Thu August 31, 2023
9th Ave: Brennan DeFrisco with Katie Aliféris, Allie Marini, Lauren Parker, and Baruch Porras-Hernan
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Join us on Thursday, August 31st at 7pm PT when we celebrate the release of Brennan DeFrisco's Honeysuckle & Nightshade at 9th Ave!
Featuring Katie Aliféris, Allie Marini, Lauren Parker, and Baruch Porras-Hernandez
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below
https://youtube.com/live/9-KSmS4GGnc
Praise for Honeysuckle & Nightshade
"I feel Brennan in the DNA. Everything he says makes an impact, like what an anvil would sound like if it could recite poetry."- Juan Felipe Herrera, United States Poet Laureate
"Brennan DeFrisco's writing moves you, literally and literarily. He is, at once, wholly accessible and devastatingly profound, dropping truths like divebombs on your heart. Reading his work is what it is like to be simultaneously uplifted and utterly floored, and glad about both."- Nazelah Jamison, Author of Evolutionary Heart
About Honeysuckle & Nightshade
Honeysuckle & Nightshade is a collection of poems that centers joy, healing, and hope while navigating the sweet & dangerous blooms that grow in the garden of Love. DeFrisco seeks and renders silver linings in a world that doesn't always hold space for tending to our own, personal "heart gardens." Poems include spoken word favorite, "Amazing," which was featured by Poet Laureate Kim Shuck for San Francisco Public Library's Poem-A-Day series, and "A List of Unreliable Narrators," published by Drunk In A Midnight Choir.
About Brennan DeFrisco
Brennan DeFrisco is a poet, teaching artist, editor, voice actor, & ekphrastic artist from the San Francisco Bay Area. He's been a National Poetry Slam finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, Grand Slam Champion of the Oakland Poetry Slam, & regional coordinator for California Poets in the Schools, Poetry Out Loud, & the San Francisco Arts Commission. He's the author of A Heart With No Scars, published by Nomadic Press, & has served as poetry editor on the mastheads of Lunch Ticket, Caesura & Meow Meow Pow Pow. His work has been published in Red Wheelbarrow, Oracle Fine Arts Review, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, JMWW Journal, Words Dance, & elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing with a focus in poetry from Antioch University Los Angeles.
About Katie Aliféris
Katie Aliféris (ah-lee-FEH-ree) is a writer of poetic things from San Francisco, California. She has been a featured performer at local and international literary series and events, including LitCrawl, The Melbourne Fringe Festival, City Lights Books, and SFSU. Her work has been published in various anthologies, journals, and websites, including Lucent Dreaming and the San Francisco Public Library's Poem of the Day. It has also been set to music and commissioned by composers, conductors, businesses, individuals, and organizations. Katie's first book of poetry, fool[ishly optimistic], was published by Nomadic Press in 2022.
About Allie Marini
Allie Marini is a cross-genre Southern writer, poet, member of the American Literary Translators Association, and certified tarot reader with the Tarosophy Tarot Association. She's the author of 13 poetry chapbooks, including Southern Cryptozoology, which was nominated twice for the Science Fiction Poetry Association's Elgin Award, and This Apiary, a winner of the 2019 Glass Poetry Chapbook Contest. She's been a Best of the Net Finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and a member of the 2017 National Poery Slam team for the Oakland Poetry Slam. She's also the founding editor of Antioch University Los Angeles' award-winning literary publications, Lunch Ticket and Amuse Bouche, and co-founder of the Gabo Prize for Literary Translation. Her work has been published in The Rumpus, The Boston Review, Crab Orchard Literary Magazine, Sweet: A Literary Confection, Coffin Bell, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing with a dual-focus in Fiction and Poetry, as well as an additional graduate certification in Literary Translation.
About Lauren Parker
Lauren Parker is a writer, zinemaker, and visual artist in Oakland, California. She's a graduate of Hiram College's Creative Writing program and has written for the Toast, Strange Horizons, The Racket, Xtra Magazine, Catapult, and Autostraddle. She's the winner of the Vachel Lindsay poetry prize, is the author of the poetry collection We Are Now the Thing in the Woods from Bottlecap Press, and a forthcoming deck of spells with Simon & Schuster. Find her at laureneparker.com.
