WHEN A WRITER GOES SHOPPING :: COULD ALSO BE SAID FOR A POET
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Event Description
Who said pure magic only happens in New Orleans? Oakland brings the flav ~ Come with and empty mind, and finish with enthusiastic, stomping feet. Let flutters of revelation pour down, from your head to your toes. The ultimate "shopping experience;" where the writers do all the shopping...while talking. An event to "Aid the poet."
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Curator: Lisa Aurora Calderón
Lisa Aurora is Oakland Native with an East Coast upbringing, of bi-lingual and bi-cultural background, she is most at home in pockets of urban undeveloped, transitory, work-live, and temporal repositories. Lisa enjoys collective spaces and co-founded Up Stream Art Lit in 2008. In 2013, she found a home for Naming Gallery with co-founder and friend, Josef Lucas. Ms. Calderon has helped develop and support small business to form a group of galleries and retail spaces on 15th Street. She has enjoyed collaborating with artists and looks forward to developing and creating more experiences for her community. With a background in Environmental Chemistry from Mills College, Ms. Calderon has worked closely on environmental challenges as they relate to cultural and urban evolution and design. She has a wide range of technical skills and is an acute and brilliant net-worker.
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Event Readers
JAMES OTTO SEIBOLD
JAMES OTTO SEIBOLD WAS A TREASURE BEFORE HE WAS A FRIEND. I WOULD READ HIS BOOKS AND L A U G H... ALL THE GOOD TIMES, ALL THE GOOD FEELINGS COME FROM HIS DISTINCT, CLEAR AND LEARNED MAN. AUTHOR OF “OLIVE THE OTHER REINDEER, ARTIST AND FRIEND.
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RYAN CHRISTOPHER PARKS
IM NOT SURE WHAT TO MAKE OF RYAN - SAID THE SLOW FORMING BABOON. EXCEPT WHAT? RYAN WILL HAVE YOU CIPHERING. SOMETIMES SATIRE. IN HIS SPARE TIME RYAN DOUBLES FOR FRONTMAN IN THE BAND, B. HAMILTON. FOLLOW THE PSEUDONYM RON KRISTOPHONE...EACH AND EVERY LITTLE SURPRISE.
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KAREN FINLAY
KAREN FINLAY (NOT TO BE MISTAKEN WITH THE “OTHER” KAREN FINLEY) HAS HER MFA IN CREATIVE WRITING FROM MILLS COLLEGE, AND WAS THE RECIPIENT OF THE ARDELLA MILLS SCHOLARSHIP AND THE MARION BOESS HAWORTH AWARD. HER WORK CAN BE SEEN ON HER WEBSITE, KARENFINLAY.COM MUNI DAIRIES AND FACEBOOK STATUS UPDATES. SHE HAS BEEN HONORED TO READ HER WORK AT LITQUAKE, TILDE, THE ART BEAT FOUNDATION, CARRIED AWAY PRODUCTIONS, THE MIXING BOWL READING SERIES, THE REBEL READING SERIES, AND THE MISSION CREEKFESTIVAL. SHE IS WORKING ON A YOUNG ADULT NOVEL AND A COLLECTION OF PERSONAL ESSAYS ABOUT TEEN ANGST, A SUBJECT IN WHICH SHE IS VERY WELL VERSED. SHE LIKES PINA COLADAS BUT HATES GETTING CAUGHT IN THE RAIN.
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JAMES O’BRIAN MAKOWSKI
JAMES O’BRIAN MAKOWSKI CAME TO OAKLAND LAST SUMMER. OR AT LEAST THAT’S WHEN I STARTED NOTICING WEIRD POEMS POSTED EVERYWHERE. LIKE ON BART OR ON A POTTED PLANT HANGING FROM SOME LIT LAMPOST. HE MADE MY LIPS CURL UPWARD. SASSY. EROTIC. SINGLE WORDS. UPSIDE DOWN WORDS. WORDS IN OBSCURE PLACES. HE READS FROM THE GUT. I AM OFTEN OUTSIDE OF MYSELF AROUND JAMES. HE KEEPS ME PURE.
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