Vol. 2, Issue 30
PUBLICATION
Kevin Killian (MFAW faculty) has a new blog post, "A Journey with Hermes," on The Poetry Foundation's blog, Harriet.
Ishmael Reed (MFAW visiting faculty) has a piece, "Oakland Candidates Should Address Underlying Causes of Crime," in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Julie Lythcott-Haims (MFAW '15) has a new piece, "How The Son Of African Immigrants Won The Ivy League, on Forbes.
Susan L. Lin (MFAW '13) has a new piece, "Dream Pizza Skyscraper," on Lime Hawk Literary Arts Collective.
KQED Pop's Emmanuel Hapsis (MFAW '09) on Outside Lands: 2014 and a roast of Leland Yee and Shrimp Boy on The Daily Show.
MEDIA
Ishmael Reed (MFAW visiting faculty) is photographed and interviewed for an article on his curation of the SFJazz Poetry Festival by Evan Karp on SFGate.
Aimee Phan (MFAW Chair) shares how Matt Shears (MFAW faculty) is her Vera Nabokov in the article, "The Legend of Vera Nabokov: Why Writers Pine for a Do-It-All Spouse," by Koa Beck on The Atlantic.
Marissa Bell Toffoli (MFAW '06) continues Q&A's for W³ Sidecar with Q&A's With Poets in honor of National Poetry Month.
ON-CAMPUS
FRI 11: Final Unbound Thesis Due
FRI 11: MFAW Student Reading # 5, featuring Evan Adams (MFAW '15), Pat VanNevel (MFAW '14), Alicia Franco (MFAW '14), Andrew Bonfils (MFAW '15), Zane Hawley (MFAW '14), Nelson Rivera (MFAW '15), and Charlie Radka (MFAW '15), and Matthew Kotzin (MFA Painting) 4:30pm in the MFA Writing Writers' Studio, (SF)
THU 17: MFAW Writers Series presents Akhil Sharma, 4:30pm in the MFA Writing Writers' Studio, 195 De Haro (SF) (MORE INFO/FB EVENT)
THU 17: Reception: Opening Reception: Many Places At Once, an exhibition curated by the graduating class of the CCA Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice to be on display from April 17th-July 12, 6:30-8:30pm at the Wattis (360 Kansas St, SF)
OFF-SITE
WED 9: Reading: Passages on the Lake III, featuring Sarah Fran Wisby, Amy K. Bell-Na'amen Tilahun, Todd Siegel, Cybele Zufolo Siegel, 6:30pm at The Terrace Room at Lake Merritt Hotel (1800 Madison St, Oakland)
THU 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)
THU 10: Reading/Book Release: The Gorilla Press release of Self Portrait of the Poet Suicided by the MFA Degree, by Justin Etc., also featuring Craig Cotter (Eleven Eleven #12 contributor), 6:30pm at Rooz Care (1918 Park Blvd, Oak)
FRI 11: Exhibition/Reading: Fourteen Hills and Voices/Visions opening reception and release party, "Ekphrasis," featured artists/writers: John Haggerty, Andrew Murphy, SB Stokes (Eleven Eleven, #14 contributor), Jason Schenheit, Da'Shay Portis, Diana Rosinus, Sarah Bethe Nelson, Jennifer Lewis, Miah Jeffra, Sarah Heady, Amy K. Bell, Jared Roehrig, Anthony J. Hall, David Imlay, Jennifer O'Keeffe, Alexandria Volk, Deidre White, Ayuna Collins, Christine Zona Foto, Robert Donald, Trey Gallaher, Barry Ebner, and Mitch Maher, 7-10pm (1170 Market Gallery, Market St, SF)
FRI 11: Reading/Release: AMERICANA no 5 Release Reading #2, featuring Micah Ballard, Steve Dickison, Marina Lazzara, Jackson Meazle, John Sakkis and editor Nicholas James Whittington, 8pm at the Sudo Room (2141 Broadway St, Oakland)
THU 15: Reading: InsideStorytime RAMPAGING, featuring Michelle Tea, Tom Pitts, John Goins, Nic Alea, and Elise Hunter, 7:30pm at La Movida Wine Bar & Community Kitchen (3066 24th St, SF)
WED 16: Reception: Fourteen Hills presents the 2014 Gina Berriault Award to novelist Ella Leffland, 7-10pm at The Poetry Center (1600 Holloway Ave, SFSU)
THU 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)
THU 17: Reading: MFA Mixer featuring Mick Coughlin, Andrew Brooks, Juliana Delgado Lopera, Rich Wright, Evan Adams (MFAW '15), Matthew Elias, Jenny Goldsmith (MFAW '14), Tony DeGenaro, Melissa Burke and Ari Moskowitz, 6:30pm at the Cat Club ( 1190 Folsom St, SF)
