Life Long Press

Etta James - At Last

2012-01-20T21:28:00.000-08:00

Aaron Embry "To The One"

2011-10-18T21:19:00.000-07:00

http://weareeachother.com/

Lady Gaga - Born This Way - Country Road Version lyrics on screen HD HQ

2011-10-02T23:13:00.000-07:00

2011-09-26T22:57:00.000-07:00

PERSON CIRCUS visual art by VALYNTINA GRENIER SHOWING OCTOBER 2nd - NOVEMBER 30TH

OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, October 8th 7pm - 9PM NEW PAINTINGS ENCAUSTICS INTAGLIO PRINTS MUSICAL PERFORMANCE BY LISA O'NEILL & STEVEN SOLOWAY

CAFÉ PASSÉ ~ BEER GARDEN ~ WINE ~ SPIRITS ~ 415 N. 4th Avenue Tucson SUNDAY ~ THURSDAY 7am ~ 10pm FRIDAY AND SATURDAY 7am ~ 11pm 520.624.4411

SEE THE ARTWORK ONLINE harriethomemaker.wordpress.com

above BORN THIS WAY acrylic on canvas

Smokey Robinson - Being With You

2011-09-21T21:59:00.000-07:00

Bert's Blues by Donovan on 1966 Mono Epic LP.

2011-09-03T14:19:00.000-07:00

Judee Sill - There's A Rugged Road

2011-08-22T23:53:00.000-07:00

SO SAD TO SAY GOODBYE TO Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry On Their Own Lyrics

2011-07-23T13:21:00.000-07:00

"Young Forever" Jay-Z | Mr. Hudson (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

2011-07-16T11:23:00.000-07:00

ADELE 'Rolling In The Deep' (Studio Footage)

2011-07-09T12:03:00.000-07:00

Maria Muldaur Midnight at the Oasis

2011-05-28T15:46:00.000-07:00

Dindi by Astrud Gilberto

2011-05-02T10:54:00.000-07:00

ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET Benny Goodman Sextet Peggy Lee

2011-04-29T18:39:00.000-07:00

Sixpence None The Richer- Kiss Me with lyrics

2011-04-10T12:54:00.000-07:00

It's Been So Long

2011-03-29T08:29:00.000-07:00

2011-02-20T22:06:00.001-08:00

I'll stand by you - The Pretenders (with lyrics)

2011-01-28T21:07:00.000-08:00

IT'S DOLLY'S B-DAY! 9 to 5 - Dolly Parton with lyrics

2011-01-19T14:51:00.000-08:00

The Fifth Dimension "Aquarius /Let The Sunshine In" (1969)

2011-01-13T11:34:00.000-08:00

I'M IN THIS ONE THE LEADER OF THE MEAN GIRLSSoul Asylum - Just Like Anyone

2011-01-05T09:47:00.000-08:00

SOME POEMS OF MINE ON LINE!

2010-12-28T18:48:00.001-08:00

YOU CAN READ /YOU'RE MINE, YOU/ AT SAINT MARY'S MAGAZINE and /MORE ELSE/ ATSPIRAL ORB TWO; HOPE YOU LIKE THEM!!!

THIS MONTH AT BRL!

2010-12-28T18:44:00.000-08:00

POETRY ! PROSE ! PLAYWRITING ! by ! LISA SCHLESINGER ! KATE GREENSTREET ! TREVOR CALVERT ! ANDREW RUSH ! YAY US !

The Da Vinci Robot on The Late Late Show, Ireland's most popular and pre...

2010-12-20T10:05:00.000-08:00

Christina Aguilera- Beautiful (with lyrics)

2010-12-14T17:58:00.000-08:00

THIS MONTH AT BRL

2010-12-06T13:29:00.000-08:00

! ANN ROBINSON ! JOSEPH ZACCARDI ! RICHARD CRUWYS BROWN ! MELANIE STOFF MAIER !

ART SHOW

2010-12-02T11:41:00.000-08:00

ENCAUSTIC, WATERCOLOR, FIBER ART and INTAGLIO PRINTS ! Join me for a reception SATURDAY DECEMBER 4TH 6-8PM ! CAFE PASSÉ 415 N. 4th Ave. is open M-F 7 a.m.-7 p.m., S-S 8 a.m.-7 p.m.

CLICK THE POST TITLE TO SEE THE SHOW ON LINE

Wolfmother - Dimension

2010-11-25T20:59:00.000-08:00

New Writing up at BRL!

2010-10-30T13:25:00.000-07:00

POETRY ! PROSE ! BROUGHT TO US BY AISHA SLOAN !

! POETRY BY CAVE CANEM FELLOWS ! TOMMYE BLOUNT ! NANDI COMER ! ARICKA M. FOREMAN ! PROSE BY AISHA SLOAN!

ALSO, February is LOVE month! Send us some writing about love, check out our SEND US SOME LOVE! page for details…

Happy Saturday +V.

Joanna Newsom - Jackrabbits (Live on Later with Jools Holland)

2010-10-28T21:14:00.000-07:00

WEAR PURPLE TODAY!

2010-10-20T09:29:00.000-07:00

"Wear purple today for the human race. Everyone deserves to be treated with respect and no one (no child, no adult) should be bullied or abused!"

A demonstration to express outrage over BULLYING of gays, bisexuals, transgenders, and straights alike; this is us respecting and honoring those who were lost for being themselves.

Sybil - Don't Make Me Over (12" Single)

2010-10-08T00:51:00.000-07:00

School of Seven Bells: Dust Devil

2010-10-04T16:52:00.000-07:00

NEXT SATURDAY NIGHT

2010-09-20T09:33:00.000-07:00

POETRY ! FICTION ! TRANSLATIONS !

! Sunnylyn Thibodeaux ! Micah Ballard ! Carlos Ávila ! Dayana Fraile ! curation and translations by Guillermo Parra ! Saturday September 25th ! 7pm !

LIVE at Conrad Wilde Gallery in Tucson Az Saturday September 18th at 6pm readings by ! Jane Miller ! Karen Brennan ! Valyntina Grenier !

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Conrad Wilde is located at 439 N. 6th Ave. #171 Tucson Az.

Life-long Press will be producing a limited number of handmade chapbooks and posters featuring writing by each of the authors!

