remember
borderbend
today at 12:15, adams plaza. free food.
(i just realized this morning i can't make borderbend b/c i'm going to the As game. but i would love to have a full report on what went on. )
and tonight at 7
BATEY URBANO - POETRY AND MUSIC, Student Union
then on sunday at 7
dodie bellamy and eleni stecopoulos
449B 23rd St. Oakland, CA 94612
(for those new, this series is organized by former mills graduates; they calls themselves New Brutalism; get the low down from Jessea if interested)
Dodie Bellamy is celebrating the release of her new collection of stories, Pink Steam. Railroad buffs know "pink steam" as the first blast from a newly christened steam engine, which appears pink as it spews out rust. And now Pink Steam, the book, reveals the intimate secrets of Dodie Bellamy's life: sex, shoplifting, voyeurism, writing. In Pink Steam, Bellamy writes,
“Anya flirted with the DJ as usual. I propped a pillow against the wall, leaned back in my bed and lit a cigarette, comforted by her high bell-like giggles. ‘You're some far-out chick,’ the DJ punned. ‘Rapping with you's like taking a hit of acid with a sinsemilla chaser!’ Anya's voice deepened, thickened like storm clouds. ‘Drugs and cigarettes burn holes in your aura,’ she declared. ‘Holes where demons burrow!’”
Dodie's work has been widely anthologized. One of the original "New Narrative" writers of the early and mid 80's, Dodie has worked hard to bring together the sometimes disparate paths of art, poetry and the novel, including a triumphant five-year stint as director of the seminal San Francisco writing lab, Small Press Traffic. She has written often and vividly on contemporary literature, transgression, feminist and queer theory, AIDS and body issues. She is currently working on The Fourth Form, a multi-dimensional sex novel. Dodie lives in San Francisco with the writer Kevin Killian and Blanche the cat. With Kevin she edits the San Francisco-based writing/art zine they call Mirage #4/ Period[ical].
Eleni Stecopoulos has published poetry and essays in journals including Open Letter, ecopoetics, Chain, Rampike, and Zazil; work is forthcoming from Mirage #4 Period(ical). She is seeking a publisher for a hybrid book which charts connections between writing, energy medicine, autoethnography, Artaud. Stecopoulos’ work is infused with Greek, French and other languages, as it engages the pleasures that result from such semantic overlapping:
“It is the job of the linguist to simulate intimacy. /My grief is like my hair / The women who listen along my body carry messages.”
borderbend
today at 12:15, adams plaza. free food.
(i just realized this morning i can't make borderbend b/c i'm going to the As game. but i would love to have a full report on what went on. )
and tonight at 7
BATEY URBANO - POETRY AND MUSIC, Student Union
then on sunday at 7
dodie bellamy and eleni stecopoulos
449B 23rd St. Oakland, CA 94612
(for those new, this series is organized by former mills graduates; they calls themselves New Brutalism; get the low down from Jessea if interested)
Dodie Bellamy is celebrating the release of her new collection of stories, Pink Steam. Railroad buffs know "pink steam" as the first blast from a newly christened steam engine, which appears pink as it spews out rust. And now Pink Steam, the book, reveals the intimate secrets of Dodie Bellamy's life: sex, shoplifting, voyeurism, writing. In Pink Steam, Bellamy writes,
“Anya flirted with the DJ as usual. I propped a pillow against the wall, leaned back in my bed and lit a cigarette, comforted by her high bell-like giggles. ‘You're some far-out chick,’ the DJ punned. ‘Rapping with you's like taking a hit of acid with a sinsemilla chaser!’ Anya's voice deepened, thickened like storm clouds. ‘Drugs and cigarettes burn holes in your aura,’ she declared. ‘Holes where demons burrow!’”
Dodie's work has been widely anthologized. One of the original "New Narrative" writers of the early and mid 80's, Dodie has worked hard to bring together the sometimes disparate paths of art, poetry and the novel, including a triumphant five-year stint as director of the seminal San Francisco writing lab, Small Press Traffic. She has written often and vividly on contemporary literature, transgression, feminist and queer theory, AIDS and body issues. She is currently working on The Fourth Form, a multi-dimensional sex novel. Dodie lives in San Francisco with the writer Kevin Killian and Blanche the cat. With Kevin she edits the San Francisco-based writing/art zine they call Mirage #4/ Period[ical].
Eleni Stecopoulos has published poetry and essays in journals including Open Letter, ecopoetics, Chain, Rampike, and Zazil; work is forthcoming from Mirage #4 Period(ical). She is seeking a publisher for a hybrid book which charts connections between writing, energy medicine, autoethnography, Artaud. Stecopoulos’ work is infused with Greek, French and other languages, as it engages the pleasures that result from such semantic overlapping:
“It is the job of the linguist to simulate intimacy. /My grief is like my hair / The women who listen along my body carry messages.”
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