Sunday, October 4th, 6:00 p.m.
Bazaar Cafe, 5927 California St., SF
I'll be reading for around 25 minutes. Fiction writer Mark Labowskie and poet Casey Thayer will also be reading. Thanks to Peter Kline, the series maestro, for inviting me.
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Thursday, September 10, 2015
Reading Oct. 4 in San Francisco
I am pleased to be reading in the Bazaar Writers Salon in San Francisco.
I'll be reading for around 25 minutes. Fiction writer Mark Labowskie and poet Casey Thayer will also be reading. Thanks to Peter Kline, the series maestro, for inviting me.
I'll be reading for around 25 minutes. Fiction writer Mark Labowskie and poet Casey Thayer will also be reading. Thanks to Peter Kline, the series maestro, for inviting me.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Reading March 20, Sunday, at Diesel Books
I am happy to be reading at Diesel Books on March 20, Sunday, at 3 p.m. with Fred Marchant and Dan Bellm.
Fred Marchant and I have gotten to know one another at various literary conferences in the past couple years. He served during the Vietnam War and was one of the first marine officers ever to be honorably discharged as a conscientious objector. He is a genuinely sensitive individual, as seen in his poems. I am so honored to be reading with him and his friend Dan Bellm. Dan Bellm lives in San Francisco, and his third book of poems “takes as its starting point the Jewish practice of studying weekly portions of the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, in an annual cycle.”
As usual, I’ll do a kind of mixed genre presentation, mixing song with poetry and trying to surprise you! I’ll also read from my new manuscript of work that relates to the documentary I’m cowriting, Duas Americas.
Read more on Fred, Dan, and me at the Diesel Bookstore link
Diesel, A Bookstore Oakland
5433 College Ave
Oakland, California
94618-1502
Fred Marchant and I have gotten to know one another at various literary conferences in the past couple years. He served during the Vietnam War and was one of the first marine officers ever to be honorably discharged as a conscientious objector. He is a genuinely sensitive individual, as seen in his poems. I am so honored to be reading with him and his friend Dan Bellm. Dan Bellm lives in San Francisco, and his third book of poems “takes as its starting point the Jewish practice of studying weekly portions of the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, in an annual cycle.”
As usual, I’ll do a kind of mixed genre presentation, mixing song with poetry and trying to surprise you! I’ll also read from my new manuscript of work that relates to the documentary I’m cowriting, Duas Americas.
Read more on Fred, Dan, and me at the Diesel Bookstore link
Diesel, A Bookstore Oakland
5433 College Ave
Oakland, California
94618-1502
Sunday, October 17, 2010
October 28 Reading
I will be reading October 28 at the Berkeley Unitarian Universalist Church in a series coordinated by my colleague Mickey Huff. It starts at 7:00, 1928 Cedar St., Berkeley. Donation asked, $5-$10, no one turned away for lack of funds. I will be reading before Nina Barrows-Friedman, journalist and senior producer of Flashpoints investigative radio program.
Friday, April 16, 2010
April 19 Reading at Pegasus Books
On April 19, from 7:30-9:00, I will be reading poems at Pegasus Books in Berkeley. Excited to read with Cheryl Dumesnil and Judy Halebsky. Store location All are welcome!
Monday, March 8, 2010
Film: Where Is The War Plays D.C.!
Moisés and I are pleased to announce that our short film, Where Is The War?, has been selected to be shown in the Film Program of the Split This Rock Poetry Festival, in Washington, D.C.!
Thursday, March 11, there will be two (2) screenings:
-- 2-3:30 p.m. FREE
-- 10:30 pm.-midnight. Cost: $8
Location: Busboys and Poets Café @ 14th & V.
2021 14th St
NW DC 20009
(202) 387 - POET (7638) Map and parking info: http://www.busboysandpoets.com/about_14th.php
Please pass the word on to your friends in D.C.!
Where is the War?, based on my poem of the same title, follows a work commute as we hear the poem asking, "Where is the war?" The camera searches for where the war lives in our daily lives. As we move through roads, phrases from the poem are transposed on the screen, over images of blue sky and cars crossing the San Francisco Bay Bridge.
The journey is based on the lines:
does it live, this war
in one hundred thousand commuters
each sheathed in her metal, gliding
glissando, fearing no danger?
The soundtrack is my reading the poem, accompanied by Moisés on guitar.
The end of the film is Moisés’s haunting playing as we return by night in the tunnel. Red brake lights fill the tunnel with red.
In the final shot, we end in a schoolyard, with a tire swing swinging, still looking for the movement of where the war lives in us.
In Where is the War?, our intention is to show by absence. There are no people in the film, only cars with invisible drivers, moving soundlessly through that most familiar of rituals, the morning commute. By feeling the absences, we feel presence. Augmenting the voiceover, key phrases float in objects, so that poetry appears to emerge from landscape.
Split This Rock Poetry Festival Public Event Listing: http://www.splitthisrock.org/schedule_2010/publicevents2010.html
Thursday, March 11, there will be two (2) screenings:
-- 2-3:30 p.m. FREE
-- 10:30 pm.-midnight. Cost: $8
Location: Busboys and Poets Café @ 14th & V.
2021 14th St
NW DC 20009
(202) 387 - POET (7638) Map and parking info: http://www.busboysandpoets.com/about_14th.php
Please pass the word on to your friends in D.C.!
Where is the War?, based on my poem of the same title, follows a work commute as we hear the poem asking, "Where is the war?" The camera searches for where the war lives in our daily lives. As we move through roads, phrases from the poem are transposed on the screen, over images of blue sky and cars crossing the San Francisco Bay Bridge.
The journey is based on the lines:
does it live, this war
in one hundred thousand commuters
each sheathed in her metal, gliding
glissando, fearing no danger?
The soundtrack is my reading the poem, accompanied by Moisés on guitar.
The end of the film is Moisés’s haunting playing as we return by night in the tunnel. Red brake lights fill the tunnel with red.
In the final shot, we end in a schoolyard, with a tire swing swinging, still looking for the movement of where the war lives in us.
In Where is the War?, our intention is to show by absence. There are no people in the film, only cars with invisible drivers, moving soundlessly through that most familiar of rituals, the morning commute. By feeling the absences, we feel presence. Augmenting the voiceover, key phrases float in objects, so that poetry appears to emerge from landscape.
Split This Rock Poetry Festival Public Event Listing: http://www.splitthisrock.org/schedule_2010/publicevents2010.html
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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