Friday, Februray 1st with Lyn Hejinian, Joshua Clover, and Brian Ang

Studio One First Fridays presents 
Lyn Hejinian, Joshua Clover, and Brian Ang

Join us for a reading on Friday, February 1st, beginning at 7:30 PM. Snacks and beverages will be provided at the event. 

 Many thanks to our emcee for the evening, Robert Andrew Perez!

Lyn Hejinian is the author of numerous books, including most recently The Book of a Thousand Eyes (Omnidawn Books, 2012) and The Wide Road, written in collaboration with Carla Harryman (Belladonna, 2010). In spring 2013, Wesleyan University Press will publish A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field 1982-1998, co-edited by Hejinian and Barrett Watten, an anthology of works on key issues in poetics first published in Poetics Journal. And in fall 2013 Wesleyan will republish her best-known book, My Life, in an edition that will include the related My Life in the Nineties. In addition to literary writing, editing, and translating, Hejinian has in recent years been involved in anti-privatization activism at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches.

Joshua Clover is a writer and political antagonist living in the Bay Area. Recent work includes essays on Alain Badiou's The Rebirth of History, the relationship between riots and strikes, and "Georgic for the World System," on the poetics of geo-economic transformation. He teaches contemporary literature and Marxism at UC Davis.

 

Brian Ang is the author of Pre-Symbolic, Communism, Paradise Now, and the poetry generator THEORY ARSENAL. His current poetic project is The Totality Cantos: An Investigation of Epistemological Totality. He edits ARMED CELL in Oakland, California.

Friday, December 7th featuring poetry by Rusty Morrison, giovanni singleton, and Sarah Valentine plus music by Alberto Madueño

Come join us on Friday, December 7th at 7:30 PM 
for a night of poetry and music with poets Rusty Morrison, giovanni singleton, and Sarah Valentine, plus music by singer/songwriter Alberto Madueño!

Snacks and beverages will also be served at the event. 

Thanks for reading and we hope to see you there!

 Photo by William Bagnell

Rusty Morrison's -After Urgency- won Tupelo’s Dorset Prize, -Book of the Given– is available from Noemi Press, -the true keeps calm biding its story- won the Academy of American Poet’s James Laughlin Award, the Northern California Book Award, Ahsahta’s Sawtooth Prize, the DiCastagnola Award from Poetry Society of America. –Whethering- won the Colorado Prize for Poetry. She has received the Bogin, Hemley, Winner, and DiCastagnola Awards from The Poetry Society of America. Her poems and/or essays have appeared in, or are forthcoming from A Pubic Space, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Lana Turner, Pleiades, VOLT. She is co-publisher of Omnidawn Publishing (www.omnidawn.com).

  Photo by Sarah Collins

giovanni singleton is founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts, a critically acclaimed journal dedicated to experimental work by artists and writers of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. Ascension (Counterpath Press), her debut collection, received the 81st California Book Award Gold Medal for poetry. She has been selected for inclusion in the Poetry Society of America’s biennial New American Poets series. Her work was featured in San Francisco’s 1st Visual Poetry and Performance Festival, on the building of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), and in Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Writing for Children, What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America, and I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women. She has taught poetry at the de Young Museum, Saint Mary's College, and Naropa University.

Sarah Valentine’s first book of translations, Into the Snow: Poems by Gennady Aygi, is a collection of poems translated from the Russian-language poetry of Chuvash poet Gennady Aygi (1934-2006).  Individual translations have been featured in the Two Lines anthology Some Kind of Beautiful Signal, as well as in journals such as diode, Circumference, and Redaction: Poetry and Poetics.  Sarah has a BA in Russian Studies and Creative Writing from Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD in Russian Literature from Princeton University.  She has received a Templeton Foundation grant for her research at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Religion and a prestigious Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at UCLA.  Sarah lives and Los Angeles and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Riverside, in the Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages where she teaches Russian literature, comparative literature, film, and critical theory.  

 

Photo by Vicente Peñuela

Alberto Madueño has been playing and recording music for over a decade. Not concerned with advertising or satisfying any genre, his methods, instruments and techniques remain in a state of constant motion and redirection. Most recently, he has been active as a sound scrapper and creative adviser for the El Gato Film Collective, a teleological experiment group focused on blurring painting past what is still. He wants to be better than he is, always, he says. And that, the only way to do that is to keep working, long beyond the point of reason or explicit intent. He is affected by light. He wants more, and he often still wonders. Is there life on mars?  

Friday, November 2nd with poets Andrew Joron, Dora Malech, and Michael Leong. Plus the theremin/percussion duo Cosmists!

Join us on Friday, November 2^nd at 7:00 PM for an All Souls Show of poetry and music with Andrew Joron, Dora Malech and Michael Leong!  

The night will also feature theremin and drums duo Andrew Joron and Mark Pino, otherwise known as Cosmists.  

Please note, this event begins at 7:00 PM. Beverages and snacks will be served.

Special thanks also to our emcee for the evening, Robert Andrew Perez!

