A new favorite in downtown Oakland.
I am a fourth generation Californian and have lived and worked in and around the city of San Francisco all of my life. Currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry at San Francisco State University and work as a production assistant for Literary Death Match events in the San Francisco Bay Area. My poems have been published in Transfer, Metonym, MUST street zine #19, Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology, Quiet Lightning’s sPARKLE & bLINK, and in the premiere edition of The VelRo Reader, with work forthcoming in Gesture. I am currently working on my first book of poems and have been the sole author of the blog MASS COMMUNICATIONS since 2004.
SB Stokes : SKINLESS New and Raw Writing
Now returned to San Francisco, I am the West Coast producer and host of Literary Death Match–a raucous international reading series. My fiction, nonfiction and translations appear in ZYZZYVA, Nerve.com, Instant City and elsewhere. I have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was recently awarded The 2011 Oakley Hall Memorial Scholarship.
Short Fiction forthcoming in Dark Sky Magazine.
Novel excerpt forthcoming in Instant City.
On the editorial board of Poetalk, the journal of the Bay Area Poets Coalition, attends readings, enjoys featuring, and is happy to be in Cherise’s poetry column. She loves being a part of the Bay Area poetry scene where she leads Frank Bette Writers, every Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Frank Bette Center for the Arts, 1601 Paru at Lincoln in Alameda, at which participants write together.
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The shy member of a family that didn’t shy away from much, he found his expression in words and pictures and performing. In his first year of college, he purchased a Nikkormat camera from a mega-sized camera store in New York City only to get home and discover they had given him the wrong camera: he now owned a Nikon, at its lesser’s price. It was fate. The camera opened worlds for him from which he never returned.
Gary Turchin : Poems From the Heart of Mystery
west oakland
Quiet Lightning is a monthly submission-based reading series turned nonprofit that features all forms of writing, moves to a different venue every month, and publishes each show as a book. This is QL’s first show in the East Bay.
LEGENDARY PALACE.
I went here with REACH!, a group on campus. We were taking care of high school seniors for Cal Day, and we took them to Legendary Palace for dinner. It was a seven course meal! Holy moly. We had soup, fried eggrolls, mushroom/chicken/celery, roast duck, General Tso’s chicken, tofu/shittake mushroom/bok choy, and fried rice for dinner. I think it’s supposed to be pretty pricey, but lucky for us UC Berkeley picked up the tab. It’s because REACH! is also known as Asian/Pacific Islander Recruitment Center. We focused on minority groups and making sure they felt welcome at Cal. I’m not actually in the group, but my friends are so I was housing for the weekend. It was a really fun night, and the food was amazing.
708 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607 (Oakland Chinatown)
Music editor at the East Bay Express, and a recovering Luddite. She has also written for Film Quarterly, Vibe, Bitch, Jazziz, andThe Best Sex Writing of 2010. Just sayin’.
Born in Subic Bay, Philippines, Mg Roberts teaches in the San Francisco Bay area. She is an MFA graduate of New College of California, where strange tricks were added to her bag. Her work has appeared and or is forthcoming in 580 Split, Web Conjunctions, How2, KQED’s Writers’ Block, and Word Riot. If she were not a poet she would be a snake handler, or maybe just a good speller.
Produced and co-curated the Anger Management Reading Series in San Francisco. She recently returned to the South and lives in the small town of Hanceville, Alabama with her invisible tan and black pug, Mr. Jenkins, who was found wandering alone on the streets of San Francisco.
American poet, cartoonist, editor, and publisher of underground lit. He is most well-known as the editor of Zygote in my Coffee. Established Tainted Coffee Press which publishes the print issues of Zygote, poetry chapbooks and flipbooks.
