

In the beginning of her first book, House A (Omnidawn), Jennifer S. Cheng writes: “It is important to note that before language, children experience memories…

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Mauro Javier Cardenas by Gabriella Angotti-Jones for The Chronicle

Litquake makes writers feel like rock stars

October 7, 2016
Evan Karp
Columns, Out Loud

Now in its 17th year, Litquake began when a group of friends organized an afternoon of readings in Golden Gate Park. Over the years, it’s…

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Mauro Javier Cardenas by Gabriella Angotti-Jones for The San Francisco Chronicle

A word with the author: Mauro Javier Cardenas at Litquake

September 22, 2016
Evan Karp
Columns, I WOULD SAY, Interview, NEWS, Out Loud, Statement

Born in Ecuador, Mauro Javier Cardenas planned to return home after receiving an education in the United States, with the intention of changing the political…

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Yaa Gyasi by Leah Millis for The San Francisco Chronicle

Litquake guide, 2016

September 22, 2016
Evan Karp
Columns, NEWS, Out Loud, Upcoming Events

Litquake runs Oct. 6-15 and begins with an opening-night gala celebrating 400 years of Shakespeare, with poet Gary Soto, harpist Shelley Phillips and a special…

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