Manic D presents KAPOW! + Your Golden Sun Still Shines
Leg Two | 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM | Drexl Bar
Event Description
Manic D Press presents work from two new anthologies: Kapow! Poetry & Comics and Your Golden Sun Still Shines: San Francisco Stories. Juliette Torrez's Kapow! matched underground writers and artists to create fabulous minizines, now available in book form. What happens when you love a city and it doesn't love you back? Your Golden Sun Still Shines answers this question through personal histories and tender fictions.
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Curator: Jennifer Joseph
Manic D Press has been publishing indie books since 1984, and Jennifer Joseph is its publisher, editor, and janitor.
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KAPOW! Readers
Juliette Torrez
Kapow! editor Juliette Torrez co-founded Albuquerque's Poetry Slam and co-organized the 1994 Lollapalooza Festival's poetry side stage. The author of three books, her poetry has been read by Garrison Keillor on NPR's Writers Almanac. She lives in Oakland.
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James Tracy
James Tracy is an Oakland author, specializing in cities, hidden histories, and social movements. He is the co-founder of the San Francisco Community Land Trust and is active with Jobs With Justice.
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Jon Longhi |
Cas McGee |
Jon Longhi has published four books of hilarious fiction with Manic D, all having to do with the absurdities of life in San Francisco. He also writes about cultural events for nbcbayarea.com.
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Cas McGee is a New Orleans-born, SF Bay Area-residing writer, with a history of Poetry Slam wins and spoken word performance happiness.
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Tarin Towers
Tarin Towers is a writer, author of Sorry, We’re Close, and a longtime San Francisco resident.
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Your Golden Sun Still Shines Readers
Denise Sullivan |
Peter Case |
Editor of Your Golden Sun Still Shines: San Francisco Stories, Denise Sullivan is a fourth generation San Franciscan who writes about music, arts, culture, and her hometown. She is the author of six books.
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Peter Case came west at 18 to become a founding member of The Nerves, leader of The Plimsouls, and a singer-songwriter, performer, & producer with 13 solo albums to his credit.
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Dee Allen.
Dee Allen. is an African-Italian performance poet currently based in Oakland, California. Active on the creative writing and spoken word tips since the early 1990s, he's the author of three books.
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Kelly Dessaint
Kelly Dessaint drives a San Francisco taxi, and writes a weekly column about his misadventures in the city streets for the SF Examiner. He live in Oakland with his wife and daughter, and currently publishes the personal narrative zine Piltdownlad.
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