wednesday, may 22 - thursday, may 30, 2013

Vol. 1, Issue 34

NEWS

Cheryl Dunye (MFA/W/F Faculty) is host of CLEVER RADIO, a program of of the CLEVER Media Arts Think Tank on FCC Free Radio on Fridays from 12 - 2pm.

Elastic City, directed by Todd Shalom (MFAW '04), has their 2013 calendar up with great walks and ways in NYC.

MEDIA

Listen to CLEVER RADIO host Cheryl Dunye (MFA/W/F Faculty) with Lisa Hayes (MFAW '14), Sanaz Rezaei Sarabi (MFA '14), and Takeema Hoffman (VISCR '14) on FCC Free Radio.

Aimee Phan (MFAW Chair) was interviewed recently by Her Kind along with Julia Fierro about Writing and Motherhood.

Check out this review of Hugh Behm-Steinberg's (MFAW Faculty) new book of poetry The Opposite of Work in PANK.

Marissa Bell Toffoli (MFAW alum) interviews Charles McLeod for her blog Words With Writers.

PUBLICATION

Anne Lesley Selcer (MFAW '13) has a post about language and image on the SFMOMA blog Open Space.

Max Delgado (MFAW '07) writes about the SpringCon Comic Book Carnival in St. Paul, MN for UnleashTheFanboy site.

Max Cherney (MFAW '11) has an article in the The Examiner about PG&E beginning reconstruction efforts in Foster City.

Laura Schadler (MFAW '07) takes on the prom phenomena for KQED Pop.

ON-CAMPUS

Summer Break!

OFF-SITE

WED 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)

THU 23: One Lone Pear Tree: A Backyard Reading with works by Maisha Z. Johnson, Frank Weisberg (MFAW '11), Amelia Whitcomb (MFAW '12), and Sarah Bushman (MFAW '13), 6pm at 1953 & 1955 McAllister (SF)

THU 23: Film Screening: "The Owls", a film by Cheryl Dunye (MFA/W/F Faculty), 7pm at the New Parkway (474 24th Street, Oakland). FACEBOOK / TICKETS

THU 23: Benefit: Elastic City (directed by Todd Shalom [MFAW '04]) Spring Benefit, 7:30 - 10:30pm at EFA Project Space (323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor, NYC) TICKETS

FRI 24: Reading: Adam Johnson and Anthony Marra, 7:30 - 9pm at The Booksmith (1644 Haight, SF)

FRI 24: Live at 851: Featuring Alex Dimitrov, Ben Mirov (Eleven Eleven #14 Contributor), Cedar Sigo, and Erica Lewis, hosted by Janey Smith (MFAW), 8pm at The Squat (849 Haight Street, SF)

5/24-27: East Bay Poetry Summit: 4 days of readings, talks and BBQ at 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 (Berkeley & Oakland)

COMING UP  

6/7: Live at 851: featuring Joe Hall, Meri St Mary, Stuart Schuffman (Broke-Ass Stuart), Alyss Dixson, Nathan Keele Springer

6/8-9: CLMP 14th Annual Lit Mag Marathon NYC)

6/10: Reading: "Writing Outside the Box" with work by Claire Chafee (MFAW faculty) and Brian Thorstenson, 7pm in Z Below (470 Florida)

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

6/29: Conference: Litquake: digi.lit, 9am - 5pm at SPUR Urban Center (654 Mission) STUDENT DISCOUNT IN CLASSIFIED BELOW

7/1: First Day of the MFA in Comics Residency!

7/5: Live at 851 featuring Marisa Crawford, Matt L. Rohrer, plus special guests.

7/5: Criminal Class Press will do an hour-long segment for UK radio

7/6: Pub Crawl: "Beast Crawl: Uptown Oakland's Annual Literary Event" with 125 poets, writers, and performance artists, 5 - 9pm MORE INFO

8/1: Submission: Octopus Magazine opens their submissions period (through August 31)