Tuesday, April 30, 2013

wednesday, may 1 - thursday, may 9, 2013


Vol. 1, Issue 31



MEDIA

Check out a flipbook based on Hugh Behm-Steinberg's (MFAW faculty) poem "On Dreams" from his latest book The Opposite of Work. Flipbook created by Mary Behm-Steinberg.

Eleven Eleven got a shout out from GrubDaily in an article about journals and their covers.


NEWS

Congratulations to Laura LeHew (MFAW '03) for winning the SevenCircle Press prize for poetry, 2013. She also has a new book out, Willingly Would I Burn, from MoonPath Press. You can email her at editor@utteredchaos.org or visit here to purchase a copy.


PUBLICATION

Nick Johnson (MFAW alum) has his poem "Grandpa's Pockets" featured on Metazen.

KQED Pop blog has a notable alumni writing for them: Laura Schadler (MFAW '07) on the Facebook "unfriend"


ON-CAMPUS

FRI 3: Word.World, with readings by MFA Writing graduates Ariel Cohen, Jordan Rice-Sarantis, Ryan Buresh, Melissa Louise Kuhn, Jayo Miko Macasaquit, Autumn Darbrow, Vernon Keeve III (all MFAW '13) 7pm at Timken (SF)

FRI 3 - THU 9: THESIS FINAL REVIEW MEETINGS

SUN 5: CINCO DE MAYO

TUE 7: HearSay Reading Series: Humble Pie Volume 8 Launch Party, 7:30pm at Nahl Hall (OAK)


OFF-SITE

FRI 3: Studio Lightning: A Special SF/East Bay Collaboration Between Quiet Lightning & Studio One, featuring a literary mixtape based on the poems of Adeena Karasick and Erica Lewis, curated by Janey Smith (MFAW) and Nicole McFeely, at 7:30pm in the Studio One Auditorium (365 45th Street, Oakland)

FRI 3: Postmodern American Poetry: A group reading for the new 2nd edition of the Norton Anthology, with editor Paul Hoover and Joseph Lease (MFAW faculty), Will Alexander, Bill Berkson, Maxine Chernoff, Norma Cole, Gillian Conoley, Clark Coolidge, Andre Joron, Michael McClure, K. Silem Mohammed, Laura Moriarty, Rusty Morrison, Michael Palmer, Stephen Ratcliffe, Elizabeth Robinson, and Aaron Shurin, 6:30pm at M.H. DeYoung Memorial Museum (50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park, SF)

SAT 4: Bernal Yoga Literary Series: Featuring readings by Indira Allegra, Tantra Bensko, Liz Demi Green, Charles Kruger, Brian Martin, and Kate Menzies, 8pm at Bernal Yoga (908 Cortland Avenue, SF) ($5 suggested donation)

SAT 4: Reading: The Featherboard Series featuring Gloria Frym (MFAW faculty), Erica Lewis and Evan Karp at 5pm at Aggregate Space (801 West Grand Avenue, Oakland)

SUN 5: CCA Student Comics Fair, 4-6pm at Escapist Comics (3090 Claremont Ave, Berkeley)

COMING UP  

5/9: Book Tour: Mattilda B. Sycamore (Eleven Eleven #14 Contributor) touring for The End Of San Francisco, 7:30pm at GLBT History Museum (4127 18th Street, SF)

5/10: ENGAGE: Oakland School of the Performing Arts student reading, 2:30pm-5:30pm in the Writer's Studio (SF)

5/10: Last Day of the Spring 2013 semester

5/11: Reading: A talk by Pacifica artists Leo Bersamina and Terry Hoff at 2pm, followed by wine tasting and readings by Caroline Goodwin (MFAW faculty) and Hugh Behm-Steinberg (MFAW faculty) 3-5pm at Oceana Art Gallery (150 Eureka Square,  Pacifica)

5/15: Career Development Bootcamp, open to CCA Undergrad and CCA Grad students from the graduating classes of 2010 through 2013, 9am - 5pm (SF) [REGISTER]

5/16: Reading: Readings at the Bookstore- Tales of The San Francisco Cacophony Society Launch Party, with Kevin Evans, Carrie Galbraith, John Law and more, 7pm at City Lights Bookstore (261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway, SF)

5/16: MFA EXHIBITION OPENING, 6 - 10PM, (SF)

5/17: The Fashion Design Program 2013 Annual Fashion Show, 8pm (SF) TICKETS

5/17: Reading: Jessica Wickens (MFAW alum), Della Watson, Valerie Witte, and Stephen Vincent, 7pm at Canessa Park Gallery Reading Series (708 Montgomery Street @ Washington, SF)

5/18: CCA Commencement Ceremony

5/18: BANG OUT Volume XXI: "Bridges and Tunnels" at the Make Out Room (SF)

5/18: Film Screening: "The Space Invaders: In Search of Lost Time", a film by Jeff Von Ward (MFAW '12), 7:30pm at 9th Street Independent Film Center (145 9th, SF)

5/22: Book Tour: Mattilda B. Sycamore (Eleven Eleven #14 Contributor) touring for The End Of San Francisco, 7:30 at Olympia Timberland Library (313 8th Ave SE, Olympia)

5/24-27: East Bay Poetry Summit: 4 days of readings, talks and bbq at houses and houses and haunts of the east bay featuring Anne Boyer, Anna Vitale, Bhanu Kapil, David Wolach, Dolores Dorantes, Jen Hofer, Douglas Rothschild, Frank Montesonti, Sophie Sills, Matt Longabucco, and Uyen Hua (Oakland)

6/16: Reading: Jessica Wickens (MFAW alum), Alexandra Mattraw and Raina Leon, 2pm at Bird and Beckett (653 Chenery St, SF)

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