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Radar Series Coming Up - September
the RADAR reading series:
underground + emerging writers.
with a side of cookies . . .
by Michelle Tea
* Wednesday, September 19th - 6:00 PM - No admission fee
- Brent Armendinger
Brent Amendinger once rode a bicycle over the Pyrenees, and also has sang off-key with his friends on NPR; who is the founder and teacher of the Older Writers Laboratory, a poetry workshop for senior citizens in honor of his grandmother; whose poems may be found in The Diagram, Cut Bank, Good Foot, Fourteen Hills, The Concher, Parthenon West, Hayden's Ferry, Bird Dog, and elsewhere; and who both teaches at the New College and rings up groceries at Rainbow.
- Jennifer Blowdryer & Lenore Waters
Jennifer Blowdryer is oh so sad because she has to work on a book-length book! She hates to work! Somehow she's put out five books, including Modern English: A Trendy Slang Dictionary (Last Gasp), Good Advice for Young Trendy People of all Ages (Manic D Press), and her lower middle class autobiography, White Trash Debutante (Galhattan). She has a CD of music and speechifying coming out on Mabuhay Records, and has put a deposit on a nice niche at the Neptune Society Columbarium for future readers to visit after she's transcended her 'vessel' and left this watery hell hole you folks call earth. At Radar, she's reading with her mother, Lenore, from the Zeitgeist Press Poetry Book which features both their poetry. Perhaps you will hear a similarity in tone and over all affect.
Lenore Waters, aka Mrs Blowdryer, was born in New York City, and has lived in many parts of the US as well as in France and the Ivory Coast. She is very happy to be living in Berkeley, her spiritual home, where she is visited frequently by her daughters Gwyn and Jennifer, who do not give her too much tsouris any longer. She has been published in Persiflage, the Berkeley Daily Planet and the Zeitgeist Press-published chapbook she'll be reading from at Radar, "The Revolution of 1964", Mother/Daughter poems by herself and JB.
- Miranda Mellis
Miranda Mellis, author of The Revisionist (Calamari Press, 2007); who is an editor at The Encyclopedia Project; whose work has appeared variously, most recently in Post Road, Harper's, and Tin House; and who teaches at CCA and USF.
- Kemble Scott
Kemble Scott, author of the new bestselling novel SoMa, a book that journeys into the sexual underground of San Francisco; who is also the editor of the ezine SoMa Literary Review (http://www.somalit.com/) and the weekly SF Bay Area Literary Arts Newsletter; and who is a longtime journalist and has been honored with three Emmy awards for his work in television news.
really great question and answer session following the similalry great readings.
hosted by Michelle Tea, who will seriously I promise bring actual home-made cookies cooked with her own hands to offer to you, the people, if you ask a writer a question.
Location: san francisco public library / MAIN BRANCH
latino reading room / basement level
Radar is brought to you by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, the James C Hormel Center, San Francisco Arts Commission, and Grants for the Arts. Thanks!
Other Completely Fun Activities:
* Monday, September 16th - The Stud,The Hustle w/ DJs Rocc-Uh-Oh! and Jenna Riot
* Thursday, September 20th -
Needles + Pens (3253 16th St.) - Reading from My First Time: A Collection of First Punk Show Stories with Chris Duncan, Michelle Tea + others.
* Friday, September 21st -
Galeria de la Raza (24th Street) - Justin Chin, Cherry Galette + others perform, 8:00 PM * $10
* Saturday, September 22nd -
Road trip to Sacramento! - Tara Jepsen, Beth Lisick, Michelle Tea + others perform at Luna's Cafe (1414 16th Street, Sacramento), 8:00 PM, free
* Tuesday, September 25th -
Moe's Books (2478 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley), reading from Viz Inter-Arts, A Trans-Genre Anthology, with Roxanne Power Hamilton, Gary Gach, Camille Roy + Michelle Tea, 7:30 PM, free.
Bio & Past Articles
Past Articles
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Betty's List Radar Reading Series
Columnist Michelle Tea.
Michelle Tea serves as host and moderator of the popular “Radar Reading” series of the San Francisco Public Library's Hormel GLBT Center.
It's been said that Michelle Tea has taken “the writing world by storm.” Her second book, entitled “Valencia,” launched her into the literary scene not only in the Bay Area but nationally.
She is beloved for her writing and for live performances and arts organizing, such as the founding of a spoken-word troupe “Sister Spit.”
During its two-year span, Sister Spit became famous as an all-girl open mic event, earning the “Best in the Bay” nod from the San Francisco Bay Guardian. The group traveled and performed in many towns throughout the US and in the Bay Area, was responsible for visits by literary luminaries.
Tea has written four memoirs, including The Chelsea Whistle, Valencia and Rent Girl.
As an ex-prostitute, she has toured with the Sex Worker's Art Show, and she is a contributor to numerous publications.
Hailing originally from Chelsea, MA (a suburb of Boston),, Tea anow makes her home in San Francisco. Learn more about Michelle Tea checking out the entry about her in Wikipedia and on various web sites, including her own, the NPR Radio site where a broadcast interview is available for listening, AfterEllen.com where a print interview is available for reading and many, many more.
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