Tag: oakland

Saturday, September 15th – 7:00 PM
TELEGRAPH CAFE, OAKLAND

2318 Telegraph

Oakland, CA 94612

Featuring:
Gypsie Punx
Alexis Luna
Kwan Booth
Aurora Killpoet
Razor
Ethel Rohan
Aurora Killpoet is co-owner/editor of the killpoet press. (frequently silent but deadly as shit). She is a daytime executive mind reader, and nightime amature physicist. and costumed. always costumed.

Razor was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1963 and brought to California by the age of 1. He has lived in many cities around the world since then, including Oakland on occasion. He has been homeless, in prison or on the run from the law for most of his life. He has been writing about his perspective on the human condition that whole time and up until today.

Gypsie Punx has been known to talk entirely too much in her sleep and drool over her cats. Her first book length collection of poems, Trills From A Numbed Tongue of Duhhhh, has just been published by Ebullience Press.

Kwan Booth is an Oakland based creative writer, journalist and instigator behind various word and technology based things including Oaklandlocal.com and Sit Next to a Black Person Month. He has poetry featured in the upcoming anthology Chorus, edited by Saul Williams, drinks lots of coffee and lives at boothism.org.

Alexis Luna is a Bay Area native, born in Richmond, CA. Her first collection, Word Withdrawal, is due out on Dia de los Muertos; published by Beatitude Press- a reputable relic from the 1970’s. Her book is being printed by 1984 Printing and will be distributed by the independent Small Press Distribution.

Ethel Rohan is the author of Goodnight Nobody (forthcoming 2013), Hard to Say, and Cut Through the Bone. Her work has or will appear in World Literature Today, Tin House Online, The Rumpus, and The Los Angeles Review, among many others. Raised in Ireland, she lives in San Francisco where she writes and funs as often as she can. Visit her at ethelrohan.com.