The Beat Musuem and great weather for MEDIA present a visionary evening of cutting edge poets and prose writers from across the U.S. They come together to celebrate the release of great weather’s new anthology, I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand, which features work by intense wordsmiths – including those you’ll hear tonight – who are also noted spoken performers. Come prepared for revelations, epiphanies, and a few broad smiles.
This evening features writers from across the US and beyond, including Joan Gelfand (SF), Daniel Yaryan (Santa Cruz), Linda Camplese (Grover Beach, CA), Peter Bullen (Berkeley), Kit Kennedy (SF), and Richard Loranger (Oakland) for a reading filled with next year’s thoughts. Hosted by great weather editor Jane Ormerod (NY/London). There will be a brief open mic to start the evening.
Please stop by, get yourself dangerously verbiaged up, and pick up a copy of I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand to call your very own.
RELEASE PARTY for I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand
a reading by
Joan Gelfand,
Daniel Yaryan,
Linda Camplese,
Peter Bullen,
Kit Kennedy,
and Richard Loranger
with a brief open mic
hosted by great weather for MEDIA editor Jane Ormerod
Friday, November 7, 2014
7pm sharp
free of charge
The Beat Museum
540 Broadway
(just east of Columbus St.)
San Francisco
PERFORMER BIOS
Joan Gelfand’s poetry, fiction and reviews are in national and international publications. A member of the National Book Critics Circle, Joan is also Poetry Editor for the “J”, and Development Chair of the Women’s National Book Association, and blogs regularly for the Huffington Post. Joan’s debut novel, Fear to Shred, set in a Silicon Valley startup, is due out with Incanto Press in January 2015. Her newest collection of poetry is The Long Blue Room (Benicia Literary Arts, 2014). https://www.joangelfand.com
Daniel Yaryan is a devout disciple of the "Beat Friar" Brother Antoninus (William Everson) and producer of the popular poetry series Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts.
Linda Camplese is inspired by a world out of balance. She mines subterranean social, political and personal contradictions, thrusts them to the surface, and illuminates the ingredients that make this complicated, brief life so beautiful, humorous, delicious, and sometimes so poisonous. Her poems can be found in 30 Years of the San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival and Walt’s Corner, among others, her voice on Miller Street Memories, and her presence at readings from California to Paris, France, where she splits her life between two very different cultures-not always so gracefully.
Peter (Thomas) Bullen, a Berkeley hairdresser, who began writing at 49, sees his work as a happy collision between the tender and the preposterous, whom he has found to be affable companions, on the page and in life. His work has been featured in the print and online journals Sparkle & Blink and Blotterature, and upcoming in Weave (2015). He is currently at work on a novel, or so he sometimes believes.
Kit Kennedy lives in San Francisco and is Bay Times Poet in Residence and Poet in Residence at AWE Gallery. She has five published poetry collections and an equal number of boots, two of which are red.
Richard Loranger is a writer, performer, visual artist, and all around squeaky wheel, currently residing in Oakland, CA. He is the author of Poems for Teeth, as well as The Orange Book and nine chapbooks, including Hello Poems and the recent 6 Questions (Exot Books). Recent work can be found in the online journals London Grip New Poetry (www.londongrip.co.uk) and The Marsh Hawk Review (www.marshhawkpress.org) and in the just released anthology I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand (great weather for MEDIA). You can find more about his work and scandals at https://www.richardloranger.com.
Jane Ormerod is the author of Welcome to the Museum of Cattle (Three Rooms Press, 2012), Recreational Vehicles on Fire (Three Rooms Press, 2009), the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books, 2008), and the spoken word CD Nashville Invades Manhattan. Jane’s work also appears in numerous US and international anthologies and journals including Have a Nice NYC (Three Rooms Press, 2012), Maintenant, AND / OR, Marsh Hawk Press Review, The Nervous Breakdown, Ambush Review, and Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts. Born on the south coast of England, Jane now lives in New York City and performs extensively across the United States and beyond. She is a founding editor at great weather for MEDIA. https://www.janeormerod.com
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This evening features writers from across the US and beyond, including Joan Gelfand (SF), Daniel Yaryan (Santa Cruz), Linda Camplese (Grover Beach, CA), Peter Bullen (Berkeley), Kit Kennedy (SF), and Richard Loranger (Oakland) for a reading filled with next year’s thoughts. Hosted by great weather editor Jane Ormerod (NY/London). There will be a brief open mic to start the evening.
Please stop by, get yourself dangerously verbiaged up, and pick up a copy of I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand to call your very own.
RELEASE PARTY for I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand
a reading by
Joan Gelfand,
Daniel Yaryan,
Linda Camplese,
Peter Bullen,
Kit Kennedy,
and Richard Loranger
with a brief open mic
hosted by great weather for MEDIA editor Jane Ormerod
Friday, November 7, 2014
7pm sharp
free of charge
The Beat Museum
540 Broadway
(just east of Columbus St.)
