Basement Reading Series
February 4th 7:30pm
At 2390 Mission Street Suite #10, at 20th and Mission in the basement of the Bikram Mission Yoga Building (entrance on 20th)
Admission $2
Calling writers, readers, bookish ones, and all those of you who would rather hear a great reading than watch TV--come check out an exciting new monthly reading series. The Basement Reading series is located in a funky yellow basement theater in the Mission district. We feature poets and fiction writers working in all styles and strive to bring together the distinctive voices of Bay Area writing.
Join us for the next Basement Reading Series, Tuesday, February 4th. The Basement reading series is proving to be an underground (pun intended) success! For the February series we have three interesting and diverse readers: up and coming Bay area author and Stanford fellow Stephen Elliot author of What It means to Love You, journalist and activist Omar Yassin, who is currently working on a novel based on his experiences in the West Bank, and poet Lauren Gudath, author of several poetry chapbooks and a play, Glow Farm, Glow! soon to be performed at Poets' Theater Jubilee.
Stephen Elliott is the author of the novels A Life Without Consequences and What It Means To Love You. His work has appeared in GQ, The Sun Magazine, Salon.com, AdBusters, and McSweeney's among others. He currently lives off a writing fellowship from Stanford University.
Poet Lauren Gudath lives
in San Francisco. She recently finished a series of poems exploring personality
and infatuation. Lauren's two most recent publications are The Television
Documentary (Second Story, 1999) and This Kind of Interpretation Brings Luck
(Lucinda, 2000); Read a Poem About California is forthcoming from Melodeon
Poetry Systems. Her recent play Glow Farm, Glow! will be preformed as a part
of the SPT Poets' Theater Jubilee on February 7 at CCAC.
Omar Yassin is a Palestinian-Colombian
writer born in Oakland, California. He spent the first 16 months of the current
'Intifada' in Ramallah, the West Bank, his father's homeland. He is currently
working on a semi-autobiographical novel based on his experiences there. He
has published non-fiction pieces in Extra!, the magazine of Fairness and Accuracy
in Reporting, and YearZero, a British culture and current affairs magazine.
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About the Basement Reading Series:
The Basement Reading series
is designed to give writers a chance to read work that is in progress, and
to build more community among Bay Area writers. It is a place for writers
to come and get inspired by other writers and create a dialogue among the
different schools of writing in the Bay Area.
Contact info Jenny Bitner 415-647-1015 jennybit@yahoo.com
Looking for Irrational Exuberance? Click here. Check back soon for more info on the 2003 series (beginning March).