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Thursday, May 15, 2008
BOTH BOTH READING, Tormorrow, Friday the 16th
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from JOHN SAKKIS:
Friday May 16, 7pm
415 Pierce St. #3 (between Oak and Fell)
San Francisco
BOTH BOTH means LOVE...
i'm very excited to be bi-coastally (all the way from Brooklyn) hosting Julian Brolaski and Tracy Grinnell for the next BOTH BOTH (5/16/7pm).
i'm also San Franpsychotically stoked to announce that local SF hero, Lauren Kohne, will be gracing the walls of my apartment with new art works/ installation.
this BOTH BOTH is the magazine issue...just like the old print format; 2 writers/ 1 artist
per usual some cans-o-beer will be provided but please bring your own liquor of your choice. and per usual snacks will not be provided (the economy!) so bring your brown bag lunch if you want to eat.
w/
Julian T. Brolaski is the author of the chapbooks Letters to Hank
Williams (True West Press, 2003), The Daily Usonian (Atticus/Finch
2004), Madame Bovary's Diary (Cy Press 2005) (under the name Tanya
Brolaski).
Brolaski lives in Brooklyn where zie is an editor at
Litmus Press and writing zir dissertation on rhyme and the poetics of
authority in medieval, Renaissance and Apache poetries.
E. Tracy Grinnell is the author of Some Clear Souvenir (O Books 2006) and Music or Forgetting (O Books 2001), as well as the limited edition chapbooks Leukadia (Trafficker Prees forthcoming 2008), Quadriga, a collaboration with Paul Foster Johnson (gong chapbooks 2006), Of the Frame (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs 2004), and Harmonics (Melodeon Poetry Systems 2000).
She lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she teaches writing and edits Litmus Press and the journal Aufgabe.
San Francisco based artist Lauren Kohne creates sculptural art-pieces. She investigates social structures, habits and standards through materiality in bookmaking, painting, mixed and multi media pieces. Her work has been shown in Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles as well as published in various poetry chap
from JOHN SAKKIS:
Friday May 16, 7pm
415 Pierce St. #3 (between Oak and Fell)
San Francisco
BOTH BOTH means LOVE...
i'm very excited to be bi-coastally (all the way from Brooklyn) hosting Julian Brolaski and Tracy Grinnell for the next BOTH BOTH (5/16/7pm).
i'm also San Franpsychotically stoked to announce that local SF hero, Lauren Kohne, will be gracing the walls of my apartment with new art works/ installation.
this BOTH BOTH is the magazine issue...just like the old print format; 2 writers/ 1 artist
per usual some cans-o-beer will be provided but please bring your own liquor of your choice. and per usual snacks will not be provided (the economy!) so bring your brown bag lunch if you want to eat.
w/
Julian T. Brolaski is the author of the chapbooks Letters to Hank
Williams (True West Press, 2003), The Daily Usonian (Atticus/Finch
2004), Madame Bovary's Diary (Cy Press 2005) (under the name Tanya
Brolaski).
Brolaski lives in Brooklyn where zie is an editor at
Litmus Press and writing zir dissertation on rhyme and the poetics of
authority in medieval, Renaissance and Apache poetries.
E. Tracy Grinnell is the author of Some Clear Souvenir (O Books 2006) and Music or Forgetting (O Books 2001), as well as the limited edition chapbooks Leukadia (Trafficker Prees forthcoming 2008), Quadriga, a collaboration with Paul Foster Johnson (gong chapbooks 2006), Of the Frame (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs 2004), and Harmonics (Melodeon Poetry Systems 2000).
She lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she teaches writing and edits Litmus Press and the journal Aufgabe.
San Francisco based artist Lauren Kohne creates sculptural art-pieces. She investigates social structures, habits and standards through materiality in bookmaking, painting, mixed and multi media pieces. Her work has been shown in Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles as well as published in various poetry chap
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
READINGS I WILL UNFORTUNATELY MISS THIS WEEKEND BECAUSE I'LL BE IN THE COUNTRY OF TEJAS
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FRI., APR. 18 @ 7:30 PM
AMANDA NADELBERG
JOHN SAKKIS
PEGASUS BOOKS
2349 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94704
what: BOTH BOTH Reading Series w/ Michael Carr and Aaron Tieger
where: my apartment, 415 Pierce St. #3 (between Oak and Fell) Lower Haight, SF
when: this Saturday April 19th, 7pm
extras: boozy (i'll provide some but please feel free to bring more), dancey, loungy, foody (if you bring it yourself'y), record'y, flirty, late night'ish'y
Michael Carr is the author of Softer White, published in 2007 by House Press, and Platinum Blonde, a chapbook of poems and collages (Fewer & Further Press, 2006). He has edited a manuscript journal of John Wieners' called A book of PROPHECIES. He co-edits Katalanché Press, and lives in Cambridge, Mass.
