Sat October 24, 2015
Cutting Edge Writers Reading for new great weather for MEDIA Anthology
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The Octopus Literary Salon and great weather for MEDIA present a rollicking 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, Before Passing, which features work by intense wordsmiths – including those you’ll hear tonight – along with an interview with the legendary Anne Waldman. Come prepared for revelations, epiphanies, and a few broad smiles.
This evening features writers from across the US and beyond, including Paul Corman-Roberts (Oakland), Lauren Marie Cappello (Upper Lake, CA), Cassandra Dallett (Oakland), Will Gibson (Arcata CA), Mary Mackey (Albany, CA), Jane Ormerod (NY/London), and Floyd Salas (Berkeley). Hosted by Oakland’s own Richard Loranger. 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 Before Passing to call your very own.
RELEASE PARTY for Before Passing
a reading by
Paul Corman-Roberts
Lauren Marie Cappello
Cassandra Dallett
Will Gibson
Mary Mackey
Jane Ormerod
and Floyd Salas
hosted by Richard Loranger
PERFORMER BIOS
Paul Corman-Roberts is a compulsive poet and a compulsive organizer. His latest collection is from Nomadic Press and is called We Shoot Typewriters. If you take Paul to an Indian Buffet you'll be asked to leave and not come back.
Lauren Marie Cappello has traded in the glitter of New Orleans for homesteading in Northern California. Her work has appeared in E·ratio 20, It's Animal but Merciful (great weather for MEDIA), and The Solitary Plover, among others.
Cassandra Dallett is the author of the full-length book of poetry, Wet Reckless, (Manic D Press, 2014) and Bad Sandy (Dangerous Hair Press, 2015). In addition to several chapbooks, she has published in numerous magazines and anthologies such as, Slip Stream, Sparkle and Blink, The Bicycle Review, Chiron Review, Rusty Truck, and Up The River. She was the winner of the March 2015 Literary Death Match.
Mary Mackey is the author of 13 novels and 7 collections of poetry including Sugar Zone, winner of the 2012 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature and Travelers With No Ticket Home, her new collection just published by Marsh Hawk Press. Her ground-breaking, poetic novel Immersion has also recently been reprinted by the Authors Guild. Mackey’s poems have been praised by Wendell Berry, Jane Hirshfield, Dennis Nurkse, Ron Hansen, Dennis Schmitz, and Marge Piercy for their beauty, precision, originality, and extraordinary range. Four times Garrison Keillor has featured her poetry on his program The Writer’s Almanac. Her novels, all of which have recently become available as e-books, have made The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller lists, been translated into twelve languages, and sold over a million and a half copies. Connect with her, sample her work, and read her blog interview series People Who Make Books Happen at https://www.marymackey.com and https://www.facebook.com/marymackeywriter
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. Website
Floyd Salas is an award-winning author of four novels, the memoir Buffalo Nickel, and two books of poetry. Tattoo the Wicked Cross, his first novel, earned a place on the San Francisco Chronicle's Western 100 List of Best 20th Century Fiction and also, along with Buffalo Nickel, is featured in Masterpieces of Hispanic Literature (HarperCollins, 1994). His manuscripts and papers are archived in the Floyd Salas collection in the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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 Oakland Review #2, Out of Our #17, and the 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.
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This evening features writers from across the US and beyond, including Paul Corman-Roberts (Oakland), Lauren Marie Cappello (Upper Lake, CA), Cassandra Dallett (Oakland), Will Gibson (Arcata CA), Mary Mackey (Albany, CA), Jane Ormerod (NY/London), and Floyd Salas (Berkeley). Hosted by Oakland’s own Richard Loranger. 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 Before Passing to call your very own.
RELEASE PARTY for Before Passing
a reading by
Paul Corman-Roberts
Lauren Marie Cappello
Cassandra Dallett
Will Gibson
Mary Mackey
Jane Ormerod
and Floyd Salas
hosted by Richard Loranger
PERFORMER BIOS
Paul Corman-Roberts is a compulsive poet and a compulsive organizer. His latest collection is from Nomadic Press and is called We Shoot Typewriters. If you take Paul to an Indian Buffet you'll be asked to leave and not come back.
