How Crow Learned to
Stop Worrying and Love Poetry
Leg Three | 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM | 16. Octopus Literary Salon
Event Description
The Crow Show returns to Beast Crawl to demonstrate how poetry can help us all embrace the end times and be fashionable collapsatarians of the near future.
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Co-Curators: Paul Corman-Roberts & Lynn AlexanderPaul Corman-Roberts is a core founder of the Beast Crawl. Lynn Alexander is the founder of Full of Crow press.
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Event Readers
Bill Gainer
Bill Gainer is the publisher of RL Crow Press and the author of the poetry collections "Lipstick and Bullet Holes" and "A Note in the Window."
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Luke Warm Water
Luke Warm Water's latest book"City Tree of Concrete & Hope" is a winner of the 2014 Artists' Embassy International Literary/Cultural Award.
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Jennifer Blowdryer
Jennifer Blowdryer is a writer by nature, though the genres change by year and inspiration. As a journalist she wrote for Maximum Rock’n'roll, New York Press, and Downtown. A co-founder of the seminal Punk Bands the Blowdryers and The White Trash Debutantes, she currently fronts the Jennifer Blowdryer Band. She is currently working on an 86ed documentary and writing and recording songs in NYC. Her most recent Chapbook is Blowsy from Personality Press, 2014.
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Lynn Alexander
Lynn Alexander is the author of the chapbooks "Prologue for Mariamne" and "Montague's Mother." She is the founder of Full of Crow press.
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Steve Goldberg
Steve Goldberg is a techno-geek, a re-admitted Dilbert Dungeon Denizen, and a bhoddisatva wanna-be. His most recent chapbook, "Tremont Crawl" sold out two print runs.
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Paul Corman-Roberts
Paul Corman-Roberts is the author of "Notes from and Orgy" and the forthcoming "Invisible Currency." He does stuff in Oakland.
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Baruch Porras Hernandez
Baruch Porras Hernandez is a Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry. His work can be found in Assaracus, and Multiverse the Super Hero Anthology both with Write Bloody Publishing. He’s performed at Yerba Buena Center, SOMArts, Counter Pulse, a winner of Best of Bawdy Storytelling, and is a winner of The Moth Storytelling Contest in L.A. He's featured at Writers with Drinks and with Marga Gomez’s Performerama. For the past 6 years he’s been the curator and head organizer for The San Francisco Queer Open Mic and has organized and hosted KQED lit events. To find out more, go to baruchporrasherandez.wordpress.com He was born in Toluca, Mexico and likes gummy bears.
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Nicholas Karavatos
Nicholas Karavatos lives near Dubai, teaching literature and writing in the United Arab Emirates where he’s been an Assistant Professor since 2006. A graduate of New College of California and Humboldt State University, he is the author of the brilliant poetry collection No Asylum.
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