To the Future and Beyond
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Event Description
Big Bridge hosts, Youssef Alaoui and Maw Shein Win, work together to show just how awesome the Bay Area is with four larger-than-life giants of modern literature. Tongo Eisen Marten is the tallest oracle in the universe, Colleen McKee is the queen of darkest shades, Sarah Wisby is the master of eleven dimensions, Charlie Getter is the shrugging atlas of infinite earths.
Co-Curators: Youssef Alaoui & Maw Shein Win
Youssef Alaoui is Associate Editor at Big Bridge and Core Founder of BeastCrawl Literary Festival.
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Maw Shein Win is a writer, editor, and teacher who lives in the East Bay.
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Event Readers
Sarah Wisby
Sarah Wisby has published two books of prose poetry: the heart's progress and VIVA LOSS. She works as a teacher, a cashier, and a cook.
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Colleen McKee
Colleen McKee is the author of four awesome books. Her next is forthcoming from Pedestrian Press. Raised by Russian Jews, hippies, and rednecks in the wild hills of Missouri. Now lives in Oakland.
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Tongo Eisen-Martin
Tongo Eisen-Martin is an activist, educator, and poet. His work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches.
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Charlie Getter
Charlie Getter, the first llama herder in Pennsylvania, has perfected the first artificial ungulate mating call using only sticks and a spent rubber band, this has made him a man of independent means & quite attractive to the behooved.
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