Terry Adams and Fred Dodsworth hosted The 8th Annual Beat Museum Poetry Festival on October 10th and 11th, 2015, held at The Beat Museum. The first half of the first day and the entire second day are available to watch, below, and bios and links follow:

October 10th

• Introduction
• Leah Lubin was born in Israel, grew up in England, and now makes her home in Woodside, California.  She recently completed her first novel, Between Two Worlds, along with nine poetry books.  The poetry compilations, Continent of Light, published in 2011, and World of Change, published in 2014, include her work. Her short story, An Artist’s Fairytale, first appeared in Detail, A Journal of Art Criticism. Leah is listed in Poets & Writers.
• Philip Hackett claims he’s the king of poetry.
• Chris Olander, Poet/Teacher with California Poets in the Schools (CPITS) since 1984, blends performance techniques with spoken  workd to create an action art poetry: musical image phrasing to dramatize relative experiences—a poetry rising from oral and bard traditions: a sound poet exploring meanings and ideas in rhythm patterns.
• Daniel McKenzie has been at many open mike’s and featured throughout the Bay Area. Wrote a story for an Anthology concerning his friend, Jan Kerouac, and was with her just before she went to see her father. He’s  editing a massive, historically relevant novel as of now with a chance to see it made into a cinematic production and from all indications the gates are beginning to open.
• Kim Shuck‘s first full length manuscript, Smuggling Cherokee won the Diane Decorah award in 2005. Her latest full length book, Clouds Running In came out in September of last year. She’s been nominated for pushcart awards 4 times without being selected and intends to go for a record. Kim teaches literature and art and California College of Art, teaches ekphrastic poetry as a regular substitute for devorah major through the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, edits an online poetry journal and will be curating a poetry series at Modern Times bookstore starting in January.
• Peter Sherburn-Zimmer is a San Franciscan from Boston. Slum kid with a Ph.D and retired philosopher.  21 books of poetry. Publishes when asked. Likes people, sunshine, rain, butterflies.
• Dorsetta Hale is the Poet Laureate of Pacifica. She is the author of Twenty Three Poems, A Likely Story and The Coast Is Clear.
• Carl Macki: drunk poet web & video developer fuckup editor for own shit promoter nothing environmentalist charity board member and occasional music journalist based in Northern California.
• Bill Gainer holds a BA from St. Mary’s College and a MPA from USF.  He is the publisher of the PEN Award winning R. L. Crow Publications and is the ongoing host of Red Alice’s Poetry Emporium. Gainer is internationally published. His latest book is Lipstick and Bullet Holes.
• Juanita J. Martin, Fairfield’s first poet laureate (2010-2012), has published in Rattlesnake Review, SoMa Literary Review, etc. She has a book titled The Lighthouse Beckons. Juanita, a member of Ina Coolbrith Circle, Redwood Writers, has featured at Healdsburg Literary Café, Petaluma Poetry Walk, and Berkeley Poetry Festival.
• Gaetana Caldwell-Smith is a native San Franciscan inspired by the Beats. She heard them read in North Beach clubs. Wrote poems not knowing they were poems till a friend told her they were.
• Simone
• Maurine Killough is a South Bay poet inspired by our life stories of human frailty and existential experience. She believes poetry bridges the material and dream worlds, helping us to get in touch with the unseen creative and spiritual energies. She has published one book of poems, Underseams, and has been published in Fault Zone series by Sandhill Press, among other publications.
• Mary Winegarden‘s collection The Translator’s Sister won the American Book Award in 2012. Her poem “Baking during Drought,” won the William Stafford Poetry Award last year. Her poetry has appeared in a number of journals, including the Squaw Valley Review, Adanna and Rosebud. She taught English at San Francisco State for more than two decades, and currently teaches at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in San Francisco, where she’s lived for over 40 years.

