Sun May 11, 2014
Great Weather for MEDIA and Friends
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at The Art House Gallery & Cultural Center
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On Sunday, May 11, the Art House Gallery in Berkeley proudly welcomes NY poet, editor, and spoken word artist George Wallace to the stage along with several accomplished Bay Area writers. Wallace, a thriving New York poet, is writer in residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, co-editor of Great Weather for Media, and author of 28 chapbooks of poetry. Joining him in this poetry and spoken word extravaganza are San Francisco poets and novelists Kit Kennedy, Tom Stolmar, and Ken Saffran, and the East Bay’s own Alexandra Naughton. There will be a brief open mic to start the evening.
Great Weather for MEDIA & Friends:
a reading by
George Wallace,
Kit Kennedy,
Ken Saffran,
Tom Stolmar,
and Alexandra Naughton
with a brief open mic
Hosted by Richard Loranger
PERFORMER BIOS
George Wallace is writer in residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, co-editor of Great Weather for Media, and author of 28 chapbooks of poetry. A fixture on the New York City performance scene, he travels internationally to read, lecture and conduct writers workshops. A New York native, George has lived and worked in San Francisco, Pacifica, Marin County, and Sacramento, and considers Northern California a spiritual home.
Kit Kennedy lives in San Francisco and is Bay Times Poet in Residence and Poet in Residence at AWE Gallery. She has 5 published poetry collections and an equal number of boots, two of which are red. The cat's name is haiku.
Ken Saffran has poems in publications as diverse as Ambush, Haight Ashbury Literary Review and the companion anthologies Inside My Skull and Inside My Eyelids. He is frequently lost inside the Osseus Labyrinths. He lives in San Francisco because he can't afford it.
Tom Stolmar grew up downriver from Detroit. In 1997 he moved to Düsseldorf, West Germany, returning to the U.S. to study at Maryland Institute College Of Art. He then fell in love and skipped off to California for poetic fame & fortune. He became notorious with the Post-Beat Generation local San Francisco poets known as Babarians, the crazed denizens of the Café Babar. His novel in progress is Paper Jaguar.
Alexandra Naughton has had it up to here. Not really. She lives in Oakland, California with her black cat, Sookie, who is super good at cuddling and being cute. Naughton's first poetry collection, I Will Always Be Your Whore [love songs for Billy Corgan] was published by Punk Hostage Press in January 2014.
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Great Weather for MEDIA & Friends:
a reading by
George Wallace,
Kit Kennedy,
Ken Saffran,
Tom Stolmar,
and Alexandra Naughton
with a brief open mic
Hosted by Richard Loranger
PERFORMER BIOS
George Wallace is writer in residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, co-editor of Great Weather for Media, and author of 28 chapbooks of poetry. A fixture on the New York City performance scene, he travels internationally to read, lecture and conduct writers workshops. A New York native, George has lived and worked in San Francisco, Pacifica, Marin County, and Sacramento, and considers Northern California a spiritual home.
Kit Kennedy lives in San Francisco and is Bay Times Poet in Residence and Poet in Residence at AWE Gallery. She has 5 published poetry collections and an equal number of boots, two of which are red. The cat's name is haiku.
Ken Saffran has poems in publications as diverse as Ambush, Haight Ashbury Literary Review and the companion anthologies Inside My Skull and Inside My Eyelids. He is frequently lost inside the Osseus Labyrinths. He lives in San Francisco because he can't afford it.
Tom Stolmar grew up downriver from Detroit. In 1997 he moved to Düsseldorf, West Germany, returning to the U.S. to study at Maryland Institute College Of Art. He then fell in love and skipped off to California for poetic fame & fortune. He became notorious with the Post-Beat Generation local San Francisco poets known as Babarians, the crazed denizens of the Café Babar. His novel in progress is Paper Jaguar.
Alexandra Naughton has had it up to here. Not really. She lives in Oakland, California with her black cat, Sookie, who is super good at cuddling and being cute. Naughton's first poetry collection, I Will Always Be Your Whore [love songs for Billy Corgan] was published by Punk Hostage Press in January 2014.