 

Andrew Joron is the author of Trance Archive: Newand Selected Poems (City Lights, 2010). Joron’s previous poetry collections include The Removes (Hard Press, 1999), Fathom (Black Square Editions, 2003), and The Sound Mirror (Flood Editions, 2008). The Cry at Zero, a selection of his prose poems and critical essays, was published by Counterpath Press in 2007. From the German, he has translated the Literary Essays of Marxist-Utopian philosopher Ernst Bloch (Stanford University Press, 1998) and The Perpetual Motion Machine by the proto-Dada fantasist Paul Scheerbart (Wakefield Press, 2011). Joron plays theremin in the dark ambient group Cloud Shepherd as well as in the instrumental rock trio Crow Crash Radio.

Dora Malech was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1981 and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. She earned a BA in Fine Arts from Yale College in 2003 and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2005. She has been the recipient of a Frederick M. Clapp Poetry Writing Fellowship from Yale, a Truman Capote Fellowship and a Teaching-Writing Fellowship from the Writers’ Workshop, a Glenn Schaeffer Poetry Award, a Writer’s Fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Italy, and a 2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. The Waywiser Press published her first full-length collection of poems, Shore Ordered Ocean, in 2009 and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center published her second collection, Say So, in 2011. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Poetry, Best New Poets, American Letters & Commentary, Poetry London, and The Yale Review. She has taught writing at the University of Iowa; Victoria University’s International Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington, New Zealand; Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois; and Saint Mary’s College of California in Moraga, California. Her paintings and drawings are available at the Chait Galleries in Iowa City, Iowa. She lives in Iowa City, where she writes, draws, teaches, and coordinates the Iowa Youth Writing Project, an arts outreach program for children and teens.

Michael Leong is the author of two books of poetry: e.s.p. (Silenced Press, 2009) and Cutting Time with a Knife (Black Square Editions, 2012), which won a "Face Out" grant from the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses.  He has also published a translation of the Chilean poet Estela Lamat, I, the Worst of All (BlazeVOX [books], 2009).  He is the recipient of a 2012 &NOW Award for his chapbook The Philosophy of Decomposition/Re-Composition as Explanation (Delete Press, 2011), and his newest chapbook, Words on Edge, was chosen by Rob Fitterman as the winner of Plan B Press' 2012 Poetry Contest.  He is a lecturer at Rutgers University where he completed a dissertation on the contemporary long poem and the archive.

Mark Pino began playing the drums at age eleven. Previous to that he had loved listening to music, and his parents’ catholic tastes in music opened up his ears to many different styles. Pino began playing publicly in the SF Bay Area in the early 1990’s, and since then has played regionally and nationally in many different bands. Mark considers himself a band player; the interaction with other musicians remains important to him, as does the act of manipulating physical instruments for sound and music making. Over the course of his career, Pino has played with all sorts of people in all sorts of settings, and is grateful to all of them, as well as to his teachers who shared their knowledge with him.  

Robert Andrew Perez lives in Berkeley, California with two biologists. Unlike most poets, he is literally rolling in the dough, working for a deep dish pizza company not in Chicago. He holds various other odd jobs, including but not limited to mobile DJing for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs and miscellaneous aca-drone for the English departments of UC Berkeley and Saint Mary’s College (where he earned his BA and MFA, respectively). He is also the blog manager for the Underpass Reading Series and an associate editor for speCt!, a book arts letterpress poetry imprint, both based on Oakland. He is the recipient of the Lannan Prize for Saint Mary’s College and a Lambda Literary fellow. His recent work can be found in publications such as The Cortland Review, Writing Without Walls, and The Offending Adam.

Friday, October 5th with Farrah Field, Jared White, and Dan Magers

Studio One First Fridays presents Farrah Field, Jared White, and Dan Magers— Friday, October 5th @ 7:30 PM

Come early to catch Bites off Broadway @ 5:30! Snacks and beverages will also be provided at the event.
 

Farrah Field is the author of Rising (Four Way Books), Parents (Immaculate Disciples Press), and the forthcoming Wolf and Pilot (Four Way Books). She is co-owner Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop and lives in Brooklyn.

  

Jared White lives in Brooklyn where he is the co-owner of Berl's Brooklyn PoetryShop, a small press poetry bookstore, and the co-curator of Yardmeter Editions, an event series. He is the author of the chapbook YELLOWCAKE, published as part of the Narwhal anthology from Cannibal Books in 2009. His recent poems have appeared in journals such as Sink Review, Esque, Coconut, Harp & Altar, No Dear, We Are So Happy To Know Something, and on the Flying Object web site. His blog is jaredswhite.blogspot.com.  

Dan Magers’s first book of poems, Partyknife, is published by Birds, LLC. He is co-founder and co-editor of Sink Review, an online poetry journal, founder and editor of Immaculate Disciples Press, a handmade chapbook press focused on poetry and visual arts collaborations. He lives in Brooklyn.

Friday, September 7th with Jared Stanley, Laura Wetherington, and Lindsey Boldt

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Studio One First Fridays presents Jared Stanley, Laura Wetherington, and Lindsey Boldt—Friday, September 7^th @ 7:30 PM

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Come early to catch Bites off Broadway @ 5:30! Snacks and beverages will also be provided at the event.

