Ellingham, Stein, + Caples

Suzanne Stein, Lewis Ellingham, and Garrett Caples read at Alley Cat Books, Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 3 p.m, for an exciting event organized by San Francisco poet and novelist Kevin Killian.

Alley Cat Books in located in the Mission District of San Francisco, at 3036 24th Street (at Treat).

Garrett Caples is the author of three full-length poetry collections, including the brand-new Power Ballads (Wave Books, 2016). He has also written a book of essays, Retrievals (Wave, 2014), and a pamphlet, Quintessence of the Minor: Symbolist Poetry in English (Wave, 2010). He co-edited Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems by Frank Lima (City Lights, 2016), Particulars of Place by Richard O. Moore (Omnidawn, 2015), and Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia (California, 2013). A freelance writer, he is also an editor at City Lights, where he curates the Spotlight poetry series. He lives in San Francisco.

Lewis Ellingham: born February 27th, 1933, Fort Wayne, Indiana. By age 21, migrated to San Francisco, after living in Chicago and New York; settled in North Beach. With Kevin Killian, wrote a biography of Jack Spicer, Poet Be Like God [1995]. “My The Birds and Other Poems was published in 2009; new writing continues with a series of self-published books. My blog: “The Ellingham Digest”: http://lewellingham.wordpress.com/” He has a brand new book we launch this afternoon, SEEN, UNSEEN.

Suzanne Stein’s publications and performance documents include The Kim Game (Area Sneaks), TOUT VA BIEN (Displaced Press), and Passenger Ship (Ypolita). Poems, talk performances, and prose have appeared in War and Peace, On: Contemporary Practice, Counterpath; and at New Langton Arts, the Poetry Project, the Berkeley Art Museum, and elsewhere; audio performances are archived at PennSound. She was the founding editor of SFMOMA’s Open Space.

Facebook event is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/598929320310766/?active_tab=discussion