Basement Reading Series 
Basement Reading Series: Last
Reading of the Season!!!June
19th, 7:30 pm
At 2390 Mission Street Suite #10, at 20th and Mission in the basement of the Bikram Mission Yoga Building (entrance on 20th)
Admission $2
Join
us in June for three interesting and diverse readers: Stephen
Ratcliffe, Jan Richman and Mukta Sambrani. The Basement reading will be
going on a brief vacation for the months of July and August and resume
in September, so be sure and catch this one.
Author
Bios
Stephen Ratcliffe’s most recent books are Portraits & Repetition
(The Post-Apollo Press) and SOUND/(system) (Green Integer). Listening to Reading, a collection of essays
on contemporary poetry and poetics, was published by SUNY Press in 2000. He is publisher of Avenue B and teaches at
Mills College in Oakland.
Mukta Sambrani was born and raised in India where she worked as a
freelance writer and teacher before coming to San Francisco. She has an
MFA in Creative Writing from SF State and book of poems entitled The
Woman in this poem isn't lonely published by Writer's workshop of
Calcutta. She is the recipient of the 2003 Audre Lorde' award along
with Jasmine De Loria Kelly, has recent work in 14 Hills, Em, Cipactli,
Scribbler, Verse and forthcoming work in Hyphen and Laundry Pen.
Jan Richman is a poet and fiction writer who lives in San Francisco. Her collection of poems, "Because the Brain
Can Be Talked Into Anything," won the 1994 Walt Whitman Award from the
Academy of American Poets, and was published by Louisiana State
University Press in 1995. Her fiction has
appeared recently in Comet, Other Magazine, and the anthology "Thrills,
Chills, Pills & Heartache." She
co-edits the literary journal 6,500, and teaches writing at the Academy
of Art College. She’s currently working on
a novel about Tourette’s syndrome and roller coasters.
More about previous readings in 2003:
About the Basement Reading Series:
The Basement Reading series is a monthly
reading series. It 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 and readers to gain inspiration and create
a dialogue among the varied schools of writing in the Bay Area.
Contact info: Jenny Bitner 415-647-1015 jenny@jennyart.com
The Basement Reading Series (Tue/18)
Sweatin' to the Posey
It's well past time for
a new literary reading series in the Mission (Adobe has had a lock on
bookish hipsters' hearts for too long) and, judging by the incredible
turnout for the Basement's first couple of events, the literature-loving
94114 demographic agrees with me. The Basement Reading Series, started
up by local upstart Jenny Bitner, writer and editor of To-Do List
magazine, meets monthly in a sultry, still-sweat-fragrant Bikram Yoga
studio at 20th and Mission. Bitner is an excellent hunter and gatherer;
she knows some of the finest young poets and writers around these parts,
spanning the literary spectrum from "experimental writing to gritty
naturalism to post-magical realism." Next Tuesday night, poet James Hoch
("A Parade of Hands") will read with poet Glori Simmons ("Graft"), and
Bitner herself will unveil a new short story. -- Jan Richman, special to
SF Gate
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Check back soon for more info on the 2003 series.