About Baruch Porras-Hernandez
Baruch Porras-Hernandez is a writer, performer, organizer, professional MC/Host, curator, stand up comedian, and the author of the chapbooks "I Miss You, Delicate" and "Lovers of the Deep Fried Circle" both with Sibling Rivalry Press. He had the honor of touring with the legendary Sister Spit Queer poetry tour in 2019, is a is a two-time winner of Literary Death Match, a regular host of literary shows for KQED, and was named a Writer to Watch in 2016 by 7×7 Magazine. His poetry can be found with Write Bloody Publishing, The Tusk, Foglifter, Assaracus and many more. He has been an artist in residence at The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, a Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry, and Playwriting. He's been featured in shows with The Rumpus, Writers with Drinks, has performed several times with Radar Productions, LitQuake, and Quiet Lightning. His solo show "Love in the Time of Piñatas" got a clapping man from the SF Chronicle and was performed to sold-out houses at Epic Party Theatre in December of 2019. He is the head organizer of ¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? a Latinx literary performance series, he is an immigrant originally from Mexico, and is currently the lead artist in a multidisciplinary project that will create new Queer Latino Superheroes with MACLA, which stands for Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana in San Jose. He lives in San Francisco.
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Featuring Katie Aliféris, Allie Marini, Lauren Parker, and Baruch Porras-Hernandez
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below
https://youtube.com/live/9-KSmS4GGnc
Praise for Honeysuckle & Nightshade
"I feel Brennan in the DNA. Everything he says makes an impact, like what an anvil would sound like if it could recite poetry."- Juan Felipe Herrera, United States Poet Laureate
"Brennan DeFrisco's writing moves you, literally and literarily. He is, at once, wholly accessible and devastatingly profound, dropping truths like divebombs on your heart. Reading his work is what it is like to be simultaneously uplifted and utterly floored, and glad about both."- Nazelah Jamison, Author of Evolutionary Heart
About Honeysuckle & Nightshade
Honeysuckle & Nightshade is a collection of poems that centers joy, healing, and hope while navigating the sweet & dangerous blooms that grow in the garden of Love. DeFrisco seeks and renders silver linings in a world that doesn't always hold space for tending to our own, personal "heart gardens." Poems include spoken word favorite, "Amazing," which was featured by Poet Laureate Kim Shuck for San Francisco Public Library's Poem-A-Day series, and "A List of Unreliable Narrators," published by Drunk In A Midnight Choir.
About Brennan DeFrisco
Brennan DeFrisco is a poet, teaching artist, editor, voice actor, & ekphrastic artist from the San Francisco Bay Area. He's been a National Poetry Slam finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, Grand Slam Champion of the Oakland Poetry Slam, & regional coordinator for California Poets in the Schools, Poetry Out Loud, & the San Francisco Arts Commission. He's the author of A Heart With No Scars, published by Nomadic Press, & has served as poetry editor on the mastheads of Lunch Ticket, Caesura & Meow Meow Pow Pow. His work has been published in Red Wheelbarrow, Oracle Fine Arts Review, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, JMWW Journal, Words Dance, & elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing with a focus in poetry from Antioch University Los Angeles.
About Katie Aliféris
Katie Aliféris (ah-lee-FEH-ree) is a writer of poetic things from San Francisco, California. She has been a featured performer at local and international literary series and events, including LitCrawl, The Melbourne Fringe Festival, City Lights Books, and SFSU. Her work has been published in various anthologies, journals, and websites, including Lucent Dreaming and the San Francisco Public Library's Poem of the Day. It has also been set to music and commissioned by composers, conductors, businesses, individuals, and organizations. Katie's first book of poetry, fool[ishly optimistic], was published by Nomadic Press in 2022.
