Basement Reading Series
March 18th 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
The Basement Reading Series combines the best of new Bay Area writing, spanning the literary spectrum from experimental writing to gritty naturalism to post-magical realism. We seek out great writing in all forms. In March we have a stellar line up--James Hoch is visiting the Basement from New York City to read from his new book A Parade of Hands, Glori Simmons is reading from her award winning book Graft, and Jenny Bitner, basement series organizer, is reading a new short story.
Glori Simmons's book of poems, Graft, was published by Truman State University Press in 2001. She has received several poetry awards including the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Chad Walsh Poetry Prize from The Beloit Poetry Journal. She is currently managing USF's Thacher Gallery and teaching poetry through SFSU Extension program.
Jenny Bitner is a poet turned
fiction writer. Her fiction has recently appeared in Best American Nonrequired
Reading 2002. Her journalism has appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian,
To-Do List, and The Utne Reader, and she has stories upcoming in Men's Health
and Kitchen Sink. She is also a visual artist and shows her work with ArtSalon
SF. She is currently working on an experimental, illustrated novel titled
Notes To a Potential Lover.
James Hoch was born in Camden, New Jersey, and has lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, DC. New Mexico, New York, and Seattle. Before teaching, he worked as a dishwasher, cook, dockworker, social worker, and shepherd. Currently, he is Visiting Assistant Professor at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. Poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Gettysburg, Slate, Agni, Antioch, Post Road, Third Coast, Black Warrior, Quarterly West, Pleiades, West Branch, Sonora, Sycamore, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily and others. He is the recipient of scholarships from Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and Summer Literary Seminars, and received a 2002 Individual Artists Fellowship from the PA Council on the Arts. His book, A Parade of Hands, won the 2002 Gerald Cable Award and will be published in March 2003. He lives in New York City and Lancaster, PA.
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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 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 jennybit@yahoo.com
Looking for Irrational Exuberance? Click here. Check back soon for more info on the 2003 series (beginning March).