The writers, their writing, and voices can be found at backroomlive.wordpress.com

Airplanes - Local Natives

2010-09-10T16:33:00.000-07:00

Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company

2010-08-25T11:39:00.000-07:00

Check out the new writing at Back Room Live!

2010-08-21T10:32:00.000-07:00

SATURDAY NIGHT! W/ZACH BUSCHER! WHITNEY DeVOS! ANDREW SHUTA! SHELLY TAYLOR!

Chet Baker - "You're Mine, You!"

2010-07-19T00:26:00.000-07:00

Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - Better things to do

2010-07-18T01:24:00.000-07:00

NOW SHOWING Autopoesis 4!

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Autopoesis 4

Valyntina Grenier

Intaglio Prints, Acrylic and Encaustic Art

Showing July 1 - July 31 at Lanesplitter 11:00am - Midnight

4799 Telegraph Avenue Oakland California

Please join me for a reception on July 26th from 6-9pm

To view the show on line go to harriethomemaker.wordpress.com

To view more paintings and artist proofs contact me at lifelongpress@gmail.com

New at Back Room Live

2010-06-30T21:23:00.000-07:00

BETH ALVARADO! JOSH GARCIA! JULIE LAUTERBACH-COLBY! STEPHANIE BALZER!

!!SATURDAY NIGHT IS LIVE!!

2010-06-08T01:19:00.000-07:00

W/KINDALL GRAY! MAUREEN McHUGH! JOSEPH MAINS! RILEY COX!

Slash ´s Snakepit - Beggars and Hangers- on

2010-06-08T01:08:00.000-07:00

I MAY BE COMMING TO A CALIFORNIA CITY NEAR YOU!

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HI!

I'll be reading at

THE LAST CHAPBOOK SALON at The Last Bookstore in LOS ANGELES ! June 2oth 3-5pm ! Bring your chapbook [or zines or self-published books]. Share, read, listen, trade. Let’s build a community of writers, makers and artists. Let’s become a collective work-in-progress.

While I'm in Los Angeles some of my prints will be in TUCSON AZ at the Kore Press Annual Benefit Auction & Garden Party MAY 30TH 2010 ! Tickets are $5 in advance, $10 at the door, For tickets and more go to www.korepress.org

Showing the entire month of July in OAKLAND Autopoesis 4 works in wax, ink and acrylic on wood, paper and canvas! This is

my 5th and final July show at The Lanesplitter Temascale, Come out for the reception on Monday July 26TH 6-9pm!

Conrad Wilde Gallery

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Pick Up The Pieces Red Dot Fundraising Event To benefit artists whose works were stolen
Local & national artists in all media Prices below retail ! One Time Only Reception Saturday May 1st ! 6-9 pm See the work live May 1-29, 2010 ! Tues-Sat 11am-5pm ! Click the post title to view work on line !

Hi

2010-04-19T13:13:00.000-07:00

WUNDERKAMMER

2010-04-17T21:34:00.000-07:00

All intimacies rest

and I am riding a crest

walking on a sidewalk

standing on the tip of my toes

to kiss you on the mouth.

In the house that afternoon

I walked into the dining room.

You came to me

grabbed my hand

kissed me on the forehead and

we walked out to the front lawn

for a rest under the old palm.

SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS ! MY CABAL !

2010-04-17T21:20:00.000-07:00

NOW @ BACK ROOM LIVE

2010-04-01T07:38:00.000-07:00

MARISA PRIETTO ! SHARON OSMOND ! JANE MILLER ! G.P. SKRATZ ! ERIC MAGRANE ! PAUL A. TOTH ! BENJAMIN RUSSACK ! ZAC SAWDEY ! PAUL BARRETT ! JENNY DRAI ! JAKE LEVINE ! DAWN LONSINGER ! LISA COLE ! and our Saturday night writers ! ARIANNE ZWARTJES ! ERIKA WILDER ! LISA O’NEILL ! TOM NURMI THANKS FOR READING! THANKS FOR WRITING ! AND THANKS DREW AND MEAGAN FOR COMING ON BOARD !

ALSO,
CRIME DRAMA Encaustics at Harriet Homemaker

FUN Sunday in Tucson Az.

2010-03-29T15:25:00.000-07:00

First up

A Farm Raiser in the Presidio w/

Chocolate Cake!

Ekphrastic Flowers at the U of A Museum

Che's

Detriot Ho! Travels with Pen Reading at Casa Libre

March is Back Room Lives' 4 Year Anniversary!

2010-02-27T13:17:00.000-08:00

Announcing ! New Managing Editors MEAGAN LEHR and DREW KREWER ! We'll be posting writing all month long ! Send us a page, poem, paragragh, essay, short story or chapter of non-fiction or fiction ! rtf files only ! along w/ a bio ! author photo- jpeg ! and any link/s to more of your writing on line ! Send submissions to backroomlive@gmail.com.

BRL SATURDAY NIGHT!

2010-02-22T10:40:00.000-08:00

! DREW KREWER ! MEAGAN LEHR ! CHRISTINA SMITH ! HUGH BEHM-STEINBERG ! brought to us by BARBARA CULLY ! next Saturday Night ! 7pm !

ERA GALLERY & BAR OPENS FRIDAY NIGHT!!!

2010-02-03T09:46:00.000-08:00

ERA GALLERY AND BAR
OPENS FRIDAY IN HEART
OF OAKLAND ART MURMUR

Press Release

"Rhythm and Rupture"

Joshua Dildine: Outrun the Sun
Graphite, charcoal, and acrylic on canvas, 30"x40"

Reception 5-8pm
Friday, February 5
19 Grand Street, Oakland

Era's Main Bar

"Rhythm and Rupture" Curated by Alphonse Berber's Cameron Jackson and Jessica Cox

w/ Era's Alfonso Dominguez February 5 - April 4

2010 ! Yvonne Mouser ! Joshua

Dildine ! Justin Margitich !

Christina Empedocles ! Don

Porcella ! Stephanie Inagaki !

Christina Empedocles "Rita Hayworth"

Wax Pencil on Paper 15 x 22 inches

Don Porcella "Group Photo Gone Wild"

Encaustic on Panel 32x 48

Yvonne Mouser Tubes (Detail)

Rolled Paper and Glue

Awsome! Can't wait to check out the space when I'm in town this summer. Happy

Happening +V.

Check out Mr. Businessman

2009-12-26T22:00:00.000-08:00

till December 19th at TDS Small Wonders!