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Jared Stanley is the author of The Weeds, Book Made of Forest and four chapbooks, including How the Desert Did Me In. He co-edits Mrs. Maybe, and is a member of the art collective Unmanned Minerals. He is a 2012-2014 Research Fellow at the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, and teaches at Sierra Nevada College. Stanley lives in Reno, Nevada.

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Laura Wetherington (http://laurawetherington.com/)‘s first book, A Map Predetermined and Chance (Fence Books 2011), was selected by C.S. Giscombe for the National Poetry Series. A chapbook, Dick Erasures, is available as an ebook from Red Ceilings Press (http://issuu.com/theredceilings/docs/dick_erasures) and a number of articles and interviews about collaboration are available at One Pause Poetry (http://onepausepoetry.org/follow). She co-founded and co-edits textsound.org (www.textsound.org) with Anna Vitale. Wetherington lives in Nevada, where she teaches creative writing at Sierra Nevada College and is at work on a series of fake translations.

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Lindsey Boldt considers herself an itinerant culture-worker in training.  So far, this means she writes poems, plays and prose, edits books and chapbooks, teaches poetry in public schools and has just begun a new project building a mobile library, which she will take on tour with her partner and collaborator, Steve Orth in September.  She is the author of "Oh My, Hell Yes" and "Overboard". 

Friday, August 3rd with kathryn l. pringle and Rebecca Farivar

Food trucks a plenty starting at 5:30pm on the front lawn of Studio One for Bite Off Broadway. Readings starting at 7:30pm. Drinks and snacks provided during the reading.

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kathryn l. pringle is an American poet living in Oakland, Ca. She is the author of fault tree (winner of Omindawn’s 1st/2nd book prize selected by C.D. Wright), RIGHT NEW BIOLOGY (Factory School 2009) and two chapbooks: The Stills (Duration Press) and Temper and Felicity are lovers.(TAXT). Her work can also be found in the anthologies Conversations at the Wartime Cafe: A Decade of War (Conversations at the Wartime Cafe Press/ WODV Press 2011) and I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues 2012).

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Rebecca Farivar is the author of Correct Animal (Octopus Books, 2011) and chapbook American Lit (Dancing Girl Press, 2011). She holds an MFA in poetry from St. Mary's College of California and is a member of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. Her poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, 6x6, cold-drill, RealPoetik, SIR! and elsewhere. She currently lives in Oakland, California.

Jenny Drai reviews September's reading

Check it out here

thanks jenny!

BAPM

*******2009 BAY AREA POETRY MARATHON*******



Come hear poetry by: V.E. GRENIER * 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*

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

from the BRL reading at Book zoo

Here is a pic of the audience booing Craig Santos Perez. Love boos.


Craig took a photo of me taking a photo.

Thanks to Craig for these photos. For more pics of that night, visit Craig's blog

Spring at Studio One

Feb 6th with Rick Meier and Lisa Gschwandtner. Music from Paige Heimsoth

March 6th with Donna de la Perriere, Joseph Massey & Jared Stanley. Music from Diana McCullough

April 3rd with Stephanie Young and K. Silem Mohammad. Music from Meklit Hadero

May 1st with Brandon Brown, Farrah Field & Stan Apps


All readings are donation based and start sometime after 7pm
come hang out!

First Fridays at Studio One

October 3rd is next!
Arrive early for wines.
Readings start at 730pm

Sandra Lim is the author of Loveliest Grotesque, winner of the 2006 Kore Press First Book Award. Her poems have previously appeared in The Colorado Review, Gulf Coast,American Letters & Commentary, Boston Review, and other journals. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and Soul Mountain Retreat. She has taught literature and writing at UC Berkeley, the University of Iowa, and Saint Mary's College of California. She lives in San Francisco.

Music from Meklit and Cristina together!

Meklit Hadero is a singer, musician, arts organizer and Director & Resident Artist at the Red Poppy Art House in San Francisco. Meklit draws on her folk, blues, and Ethiopian roots to create her songs. Lyrically focused with intimate, spare arrangements, her music imparts a kind of tenderness towards life, a sweetness that soars. In mid 2009, Meklit is being commissioned for a month-long residency at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.

Cristina Orbé was born in NYC and raised in many places along east coast. In 2000, she moved to Seattle, turned off the TV, and picked up a guitar. She has played Bumbershoot, The Crocodile, Vancouver International Hip-Hop Film Festival, Under the Volcano, The Tractor Tavern, Knitting Factory (NY), Club Passim (MA) and Town Hall. She also performs poetry and plays in the political acoustic band Forgotten Sol. She's worked on a project with the Sharpshooters, recorded with Moka Only that will be released this year on vinyl and appears on a Rebelz track with Capadonna from the Wu-tang Clan

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John Isles' new book, Inverse Sky, has just been published by the University of Iowa’s Kuhl House Poets series. He is also the author of Ark (Iowa, 2003) and coeditor of the Baltics section of New European Poets. He received an award from The Los Angeles Review in 2004 and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2005. His poems have appeared in such journals as American Letters & Commentary, the Boston Review, the Denver Quarterly, and Pleiades. He lives with his wife and their son in Alameda, California.