![ETHEL ROHAN: cut through the bone](https://149664611.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Mon Feb 21 11, San Francisco (Alma Vescovi) The genre of flash fiction gives us small glimpses, brief openings of a door onto a briefly…
![WRITERS WITH DRINKS: utopia (thomas more would be proud)](https://149664611.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Sat Feb 19 11, Makeout Room (Maureen Blennerhassett) What with some great human injustices persisting in the news today, the last word I would use…
![LITERARY CLOWN FOOLERY: clowns meet books](https://149664611.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Fri Feb 11 11, Booksmith (Maureen Blennerhassett) On the second Friday of each month, the Booksmith opens its doors to a pack of well-read clowns….
![NEW POETRY MISSION: make some noise](https://149664611.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Tues Feb 10 11, Viracocha (Nicole McFeely) Writers. Its time to turn off your disconnect. On February 10th Sam Sax, Nic Alea, and Andrew Paul…
![SIOBHAN FALLON: you know when the men are gone](https://149664611.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Thur Jan 27 11, Santa Cruz (Rick Kleffel) “Soldiers like to tell stories, and I’m a good listener.” — Siobhan Fallon I have spent a…
![QUIET LIGHTNING: spaceship performance (beds, not danger)](https://149664611.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Mon Feb 7 11, supperclub (Evan Karp) Recently, I’ve started blogging over at SF Weekly, and I’ve been writing for The Chronicle for a while…
![CHARLES KRUGER: art for life's sake](https://149664611.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Thurs Jan 20, 11, Martha Bros. Coffee — Church St. (Evan Karp) A year ago, at the age of 53, Charles Kruger was fired from…
![ALYSSA KNICKERBOCKER: your rightful home](https://149664611.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Feb 7 11, The Richmond (Nicole McFeely) You open a book, hoping to be pulled into its pages, though never expecting to find yourself woven…