Bay Area Generations at Beast Crawl
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Event Description
Bay Area Generations, a literary reading series, features paired readers of differing generations. Since 2013, over 300 hundred notable poets, writers, playwrights and musicians have performed their poetry, stories, and music. Such legends as Julia Vinograd reading with Cassandra Dallett, Joseph Lease with Annelyse Gelman, Norma Cole featuring with Candy Shue, and JK Fowler with MK Chavez have made appearances. The Fourth Monday shows are also blessed by solos from such accomplished composers and performers as George Brooks, Sara Klotz de Aguilar, Chris Peck, Matthew Goodheart, and some who accompany readers as does Gael Alcock.
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Curator: Amos White
Amos White is an awarded American haiku poet and author, producer/director and activist who serves as President and Chairman of BAG.
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Event Readers
TONGO EISEN-MARTIN + AVOTCJA
Tongo Eisen-Martin is a revolutionary poet and movement worker/educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He who uses his poetic craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His latest book of poems is titled, "Someone's Dead Already" has been nominated for a California Book Award..
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Avotcja is a New York born, award-winning music/sound fanatic and a founding member of Avotcja & Modúpue (the Bay Area Blues Society’s Jazz Group of the Year, 2005 / 2010). She teaches Creative Writing and Drama and is also a popular, Bay Area Radio DJ. Avotcja has been published in English & Spanish internationally.
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ANNA AVERY + HUGH BEHM-STEINBERG
Anna Avery is a queer poet and escaped Texas to participate in East Bay poetry. Their work has been featured by the de Young, 580 Split, and Bombay Gin.
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Hugh Behm-Steinberg is the author of Shy Green Fields and The Opposite of Work, and three Dusie chapbooks, Sorcery, Good Morning! and The Sound of Music.
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NAHID FATTAHI + ANDREW O. DUGAS
Nahid Fattahi is an Afghan-American human rights activist, writer, and published poet. Her day job is as a Marketing Consultant at Kaiser Permanente, and she moonlights as a clinical/counseling psychology graduate student at Santa Clara University.
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Work by Andrew O. Dugas has appeared in Unlikely Stories, 100WordStory, LITnIMAGE, and elsewhere. His novel SLEEPWALKING IN PARADISE was published in 2014 by Numina Press. He lives in San Francisco.
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