Lauren Marie Cappello has traded in the glitter of New Orleans for homesteading in Northern California. Her work has appeared in E·ratio 20, It's Animal but Merciful (great weather for MEDIA), and The Solitary Plover, among others.
Cassandra Dallett is the author of the full-length book of poetry, Wet Reckless, (Manic D Press, 2014) and Bad Sandy (Dangerous Hair Press, 2015). In addition to several chapbooks, she has published in numerous magazines and anthologies such as, Slip Stream, Sparkle and Blink, The Bicycle Review, Chiron Review, Rusty Truck, and Up The River. She was the winner of the March 2015 Literary Death Match.
Mary Mackey is the author of 13 novels and 7 collections of poetry including Sugar Zone, winner of the 2012 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature and Travelers With No Ticket Home, her new collection just published by Marsh Hawk Press. Her ground-breaking, poetic novel Immersion has also recently been reprinted by the Authors Guild. Mackey’s poems have been praised by Wendell Berry, Jane Hirshfield, Dennis Nurkse, Ron Hansen, Dennis Schmitz, and Marge Piercy for their beauty, precision, originality, and extraordinary range. Four times Garrison Keillor has featured her poetry on his program The Writer’s Almanac. Her novels, all of which have recently become available as e-books, have made The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller lists, been translated into twelve languages, and sold over a million and a half copies. Connect with her, sample her work, and read her blog interview series People Who Make Books Happen at https://www.marymackey.com and https://www.facebook.com/marymackeywriter
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. Website
Floyd Salas is an award-winning author of four novels, the memoir Buffalo Nickel, and two books of poetry. Tattoo the Wicked Cross, his first novel, earned a place on the San Francisco Chronicle's Western 100 List of Best 20th Century Fiction and also, along with Buffalo Nickel, is featured in Masterpieces of Hispanic Literature (HarperCollins, 1994). His manuscripts and papers are archived in the Floyd Salas collection in the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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 Oakland Review #2, Out of Our #17, and the 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.
The Octopus Literary Salon and great weather for MEDIA present a rollicking 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, Before Passing, which features work by intense wordsmiths – including those you’ll hear tonight – along with an interview with the legendary Anne Waldman. Come prepared for revelations, epiphanies, and a few broad smiles.
This evening features writers from across the US and beyond, including Paul Corman-Roberts (Oakland), Lauren Marie Cappello (Upper Lake, CA), Cassandra Dallett (Oakland), Will Gibson (Arcata CA), Mary Mackey (Albany, CA), Jane Ormerod (NY/London), and Floyd Salas (Berkeley). Hosted by Oakland’s own Richard Loranger. 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 Before Passing to call your very own.
RELEASE PARTY for Before Passing
a reading by
Paul Corman-Roberts
Lauren Marie Cappello
Cassandra Dallett
Will Gibson
Mary Mackey
Jane Ormerod
and Floyd Salas
hosted by Richard Loranger
PERFORMER BIOS
Paul Corman-Roberts is a compulsive poet and a compulsive organizer. His latest collection is from Nomadic Press and is called We Shoot Typewriters. If you take Paul to an Indian Buffet you'll be asked to leave and not come back.
Lauren Marie Cappello has traded in the glitter of New Orleans for homesteading in Northern California. Her work has appeared in E·ratio 20, It's Animal but Merciful (great weather for MEDIA), and The Solitary Plover, among others.
Cassandra Dallett is the author of the full-length book of poetry, Wet Reckless, (Manic D Press, 2014) and Bad Sandy (Dangerous Hair Press, 2015). In addition to several chapbooks, she has published in numerous magazines and anthologies such as, Slip Stream, Sparkle and Blink, The Bicycle Review, Chiron Review, Rusty Truck, and Up The River. She was the winner of the March 2015 Literary Death Match.
