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SUMMARY:Conditional Love: Lonely Christopher\, Maxe Crandall & Kevin Lo
DESCRIPTION:SPD PRESENTS is a monthly reading series with the aim of fostering relationships between emerging writers and readers in our national small press community. \n~*~ \nLONELY CHRISTOPHER is a poet and filmmaker. He is the author of the poetry collection Death & Disaster Series (Monk Books\, 2014) and the short story collection The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse\, which was a 2011 selection of Dennis Cooper’s Little House on the Bowery imprint of Akashic Books. His first novel\, THERE\, is forthcoming in 2017. His plays have been produced in New York City and China. His film credits include the feature MOM (which he wrote and directed)\, the shorts We Are Not Here and Petit Lait (which were adapted from his stories)\, and Crazy House (for which he wrote the screenplay). He lives in Brooklyn. \nMaxe Crandall is a poet and playwright who lives in Brooklyn\, NY and Berkeley\, CA. Maxe is the author of the chapbooks Together Men Make Paradigms and Emoji for Cher Heart. The play Together Men Make Paradigms premiered at Dixon Place and was short-listed for the Leslie Scalapino Award. Their art and writing about art has appeared in the show Bring Your Own Body: Transgender Between Art and Archives and Transgender History in 99 Objects. A recipient of the Poetry Project’s Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship and the Poets House Emerging Poets Fellowship\, Maxe teaches in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University. \nKEVIN LO is a composer\, choreographer\, and writer recently moved to Oakland from Melbourne\, Australia\, whose sonic improvising work generally unfolds from preparing and re-preparing instruments as morphological substrate\, using violins/the insides/outsides of a piano (depending on availability) with metallic and magnetic objects; sometimes utilizing electronics; often employing extremely close recording techniques. \n~*~ \nFounded in 1969\, SPD is currently the only distributor in the country dedicated exclusively to independently published literature. For more information\, visit http://spdbooks.org/
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LOCATION:Small Press Distribution\, 1341 7th Street\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special: A "Sullied" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:This month at SNS\, we’re celebrating the sullied. The damaged\, the impure\, the tainted\, tarnished\, spoiled\, polluted and defiled. Bring us your filthy poems\, your ruined stories\, your glorious poisonous words. We want to eat them up. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances on our optional theme (or any topic). \nFeatures: Tim Donnelly & Barbara R. Saunders \n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself. Dance! \nSaturday\, May 28th\, 2016\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy & Tomas Moniz \nPlease help us out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic/112174188880786?sk=info \nBIOS \nBarbara R. Saunders is a writer from New York\, living in Berkeley. She has been a featured storyteller at The Monkey House and has performed original solo work at the Marsh\, where she studies with director David Ford. Barbara works as a freelance writer and editor and has won national awards for scholastic nonfiction and communications. In poetry\, she is drawn to musical sounds and biographical themes. \nTIM DONNELLY has lived in downtown Berkeley since 1991. Before that he was an LA poet. He is a Special Education paraprofessional in the Berkeley Unified School District and a seasoned Union negotiator. \nRecent poetry publications include Eleven Eleven\, The Dead Animal Handbook\, Saturday Night Special\, The Oakland Review\, Sparkle & Blink\, Poems on the Emery-Go-Round\, & Cross Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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