2009-12-13T14:47:00.000-08:00

Modern Times, acrylic on gessoed paper

Small Wonders THIS Saturday Night 6-9 at The Drawing Studio

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This piece Modern Times (acrylic on gessoed paper) is one of many in the show running through Decembre 19th. For more images and details about the show and the reception click the post title. Happy Tuesday +V.

Poems By Gail Easterling at Back Room Live

2009-12-01T15:28:00.000-08:00

The scarf in this photo was a gift from her to me from her trip to China. Click the post title to read the poems- Hope you enjoy them!

2009-11-23T20:50:00.000-08:00

Poodlebird!

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I spent an awsome morning w/ this baby cardinal, watering some wild flower sprouts.

Al and Caterpillar

2009-10-25T15:34:00.000-07:00

I have been listening to Paul Simon lately, we'll call the caterpillar Betty.

BACK ROOM LIVE SATURDAY NIGHT A TRIBUTE TO MARLON EVANS

2009-09-26T10:53:00.000-07:00

Curated by WENDY BURK w/ writing from JOSEPH O'CONNELL, FRANCES SJOBERG, FRANCI WASHBURN and SIMON J. ORTIZ

Check it out!

2009-09-01T10:33:00.000-07:00

Slow and Low

September 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment

BACK ROOM LIVE ! CURATED BY TREVOR CALVERT

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BACK ROOM LIVE Currated by TREVOR CALVERT

With BHANU KAPIL ! RYAN BARTLETT ! STEFFI DREWES ! Thanks Trevor +V.

Boat and clouds

2009-08-15T15:33:00.000-07:00

Found: in Tucson Az. sky full of cloud shows and trail detritus for boat building.

Ink and Paint NOW SHOWING at Lanesplitter 4799 Telegraph Ave. in Oakland

2009-07-01T16:38:00.000-07:00

x42" $100.00

67"x42" $300.00

36"x42" $200.00

42"x36" $200.00

22"x30" $100.00

15.5"x15" $25.00

22"x30" $100.00

x18" $40.00

INK AND PAINT by Valyntina Grenier

RECEPTION

MONDAY JULY 27TH

7pm~10pm

Ten works using acrylic, ink and H2O on paper range in sizes from 15.5"x15" to 67"x42." Each piece comes ready to hang. For information contact lifelongpress@gmail.com

Additional specs. to come Happy Day +V.

Back Room Live ! SATURDAY NIGHT ! Mumolo ! Burford ! Zetter ! Prickett

2009-06-27T12:54:00.000-07:00

MAURICE BURFORD ! SHARON ZETTER ! BEN PRICKETT ! and this months currator SARA MUMOLO ! for poetry and prose !

Maurice Burford lives and writes in a giant squid's den in Ashland, Oregon. He has been published in NOÖ Journal, Cannot Exist, Pindeldyboz, and My Name is Mud, and co-author (w/ Jess Rowan) of the chapbook Prithee (Abraham Lincoln Press, 2009). In his leisure hours he cracks eggs and co-edits PinchPinchPress (pinchpinchpress.blogpot.com) and (occasionally) blogs at pandapandapandaalex.blogspot.com.

Sharon Zetter writes words between co-editing the journals Retired Unicorn and MARY, book binding, and battling with paint and yarn. She is currently working on building a dacha, possibly made of straw, with five other humans. Documentation of their exploits can be found at dachaproject.com. Her poems have found home in Hanging Loose, Slipstream, Ink Node, Soft Skull and Blood Pudding Press.

SARA MUMOLO curates the Studio One Reading Series in Oakland, CA . She edits CALAVERAS with Alisa Heinzman. Previous projects including editing MARY Magazine and co-editing Sorry IV Snake . Find her poems forthcoming in Coconut, Typo, Letterbox, Dusie & Cannibal. Read some now in Shampoo, Barnaby Jones 2, Hoboeye, Article Journal & Berkeley Poetry Review.

Ben Prickett is a recent graduate of the M.F.A program at Saint Mary’s College, where held the MFA advisory board scholarship for literary excellence. He is from Birmingham, Alabama, and now lives in Oakland.

Elizabeth Terrazas

2009-06-25T11:39:00.000-07:00

PAINTINGS!

719 Washington Oakland Ca 94607

Openning tommorrow night 7pm-10pm

2009 BAY AREA POETRY MARATHON THIS Saturday night June 20th 7pm!

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“An ear and mind opener… this event delivers the real thing: edgy stuff, poetry with a real bite!” –SAN FRANCISCO magazine

the first *******2009 BAY AREA POETRY MARATHON******* is THIS Saturday Night!
Come hear poetry by: ME * SAMANTHA GILES * CAROLINE GOODWIN * OWEN HILL * SARA MUMULO * ERIC OLSON * STEPHEN VINCENT * DELLA WATSON * JESSICA WICKENS at THE LAB, 2948 16th Street (@ Capp), San Francisco *1 block from the Mission BART stop*

Hope to see you there +V.

from Pedagogy of Love Model and a link to wunderkammer

2009-05-30T15:45:00.000-07:00

You don’t know me

You me we don’t know

Know

Don’t

unanswerable

un-

“explicit design”

“in the gaps” unknown

unknowable

unknown

unanswerable

unanswerable unknown

un-

attempt

attempt; to fail

attempt, to fail

to fail?

to fail an attempt to fail

Innocence

Presence

Present innocence

[be here]

Want

to be here

I want to— here

The Post Title is linked to Wunderkammer! Thanks for continuing make a place for my poems and photos +V. Wunderkammer is a curious collection of art, poetry, and prose. Wunderkammer is now seeking creative work that falls into these categories: Collection (deadline--June 14, 2009), Obama (deadline--June 28, 2009), Ecopoetics (deadline--July 12, 2009)

BACK ROOM LIVE ! SATURDAY NIGHT ! BERMEO ! RHEE ! PEREZ ! YEE !

2009-05-29T15:51:00.001-07:00

Check out backroomlive.wordpress.com for new writing from Debbie Yee ! Margaret Rhee ! Oscar Bermeo ! Craig Santos Perez ! Also look for guest curators Sara Mumolo in June and Trevor Calvert in August !

Born in Ecuador and raised in the Bronx, Oscar Bermeo is the author of Anywhere Avenue, Palimpsest and Heaven Below.