COMING UP
4/18: Word.World 2014, thesis readings by Patrick C. VanNevel, Tanika Thacker, Nora Toomey, Candace Elise Hoes, Dahlia Baeshen (all MFAW '14), 7pm at Timken Lecture Hall (1111 8th Street, SF) more info / FB Event
4/18: Reception: Opening Reception for Full Disclosure, showcasing artists from the MFA graduate programs of both San Francisco Art Institute and California College of the Arts as part of a collaboration project: SFiCA, special flash fiction reading by Patrick Newson (MFAW '15) and Gabriel Edwards, 6-9pm at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery 3130 24th St, 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 Complex (762 Fulton, SF) TICKETS
4/19: Event: GSA Presents: All Grad Prom, theme: "Hot Tub Time Machine," 8pm at Hooper Courtyard (SF)
4/19: Reading: Literary Death Match San Francisco, featuring Scott Hutchins, Sylvie Simmons, Eli Horowitz, Joshua Safran, Rachel McKibbens, and Joshua Mohr, 6:30pm at the Elbo Room (647 Valencia St, SF)
4/24: Reading: Writing Without Walls: "THE DANCE," readers TBA, 7:30pm at Cafe du Soleil (200 Fillmore St, SF)
** 4/24: Graduate Lecture Series presents Anne Carson, 7pm in Timken Lecture Hall (SF) more info ** MOVED TO SATURDAY, APRIL 26
4/25: Word.World 2014, thesis readings by Shandy Walton, Kat A. Croswell, Zane Hawley, Felicia M. Hayes, Sam Cavedon (all MFAW '14), 7pm at Timken Lecture Hall (1111 8th Street, SF) more info / FB Event
4/25: Reading: Under the Influence: Round 13 with Chloé Veylit and Maggie Heaps (both MFAW '13), Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, Brandon Brown, Melissa R. Sipin, 7:30pm at the Emerald Tablet (80 Fresno, SF) FB Event
4/26: Graduate Lecture Series presents Anne Carson, doors at 6pm, 7pm in Timken Lecture Hall (SF) more info / FB Event
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 Natalie Catasús, Samiat Salami, Alicia Franco, Colin Partch, Jenny Goldsmith (all MFAW '14), 7pm at Timken Lecture Hall (1111 8th Street, SF) more info / FB Event
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
5/10: Reading/Festival: The 12th Annual Berkeley Poetry Festival, featuring Nanette Deetz, Time Donnelly, Rosa Lane, Baruch Porras-Hernandez, Maisha Johnson (Eleven Eleven #15 contributor), Grace Marie Grafton, Arisa White, Harold Terezon, Denise Jolly, Jezebel Delilah X, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez and Aya de Leon, Wilfred Galila, Nusaibah Coleman, Michael Hartman and Fred Dodsworth, 1pm-4:30pm at Berkeley City College Auditorium (2050 Center St, Berkeley)
5/22: Reading: Writing Without Walls: INTERVENTION, readers TBA (see below for submission guidelines), 7pm at Cafe du Soleil (200 Fillmore St, SF)
6/6: Opening night: "Photo Dynamic Therapy" by Jennifer Lynne Roberts (MFAW '09) at The Exit as part of Wily West Productions' and PCSF's Sheherezade 14. (SF)
6/6: Opening night: "Reframing Rockwell" by Jim Norrena (MFAW '13) at The Exit as part of Wily West Productions' and PCSF's Sheherezade 14. (SF)
6/12 - 22: Play: "Photo Dynamic Therapy" by Jennifer Lynne Roberts (MFAW '09), part of The Women's Project with Theatre Arts West
6/21: Book Release/Reading: Get Wet Reckless, a celebration for the release of Cassandra Dallett's book Wet Reckless, with readings by Sonya Renee Taylor, Tim Toaster, Nic Alea, SB Stokes (Eleven Eleven #14 contributor), and Paul Corman-Roberts, 7pm at the Make-Out Room (3225 22nd St, SF)
7/24 - 8/23: Play: "Meet Claudia" and "Mars One Project" both by Jennifer Lynne Roberts (MFAW '09), part of Superheroes, a Wiley West Production at The Exit Theatre. (SF)
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