Basement Reading Series
January 7th 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. The second installment features kari edwards, poet, artist and gender activist; post-modern playwright and writer Brent Cunningham; and poet and novelist Liz Costello reading from The Obedient her novel-in-progress. It’s sure to be a night of fiction and post-fiction to rub your pleasure sensors and stimulate your intellect. Afterwards everyone is invited to a post-reading discussion at a local pub.
kari edwards is a poet, artist and gender activist, winner of New Langton Art’s Bay Area Award in literature(2002), author of a day in the life of p., subpress collective (2002), a diary of lies - Belladonna #27 by Balladonna Books (2002), Electric Spandex: anthology of writing the queer text, Pyriform Press (2002), obLiqUE paRt(itON): colLABorationS, xPress(ed) (2002), and post/(pink) Scarlet Press (2001). sie is also the poetry editor I.F.G.E’s Transgender - Tapestry: a International Publication on Transgender issues.
Liz Costello moved to San
Francisco from "the Old Country" (New York and Massachussetts) in
1996. She has published poetry and prose in, among other places, the San Francisco
Metropolitan, Fourteen Hills, Provincetown Magazine and the Cubby Missalette.
She has played a variety of roles on cable access television and performed
with the avant garde musical group That Hideous Strength. She will be reading
an excerpt from her novel-in-progress, The Obedient, which made finalist for
the Evans Harrington Prize of the William Faulkner Fiction Competition.
A short biography of Brent Cunningham: Milwaukee, WI (birth
certificate), Chicago, IL (tabula rasa), Port Washington, WI (gestural fist-works
in clay), Raleigh, NC (second language: cursive), San Ramon, CA (tales of
disinherited princes), San Diego, CA (a prom, a melancholia), Redlands, CA
(fake suicide poems), Madrid, Spain (green travel notebook), Wilson, NC (allegory
of the alien), San Luis Obispo, CA (serial persona poems), Central America
(blue travel notebook), San Luis Obispo, CA (creation myths for atheists),
Buffalo, NY (insect drawings), Berkeley, CA (french object analysis), San
Francisco, CA (the painted theater).
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 build more community and 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).