His poems appear in Achiote Seeds, BorderSenses, CrossBRONX, Ozone Park, and Spindle, among others. Oscar has been a featured writer at a variety of institutions including the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Intersection for the Arts, Kearny Street Workshop, Bronx Academy of Letters, Rikers Island Penitentiary, San Quentin Prison, the Loft Literary Center, Sacramento Poetry Center, UC Berkeley, UNC-Chapel Hill, NYU and many others.

He now makes his home in Oakland, with his wife, poeta Barbara Jane Reyes.

For more information on Oscar and his poetics, please visit his website, http://oscarbermeo.com, or his blog, http://geminipoet.blogspot.com.

Debbie Yee is an attorney, poet and arts & crafts enthusiast. A Kundiman fellow, Debbie's poems have appeared in 32 Poems and Barn Owl Review, among others. Her poem, "Cinderella's Last Will and Testament", was selected for The Best American Poetry 2009. http://www.debbieyee.com

Margaret Rhee is an emerging interdisciplinary writer, scholar, and artist, dedicated to social justice. She is a doctoral student in Comparative Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, lover of full bodied coffee and wine, and a Kundiman fellow in poetry. http://www.aapw-la.org/

Craig Santos Perez is a co-founder of Achiote Press (www.achiotepress.com) and author of from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Tinfish Press, 2008). His poetry, essays, reviews, and translations have appeared in New American Writing, Pleiades, The Denver Quarterly, The Colorado Review, and ZYZZYVA, among others. He blogs at blindelephant.blogspot.com.

BACK ROOM LIVE ! SATURDAY NIGHT ! WICKENS ! WATSON ! BURK ! HOLIDAY ! BRENNAN !

2009-04-23T13:08:00.000-07:00

Click the post title NOW ! RIGHT NOW ! for a travel essay by LAURA BRENNAN, poetry by HARMONY HOLIDAY and WENDY BURK and collaborative epistolary poetry by DELLA WATSON and JESSICA WICKENS. SCROLL DOWN FOR PICS & BIO'S FROM THIS MONTH'S WRITERS

Laura Brennan

Activities:Alchemy.

Interests:Tomfoolery, clandestineness, manipulation, esotericism and the abstruse.

Post-its, Q-tips, Jason Toothpaste, Lush, spell check and Dictionary.com.

Kale, peanut butter, wild mushrooms, nutritional yeast, fish in cans, dark chocolate covered almonds, mustard oil, smoothies and seeds high in omega fatty acids.

Funny faces, singing things that are generally spoken, breaking into dance, thumb war and applying a light amount of pressure to the back of someones knee.

Lavender, ylang-ylang, Himalayan Cedar, sweet orange, clary sage and patchouli.

Smiling wrinkles, whispering, blowing kisses, fishy face and blowing on peoples stomachs.

And bikes and goats and spring time.

Jessica Wickens' poems have appeared in Little Red Leaves, Eleven Eleven, Floating Holiday, The Whirligig, Spell, Switchback, and Blink. She studied anthropology at the University of Chicago and creative writing at California College of the Arts. She co-edits the literary journal Monday Night, recently founded Skeptic Press and sits on the board of Small Press Traffic. A native of Michigan, she currently works at a legal services center and lives in Oakland with human and feline companions.

Della and Jessica are currently working on collaborative a poetry collection.

Della Watson holds degrees from the University of Kentucky and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the co-founder of the reconstruction room, a Chicago-based reading and performance series. Her poetry has appeared in Limestone, Make, The Hat, Denver Quarterly, Tarpaulin Sky, Parcel, nanomajority, Free Verse, The New Yinzer, eye-rhyme, alice blue, elimae, Left Facing Bird, Sorry for Snake, Mirage, word for/ word and others. She blogs at Wunderkammer and The Green Life.

Wendy Burk is the author of a poetry chapbook, The Deer, and the translator of Tedi López Mills’s While Light Is Built, from Kore Press. Her work has also appeared in journals including TWO LINES, Tin House, Colorado Review, and PMS. With poet Eric Magrane, she has recently completed a manuscript of collaborative poems from National Park Service residencies in Michigan, Arkansas, and Florida.

Harmony Holiday-Oppen poem in the place of bio (pronouns have been changed )

Sunnyside Child As the builders Planned, the city streets Put leaves in summer air in lost Streets above the subway. And in this Achievement of the houses, this Air, a child Stands as a child, Preoccupied To find her generation, her contemporaries Of the neighborhood whose atmosphere, whose sound In her life's time no front door, no Hardware ever again can close on

Alphonse Berber FRIDAY NIGHT through June 6!

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"You, Me, and Everyone We Know"

kitsune_noir_diorama

will open with a public reception for the artists this Friday at 6pm and will continue until June 6.

For more information, please visit www.alphonseberber.com

Eating My Cake and Having It Too, Benjamin Cowden.

Timothy Kadish, Three Waldos, Four Parachute Men, Seven Mushrooms, Eight Tanks, and Four Turtle Doves.

Inagaki, Untitled (Gericault #1), charcoal on rives bfk, 86 x 42 .

BACK ROOM LIVE! NOW! RIGHT NOW! RICKEL ! HUDSON ! HAMEL ! CHOI !

2009-03-28T15:28:00.000-07:00

IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT ! click the post title for new writing by Boyer Rickel ! Chiwan Choi !Victoria A. Hudson ! and NEW ! Life-long Press Co-Editor Gillian Hamel ! Also, check out our new and up-dated Pages: Submissions, Contributors, Thank You.

Submit some pages of your own!

Tucson is a real cloud-show, also

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coyote, humming-birds, doves, quail, cottontails, snakes and lizards doing their push-ups or wagging their tails.

2 more days to see "Works on Paper" at Rockridge Cafe 7:30am-3:pm all work half price!

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These works, ready to hang, are available for $25-$45 !

Back Room Live !ON LINE! Saturday Night ! February 28th !7:PM! Goldman ! Cully ! Moctezuma ! Durback !

2009-02-23T11:11:00.000-08:00

Lara Durback thinking about energy or that space in between every person and thing. And her name always confusing. Never committing to a form of art but always writing first. Talking, music, food, handmade leather earrings, printing, digging through trash & gluing, dancing, yoga. People people people people and cats and public transportation.

