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SHIPWRECK TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS: gone with the wind

June 7, 2014
Christopher Steffen
Event Review, REVIEWS

You are sitting in the children’s section of a bookstore being read to by an enthusiastic man in a Civil War-era costume. You are enraptured…

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QUIET LIGHTNING @ EL RIO: will type for…

June 7, 2014
Christopher Steffen
C4 YOURSELF, Event Review, Playlists, REVIEWS

Quiet Lightning commandeered the neighborhood dive El Rio for its monthly reading series. In the afternoon there were writers posted at typewriters (will type for donations, will type…

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BABYLON SALON: casual yet intense

June 6, 2014
Mick Harris
Event Review, REVIEWS

The spring edition of Babylon Salon was held at Cantina SF on May 31st and featured an impressive group of writers in a refreshingly intimate setting. Hip-hop historian, DJ, and cultural treasure…

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WET RECKLESS @ PEGASUS BOOKS: joel landmine, mk chavez, alexandra naughton + cassandra dallett

June 3, 2014
Charles Kruger
C4 YOURSELF, Event Review, Playlists, REVIEWS

Oakland poet Cassandra Dallett hosted a reading at Pegasus Books in Berkeley on Wednesday, 5/28/14  for the release of Wet Reckless from Manic D Press. Wet…

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SWEET ADELINE BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB: something different

May 29, 2014
Tomas Moniz
Event Review, REVIEWS

“Love disables you; it holds you captive.” – Arisa White, author of A Penny Saved said at this month’s installment of the Sweet Adeline Book of the Month Club in…

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I WILL ALWAYS BE YOUR WHORE, BY ALEXANDRA NAUGHTON: a review by Michael Shufro

May 22, 2014
Michael Shufro
Book Review, REVIEWS

A piecemeal narrative composed of twenty-nine poems, Alexandra Naughton’s book, I Will Always Be Your Whore: Love Songs for Billy Corgan, is a poetry of…

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WORD PERFORMANCES @ THE LOST CHURCH

May 19, 2014
Michael Shufro
Event Review, REVIEWS

While a bookish, hushed audience crowded The Lost Church this April for San Francisco’s monthly Word Performances series, they closed the night singing and dancing…

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WHAT IS A COMMUNITY ARTIST? MILLS COLLEGE creative writing alumni discuss the liberating power of words

April 30, 2014
Michael Shufro
Event Review, REVIEWS

Alumni of Mills College’s creative writing MFA program curated a special panel discussion on April 9th 2014 to discuss the impact of their work in the…

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THE BOHEMIANS IN FOG CITY: ben tarnoff at city lights

THE BOHEMIANS IN FOG CITY: ben tarnoff at city lights

April 19, 2014
Steven Gray
Columns, Event Review, REVIEWS, Reviews by Steven Gray

“The finest poetry is not ashamed of the plainest fact.” (William Dean Howells) Back in the ’60’s, there was a war on that was tearing the…

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WORD BRAWL TO SAVE THE DAY: Write Club SF @ The Make-Out Room

April 15, 2014
Michael Shufro
Event Review, REVIEWS

A sizable crowd gathered March 18 at San Francisco’s Make-Out Room for Write Club SF’s 28th bout of literary fisticuffs. Riddled in disco glitz and…

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