Wednesday, October 29, 2008

WINNERS OF THE 2008 LIFE LONG PRESS PUBLICATION CONTEST!

I am pleased to announce the winners of the first annual Life-long Press publication contest! Join us to celebrate the release of the publication and the two year anniversary of Back Room Live at Mc Nally's Irish Pub in Oakland on Dec. 6th 2008 and at Book Zoo to hear the contributors of /BRL Editor's Choice Edition/ live on January 8th 2009 (further info. about both events to follow). The editions will be available live, on line and at Bay Area Book Sellers. Thank you so much to those of you who sent me pages; I am excited to announce that Back Room Live will be going on line Saturday January 29th 2009 at 7pm! I'll be launching a new blog to post the work of four writers the last Saturday of each month and will be requesting/ accepting submissions beginning Feb 1st (details to be posted).
Congratulations ! BARBARA CLAIRE FREEMAN ! BRENDA HILLMAN ! CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ ! HARMONY HOLLIDAY ! SARA MUMOLO !
Harmony Holiday is a graduate student in the MFA program at Columbia University. She teaches dance and writing part time in New York and is currently completing her first collection "Negro League Baseball" and working a chapbook entitled "Scripture for the Perverts" based on Freud's "Three Essays on a Theory of Sexuality."

Craig Santos Perez is a co-founder of Achiote Press and author of from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Tinfish Press, 2008). His poetry, essays, reviews, and translations have appeared (or are forthcoming) in New American Writing, Pleiades, The Denver Quarterly, The Colorado Review, and ZYZZYVA, among others.
Brenda Hillman has published seven collections of poetry, the most recent of which are Loose Sugar (1997), Cascadia (2001), and Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005), all from Wesleyan University Press. She has also edited Emily Dickinson’s poetry for Shambhala Publications, and, with Patricia Dienstfrey, co-edited The Grand Permisson: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (2003). Hillman serves on the faculty of Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California, where she is Olivia C. Filippi Professor of Poetry. She is involved in anti-war activism with CodePink. These pieces are from Practical Water, forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press in 2009.
Barbara Claire Freeman is a literary critic and professor of literature who has recently turned her full attention to writing poetry. She is the author of The Feminine Sublime: Gender and Excess in Women's Fiction (University of California Press, 1998, pbk. 2000), among many other works of criticism and theory. Formerly an Associate Professor of English at Harvard, she teaches creative writing for the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in A Public Space, Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, Modern Review, Parthenon West, and New American Writing,. She is the current recipient of the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Award, the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize (Sarah Lawrence College, 2007) and a Pushcart Prize nominee.

Sara Mumolo works at Studio One Art Center in Oakland CA and runs the Studio One Reading Series. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Shampoo, Hoboeye, Dusie, Typo & others. Find her chapbook Brain in a Vat at Stormy Petrel Press.

CHANGE

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Rivals make haste I hear. Give good
honest soldier. Come sit down awhile,
westward, beating one Peace —speak to it
with wonder, it would be spoken to
and will not answer fantasy.

Sensible and true, king to thyself,
ambitious on the ice twice— now jump
this dead martial watch. In my opinion,
our state toils the subject, the land,
brazen for implements of war—
whose sore tasks divide the laborer

the day. The whisper goes as you know
to combat, our known world as a sealed
compact, ratified by law, life, lands—
seized against inheritance. Now,
mettle hot and full in skirts, list lawless food,
enterprise, our state. Strong hands take it.

The main motive/ the source/ the chief head—
comes armed. The question of these wars
the mind’s eye in little graves the sheeted dead
as stars, trains of fire, disasters, the sun.
Influence stands sick. Eclipse—
fear, fates, omen. Earth, blast me!

The cock crows. Stay and speak. Don’t strike.
Stand. Tis’ here— We do wrong! Violence as air.
Malicious mockery started a guilty thing. Trumpet—
lofty, shrill-sounding. Sea or fire earth or air extravagant and erring—
confine this sent object. Wholesome-power, gracious-time,

walk our watch tonight, celebrate dawning all nightlong.
Needful Loves, our duty? Let’s do it— run every sense.

Monday, October 13, 2008

Photography by Angela Scrivani Now Showing!

TONIGHT Monday October 13th from 6-10pm, Angela Scrivani, me, is having a SOLO Photography reception. The show will be at the Lanesplitter Pizza and Pub at 2033 San Pablo Ave in Berkeley CA, and I would like to invite YOU to come enjoy it. There will be pizza, beer, and of course photos at the reception . I'm really hoping you can make this event. The show will be up till October 31st. The pictures would love to see you.
Love and photos,
Angela Scrivani

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

NOW SHOWING IN THE MISSION








These pieces of mine along with work by ELIZABETH TERRAZAS, SHALISHA LOYD and JENNIFER GUEN will be on display at Cafe La Boheme through October. Details of my paintings La Ciudad de Los Quatros, Alice and Today, Lord, Cloud can be viewed below (all are for sale).