Aaron Tieger's most recent book is Spring Poems (Big Game Books). Others include February (Fewer & Further) and After Rilke (Anchorite Press). Forthcoming work includes Anxiety Chant (Skysill Press) and Secret Donut (Pressed Wafer). He is also the editor of the first American edition of Richard Caddel's Uncertain Time (Pressed Wafer). A native New Englander, he lives and
writes in Cambridge, MA, where he edits CARVE Poems and feeds a very fat cat.
FRI., APR. 18 @ 7:30 PM
AMANDA NADELBERG
JOHN SAKKIS
PEGASUS BOOKS
2349 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94704
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what: BOTH BOTH Reading Series w/ Michael Carr and Aaron Tieger
where: my apartment, 415 Pierce St. #3 (between Oak and Fell) Lower Haight, SF
when: this Saturday April 19th, 7pm
extras: boozy (i'll provide some but please feel free to bring more), dancey, loungy, foody (if you bring it yourself'y), record'y, flirty, late night'ish'y
Michael Carr is the author of Softer White, published in 2007 by House Press, and Platinum Blonde, a chapbook of poems and collages (Fewer & Further Press, 2006). He has edited a manuscript journal of John Wieners' called A book of PROPHECIES. He co-edits Katalanché Press, and lives in Cambridge, Mass.
Aaron Tieger's most recent book is Spring Poems (Big Game Books). Others include February (Fewer & Further) and After Rilke (Anchorite Press). Forthcoming work includes Anxiety Chant (Skysill Press) and Secret Donut (Pressed Wafer). He is also the editor of the first American edition of Richard Caddel's Uncertain Time (Pressed Wafer). A native New Englander, he lives and
writes in Cambridge, MA, where he edits CARVE Poems and feeds a very fat cat.
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Friday, February 08, 2008
Alli Warren and Michael Slosek read TOMORROW
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ALLI WARREN and MICHAEL SLOSEK read tomorrow in the first of the new BOTH BOTH Reading Series, curated by John Sakkis. Click the link for all the info and fun photos.
ALLI WARREN and MICHAEL SLOSEK read tomorrow in the first of the new BOTH BOTH Reading Series, curated by John Sakkis. Click the link for all the info and fun photos.
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008
THIS SAT. FEB 9TH 7PM ALLI WARREN & MICHAEL SLOSEK
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from John Sakkis:
BOTH BOTH READING SERIES!
this is a house reading, a very informal, boozery, dancery, poetryery, conversationery grand ol' time...everyone's invited! (some drank will be provided but please BYOB...and if you feel like snacking bring that too, i don't buy snacks, sorry, yay!)
PLEASE JOIN IN THE FUN AT 415 PIERCE ST. #3 (BETWEEN OAK AND FELL IN THE LOWER HAIGHT)
Alli Warren was born in Torrance, CA and raised in Northridge, CA. She has a very, very bad memory. Likes pie. Her latest work can be read in No Can Do (Duration Press).
Michael Slosek lives in the SF Bay Area and publishes booksfor House Press. He was recently published in the 2nd FlimAnthology, Spell, and a pamphlet by Katalanche Press titledZ Formation. He is the author of Each In Neither, HousePress 2006, and Artificial Origins, forthcoming from HousePress.
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!
from John Sakkis:
BOTH BOTH READING SERIES!
this is a house reading, a very informal, boozery, dancery, poetryery, conversationery grand ol' time...everyone's invited! (some drank will be provided but please BYOB...and if you feel like snacking bring that too, i don't buy snacks, sorry, yay!)
PLEASE JOIN IN THE FUN AT 415 PIERCE ST. #3 (BETWEEN OAK AND FELL IN THE LOWER HAIGHT)
Alli Warren was born in Torrance, CA and raised in Northridge, CA. She has a very, very bad memory. Likes pie. Her latest work can be read in No Can Do (Duration Press).
Michael Slosek lives in the SF Bay Area and publishes booksfor House Press. He was recently published in the 2nd FlimAnthology, Spell, and a pamphlet by Katalanche Press titledZ Formation. He is the author of Each In Neither, HousePress 2006, and Artificial Origins, forthcoming from HousePress.
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!
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