San Francisco
PERFORMER BIOS
Joan Gelfand’s poetry, fiction and reviews are in national and international publications. A member of the National Book Critics Circle, Joan is also Poetry Editor for the “J”, and Development Chair of the Women’s National Book Association, and blogs regularly for the Huffington Post. Joan’s debut novel, Fear to Shred, set in a Silicon Valley startup, is due out with Incanto Press in January 2015. Her newest collection of poetry is The Long Blue Room (Benicia Literary Arts, 2014). https://www.joangelfand.com
Daniel Yaryan is a devout disciple of the "Beat Friar" Brother Antoninus (William Everson) and producer of the popular poetry series Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts.
Linda Camplese is inspired by a world out of balance. She mines subterranean social, political and personal contradictions, thrusts them to the surface, and illuminates the ingredients that make this complicated, brief life so beautiful, humorous, delicious, and sometimes so poisonous. Her poems can be found in 30 Years of the San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival and Walt’s Corner, among others, her voice on Miller Street Memories, and her presence at readings from California to Paris, France, where she splits her life between two very different cultures-not always so gracefully.
Peter (Thomas) Bullen, a Berkeley hairdresser, who began writing at 49, sees his work as a happy collision between the tender and the preposterous, whom he has found to be affable companions, on the page and in life. His work has been featured in the print and online journals Sparkle & Blink and Blotterature, and upcoming in Weave (2015). He is currently at work on a novel, or so he sometimes believes.
Kit Kennedy lives in San Francisco and is Bay Times Poet in Residence and Poet in Residence at AWE Gallery. She has five published poetry collections and an equal number of boots, two of which are red.
Richard Loranger is a writer, performer, visual artist, and all around squeaky wheel, currently residing in Oakland, CA. He is the author of Poems for Teeth, as well as The Orange Book and nine chapbooks, including Hello Poems and the recent 6 Questions (Exot Books). Recent work can be found in the online journals London Grip New Poetry (www.londongrip.co.uk) and The Marsh Hawk Review (www.marshhawkpress.org) and in the just released anthology I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand (great weather for MEDIA). You can find more about his work and scandals at https://www.richardloranger.com.
Jane Ormerod is the author of Welcome to the Museum of Cattle (Three Rooms Press, 2012), Recreational Vehicles on Fire (Three Rooms Press, 2009), the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books, 2008), and the spoken word CD Nashville Invades Manhattan. Jane’s work also appears in numerous US and international anthologies and journals including Have a Nice NYC (Three Rooms Press, 2012), Maintenant, AND / OR, Marsh Hawk Press Review, The Nervous Breakdown, Ambush Review, and Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts. Born on the south coast of England, Jane now lives in New York City and performs extensively across the United States and beyond. She is a founding editor at great weather for MEDIA. https://www.janeormerod.com
The Beat Musuem and great weather for MEDIA present a visionary evening of cutting edge poets and prose writers from across the U.S. They come together to celebrate the release of great weather’s new anthology, I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand, which features work by intense wordsmiths – including those you’ll hear tonight – who are also noted spoken performers. Come prepared for revelations, epiphanies, and a few broad smiles.
This evening features writers from across the US and beyond, including Joan Gelfand (SF), Daniel Yaryan (Santa Cruz), Linda Camplese (Grover Beach, CA), Peter Bullen (Berkeley), Kit Kennedy (SF), and Richard Loranger (Oakland) for a reading filled with next year’s thoughts. Hosted by great weather editor Jane Ormerod (NY/London). There will be a brief open mic to start the evening.
Please stop by, get yourself dangerously verbiaged up, and pick up a copy of I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand to call your very own.
RELEASE PARTY for I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand
a reading by
Joan Gelfand,
Daniel Yaryan,
Linda Camplese,
Peter Bullen,
Kit Kennedy,
and Richard Loranger
with a brief open mic
hosted by great weather for MEDIA editor Jane Ormerod
Friday, November 7, 2014
7pm sharp
free of charge
The Beat Museum
540 Broadway
(just east of Columbus St.)
San Francisco
PERFORMER BIOS
Joan Gelfand’s poetry, fiction and reviews are in national and international publications. A member of the National Book Critics Circle, Joan is also Poetry Editor for the “J”, and Development Chair of the Women’s National Book Association, and blogs regularly for the Huffington Post. Joan’s debut novel, Fear to Shred, set in a Silicon Valley startup, is due out with Incanto Press in January 2015. Her newest collection of poetry is The Long Blue Room (Benicia Literary Arts, 2014). https://www.joangelfand.com
Daniel Yaryan is a devout disciple of the "Beat Friar" Brother Antoninus (William Everson) and producer of the popular poetry series Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts.
Linda Camplese is inspired by a world out of balance. She mines subterranean social, political and personal contradictions, thrusts them to the surface, and illuminates the ingredients that make this complicated, brief life so beautiful, humorous, delicious, and sometimes so poisonous. Her poems can be found in 30 Years of the San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival and Walt’s Corner, among others, her voice on Miller Street Memories, and her presence at readings from California to Paris, France, where she splits her life between two very different cultures-not always so gracefully.
Peter (Thomas) Bullen, a Berkeley hairdresser, who began writing at 49, sees his work as a happy collision between the tender and the preposterous, whom he has found to be affable companions, on the page and in life. His work has been featured in the print and online journals Sparkle & Blink and Blotterature, and upcoming in Weave (2015). He is currently at work on a novel, or so he sometimes believes.
