Kokoro Studio
682 Geary Street (@ Leavenworth)
San Francisco
Saturday, February 13 , 2010
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Free to the reading and listening public
Featured readers:
Graham Foust
Suzanne Kleid
Donna Laemmlen
Rose Haynes Touhy
Sarah Fran Wisby
Hosted by the Flat Earth Collective
For four years, as members of the Flat Earth Collective, Tom Andes, David Hill, Jim Nelson, and Andrew Touhy have been attempting to bridge the cultural divide between the San Francisco Bay Area and the Arkansas Ozarks. For Valentine’s Day, we decided to invite some of our favorite Bay Area writers to read together at Kokoro Studio in the Upper Tenderloin District of San Francisco.
Graham Foust lives in Oakland and works at Saint Mary’s College of California. His latest book of poems is A Mouth in California, which was recently published by Flood Editions.
Suzanne Kleid lives in San Francisco.
Donna Laemmlen’s screenplays have been recognized in several major competitions, including the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, the Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project, the Austin Heart of Film Screenplay Competition, and Scriptapalooza. She is a story analyst for American Zoetrope and longtime reader for Zoetrope: All-Story. In addition to teaching screenwriting and storytelling at the Academy of Art, she is an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of San Francisco.
Rose Haynes Touhy is working toward an MFA in poetry. She is a recipient of the William Dickey Fellowship, the Blue Shield Award in Poetry, and a Creative Writing Department teaching assistantship at San Francisco State University, where she teaches an introductory course in creative writing. Her Valentine’s Day sweetheart this year is a Kelsey 6×10 tabletop platen press in need of love and elbow grease.
Sarah Fran Wisby is the author of Viva Loss, a book of prose poems and short stories published by Small Desk Press. She works at Rainbow Grocery, selling organic food to the masses, and teaches a small class called Valencia Street Writing Lab out of her living room.