(An evening of poetry, prose, image and performance)
Saturday, June 19, 2010
7:00 PM
Kokoro Studios
682 Geary St. (at Leavenworth), San Francisco - map
FREE to all citizens (and non) of the republic
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For longer than they would care to admit, as members of the Flat Earth Collective, Tom Andes, David William Hill, Jim Nelson, and Andrew Touhy have been fighting the losing battle that is literature. This summer, when one of their members relocates to Hong Kong, they will become an international entity. To commemorate the occasion, they invite you to Kokoro Studio in the Upper Tenderloin on the evening of June 19 and hope you bring many loved ones and bedmates.
Featured Readers:
- Tom Andes
- David Holler
- erica lewis
- Sara Mumolo
Short plays by Tavia Stewart-Streit and Sarah Ciston, performed by Tupelo Hassman and Bradford Earle.
Hosted by David William Hill
Tom Andes resides in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he teaches composition at Northwest Arkansas Community College. His fiction has recently appeared or will be forthcomingNews from the Republic of Letters, Arkansas Literary Forum, Muthafucka, Used Cat, andApalachee Review, among other publications. A chapbook, “Life Before the Storm and Other Stories,” is due from Cannibal Books later this year.
Sarah Ciston co-mismanages the fledgling literary zine We Still Like, which recently published or is about to publish its second issue. The basis for this evening’s performances is her flash-fiction novel called “Fuck Everyone But Us,” but don’t worry, she doesn’t mean you.
David Holler teaches in the Rhetoric and Language Dept. at USF. His work has appeared in 14 Hills, the San Francisco Review of Books, Shine, and other journals. Along with Chad Sweeney, he co-edits Parthenon West Review.
erica lewis lives in San Francisco, where she curated the Canessa Gallery Reading Series. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in P-Queue, New American Writing, Little Red Leaves, Parthenon West Review, BOOG CITY, Shampoo, and Word For/Word, among others. Collaborations with artist Mark Stephen Finein include camera obscura, just out from BlazeVox Books, and the precipice of jupiter (Queue Books).
Sara Mumolo works at Studio One Art Center and co-curates the Studio One Reading Series with Clay Banes. She is a Poetry Editor for Omnidawn and publishes a chapbook series with Alisa Heinzman called CALAVERAS. Read some of her poems in 1913: a journal of forms, Shampoo, Typo, Cannibal, Action Yes, Eleven Eleven and West WindReview, among others.
Tavia Stewart-Streit lives in Oakland, California where she works as the Operations Manager for the Office of Letters and Light (National Novel Writing Month) and as a co-editor of Watchword Press. She is also the Visual Art Curator of Whole Story, which is a new performance event that transforms a conjunctive gallery and theater space into a life-sized, multi-media diorama in reaction to one short story selected from submissions to Watchword Press. Because she likes to stay extremely busy, she has founded a literary walking-tour project called Invisible City Audio Tours (www.invisiblecityaudiotours.org). She has been published in Smokelong Quarterly and We Still Like, and is a co-author of Ready, Set, Novel! (Chronicle Books), due out in the fall of 2011.
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