9/21 Versify @ EEBX

Versify should be cool TONIGHT. David Adès, Laurie Arnold-McMillan, Angele Ellis & Sheila Kelly will perform. Bob Walicki will host.

Angele says they’re “doing something different for this reading” which apparently means this:

The poets are doing a “collaborative” reading–reading poems by one other as well as their own, plus a few pieces with all their voices, choral style.  In addition, they’ll each read something to go with the theme of “Home/Not-Home,” inspired by Richard Hugo’s ideas in his book, The Triggering Town.

7/23 Berkman Fest & Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series

For months, the Loose Organization of Surreal Ethereal Realists has been plotting the 6th annual Alexander Berkman Labor & Music Festival. Tomorrow at The Big Idea, their understandably motivated but profoundly misguided plan will be put into direct action, including performances by Rob Gray, Kriscinda Lee Everitt & rabble-rousing 6GP poet Jason Baldinger. Berkman may have flubbed Frick’s assassination, but LOSER always hits the mark with a fun event. Click on Kathy Boykowycz’s charming drawing for more info.

Also tomorrow, in fact at the same time as Berkman Fest, the latest installment of the Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series will transpire at Hemingway’s in Oakland. David Ades, Renée Alberts, Nancy Krygowski & 6GP poet/Low Ghost mastermind Kristofer Collins will be slinging words & taking names (for their mailing list). Go to one, then leave halfway through & go to the other one – who cares, they’re both free!