Jose's father's name is Jose, and his father's father's name was Jose too. Hence, 'Jose-Luis'; which gratifies this scrivener's sense of self-worth in a world filled with Joses, famous and none-too-famous. To his friends, he is Jose, and to one very good friend, it is 'Josef' - others may refer to him as 'Joe' or 'Yousef' - yet no one calls him 'Pepe' because he still is (bless him) 'Pepito'. His father is a poet/metaphysician, a pater-in-spirit published; and his father's father was a boxer, a dragon given to drink & toxicity. So proceed the events enchained by the recurrence of a name - variations on a theme lost in a conspectus of what JHVH increases - a genealogy as yet unwrit, dim-seen... The present Jose(-Luis) resides in Illadelph, PA

Barbara Cully is the author of Desire Reclining (Penguin, 2003); The New Intimacy (Penguin, 1997), which won the National Poetry Series Open Competition; and Shoreline Series (Kore Press, 1997). She teaches in the Department of English at the University of Arizona as well as in the Prague Summer Program. Poems from a new collection appear in CUE and Sonora Review, and are forthcoming in Tight.

Following an initial stab at political satire for The Sunday Times of London, the Brooklyn-born writer has remained a recurring nightmare for British readers. Steven got his start in the UK, working at London's premier listing's magazine, Time Out, and subsequently for The Guardian, filing film features, theatre reviews and covering the major European film festivals. His credits in the UK also include BBC Children's Television, GQ, Cosmopolitan, The Evening Standard and The Face. In the US his work has been published in The New York Times, Premiere and Interview Magazine.

Specializing in film coverage, Steven has worked as a Hollywood correspondent and frequent contributor to The Sunday Times and Esquire in the UK, with numerous covers for both publications. His interviews include : Martin Scorsese, John Travolta, Samuel Jackson, Sharon Stone, Woody Allen, Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock, Jude Law, Kevin Costner, Ray Charles and Timothy Leary amongst numerous others.

Approached by former Disney animator, Raul Garcia, he scripted the animated feature, Sian Ka'an, featuring the voices of Salma Hayek, Placido Domingo, Alfred Molina and Cheech Marin. Additional credits include two animated Eloise holiday specials from Film Roman & Handmade Films (based on the books by Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight), featuring the voices of Tim Curry, Lynn Redgrave, Brad Garrett and Jim Belushi.

On line

Saturday February 28th 7pm
at

VANISHING POINT BY MARGUERITE HARRIS Feb 15th 6-9pm Free!

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MicroClimate Resident Artist
MARGUERITE HARRIS
Technology and Culture
A film/video/computer generated environment.
Sunday, February 15 6-9PM Free, CLIMATE THEATRE 285 9TH STREET SF, CA 94103

Using repetitive, minimalist imagery, Marguerite Harris explores "the documentation of natural forms as archived events, buried within the digital frame." She creates films and immersive video environments which fluctuate or multiply and can be temporally and spatially disorienting; the spectator is engaged as both subject and activator of the work.
In the MicroClimate Project Space the artist will be showing digital computer generated stills from her hand-made film "Flowers & Leaves #1 & #2" (2007),. She will experiment with activating the Project Space through experimental live-feed video looping.

New! Works on Paper by Valyntina Grenier

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Twelve works using acrylic, ink and H2O on paper range in size from 30"x22" to 67"x42." Each piece comes ready to hang w/ an artist-made slip and dowel weight and hanging system. All arelight-weight and several can be hung 2 ways.They are priced to sell from $50.00 to $280.00.
I hold a BA in English from UCBerkeley and an MFA from Saint Mary's College. I am the editor-in-chief of Life-Long Press and the curator/ MC of Back Room Live, a monthly multi-genre reading series formerly held at Mc Nally's Irish Pub. Back Room Live is now on line at backroomlive.wordpress.com. Join us for our debut posting Saturday, January 31st, at 7pm and the last Saturday of every month at 7pm to read and comment on the work of 4 new writers!

The Rockridge Cafe is at 5492 College Ave in Oakland they are open Sunday-Monday from 7:30am-3pm.

WIP's 2

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NOW SHOWING at Khana Peena on College

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Khana Peena is at 5326 College Ave. in Rockridge click the post title for restaurant hours and info. The food is delicious!
My Pager's in My Other Pants
After the Modern Styles: abstract lyricisim, minimalism, abstract symbolism
Acrrylic on canvas
5'X5'
$621.00

My Pager's in my Other Pants is titled after a mixed tape made by my friend Lukas Champagne which I listened to while composing Autopoiesis 2 my second annual show of paintings for the Lanespliter in July of 2007. During the month of May I composed ten paintings (acrylic on canvas or cedar) ranging from 6"x6" to 5'x5'. This painting is the fourth in my series Strains. The first paintings in the series were gennerated from a sketch I made after the minimalist style in 1997 while watching The Andromeda Strain. The term strain has several connotations. Those which provide a lense for the viewing of this painting : (music) a series of musical phrases that create a distinct melody of a piece, (biology) a variant of a plant, virus or bacterium, or to pass through a filtering agent such as a strainer, to embrace or clasp tightly; hug. The image to the right, the original sketch for My Pager's in My Other Pants, was composed during an art history class in 1998.
To view the other paintings in the Strains series and others go to lifelongpress.blogspot.com. Or to see some new works on paper from the series to the right visit the Rockridge Cafe January 22nd through May 6th.

HAPPY NEW YEAR NEWS!!!!

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BACK ROOM LIVE ! SATURDAY NIGHT ! January 31st 2009 ! SARAH GARRIGAN ! VERONICA CARLOS-LANDA ! JENNY DRAI ! backroomlive.wordpress.com 7pm !

Join us for our debut posting! Also, Thursday January 8th live at Book Zoo in Oakland at 7pm w/BRL Editors Choice Edition/ contributors ! Brenda Hillman ! Sara Mumolo ! Barbara Claire Freeman ! Craig Santos Perez ! See you there +V.

Jenny Drai likes to say she was raised by wolves, but really she is the child of librarians, which may or may not be the same thing. A graduate of the poetry program at Saint Mary's College of California, her work has appeared in Court Green, Five Fingers Review, and The Tiny as well as other journals. She has written a novel, John Clare, which awaits publication, and is currently working on a novella, Dark Age, about a fifth century book of laws, a list of names, and a divorced writer with too much time on her hands. She likes to swim and run and enjoy scotch in a responsible fashion in Oakland, California, but she has also lived in Chicago, Hamburg, and Munich. She works in the home furnishings industry.

