Emmy Komada is a translator and assistant editor at Two Lines Press, part of the Center for the Art of Translation. She likes languages, and reading, and trying to read in various languages.
This week in San Francisco-Litquake 2011 takes the town with 500 authors at over 100 events. Check the website for a full calendar, and read on for some highlights. Monday…
This week in San Francisco! Monday 9/26: Susan Gangel and Kit Kennedy headline 3300 Club’s FREE poetry reading at 7PM. Bottom of the Hill free concert night features blues band…
This week in San Francisco Monday 9/19: Bay Area based John Sakkis and Lynn Xu headline the 1st and 3rd Mondays Poets! series at Bird and Beckett tonight. Readings will…
This week in San Francisco! Monday 9/12: Join us and our friends at the Believer Magazine for Let’s Talk About us, September’s Monthly Rumpus-tonight at the Make-Out Room, 7PM $10.…
I’m pretty sure that madwomen+ road trips + Armageddon + self vs.nature = me. In its archetypes and generational themes, literature has taught us a lot about ourselves, but often…
Five years ago Lynn Coady published a novel with a protagonist drawn partially from the life of a real, thirty-years-deceased poet, and a experienced firsthand earful from an audience full…
This week in San Francisco…!!! Tuesday 9/6: Comedians and collaborators Boots Riley and W. Kamau Bell discuss their careers, dreams, and years of incorporating the political and personal into the…
This week in San Francisco… Monday August 29: Bill Berkson and Duncan McNaughton are reading from their most recent volumes tonight at Bird and Beckett Books in Glen Park. Both…
This week in San Francisco- Monday, August 15: Bird & Beckett in Glen Park is hosting a free poetry and jazz pairing, featuring a lineup headed by Paula Hackett-the open…
Wild Women Press just wrapped a photo shoot for a 2012 calendar featuring a new nude poet for every month of the year, with proceeds from sales going to type…