October 11th

• introduction
• Gary Horsman
• Leah Lubin was born in Israel, grew up in England, and now makes her home in Woodside, California.  She recently completed her first novel, Between Two Worlds, along with nine poetry books.  The poetry compilations, Continent of Light, published in 2011, and World of Change, published in 2014, include her work. Her short story, “An Artist’s Fairytale,” first appeared in Detail, A Journal of Art Criticism. Leah is listed in Poets & Writers.
• Jym Marks is a performance artist, jazz musician who played with John Handy, Dexter Gordon, James Moody and George Duke and he is the author of 12 books of poetry.
• Joe Cottonwood has worked as a carpenter, plumber, and electrician for most of his life. He is the author of nine published novels, a book of poetry, and a memoir. He lives in La Honda, where he built a house and raised a family. His most recent book is 99 Jobs: Blood, Sweat, and Houses.
• Terry Adams‘ poems have appeared in Poetry (Chicago), The Sun, Witness, College English, and elsewhere. His first collection, Adam’s Ribs, is available from Off The Grid Press. He lives in Ken Kesey’s infamous 1960’s cabin in La Honda.
• Beachhead
• Paul Corman-Roberts is a compulsive poet and organizer from Oakland. His new collection of prose poems is We Shoot Typewriters. If you take him to an Indian buffet you will be asked to leave and never return. Paul is one of the original core-founders of Oakland’s Beast Crawl Literary Festival and plays drums for the East Bay Blowdryers.
• William Taylor Jr. lives and writes in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. His work has been published widely in journals across the globe, including The New York Quarterly, The Chiron Review, and Poesy. An Age of Monsters, his first book of fiction, was published by Epic Rites Press in 2011. The Blood of a Tourist is his latest collection of poetry. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee and was a recipient of the 2013 Acker Award.
• Garrett Murphy is well-known in the Bay Area poetry scene as a political and human nature satirist. He lives in Oakland, CA, and has written several chapbooks of poetry and prose, Call 9-1-1 (and Mister Punch), Mother Nature Has Become a Terrorist!, I, Eye!, Now Showing, and the novel Yang But Yin: The Legend of Miss Dragonheel.  He has also had works published in the Sacred Grounds Anthology, the New Now Now New Millennium Turn-On Anthology, Street Spirit, and At Home in the Land of the Dead, among others.
• Tracey Knapp won the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award in 2014 for her first full length collection, Mouth. Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2008 and 2010, Five Points, The Red Wheelbarrow Review, and elsewhere.
• Bob Dickerson was born in the back seat of a car somewhere on Highway 61, grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, at the corner of Beale and Main. His daddy sold cocaine, his mama was a molecular biologist. He wrote his first poem, a Rimbaud-influenced limerick, when he was seven and published it the next year in the local Cub Scout Newsletter. When he was a teenager, he traveled to Borneo and caught a virus that made it physically impossible to write metrical poems. He’s been rejected for numerous awards and had several editors threaten to break the fingers of his writing hand if he didn’t quit sending them poems. His dream is to one day publish in the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” section of Popular Mechanics.
• Jack & Adelle Foley
  • Jack Foley is a widely-published poet and critic who, with his wife, Adelle, performs his work frequently in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has published thirteen books of poetry and seven books of criticism, including Visions and Affiliations, his “chronoencyclopedia” of California poetry from 1940 to 2005. For the past 27 years, he has produced radio shows on KPFA.
  • Adelle Foley is a retirement administrator, an arts activist, and a writer of haiku. Her column, “High Street Neighborhood News,” appeared monthly in The MacArthur Metro. Her poems have appeared in various magazines and textbooks. Along the Bloodline is her first book-length collection.
• Sarah Kobrinsky is the 2013-2015 Poet Laureate of Emeryville, CA, and a Pushcart nominee. Her poems and stories have appeared in Eleven Eleven, Fjords Review, Magma Poetry, Monkeybicycle, 100 Word Story, *82 Review, Red Light Lit, Shampoo Poetry, among many others. She was born in Canada, reared in North Dakota, seasoned in England, and tempered in California. Sarah and her husband have a handmade dinnerware company called Jered’s Pottery.
• Gwynn O’Gara first met Bob Kaufman at the SF Poetry Festival at California Hall when they recited Prufrock to each other. She grew to love David Moe’s nerve dance, too. Beatitude Press published her Snake Woman Poems in ’83. In Sonoma County, three chapbooks followed. She served as Sonoma County Poet Laureate from 2010-2012, and has taught with California Poets in the Schools for twenty-five years.
• Katie Tomzynski lives and works and writes poetry in San Francisco. A recent graduate of San Francisco State, now she’s writing and trying to become a person.
• Fred Dodsworth, an ink stained wretch, spent most of the last 30 years in newsrooms picking fights with mayors, police chiefs, congress critters and editors. Eventually he lost most of those fights, but the notches on his belt include at least one police chief, one mayor, and numerous politicians. Now he writes poetry and fiction because there’s more truth to be found in fiction than in any news story ever printed.
• Cesar Love does the Haight Ashbury Poetry Journal. The Haight Ashbury Poetry Journal publishes well-written poetry and fiction. HALJ’s voices are often of people who have been marginalized, oppressed, or abused. HALJ strives to bring literary arts to the general public, to the San Francisco community of writers, to the Haight Ashbury neighborhood, and to people of varying ages, genders, ethnicities, and sexual preferences. The Journal is produced as a tabloid to maintain an accessible price for low-income people.
• Justice Morríghan
• Caroline Goodwin lives in Montara and is currently serving as the first Poet Laureate of San Mateo County. She teaches at California College of the Arts in Oakland and grinds her own wheat berries into bread flour.
• Kirk Lumpkin is a poet, performer, lyricist, environmentalist, cultural worker, and event organizer. He is the author of two books of poetry, In Deep and Co-Hearing. He has released two poetry/music CDs, The Word-Music Continuum and Sound Poems. He’s done featured performances of his poetry all around the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California, in Los Angeles, New York City, Colorado; Toronto, Canada and readings in England (under the auspices of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament). He has been featured on KPFA radio’s Cover to Cover—Open Book. He hosted the first spoken word/poetry open mics at Burning Man. He hosted the Café International Series in San Francisco when it was voted “Best Spoken Word Open Mic” by Bay Guardian readers and has been a pirate radio DJ. This year he was on the faculty of the San Francisco Writers Conference and was Co-Director of the Watershed Eco-Poetry Festival.
• Bob Booker
• Christine Lias works in the nonprofit industry in the Bay Area and lives in Oakland. She has a Master’s in Public Administration from San Francisco State University, and an undergraduate degree in Journalism.
• Blake More is a resident of California’s Mendocino Coast and an artist with multiple creative voices and obsessions. Blurring the boundaries between disciplines, her work includes poetry, video, radio, performance, costume design, collage, teaching, painting, functional mixed media art/life pieces and wildly painted poetry art cars, including her newest, Star Yantra. She hosts two radios shows, a web radio show called “Cartwheels on the Sky” and Women’s Voices on KZYX&Z Mendocino. Her book godmeat is a collection of poetry, prose, color artwork, and a DVD compilation of poem movies, and her latest chapbook Up In the Me World is available on her website.
• Fred Dodsworth, an ink stained wretch, spent most of the last 30 years in newsrooms picking fights with mayors, police chiefs, congress critters and editors. Eventually he lost most of those fights, but the notches on his belt include at least one police chief, one mayor, and numerous politicians. Now he writes poetry and fiction because there’s more truth to be found in fiction than in any news story ever printed.
• The Word-Music Continuum (Kirk Lumpkin Paul Mills and Mark Wieder) has recorded two CDs, the most recent of which is Sound Poems.