Veronica Carlos-Landa is a Mexican-American poet who has lived in California all of her life and never plans to leave. She received her BA from UC Berkeley and her MFA from St. Mary's College. Vero, as her friends affectionately call her, also teaches, learns, loves, sews, knits, and loves to drink beer.

Sarah Garrigan is a student at the University of California at Berkeley working towards a degree in English. She is currently a Co-Publicity Chair for the Berkeley Poetry Review. After college, she looks forward to living in a box while discovering what exactly one can do with a B.A. in English. She enjoys drinking chai lattes, wandering around San Francisco, and pretending to work on her senior thesis.

Works In Progress

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/BRL Editor's Choice Edition/ Available LIVE at BOOK ZOO

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Special and Staple-copy editions of BRL in store now CLICK THE LINK FOR STORE HOURS!!!

BOOK ZOO 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY this Friday 7pm!!!!

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Book Zoo will celebrate its fifth year of operation on this historic evening. Bring food, drinks and presents! All are welcome. FREE!!! Click the post title to check out their cool website+V.

BRL'S BIG BOOK ZOO BOOK BASH BON VOYAGE 7pm Thursday Jan 8th 2009!

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BRL'S BIG BOOK ZOO BOOK BASH BON VOYAGE 7pm Thursday January 8th 2009!
The cover image for /BRL Editors Choice Edition/ photo ! Geatan Chabanol ! Cover Art ! Allyson O'Brien ! Layout/Design/Editor ! Valyntina Grenier ! Copy Editors ! Sarah Garrigan ! Gillian Hamel ! Binders ! Jenny Drai ! Sara Mumolo ! Jane Miller ! Gillian ! Me ! Writers ! HARMONY HOLLIDAY ! BRENDA HILLMAN ! CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ ! BARBARA CLAIRE FREEMAN ! SARA MUMOLO !

Hi there,
Please join LIFE-LONG PRESS at BOOK ZOO January 8th 2009 7pm for our Big /BRL Editors Choice Edition/ Book Bash Birthday Bon Voyage Party ! No we'll not be bashing books WE LOVE THEM ! We'll hear from contributors ! SARA MUMOLO ! CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ ! BARBARA CLAIRE FREEMAN ! BRENDA HILLMAN ! We will have copies of the edition for sale ! The Bon Voyage is for Life-long Press ! BACK ROOM LIVE will be going on line ! The Birthday is my 33rd ! I am realy looking forward to celebrating w/ you ! +V.

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.

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.

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.

So that's
Thursday January 8th 7pm
at Book Zoo
6395 Telegraph Ave.
Oakland 94609

LIFE LONG PRESS ! OAKLAND ! JANUARY ! 2009

Last BIG BACK ROOM LIVE ! this SAT DEC 6TH 7PM ! and second publication event of the year!!!!!

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Well the magazine is nearly ready!!!! On thursday night from 6-10pm we will be binding 55 special editions and stapling 95 copy editions if you'd like to help send me an email!!!! And by help I mean loan your time, bookbinding tools or staplers???? And don't forget about our big event this Saturday night at Mc Nally's at 7pm chaeck out the readers and bios below. Hope to see you their++V.

A DIFFERENT KIND OF WRITING WORKSHOP

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with poet, essayist, & musician Chris Stroffolino in a fun, nurturing, non-accredited setting

7 or 8 Three-Hour Sessions; 1st WINTER session begins LATE DECEMBER (or EARLY JANUARY. Dates & times to de be determined depending on the needs of the class (We will do our best to accommodate people’s schedules—most likely a weeknight). The workshop may culminate in a public reading /performance/talk, depending on the interest of the class.

Class Size: minimum of 7, maximum of 10.

Cost: $250: Check, money-order or cash are all acceptable.

Class Description: Do you have something to say, but don’t quite know what is the best way to communicate it? Do you need to write for the sake of self-knowledge or catharsis, but aren’t sure if you want to make it public? Did a friend, teacher or other professional writer call your writing a ‘mere journal entry?’ or a ‘song lyric?’ Did they say your poetry rhymed too much, or maybe not enough? Did they say your prose was too poetic, or had too many ideas and not enough characters? Are you frustrated that the writing they often claim is ‘better’ than yours doesn’t really speak to you? Do you believe your writing may very well be able to better the lives of others? Do you believe in magic? Do Ya?

If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions (or even if you think they’re silly), this is the workshop for you. Taking each student’s writing and/or performance pieces as its starting point, this workshop encourages students working in varying different ‘genres’. Students may work within one genre throughout the entire course, but will be encouraged to explore a range of stylistic options including poems, manifestoes, creative non-fiction, dialogue pieces, songlyrics, poem-paintings, texts that redefine or de-define genre, ‘hybrid texts’ or ‘non-poetry.’ Students will offer critiques of each other’s work to create a dialogue within a ‘unity in diversity’ approach. By the end of the class, students can expect a deeper understanding into the creative process as well as the business of publishing or other ways of making their work public. Note: This class is intended for all levels.

Chris Stroffolino is the author of seven books of poetry, including Speculative Primitive (2004), Scratch Vocals (2003), Stealer’s Wheel (1999), Light As A Fetter (1997), Cusps (1995) and Oops (1994). He also published two books of literary criticism, Spin Cycle (2001), and, with David Rosenthal, a book length study of Shakespeare’s 12th Night (2000). Since 2001, he’s been singer/songwriter for Continuous Peasant, and has also performed and recorded with The Silver Jews, Jolie Holland, Greg Ashley, Brian Glaze, and Rising Shotgun. His music and cultural criticism has appeared in The Bigtakeover, Kitchen Sink, Big Bridge. He was a recipient of a 2001 New York Foundation for the Arts grant before moving to Oakland where he was Visiting Distinguished Poet at St. Mary’s College from 2001-2006. He has also taught at San Francisco Art Institute, Mills College, Rutgers University, NYU, LIU, Temple, Drexel among others, and received a 2008 Grant from the Fund For Poetry. His poetry has been widely anthologized, and translated into Spanish, Bengali, Hungarian, and Dutch. He also has edited literary journals and curated several reading/talk series.

To Register, contact Chris Stroffolino at chris.stroffolino@gmail.com or 415-260-7535. Spaces are limited. No more than 10 students will be accepted per class. Interested students should submit a short 1-3 page sample (or 2 MP3 if working in primarily an audio format).