About Allie Marini
Allie Marini is a cross-genre Southern writer, poet, member of the American Literary Translators Association, and certified tarot reader with the Tarosophy Tarot Association. She's the author of 13 poetry chapbooks, including Southern Cryptozoology, which was nominated twice for the Science Fiction Poetry Association's Elgin Award, and This Apiary, a winner of the 2019 Glass Poetry Chapbook Contest. She's been a Best of the Net Finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and a member of the 2017 National Poery Slam team for the Oakland Poetry Slam. She's also the founding editor of Antioch University Los Angeles' award-winning literary publications, Lunch Ticket and Amuse Bouche, and co-founder of the Gabo Prize for Literary Translation. Her work has been published in The Rumpus, The Boston Review, Crab Orchard Literary Magazine, Sweet: A Literary Confection, Coffin Bell, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing with a dual-focus in Fiction and Poetry, as well as an additional graduate certification in Literary Translation.
About Lauren Parker
Lauren Parker is a writer, zinemaker, and visual artist in Oakland, California. She's a graduate of Hiram College's Creative Writing program and has written for the Toast, Strange Horizons, The Racket, Xtra Magazine, Catapult, and Autostraddle. She's the winner of the Vachel Lindsay poetry prize, is the author of the poetry collection We Are Now the Thing in the Woods from Bottlecap Press, and a forthcoming deck of spells with Simon & Schuster. Find her at laureneparker.com.
About Baruch Porras-Hernandez
Baruch Porras-Hernandez is a writer, performer, organizer, professional MC/Host, curator, stand up comedian, and the author of the chapbooks "I Miss You, Delicate" and "Lovers of the Deep Fried Circle" both with Sibling Rivalry Press. He had the honor of touring with the legendary Sister Spit Queer poetry tour in 2019, is a is a two-time winner of Literary Death Match, a regular host of literary shows for KQED, and was named a Writer to Watch in 2016 by 7×7 Magazine. His poetry can be found with Write Bloody Publishing, The Tusk, Foglifter, Assaracus and many more. He has been an artist in residence at The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, a Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry, and Playwriting. He's been featured in shows with The Rumpus, Writers with Drinks, has performed several times with Radar Productions, LitQuake, and Quiet Lightning. His solo show "Love in the Time of Piñatas" got a clapping man from the SF Chronicle and was performed to sold-out houses at Epic Party Theatre in December of 2019. He is the head organizer of ¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? a Latinx literary performance series, he is an immigrant originally from Mexico, and is currently the lead artist in a multidisciplinary project that will create new Queer Latino Superheroes with MACLA, which stands for Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana in San Jose. He lives in San Francisco.
Join us on Thursday, August 31st at 7pm PT when we celebrate the release of Brennan DeFrisco's Honeysuckle & Nightshade at 9th Ave!
Featuring Katie Aliféris, Allie Marini, Lauren Parker, and Baruch Porras-Hernandez
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below
https://youtube.com/live/9-KSmS4GGnc
Praise for Honeysuckle & Nightshade
"I feel Brennan in the DNA. Everything he says makes an impact, like what an anvil would sound like if it could recite poetry."- Juan Felipe Herrera, United States Poet Laureate
"Brennan DeFrisco's writing moves you, literally and literarily. He is, at once, wholly accessible and devastatingly profound, dropping truths like divebombs on your heart. Reading his work is what it is like to be simultaneously uplifted and utterly floored, and glad about both."- Nazelah Jamison, Author of Evolutionary Heart
About Honeysuckle & Nightshade
Honeysuckle & Nightshade is a collection of poems that centers joy, healing, and hope while navigating the sweet & dangerous blooms that grow in the garden of Love. DeFrisco seeks and renders silver linings in a world that doesn't always hold space for tending to our own, personal "heart gardens." Poems include spoken word favorite, "Amazing," which was featured by Poet Laureate Kim Shuck for San Francisco Public Library's Poem-A-Day series, and "A List of Unreliable Narrators," published by Drunk In A Midnight Choir.
About Brennan DeFrisco
Brennan DeFrisco is a poet, teaching artist, editor, voice actor, & ekphrastic artist from the San Francisco Bay Area. He's been a National Poetry Slam finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, Grand Slam Champion of the Oakland Poetry Slam, & regional coordinator for California Poets in the Schools, Poetry Out Loud, & the San Francisco Arts Commission. He's the author of A Heart With No Scars, published by Nomadic Press, & has served as poetry editor on the mastheads of Lunch Ticket, Caesura & Meow Meow Pow Pow. His work has been published in Red Wheelbarrow, Oracle Fine Arts Review, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, JMWW Journal, Words Dance, & elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing with a focus in poetry from Antioch University Los Angeles.
