wednesday, march 12 - thursday, march 20, 2014

Vol. 2, Issue 26

PUBLICATION

Dodie Bellamy (MFAW Faculty) has a new chapbook, The Beating of Our Hearts, published by Semiotext(e) as part of a series for the Whitney Biennial.

Katie Wudel (MFAW ‘06), Managing Editor for Our Minutes, has a new post “Spring Forward with Tourneau.”

Youmna Chlala (MFAW ‘04) has poems from The Paper Camera on Horse Less Press.

Kevin Killian (MFAW faculty) has published an essay,“Fade Away and Radiate: Anne Collier’s Postes Cartales,” as the introduction to the to-be-released Still Lifes, monograph by Anne Collier (Los Angeles: Wood Kusaka Studios, 2014)

KQED Pop’s  Laura Schadler (MFAW ‘07) on 20 strangers kissing and yoga obsession; Emmanuel Hapsis (MFAW ‘09) on a Clueless Revival, on the West Egg-ification of San Francisco, and why you’ll never own a home in San Francisco.

MEDIA

If you missed the Eleven Eleven Issue 16 Reading at City Lights, you can fortunately still experience it via YouTube.

Read about the 2014 Whitney Biennial, in which Dodie Bellamy (MFAW faculty) was a part of, on The Poetry Foundation’s blog, Harriet.

Stephen Leeper (MFAW ‘15) can be heard as a guest speaker for “Salaam, Love” on KQED’s Public Media forum.

Marissa Bell Toffoli (MFAW ‘06) continues Q&A’s for W³ Sidecar with Jane Rosenberg LaForge.

ON-CAMPUS

MON 10 - FRI 14: Thesis Candidacy Review Meetings

WED 12: Lecture: Larry Sultan Visiting Artist Program Presents: Zanele Muholi, 10am-12pm in the Hooper 3 Courtyard in the Trapezoid (SF)

WED 12: Reading: HearSay Reading Series presents Valerie Miner, 7:30-9pm at Nahl Hall (OAK)

FRI 14: MFAW Writers Series presents Julie Patton, 4:30pm in the MFA Writing Writers’ Studio, 195 De Haro (SF) (MORE INFO/FB EVENT)

OFF-SITE

THU 13: Conversation: REEL WARRIOR: with Pratibha Parmar (MFAF visiting artist) and Allan deSouza, 7pm at Brava Theater Center (2781 24th Street, SF) more info

FRI 14: Reading: Soft Water Studios presents Femme Fantasy with presentation/reading by Amber DiPietra (MFAW ‘04) and other events, 6 - 10pm at Soft Water Studios (515 22nd Street, Saint Petersburg, FL) FB Event

SAT 15: Book launch/Reading: Carville Annex presents Jordan Karnes and Ryan Funk (both MFAW ‘12), APQ Commune Inquiry Release Party, 12pm at SF Botanical Gardens Redwood Grove (SF) more info

SAT 15: Reading/Festival: ETERNiDAY: Queens Poet Lore Festival of the Language Arts, featuring LaTasha Diggs (MFAW ‘08), 12pm-8pm at the Queens Museum (MORE INFO)

SUN 16: Small Press Traffic presents Renee Gladman and Evelyn Reilly, hosted by Joelyn Saidenberg, 5pm at Artists’ Television Access (992 Valencia, SF)

COMING UP  

3/21: Book Release Reading: A History of Broken Love Things by SB Stokes (Eleven Eleven #14 Contributor) featuring readers Cassandra Dallett, Jennifer Brown, Zarina Zabrisky (Eleven Eleven #13 Contributor), Sonya Renee Taylor, Mk Chavez, Yume Kim, Tara Rose, Carmella Suzanne Fleming, Lauren Traetto, Dana Andrews, Alexandra Naughton and Hollie Hardy, 6:30-9pm at Monarch (101 6th St, SF)

3/21: Reading/Open Mic: Noe Valley Open Mic, 7:30pm-9:30pm at Cliche Noe Gifts (4175 24th Street, SF) (Pre Sign Up Here)

3/22: Conference Keynote: Isms: An Exploration into the Invisible Barriers of Classification, keynote by Dodie Bellamy (MFAW faculty) hosted by the Sigma Tau Delta Iota Chi Chapter and the CSUN English Department and the Distinguished Speaker award, CalState Northridge

3/24-28: SPRING BREAK

3/27: Reading: Writing Without Walls: “A Certain Kind of Madness,” featuring Sarah Carpenter, David M. Morini (MFAW ‘08/PM), Alicia Franco (MFAW ‘14), Douglas Sterling, Adam Moskowitz and Anna Avery, 7:30pm at Cafe Du Soleil (200 Fillmore St, SF)

3/27: Reading: Carville Annex presents Jordan Karnes (MFAW ‘12), Junior Clemons (MFAW ‘10), and others, 7pm at Unnameable Books (NYC) more info

3/29: Reading: Carville Annex presents Jordan Karnes (MFAW ‘12), Molly Prentiss (MFAW ‘10), Nabil Kashyap, Iris Cushing, 2pm at TBD (NYC) more info

4/2: Reading: HearSay Reading Series presents Steve Dickison , 7:30p-9pm at Nahl Hall (OAK)

4/3: Lecture: Graduate Lecture Series presents Hunter Lovins, 7pm in Timken (SF) more info

4/7: Lecture: City Arts & Lectures presents Lorrie Moore and Mona Simpson, 7:30pm at Nourse Theater (275 Hayes St, SF)  (See Classifieds below for Student Discount)

4/10: Lecture: Graduate Lecture Series presents Helen Molesworth, 7pm in Timken (SF) more info

4/10: Lecture: City Arts & Lectures presents Tony Kushner in conversation with Steven Winn, 7:30pm at Nourse Theater (275 Hayes St, SF)  (See Classifieds below for CCA Discount)

4/11: Final Unbound Thesis Due

4/17: MFAW Writers Series presents Akhil Sharma, 4:30pm in the MFA Writing Writers’ Studio, 195 De Haro (SF) (MORE INFO/FB EVENT)

4/17: Lecture: City Arts & Lectures presents Dani Shapiro and Ayelet Waldman, 7:30pm at Nourse Theater (275 Hayes St, SF)  (See Classifieds below for CCA Discount)

4/18: Word.World 2014, thesis readings by students in CCA’s MFA Program in Writing, 7pm (SF)

4/19: Literary Festival: 4th SF Diasporic Vietnamese Literary Festival with Anhvu Buchanan, Thao P. Nguyen, Kim Thuy, Bich Minh Nguyen, Phong Nguyen, Masahiro Sugano, 8 - 10pm at the African American Art & Culture Complext (762 Fulton)

4/24: Graduate Lecture Series presents Anne Carson, 7pm in Timken Lecture Hall (SF) more info

4/25: Word.World 2014, thesis readings by students in CCA’s MFA Program in Writing, 7pm (SF)

4/27: Small Press Traffic presents Lisa Robertson and Jeff Derksen, hosted by Dodie Bellamy (MFAW faculty), 5pm at Artists’ Television Access (992 Valencia, SF)

5/2: Word.World 2014, thesis readings by students in CCA’s MFA Program in Writing, 7pm (SF)

5/9: Reading: ENGAGE: Teaching Creative Creative Writing with Matt Iribarne (MFAW faculty) presents Oakland School for the Arts students, 2p in the Writers Studio (195 De Haro, SF)

5/5-9: Final Thesis Review Meetings