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the RADAR reading series
underground + emerging readers + artists
with cookies
and occasional superstars
january 10th 2008
KIM ADDONIZIO,
who has published two novels with Simon & Schuster: Little Beauties
and My Dreams Out in the Street. She also has four poetry collections, most
recently What Is This Thing Called Love. She has been a National Book Award
Finalist as well as a recipient of NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships. She lives
in Oakland, CA. www.kimaddonizio.com
from New York City, ELLIS AVERY, named by New York Press as 2007’s Best
Writer You've Never Heard of But Should Go Read Right Now. She is the author
of THE TEAHOUSE FIRE, a first novel set in the tea ceremony world of 19th
century Japan. Recently out in paperback from Riverhead Books, THE TEAHOUSE
FIRE won two awards last year and is being translated into six languages.
Ellis teaches creative writing at Columbia University.
ENRIQUE URUETA, Colombian-American, by way of Virginia and San Francisco,
got his BA in Theatre from The College of William and Mary and will receive
his MFA in playwriting from Brown University in May 2008. He is the author
of the plays The Johnson Administration, Learn To Be Latina, The Danger of
Bleeding Brown, and Forever Never Comes. His plays have been developed or
produced by The Queer Latino Artists Coalition, The Queer Cultural Center
(where he is the playwright in residence), Playwrights Foundation, Impact
Theatre, Lark Play Development Center, Brown University/Trinity Repertory
Theatre Consortium, American Repertory Theatre, Aurora Theatre Compnay and
Golden Thread Productions. He is a proud member of NoPassport, a pan-American
theatre coalition devoted to the advocacy of Latino/a and hemispherically-minded
work.
SUSANNA MYRSETH, a green-thumbed, tree-climbing, Norwegian-speaking,
native San Franciscan slam poet with roots on both sides of the Atlantic.
In addition to writing and performing her own poetry, she has worked with
various San Francisco literary nonprofits, such as 826 Valencia and Streetside
Stories. She also worked for Youth Speaks as a youth board member and Arts-in-Education
intern, and was a member of the Living Word Project, a branch of Youth Speaks
devoted to exploring the possibilities of hip-hop theater. Susanna has performed
at many Bay Area venues, including the 2006 Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam
finals at the San Francisco Opera House. In fall of '06, she hightailed it
across the country to attend Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where she
is studies English and Religion and wreaks artistic havoc. In spite of her
temporary migration, Susanna remains a West Coast kid at heart.
Hosted with Q+A, by Michelle Tea,
whose New Year's resolution is to get back in the kitchen and cook her own damn cookies.
the RADAR reading series
thursday, january 10th 2008
san francisco public library / main branch
latino reading room / basement level
6pm sharp / free like love
RADAR is super grateful to the support of the Friends of the Public
Library and the James Hormel Center, as well as to the San Francisco Arts
Commision, the Horizens Foundation, and Grants for the Arts.
other things you may enjoy:
Sunday, January 6th, K'Vetch Queer Open Mic at Sadie's Flying Elephant,
Potrero @ Mariposa. Featured guests Silas Howard and Vera Majano. Hosted
by Tara Jepsen and Kirk Read. 8:30, a few dollars.
Wednesday, January 9th, Class and Power in Queer San Francisco at CounterPULSE,
Mission at 9th Street, a panal discussion with Meliza Banales, Solidad de
Costa, Keith Hennessey and Michelle Tea, 7:30
Friday, January 11th, Queer Open Mic at The Three Dollar Bill Cafe at
The Center on Market Street. Featured guest Sara Seinberg, hosted by Cindy
Emch.
Saturday, January 19th, The Progressive Reading Series at The Make-Out
Room, 22nd Street at Mission. With Tobias Wolf, Ali Liebegott, Jami Attenberg,
Adam Johnson, Walter Kirn. 7pm, hosted by Stephen Elliot
Sunday, January 20th, The Sex Workers' Art Show Tour at the Victoria
Theater, 16th Street at Mission. With special San Francisco-only performer
TRINA! You know, Trina? The Diamond Princess? The best rapper ever? Perfoming
for one night only with The Sex Worker's Art Show Tour? Oh my god. Whoa.
Also Kirk Read, Chris Kraus, and other geniuses who did time in the sex industry.
Be there or spend the rest of your life in regret.
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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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