About Katie Aliféris
Katie Aliféris (ah-lee-FEH-ree) is a writer of poetic things from San Francisco, California. She has been a featured performer at local and international literary series and events, including LitCrawl, The Melbourne Fringe Festival, City Lights Books, and SFSU. Her work has been published in various anthologies, journals, and websites, including Lucent Dreaming and the San Francisco Public Library's Poem of the Day. It has also been set to music and commissioned by composers, conductors, businesses, individuals, and organizations. Katie's first book of poetry, fool[ishly optimistic], was published by Nomadic Press in 2022.
About Allie Marini
Allie Marini is a cross-genre Southern writer, poet, member of the American Literary Translators Association, and certified tarot reader with the Tarosophy Tarot Association. She's the author of 13 poetry chapbooks, including Southern Cryptozoology, which was nominated twice for the Science Fiction Poetry Association's Elgin Award, and This Apiary, a winner of the 2019 Glass Poetry Chapbook Contest. She's been a Best of the Net Finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and a member of the 2017 National Poery Slam team for the Oakland Poetry Slam. She's also the founding editor of Antioch University Los Angeles' award-winning literary publications, Lunch Ticket and Amuse Bouche, and co-founder of the Gabo Prize for Literary Translation. Her work has been published in The Rumpus, The Boston Review, Crab Orchard Literary Magazine, Sweet: A Literary Confection, Coffin Bell, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing with a dual-focus in Fiction and Poetry, as well as an additional graduate certification in Literary Translation.
About Lauren Parker
Lauren Parker is a writer, zinemaker, and visual artist in Oakland, California. She's a graduate of Hiram College's Creative Writing program and has written for the Toast, Strange Horizons, The Racket, Xtra Magazine, Catapult, and Autostraddle. She's the winner of the Vachel Lindsay poetry prize, is the author of the poetry collection We Are Now the Thing in the Woods from Bottlecap Press, and a forthcoming deck of spells with Simon & Schuster. Find her at laureneparker.com.
About Baruch Porras-Hernandez
Baruch Porras-Hernandez is a writer, performer, organizer, professional MC/Host, curator, stand up comedian, and the author of the chapbooks "I Miss You, Delicate" and "Lovers of the Deep Fried Circle" both with Sibling Rivalry Press. He had the honor of touring with the legendary Sister Spit Queer poetry tour in 2019, is a is a two-time winner of Literary Death Match, a regular host of literary shows for KQED, and was named a Writer to Watch in 2016 by 7×7 Magazine. His poetry can be found with Write Bloody Publishing, The Tusk, Foglifter, Assaracus and many more. He has been an artist in residence at The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, a Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry, and Playwriting. He's been featured in shows with The Rumpus, Writers with Drinks, has performed several times with Radar Productions, LitQuake, and Quiet Lightning. His solo show "Love in the Time of Piñatas" got a clapping man from the SF Chronicle and was performed to sold-out houses at Epic Party Theatre in December of 2019. He is the head organizer of ¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? a Latinx literary performance series, he is an immigrant originally from Mexico, and is currently the lead artist in a multidisciplinary project that will create new Queer Latino Superheroes with MACLA, which stands for Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana in San Jose. He lives in San Francisco.
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Featuring Katie Aliféris, Allie Marini, Lauren Parker, and Baruch Porras-Hernandez
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below
https://youtube.com/live/9-KSmS4GGnc
Praise for Honeysuckle & Nightshade
"I feel Brennan in the DNA. Everything he says makes an impact, like what an anvil would sound like if it could recite poetry."- Juan Felipe Herrera, United States Poet Laureate
"Brennan DeFrisco's writing moves you, literally and literarily. He is, at once, wholly accessible and devastatingly profound, dropping truths like divebombs on your heart. Reading his work is what it is like to be simultaneously uplifted and utterly floored, and glad about both."- Nazelah Jamison, Author of Evolutionary Heart
About Honeysuckle & Nightshade
Honeysuckle & Nightshade is a collection of poems that centers joy, healing, and hope while navigating the sweet & dangerous blooms that grow in the garden of Love. DeFrisco seeks and renders silver linings in a world that doesn't always hold space for tending to our own, personal "heart gardens." Poems include spoken word favorite, "Amazing," which was featured by Poet Laureate Kim Shuck for San Francisco Public Library's Poem-A-Day series, and "A List of Unreliable Narrators," published by Drunk In A Midnight Choir.
