Friday, February 26, 2010 at 8:00pm
Kaleidoscope SF; 3109 24th St
San Francisco, CA

Over the top spoken word! Humor, Anger Catharsis, Exorcism with these storytellers! Hosted by HK Rainey, MK Chavez and PCR:

Harmon Leon
Meg Day
Charlie Getter
William Taylor Jr.
Jezebel Delilah X (JDX)
Evan Karp
Cassandra Dallett
Lizz Bronson
Mark States
Michael Layne Heath
Rajshree Chauhan
Sharon Coleman
Anita Garriot
Susan Page
Buford Buntin
Patti Orozco Cronin

While I have also clutched the internet to my girthy bosom quite closely (while still giving the smoldering 1000 yard stare to any print journal with a budget and a good come-on) I have also decided the mediums of live performance, radio and video MUST be given equal credence and priority in my mission to get my poetry out to as many welcome ears as it can possibly find. In that spirit, I’ve got two big radio appearences coming up.

First up, Sunday, February 14th (Valentine’s Day) on LilyCat Radio – part of FCC Free Radio 12 PM – 2 PM PST with the brilliant and fabulous Melinda Adams hosting.

Next up, an hour long feature debuting on the Karl Koweski’s Zygote in My Radio, Saturday February 20th at 10 PM PST.

And the infiltration continues.

Six hard edged sweet teeth bite back with the finest in cutting edge spoken word:

Charlie Anders
Lauren Becker
Sarah Fran Wisby
Joie Cook
Tim Donnelly
Sara Beth Chavanne

Hosted by MK Chavez and Paul Corman Roberts

So clearly, yelling that didn’t help. However, none of this shit should prevent you from attending this event:

Quiet Lightning 2 @ Gestalt Haus

BART accessible yo…no swarming crowds, no problem…95 % safe.

Monday, January 25th, 7 PM
Quiet Lightning @ Gestalt
3159 16th St, SF CA

Saturday, February 6th, 7 PM
East Bay On The Brain @ Layover Lounge
1517 Franklin St, Oakland CA
with:
Jesus Angel Garcia
Laurie Doyle
Marcus Banks
Ryan Sloan
Hosted by the uber-talented, uber-gorgeous Lauren Becker.

On Lilycat Radio
Sunday, February 14th 12-2 PM
Lilycat on FCCFree Radio

HOSTING GIGS:

HARD CANDY AT THE KNOCKOUT w/MK Chavez
Friday, February 5th, 7 PM
3223 Mission St, SF CA 94110
Featuring:
Sarah Fran Wisby
Joie Cook
Charlie Anders
Lauren Becker
Sara Beth Chavanne
Tim Donnelly

ANGER MANAGEMENT & REVENGE
w/MK Chavez & HK Rainey
Friday February 26th, 6:30 P

The new issue of Cherry Bleeds…the inaugural 2010…has goddamn fucking posted.

Read it here: Cherry Bleeds

We will be taking new submissions for Cherry Bleeds probably sometime in February.

Full of Crow is pleased to announce its release of Ross Vassilev’s “Village Idiot.

For your free copy, please click here.

Full of Crow press…where the price is always right!

(click here to see the video performances)

Also participating in the event were the super talented stylings of Eddie Wright, Meghan Thornton, Lauren Becker, Missy Church, Peg Alford Pursell, Tess Patalano, MG Martin, Anna Reed, Eugenia E. Gratto and a knockout story about Disney’s Red Queen from Alia Volz, in addition to the aforementioned hosts Ms. Chauhan and Mr. Karp adding their brilliance to the storytelling.

The inaugural reading took place at the Cantina on 580 Bush Street, one of those old SF hole in the wall watering houses that become much darker and more labyrinthine once you go inside. The next Quiet Lightning reading will take place Monday, January 25th at Elixir in SF’s Mission District.

Thank you dear friends. Please find here the presentation of Triumph of the Self at my dearly beloved Crow.

Or find it here below:

THE TRIUMPH OF THE SELF

I can pinpoint the exact moment the campaign to destroy the word “no” was lost. The effort was doomed to the fate of a vagrant or imprisoned behind blood stained crystalline cages the moment it discovered its “self.”

Profoundest apologies; I am misleading you once again (though you already knew that.) What I mean to say is that the campaign to eradicate the word “no” was hung with this destiny around its neck as soon as it discovered the means by which the “self” is discovered.

A small expedition from the compound embarked into Albino Moonbeam to see if the segments of the preserve that had disappeared had perhaps relocated to the water’s edge or even perhaps across the shores.

All they found was a small cache’ of comically shaped eyepieces which, when fixed upon any one given object, revealed that object’s primal subatomic structure in the clearest detail.

We discovered very quickly that every object in the universe we could know was made out of tiny, submicroscopic mirrors. The ground we walk on, the air we breathe, the gruel we consume to sustain our skins…all of it is forever reflecting back at us whether we are aware of it or not.

Quite simply, this discovery was the end of us.

The comical eyepieces became an entertainment industry unto themselves which no one in any caste…not the Elohim; not the vested; not the unvested, not the stringers, nor the campaigners, sanctioned or otherwise, could resist their endless surprises & revelations. After a few cycles of our satellite there was not one citizen without several of these devices. The most amusing game certainly was “self reflecting”…looking through the comically shaped eyepieces at a macro-sized mirror back at one’s corporeal body. In essence: the infinite re-reflection of the self back into nothing but the device of reflection itself.

Great, bleeding slabs of the “no” eradication movement abandoned their posts to see the wonder of themselves exposed in ways they could have never seen themselves previously. Many crossed over from unvested to vested by selling these astounding devices, or at least by attaching themselves to the industry of caring & maintaining these eyepieces which quickly sprung up around the trade of this new, revolutionary commodity. Of course, most of the markets were targeted toward the Elohim themselves, for who else possessed more resources, nay who was more willing to part with their considerable resources in order to more fully worship at the altar of the “self?”

Not for one second do I believe any of this was an accident.