Wishing I could fly west for the reading, but can't.

It's funny: in many places (Philly, New Orleans)
I've seen grafitti artists ditact the 'l' from
"Gold's Gym"... bay area perhaps too...?

Gerald S.

> I'm too far away too Stephen, but wish I could be there.
>
> God the boxer? (I guess it's old movies, but I tend to think all US
> gyms are for boxing....)
>
> Doug
> On 7-Aug-05, at 8:27 PM, Andrew Burke wrote:
>
>> I'm a long way away so can only say, Good reading, Stephen ... but
>> there was
>> one thing that caught my eye in your post - > behind God's Gym <
>>
>> A great image blossomed in my mind! What a great name. I mean, if
>> you're
>> gunna identify with someone in business, you might as well go all the
>> way
>> :-)
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 4:03 AM
>> Subject: New Brutalism Reading Series Aug 21: Stephen Vincent & Beverly
>> Dahlen
>>
>>
>> If you are in the Bay Area, it will be great to have you come to this
>> one -
>> including a very rare reading by the very special, Beverly Dahlen.
>>
>> Subject: New Brutalism Reading Series Aug 21: Stephen Vincent & Beverly
>> Dahlen
>>
>> New Brutalism Reading Series Finale with Stephen
>> Vincent & Beverly Dahlen!!!
>>
>> Poets Read
>> Sunday, August 18th
>> 7-9 pm
>> @ 21 Grand
>> 416 25th St.
>> Oakland, CA 94612 (note new location behind God's Gym)
>>
>> ***Also, please await news of a multi-genre reading
>> series to come (same time/same place) in Sept.***
>>
>>
>> Beverly Dahlen was born in Portland, Oregon in
>> November, 1943, and raised and educated in various
>> port towns of California and the Pacific Northwest.
>> Her previous book publications include _Out of the
>> Third_ (Momo's Press, 1974), _A Letter at Easter_
>> (Effie's Press, 1976), and _The Egyptian Poems_
>> (Hipparchia Press, 1983). In addition, she has
>> published three volumes of _A Reading_, and Instance
>> Press will issue _A Reading_ (18-20) next year. Chax
>> Press published _A Reading Spicer and 18 Sonnets_ in
>> 2004. She was an associate editior of HOW(ever), a
>> critical journal devoted to modernist and current
>> expirimental writing by women. Ms. Dahlen resides in
>> San Francisco.
>>
>> Stephen Vincent lives in San Francisco. His most
>> recent books include
>> Walking (Junction Press), A Walk Toward Spicer (Cherry
>> On the Top Press), Sleeping With Sappho (faux ebooks)
>> http:/www.fauxpress.com/e/vincent/and Triggers
>> (Shearsman ebook)
>> http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/ebooks/ebooks_home.html
>> His poems have been published widely in magazines and
>> in pulp. Recent appears have included. Volt, Ecopotics, Boog
>> City, Zyzzyva, Big Bridge, Shampoo, Fascicle Hamilton Stone
>> Review, Black Box. His Blog of poetry, commentary and
>> politics is found here,
>> http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com
>>
>> Long time resident of San Francisco, in the
>> nineteen-seventies, Stephen Vincent was founder,
>> publisher and editor of Momo's Press and Shocks
>> (magazine). An innovative publishing house committed
>> to innovative writing by men, women and people of
>> color, among the many writers included first first
>> books by Beverly Dahlen and Jessica Hagedorn. Other
>> authors included Victor Hernandez Cruz, Hilton
>> Obenzinger and ntozake shange. He also edited Momo's
>> Press/ Shocks anthologies including, "The Androgyny
>> Issue: Men looking at women, women looking at men,
>> inside themselves", and "The Poetry Reading: A
>> Contemporary Compendium on Language and Performance."
>> In the eighties and early nineties, he was the
>> Director of Bedford Arts, Publishers - a publisher of
>> art books....
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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