About Brennan DeFrisco
Brennan DeFrisco is a poet, teaching artist, editor, voice actor, & ekphrastic artist from the San Francisco Bay Area. He's been a National Poetry Slam finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, Grand Slam Champion of the Oakland Poetry Slam, & regional coordinator for California Poets in the Schools, Poetry Out Loud, & the San Francisco Arts Commission. He's the author of A Heart With No Scars, published by Nomadic Press, & has served as poetry editor on the mastheads of Lunch Ticket, Caesura & Meow Meow Pow Pow. His work has been published in Red Wheelbarrow, Oracle Fine Arts Review, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, JMWW Journal, Words Dance, & elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing with a focus in poetry from Antioch University Los Angeles.
About Katie Aliféris
Katie Aliféris (ah-lee-FEH-ree) is a writer of poetic things from San Francisco, California. She has been a featured performer at local and international literary series and events, including LitCrawl, The Melbourne Fringe Festival, City Lights Books, and SFSU. Her work has been published in various anthologies, journals, and websites, including Lucent Dreaming and the San Francisco Public Library's Poem of the Day. It has also been set to music and commissioned by composers, conductors, businesses, individuals, and organizations. Katie's first book of poetry, fool[ishly optimistic], was published by Nomadic Press in 2022.
About Allie Marini
Allie Marini is a cross-genre Southern writer, poet, member of the American Literary Translators Association, and certified tarot reader with the Tarosophy Tarot Association. She's the author of 13 poetry chapbooks, including Southern Cryptozoology, which was nominated twice for the Science Fiction Poetry Association's Elgin Award, and This Apiary, a winner of the 2019 Glass Poetry Chapbook Contest. She's been a Best of the Net Finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and a member of the 2017 National Poery Slam team for the Oakland Poetry Slam. She's also the founding editor of Antioch University Los Angeles' award-winning literary publications, Lunch Ticket and Amuse Bouche, and co-founder of the Gabo Prize for Literary Translation. Her work has been published in The Rumpus, The Boston Review, Crab Orchard Literary Magazine, Sweet: A Literary Confection, Coffin Bell, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing with a dual-focus in Fiction and Poetry, as well as an additional graduate certification in Literary Translation.
About Lauren Parker
Lauren Parker is a writer, zinemaker, and visual artist in Oakland, California. She's a graduate of Hiram College's Creative Writing program and has written for the Toast, Strange Horizons, The Racket, Xtra Magazine, Catapult, and Autostraddle. She's the winner of the Vachel Lindsay poetry prize, is the author of the poetry collection We Are Now the Thing in the Woods from Bottlecap Press, and a forthcoming deck of spells with Simon & Schuster. Find her at laureneparker.com.
About Baruch Porras-Hernandez
Baruch Porras-Hernandez is a writer, performer, organizer, professional MC/Host, curator, stand up comedian, and the author of the chapbooks "I Miss You, Delicate" and "Lovers of the Deep Fried Circle" both with Sibling Rivalry Press. He had the honor of touring with the legendary Sister Spit Queer poetry tour in 2019, is a is a two-time winner of Literary Death Match, a regular host of literary shows for KQED, and was named a Writer to Watch in 2016 by 7×7 Magazine. His poetry can be found with Write Bloody Publishing, The Tusk, Foglifter, Assaracus and many more. He has been an artist in residence at The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, a Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry, and Playwriting. He's been featured in shows with The Rumpus, Writers with Drinks, has performed several times with Radar Productions, LitQuake, and Quiet Lightning. His solo show "Love in the Time of Piñatas" got a clapping man from the SF Chronicle and was performed to sold-out houses at Epic Party Theatre in December of 2019. He is the head organizer of ¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? a Latinx literary performance series, he is an immigrant originally from Mexico, and is currently the lead artist in a multidisciplinary project that will create new Queer Latino Superheroes with MACLA, which stands for Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana in San Jose. He lives in San Francisco.
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