Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Sharon Elliot features January 9th


12/26 Holiday, No meeting. H A P P Y    H O L I D A Y S !

1/2/2017 No meeting    H A P P Y    H O L I D A Y S !

1/9/2017 Sharon Elliot hosted by Jim + OPEN MIC, always free except for restaurant purchases.






Sharon Elliott has been a poet activist over several decades in national and international social justice concerns, especially the rights of women and girls.  Her activism began in the anti-war and civil rights movements in the 1960s and 70s, and she spent four years working with women and teenage girls in the Peace Corps in Nicaragua and Ecuador, especially in multicultural women’s issues.  She is a Moderator of Poets Responding to SB1070, and has featured in poetry readings in the San Francisco Bay area. Her work has been published in several anthologies and her poem “Border Crossing” appears in the anthology entitledPoetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice, Francisco X. Alarcón and Odilia Galván Rodriguez, eds.  She has read it in Los Angeles at AWP and La Pachanga 2016 book launch, in San Francisco and at the Féis Seattle Céiliedh in Port Townsend, WA.  Her chapbook, Jaguar Unfinished, was published by Prickly Pear Press, 2012.  She was an awardee of Best Poem of 2012 by La Bloga, for The Day of Little Comfort.  She loves to mentor young poets and assist them in spreading their creative wings.  She is studying indigenous traditions of Scotland and Norway and is searching for the home of her heart with the guidance of her ancestors.  She is fluent in Spanish and is learning her traditional language of Scots Gaelic.  A true child of the north, she loves cats, stormy blustery days by the sea, and blueberries.


she wears
her morning coffee
like

a tea stained dress

warm

audacious

chimera

fond of peaches

and dark chocolate


Copyright © 2016 Sharon Elliott. All Rights Reserved. 

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

David Erdich Features Monday, 12/19/16


12/19  David Erdrich  hosted by Bruce
Always open mic, always free except for restaurant purchases.


Combine the sensibilities of a stand-up comic
   With the observations of a naturalist
Serve it through a saxophone
    And you've got a full fool eating falafel--a poet

psychiatric social worker-schizophrenics, alcoholics, own daycare center, juvenile delinquents, senior meals program
Telegraph Avenue airbrush artist/street vendor/organizer
truck driver 
gardener
single father
grandfather

12/26 Holiday, No meeting. H A P P Y    H O L I D A Y S !

1/2/2017 No meeting    H A P P Y    H O L I D A Y S !
12/19  David Erdrich  hosted by Bruce   Plus OPEN MIC & Always free except for restaurant purchases. 


Combine the sensibilities of a stand-up comic
   With the observations of a naturalist
Serve it through a saxophone
    And you've got a full fool eating falafel--a poet

psychiatric social worker-schizophrenics, alcoholics, own daycare center, juvenile delinquents, senior meals program
Telegraph Avenue airbrush artist/street vendor/organizer
truck driver 
gardener
single father
grandfather

12/26 Holiday, No meeting. H A P P Y    H O L I D A Y S !

1/2/2017 No meeting    H A P P Y    H O L I D A Y S !

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

12/12/16 Julia Vinograd features

12/12 Julia Vinograd  hosted by Jim       Plus OPEN MIC & Always free except for restaurant purchases.




Julia Vinograd is a Berkeley street poet.  She has published over 59 books of poetry and won the American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation. She has a B.A. from UC Berkeley and a M.F.A. from the University of Iowa.  A Pushcart Prize winner for "The Young Men Who Died of AIDS," she has a Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award from the City of Berkeley and is one of the editors of the anthology New American Poetry Vol. I: The Babarians of San Francisco -- Poets from Hell. Her latest chapbook "Look Out"has just been published in October, 2016