3318 24th St San Francisco, CA 94110
Mon-Thu 6:00 a.m.-10:30 p.m.
Fri-Sat 6:00 a.m.-10:30 p.m.
Sun 6:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.
(415) 643-0481
SECONDS from BART

BACK ROOM LIVE SATURDAY NIGHT OCTOBER 25TH 2008

BACK ROOM LIVE ! SATURDAY NIGHT ! October 25th ! Curator M.C. CRAIG PEREZ ! STEPHANIE YOUNG ! MARGARET RHEE ! FRANCOIS LOUNG ! JONNY HERNANDEZ ! Mc NALLY'S IRISH PUB 7pm !

UNFORTUNATELY DUE TO MISSHEDULING TTHIS READING DID NOT TAKE PLACE, THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO WAS WILLING
Stephanie Young lives and works in Oakland, California. She's the author of Telling the Future Off (Tougher Disguises, 2005) and Picture Palace (ingirumimusnocte, 2008), and she edited the anthology Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006). Recent editorial work includes the collaborative website www.deepoakland.org. Find her online: www.stephanieyoung.org/blog.

Originally from Strasbourg, France, françois luong currently lives in San Francisco. Other work of his has appeared or is forthcoming in Cannibal, Parthenon West Review, New American Writing, and elsewhere. He is also working on a translation into English of chutes, essais, trafics by Rémi Froger and into French of wide slumber for lepidopterists by
a.rawlings.

JTH (Johnny Hernandez) is a writer who has been born and raised in and around southern California. JTH currently resides in Emeryville and has been the recent recipient of the Academy of American Poets award for 2008. A recent graduate of the University of California at Berkeley in English, JTH is pursuing an MFA degree from Mills College. His most recent collection of poems entitled 'U' is his first published collection.

Margaret Rhee is an interdisciplinary writer and artist. Currently she is a doctorate student in the program in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. She has written academic articles on representation, race, and sexuality for Amerasia Journal; the anthology Crash Course: Reflections on the Film 'Crash' for Critical Dialogues About Race, Power and Privilege; and the journal of Sexuality Research and Social Policy. Previously she worked as writer and editor in Los Angeles for "YOLK Magazine,""Chopblock.com," and "Back Stage." She earned her BA in creative writing at the University of Southern California, and her MA in Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. She is Kundiman fellow, where in the hot, humid, and gorgeous summers of Virginia, she fell in love with poetry.

Craig Santos Perez is the co-editor of Achiote Press and author of from unincorporated territory (Tinfish Press, 2008).

LIFE LONG PRESS ! OAKLAND ! OCTOBER ! 2008

So that's,
Sat.Oct 25th at 7pm
McNally's Irish Pub
5352 College Ave
Oakland, CA 94618
Minutes from the Rockridge BART Station
and on the 51 bus line


There will be no reading the last Saturday of November!

Saturday December 6th Back Room Live Two Year Anniversary and Life-long Press Publication Event w/ JANE MILLER, BRIAN TEARE, CHRIS STROFFOLINO, HARMONY HOLIDAY, and issues of /BRL Editors Choice Edition/!!!

Thursday January 8th BRL at Book Zoo A Celebration Reading!!! w/ readers from the /BRL Editors Choice Edition/ to be announced

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Year of the Wild Cat TODAY IN SF

This Saturday, October 4th Year Of The Wild Cat will open the show at Bender's in San Francisco with 45 minutes of heaven and hell performed by Caroline Lorre on lead vox, Len Lauro on vox and rythmic bass, Adam Briggs on drums and Mike Burns on bass guitar, followed by The Boiling Suns. Bender's is a comfortable local oriented venue with full bar, kitchen, great stage, booth seating and pool tables plus GREAT tap. Admission is $5, all of which supports the bands. Open all afternoon, Bender's is at 806 S.Van Ness Ave. between 19th and 20th street in the 94110 area. Show starts at 9:30pm. Be prepared to rock!

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

MAPP THIS SATURDAY OCTOBER 4TH!!!


The Mission Arts and Performance Project invites public and private spaces around the San Fransisco mission district to host free arts events. Visual artists, writers, performance artists and muscians come together to make and show art in the community. I'll be reading/singing poetry THIS Saturday October 4th at Cafe La Boheme w/ writers HARMONY HOLIDAY GILLIAN HAMEL STEFFI DREWES JESSICA WICKENS MYRON MICHAEL SARA MUMOLO ELIZABETH TERRAZAS and

visual artists ELIZABETH TERRAZAS SHALISHA LOYD JENNIFER GUEN

w/ music by RYAN CHRISTOPHER PARKS CRISTINA ORBE

Music begins at our location at 6pm. MAPP events will be going on around the neighborhood all day.



Art work will be on display at Cafe La Boheme through October.

Cafe La Boheme
3318 24th St
San Francisco, CA 94110
Mon-Thu 6:00 a.m.-10:30 p.m.
Fri-Sat 6:00 a.m.-10:30 p.m.
Sun 6:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.
(415) 643-0481
SECONDS from BART