Once in a Lifetime Event: Judy Grahn, CA Conrad, + Katie Ebbitt

CAConrad, Judy Grahn, and Katie Ebbitt will read poetry on Saturday, November 19, 2016 at 7 p.m, for a “Once in a Lifetime” event organized by San Francisco poet and novelist Kevin Killian. CAConrad and Judy Grahn are mutual admirers of each other, but have not yet actually met, so this reading will be practically historic, while Katie Ebbitt will be able to tell future generations that she was there too, and she gave her first reading in San Francisco with two giants.

CAConrad’s childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He is the author of 9 books of poetry and essays the latest While Standing In Line For Death is forthcoming from Wave Books in September 2017. He is a Pew Fellow and has also received fellowships from Lannan Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts, Banff, RADAR, Flying Object and Ucross. For his books, essays, and details on the documentary The Book of Conrad (Delinquent Films, 2016), please visit http://CAConrad.blogspot.com/

Judy Grahn is perhaps best known as a poet, and also as author of Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds, and her memoir A Simple Revolution, the Making of an Activist Poet. She teaches creative writing, mythology, Women’s Spirituality, LGBTQ studies, and new origin stories when the spirit moves her.

Katie Ebbitt is author of the chapbook ANOTHER LIFE (Counterpath Press). Her work is available at Tarpaulin Sky, The FanZine, and Queen Mob’s. She is a LMSW in New York City and is writing a full length book on illness, disability, and disease remission.

THANKS to Alley Cat Books for hosting us; THANKS to Steve Dickison for the use of his 2014 photo of Judy Grahn, and THANKS to Melissa Buzzeo for her recent photo of CA Conrad.