Mary Mackey is the author of 13 novels and 7 collections of poetry including Sugar Zone, winner of the 2012 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature and Travelers With No Ticket Home, her new collection just published by Marsh Hawk Press. Her ground-breaking, poetic novel Immersion has also recently been reprinted by the Authors Guild. Mackey’s poems have been praised by Wendell Berry, Jane Hirshfield, Dennis Nurkse, Ron Hansen, Dennis Schmitz, and Marge Piercy for their beauty, precision, originality, and extraordinary range. Four times Garrison Keillor has featured her poetry on his program The Writer’s Almanac. Her novels, all of which have recently become available as e-books, have made The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller lists, been translated into twelve languages, and sold over a million and a half copies. Connect with her, sample her work, and read her blog interview series People Who Make Books Happen at https://www.marymackey.com and https://www.facebook.com/marymackeywriter
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. Website
Floyd Salas is an award-winning author of four novels, the memoir Buffalo Nickel, and two books of poetry. Tattoo the Wicked Cross, his first novel, earned a place on the San Francisco Chronicle's Western 100 List of Best 20th Century Fiction and also, along with Buffalo Nickel, is featured in Masterpieces of Hispanic Literature (HarperCollins, 1994). His manuscripts and papers are archived in the Floyd Salas collection in the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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 Oakland Review #2, Out of Our #17, and the 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.
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This evening features writers from across the US and beyond, including Paul Corman-Roberts (Oakland), Lauren Marie Cappello (Upper Lake, CA), Cassandra Dallett (Oakland), Will Gibson (Arcata CA), Mary Mackey (Albany, CA), Jane Ormerod (NY/London), and Floyd Salas (Berkeley). Hosted by Oakland’s own Richard Loranger. 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 Before Passing to call your very own.
RELEASE PARTY for Before Passing
a reading by
Paul Corman-Roberts
Lauren Marie Cappello
Cassandra Dallett
Will Gibson
Mary Mackey
Jane Ormerod
and Floyd Salas
hosted by Richard Loranger
PERFORMER BIOS
Paul Corman-Roberts is a compulsive poet and a compulsive organizer. His latest collection is from Nomadic Press and is called We Shoot Typewriters. If you take Paul to an Indian Buffet you'll be asked to leave and not come back.
Lauren Marie Cappello has traded in the glitter of New Orleans for homesteading in Northern California. Her work has appeared in E·ratio 20, It's Animal but Merciful (great weather for MEDIA), and The Solitary Plover, among others.
Cassandra Dallett is the author of the full-length book of poetry, Wet Reckless, (Manic D Press, 2014) and Bad Sandy (Dangerous Hair Press, 2015). In addition to several chapbooks, she has published in numerous magazines and anthologies such as, Slip Stream, Sparkle and Blink, The Bicycle Review, Chiron Review, Rusty Truck, and Up The River. She was the winner of the March 2015 Literary Death Match.
Mary Mackey is the author of 13 novels and 7 collections of poetry including Sugar Zone, winner of the 2012 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature and Travelers With No Ticket Home, her new collection just published by Marsh Hawk Press. Her ground-breaking, poetic novel Immersion has also recently been reprinted by the Authors Guild. Mackey’s poems have been praised by Wendell Berry, Jane Hirshfield, Dennis Nurkse, Ron Hansen, Dennis Schmitz, and Marge Piercy for their beauty, precision, originality, and extraordinary range. Four times Garrison Keillor has featured her poetry on his program The Writer’s Almanac. Her novels, all of which have recently become available as e-books, have made The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller lists, been translated into twelve languages, and sold over a million and a half copies. Connect with her, sample her work, and read her blog interview series People Who Make Books Happen at https://www.marymackey.com and https://www.facebook.com/marymackeywriter
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. Website
Floyd Salas is an award-winning author of four novels, the memoir Buffalo Nickel, and two books of poetry. Tattoo the Wicked Cross, his first novel, earned a place on the San Francisco Chronicle's Western 100 List of Best 20th Century Fiction and also, along with Buffalo Nickel, is featured in Masterpieces of Hispanic Literature (HarperCollins, 1994). His manuscripts and papers are archived in the Floyd Salas collection in the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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 Oakland Review #2, Out of Our #17, and the 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.
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