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Paul Corman-Roberts (L) and Richard Loranger (R) by Victor James Smith

Displaced poetry readings landed at Babar

May 12, 2017
Evan Karp
Columns, Interview, NEWS, Out Loud

One literary organizer said to another: “Can you get a couple of Babar people to come in and read at the Octopus?” The resulting reading…

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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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