LAST BIG BACK ROOM LIVE OF THE YEAR ! SAT DEC 6TH 7PM !

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Back Room Live Two Year Anniversary and Life-long Press Publication Event ! JANE MILLER ! BRIAN TEARE ! CHRIS STROFFOLINO ! HARMONY HOLIDAY ! Issues of /BRL Editors Choice Edition/!!! SATURDAY DECEMBER 6TH ! 7pm ! Mc Nally's Irish Pub ! Come Join The Party!

Thank you ! Javier O. Huerta ! Jenny Drai ! Stephen Vincent ! Sarah Garrigan ! Lukas Champagne ! Janet W. Hardy ! Eleanor Johnson ! Della Watson ! Ailene Sankur ! Jennifer K. Sweeney ! Chad Sweeney ! Valyntina Grenier ! Sara Mumolo ! Jenny Drai ! Gillian Hamel ! Craig Santos Perez ! Zach Demby ! Rebecca Guyon ! Victoria A. Hudson ! Amanda Benson ! Veronica Carlos-Landa ! Linda Norton ! Ben Perez ! Ben Prickett ! Sarah Fattig ! Lyn Hejinian ! Brenda Hillman ! Graham Foust ! Geoffrey G. O'brien ! Lisa Gschwandtner ! Jack Morgan ! Jarrod Roland ! Erika Stati ! Patrick Holian! Lily Brown ! Victoria Hudson ! Clare Becker ! Evan Sicuranza ! Kathryn FK ! Eleanor Bayne Johnson ! Rebbecca Brown ! Jack Morgan ! Juliet Kinkade ! Tyler Williams ! Allison Landa ! JP Lacrampe ! Trevor Calvert ! Cielo Lutino ! Jeffrey Knutson ! Nicole Polidoro ! Pablo Lopez ! Sara Mumolo ! Challen Clarke ! Angelo Nikolopoulos ! Teresa Hovis ! Sarah Garrigan ! Beatrix Chan ! Alicia Bleuer ! Lukas Champagne ! Adam Watkins ! Sharon Lynn Osmond ! Andrew Kenower ! Lily Brown ! David Spataro ! Harmony Holiday ! Jason Sattler ! Blake Ellington Larson ! Vicki Hudson ! Jenny Drai ! Janet W. Hardy ! Hillary Gravendyk ! David Larsen ! Julie Choffel ! Scott Berger ! Thomas Cooney ! Ben Brashares ! For Making Art in Public ! BACK ROOM LIVE ! OAKLAND ! NOVEMBER 2006 ! DECEMBER ! 2007

Thank you ! Stephanie Young ! Margaret Rhee ! Francois Loung ! Jonny Hernandez ! For Being Willing !

Thank you Tony and Tobias for making room for us!!!!

AND THANK YOU THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO ARE A PART OF THE LIFE-LONG PRESS COMMUNITY ! you have my heart +V

Stroffolino's the author 7 books of poetry (all out of print), most recently Speculative Primitive (2004 Tougher Disguises). Also, a book of essays on contemporary poetry (Spin Cycle), co-edited a Critical Edition of Shakespeare's 12th Night. Various Rock Bands (Silver Jews, Continuous Peasant, Rising Shotgun, etc). Won a Fund For Poetry grant in 2008 and a NYFA grant in 2001. Was VIsiting Distinguished Poet at St. Mary's College (2001-2005). Essays on music, and pop culture in BigTakeover, Kitchen Sink, Oakbook, etc.

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."

Brian Teare is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and MacDowell Colony. He was also a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. He has published poetry and criticism in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Provincetown Arts, St. Mark's Poetry Project Newsletter, Seneca Review, Verse and VOLT, among many other journals. His first book, The Room Where I Was Born, won the 2003 Brittingham Prize and the 2004 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. Two new books are forthcoming: Sight Map (University of California, 2009) and Pleasure (Ahsahta, 2010). He lives, teaches and makes books by hand in San Francisco.

Jane Miler’s recent collection is Midnights, poetry and prose in Saturnalia Press’s artist/poet Collaboration Series, #4, 2008, with visual art contributed by Beverly Pepper and an introduction by C.D. Wright. Jane has also published several poetry collections with Copper Canyon Press, most recently a book-length collection, A Palace of Pearls.

Congratulations Mr President

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CHANGE is my savings plan!

!VOTING DAY!

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!Endorsements from Life-long Press!
I was talking w/ a friend, Suchi, about tomorrows election some weeks ago and she wondered why it is not called "Voting Day." I know there are a few days on which we are meant to hit the poles or meet our vote by mail dead lines however, like Suchi I feel that if it were called voting day perhaps more people would feel compelled to vote. I also believe, as was my voter status in my late teens and twenties, that many people do not vote because they find voter information ballots and conflicting television adds "overwhelming" or "confusing." Because many Americans are simply not taught how to vote inquiry into the issues and candidates and the act of voting itself is seen as a "task" rather than a RIGHT and the opportunity to educate one's self is not undertaken. At this point I take my right to vote as fundamental to my behavior as a; citizen, artist, worker, family member, friend, student and educator. It is my privilege to go public w/ the choices I will be making on voting day. I have based my decisions on the voter information pamphlet for the general election and for Alameda County, conversation at the work place and w/ friends, television adds and news programs, as well as the San Francisco Bay Guardian. There are a few issues I am still undecided about and would love to hear your input so please comment w/ any of your opinions. I also want to wish Suchi a happy Voting Day Birthday, thanks for inspiring my thinking and my decision to spend a little extra time to share my opinions in public.

PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESEDENT Obama/ Biden
US REPRESENTATIVE 9TH DISTRICT Lee
STATE SENATOR 9TH DISTRICT Hancock
STATE ASSEMBLY 14TH DISTRICT Skinner
SUPERIOR COURT OFFICE #9 Hayashi
COUNCIL MEMBER AT LARGE Kaplan
AC TRANSIT DISTRICT DIRECTOR AT LARGE ?
AC TRANSIT DISTRICT DIRECTOR AT LARGE WARD 2 Harper

STATE MEASURES
1A Yes
2 Yes
3 No
4 No
5 Yes
6 No
7 ?
8 No
9 No
10 No
11 No
12 ?