Kit Kennedy lives in San Francisco and is Bay Times Poet in Residence and Poet in Residence at AWE Gallery. She has five published poetry collections and an equal number of boots, two of which are red.
Richard Loranger is a writer, performer, visual artist, and all around squeaky wheel, currently residing in Oakland, CA. He is the author of Poems for Teeth, as well as The Orange Book and nine chapbooks, including Hello Poems and the recent 6 Questions (Exot Books). Recent work can be found in the online journals London Grip New Poetry (www.londongrip.co.uk) and The Marsh Hawk Review (www.marshhawkpress.org) and in the just released anthology I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand (great weather for MEDIA). You can find more about his work and scandals at https://www.richardloranger.com.
Jane Ormerod is the author of Welcome to the Museum of Cattle (Three Rooms Press, 2012), Recreational Vehicles on Fire (Three Rooms Press, 2009), the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books, 2008), and the spoken word CD Nashville Invades Manhattan. Jane’s work also appears in numerous US and international anthologies and journals including Have a Nice NYC (Three Rooms Press, 2012), Maintenant, AND / OR, Marsh Hawk Press Review, The Nervous Breakdown, Ambush Review, and Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts. Born on the south coast of England, Jane now lives in New York City and performs extensively across the United States and beyond. She is a founding editor at great weather for MEDIA. https://www.janeormerod.com
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This evening features writers from across the US and beyond, including Joan Gelfand (SF), Daniel Yaryan (Santa Cruz), Linda Camplese (Grover Beach, CA), Peter Bullen (Berkeley), Kit Kennedy (SF), and Richard Loranger (Oakland) for a reading filled with next year’s thoughts. Hosted by great weather editor Jane Ormerod (NY/London). There will be a brief open mic to start the evening.
Please stop by, get yourself dangerously verbiaged up, and pick up a copy of I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand to call your very own.
RELEASE PARTY for I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand
a reading by
Joan Gelfand,
Daniel Yaryan,
Linda Camplese,
Peter Bullen,
Kit Kennedy,
and Richard Loranger
with a brief open mic
hosted by great weather for MEDIA editor Jane Ormerod
Friday, November 7, 2014
7pm sharp
free of charge
The Beat Museum
540 Broadway
(just east of Columbus St.)
San Francisco
PERFORMER BIOS
Joan Gelfand’s poetry, fiction and reviews are in national and international publications. A member of the National Book Critics Circle, Joan is also Poetry Editor for the “J”, and Development Chair of the Women’s National Book Association, and blogs regularly for the Huffington Post. Joan’s debut novel, Fear to Shred, set in a Silicon Valley startup, is due out with Incanto Press in January 2015. Her newest collection of poetry is The Long Blue Room (Benicia Literary Arts, 2014). https://www.joangelfand.com
Daniel Yaryan is a devout disciple of the "Beat Friar" Brother Antoninus (William Everson) and producer of the popular poetry series Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts.
Linda Camplese is inspired by a world out of balance. She mines subterranean social, political and personal contradictions, thrusts them to the surface, and illuminates the ingredients that make this complicated, brief life so beautiful, humorous, delicious, and sometimes so poisonous. Her poems can be found in 30 Years of the San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival and Walt’s Corner, among others, her voice on Miller Street Memories, and her presence at readings from California to Paris, France, where she splits her life between two very different cultures-not always so gracefully.
Peter (Thomas) Bullen, a Berkeley hairdresser, who began writing at 49, sees his work as a happy collision between the tender and the preposterous, whom he has found to be affable companions, on the page and in life. His work has been featured in the print and online journals Sparkle & Blink and Blotterature, and upcoming in Weave (2015). He is currently at work on a novel, or so he sometimes believes.
Kit Kennedy lives in San Francisco and is Bay Times Poet in Residence and Poet in Residence at AWE Gallery. She has five published poetry collections and an equal number of boots, two of which are red.
Richard Loranger is a writer, performer, visual artist, and all around squeaky wheel, currently residing in Oakland, CA. He is the author of Poems for Teeth, as well as The Orange Book and nine chapbooks, including Hello Poems and the recent 6 Questions (Exot Books). Recent work can be found in the online journals London Grip New Poetry (www.londongrip.co.uk) and The Marsh Hawk Review (www.marshhawkpress.org) and in the just released anthology I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand (great weather for MEDIA). You can find more about his work and scandals at https://www.richardloranger.com.
Jane Ormerod is the author of Welcome to the Museum of Cattle (Three Rooms Press, 2012), Recreational Vehicles on Fire (Three Rooms Press, 2009), the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books, 2008), and the spoken word CD Nashville Invades Manhattan. Jane’s work also appears in numerous US and international anthologies and journals including Have a Nice NYC (Three Rooms Press, 2012), Maintenant, AND / OR, Marsh Hawk Press Review, The Nervous Breakdown, Ambush Review, and Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts. Born on the south coast of England, Jane now lives in New York City and performs extensively across the United States and beyond. She is a founding editor at great weather for MEDIA. https://www.janeormerod.com
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