On Sunday, May 11, the Art House Gallery in Berkeley proudly welcomes NY poet, editor, and spoken word artist George Wallace to the stage along with several accomplished Bay Area writers. Wallace, a thriving New York poet, is writer in residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, co-editor of Great Weather for Media, and author of 28 chapbooks of poetry. Joining him in this poetry and spoken word extravaganza are San Francisco poets and novelists Kit Kennedy, Tom Stolmar, and Ken Saffran, and the East Bay’s own Alexandra Naughton. There will be a brief open mic to start the evening.
Great Weather for MEDIA & Friends:
a reading by
George Wallace,
Kit Kennedy,
Ken Saffran,
Tom Stolmar,
and Alexandra Naughton
with a brief open mic
Hosted by Richard Loranger
PERFORMER BIOS
George Wallace is writer in residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, co-editor of Great Weather for Media, and author of 28 chapbooks of poetry. A fixture on the New York City performance scene, he travels internationally to read, lecture and conduct writers workshops. A New York native, George has lived and worked in San Francisco, Pacifica, Marin County, and Sacramento, and considers Northern California a spiritual home.
Kit Kennedy lives in San Francisco and is Bay Times Poet in Residence and Poet in Residence at AWE Gallery. She has 5 published poetry collections and an equal number of boots, two of which are red. The cat's name is haiku.
Ken Saffran has poems in publications as diverse as Ambush, Haight Ashbury Literary Review and the companion anthologies Inside My Skull and Inside My Eyelids. He is frequently lost inside the Osseus Labyrinths. He lives in San Francisco because he can't afford it.
Tom Stolmar grew up downriver from Detroit. In 1997 he moved to Düsseldorf, West Germany, returning to the U.S. to study at Maryland Institute College Of Art. He then fell in love and skipped off to California for poetic fame & fortune. He became notorious with the Post-Beat Generation local San Francisco poets known as Babarians, the crazed denizens of the Café Babar. His novel in progress is Paper Jaguar.
Alexandra Naughton has had it up to here. Not really. She lives in Oakland, California with her black cat, Sookie, who is super good at cuddling and being cute. Naughton's first poetry collection, I Will Always Be Your Whore [love songs for Billy Corgan] was published by Punk Hostage Press in January 2014.
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Great Weather for MEDIA & Friends:
a reading by
George Wallace,
Kit Kennedy,
Ken Saffran,
Tom Stolmar,
and Alexandra Naughton
with a brief open mic
Hosted by Richard Loranger
PERFORMER BIOS
George Wallace is writer in residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, co-editor of Great Weather for Media, and author of 28 chapbooks of poetry. A fixture on the New York City performance scene, he travels internationally to read, lecture and conduct writers workshops. A New York native, George has lived and worked in San Francisco, Pacifica, Marin County, and Sacramento, and considers Northern California a spiritual home.
Kit Kennedy lives in San Francisco and is Bay Times Poet in Residence and Poet in Residence at AWE Gallery. She has 5 published poetry collections and an equal number of boots, two of which are red. The cat's name is haiku.
Ken Saffran has poems in publications as diverse as Ambush, Haight Ashbury Literary Review and the companion anthologies Inside My Skull and Inside My Eyelids. He is frequently lost inside the Osseus Labyrinths. He lives in San Francisco because he can't afford it.
Tom Stolmar grew up downriver from Detroit. In 1997 he moved to Düsseldorf, West Germany, returning to the U.S. to study at Maryland Institute College Of Art. He then fell in love and skipped off to California for poetic fame & fortune. He became notorious with the Post-Beat Generation local San Francisco poets known as Babarians, the crazed denizens of the Café Babar. His novel in progress is Paper Jaguar.
Alexandra Naughton has had it up to here. Not really. She lives in Oakland, California with her black cat, Sookie, who is super good at cuddling and being cute. Naughton's first poetry collection, I Will Always Be Your Whore [love songs for Billy Corgan] was published by Punk Hostage Press in January 2014.
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