SCHOOL
N Yes

CITY OF OAKLAND
NN No
OO Yes
VV Yes
WW Yes

WINNERS OF THE 2008 LIFE LONG PRESS PUBLICATION CONTEST!

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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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φ
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.

Photography by Angela Scrivani Now Showing!

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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

NOW SHOWING IN THE MISSION

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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

2008-10-07T11:54:00.000-07:00

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

Year of the Wild Cat TODAY IN SF

2008-10-04T11:17:00.000-07:00

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!

MAPP THIS SATURDAY OCTOBER 4TH!!!

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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

BACK ROOM LIVE SATURDAY NIGHT SEPTEMBER 27TH 2008

2008-09-11T09:52:00.001-07:00

BACK ROOM LIVE ! SATURDAY NIGHT ! September 27th 2008 ! Javier O. Huerta ! Jenny Drai ! Stephen Vincent ! Sarah Garrigan ! Mc NALLY'S IRISH PUB 7pm !

Javier O. Huerta's debut collection *Some Clarifications y otros poemas* (Arte Publico 2007) received the 31st Chicano/Latino Literary Prize from UC Irvine. New work has appeared in *Achiote Seeds*, *In the Grove*, and *Palabra*. He is currently a contributing writer for the Poetry Foundation's *Harriet* blog. He lives in Oakland and studies in Berkeley.

Sarah Garrigan is a student at the University of California at Berkeley working towards a degree in English. She is currently on the editorial board for the Berkeley Poetry Review and enjoys wandering around San Francisco, drinking chai lattes, and listening to jazz while attempting to write papers.

Jenny Drai keeps telling everyone she was raised by wolves, but actually she grew up in a bungalow. Good times. Her poetry is forthcoming in Court Green and has appeared in 580 Split, Five Fingers Review, Sorry for Snake, and Spinning Jenny, as well as the Back Room Live anthology. She also has translations of Rilke published in a Bartlett's anthology. The wolves were actually her babysitters and taught her how to write. Also, they let her stay up past her bedtime sometimes and drink sodapop. Thank you.

Poet and Artist Stephen Vincent lives in San Francisco where he leads walking and writing workshops. Recent poems and reviews appear in Kadar Koli, 26, New American Poetry (2008), Big Bridge, and Galatea Resurrects, with soon forthcoming work in Vanitas, Crayon and Jacket. He is the author of 10 books of poetry, most recently Walking Theory (Junction Press: 2007). The Braunstein Gallery (San Francisco) will exhibit his haptic works in Jan/Feb 2009. His blog of poems, photographs, haptics and commentary is found at http://stephenvincent.net/blog/

LIFE LONG PRESS ! OAKLAND ! SEPTEMBER ! 2008

Saturday October 25th Guest Curator and M.C. CRAIG PEREZ w/ writers STEPHANIE YOUNG, MARGARET RHEE, FRANCOIS LOUNG, JONNY HERNANDEZ!

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/!!!

LLP PHOTO SHOW w/ images by Gaetan Chabanol

2008-09-08T12:15:00.000-07:00

Gaëtan Chabanol is a French Video editor, director and photographer, living in Paris.
You can check his short movies on http://www.myspace.com/gaetanchabanol

Back Room Live Saturday Night August 30th 7pm

2008-08-20T14:33:00.000-07:00

BACK ROOM LIVE ! SATURDAY NIGHT ! August 3oth 2008 ! Lukas Champagne ! Janet W. Hardy ! Eleanor Johnson ! Della Watson ! Mc NALLY'S IRISH PUB 7pm !

Eleanor Johnson is a poet and teacher at U C Berkeley, finishing up her dissertation on the differences between prose and meter, and working on a new collaborative manuscript of ekphrastic poetry.

Lukas Champagne has been asked, variously, whether he thinks in prose; whether he'd like to try the potato gun; and would he "please stop drinking?" Other favorites include: "how do you plead?" and "been writing much?" He writes and threatens to turn cartwheels in Oakland.

Della Watson grew up in Kentucky. Her poetry has appeared in Free Verse, The Hat, Denver Quarterly, Tarpaulin Sky, Sorry for Snake, alice blue, elimae, word for / word, and other fine journals. She is currently employed by the Sierra Club, where she is a blogger for The Green Life. http://sierraclub.typepad.com/greenlife/

Janet W. Hardy is a mass of seeming contradictions: mother and slut, dominatrix and homebody, intellectual and showtune queen. The author or coauthor of ten groundbreaking books about relationships and sexuality, including The Ethical Slut(75,000 copies sold to date, with a second edition coming in 2009 from Ten Speed Press), Janet has traveled the world as a speaker and teacher on topics ranging from ethical multipartner relationships to erotic spanking and beyond. She has appeared in documentary films (Slut, Beyond Vanilla, Vice and Consent, BDSM: It's Not What You Think), television shows (SexTV, The Dr. Susan Block Show), and more radio shows than she can count. Janet is the mother of two grown sons and the veteran of many relationships, kinky and vanilla, with men and women and people in between. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from St. Mary's College of California and a B.A. with honors from the University of California at Davis. She is the owner of Greenery Press, which has been publishing "reading for the sexually adventurous" since 1992, and teaches English composition and creative writing at the university level. Her other books include Radical Ecstasy (with Dossie Easton), The Sexually Dominant Woman: A Workbook for Nervous Beginners, The Compleat Spanker, and Sex Disasters… And How to Survive Them (with Charles Moser, Ph.D., M.D.). Her essay "Ex" will be included in Ask Me About My Divorce, coming from Seal Press in 2009; it was also a finalist in the Event and New Letters creative nonfiction contests. Her article "When Love Trumps Gender: Gays and Lesbians in Opposite-Sex Relationships" has been provisionally accepted for Best Sex Writing 2008 from Cleis Press. Her writing has appeared in publications as various as The Sondheim Review, Clamor, and EIDOS. She often fantasizes about being handcuffed to Stephen Sondheim's piano.

LIFE LONG PRESS ! OAKLAND ! AUGUST ! 2008

So that's,
Sat.Aug 30th at 7pm
McNally's Irish Pub
5352 College Ave
Oakland, CA 94618
(510) 654-9463
Minutes from the Rockridge BART Station
and on the 51 bus line

Saturday September 27th look forward to readings by Sarah Garrigan, John Shoptaw, Stephen Vincent and Jenny Drai!

Saturday October 25th Guest Currator and M.C. Craig Perez!