Small Press Month Marathon & New Lit Generation reading

Thursday, March 6th 2008, 830pm

City Lights Book Store
261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway (North Beach)
San Francisco, Ca 94133

415-362-8193

spdbooks.org
MySpace.com/SPDbooks

Poetry Trading Post Trade a poem or story for a free book!


Manic D Press

Justin Chin, San Francisco, Gutted
Jon Longhi , San Francisco, The Rise and Fall of Third Leg
Alvin Orloff , San Francisco, Gutter Boys
Thea Hillman, San Francisco, forthcoming creative non-fiction collection, Intersex: For Lack of a Better Word
Jennifer Joseph, San Francisco, Editor and Publisher of Manic D Press

Sixteen Rivers Press

Jerry Fleming, Lagunitas, Swimmer Climbing Onto Shore
Margaret Kaufman, Kentfield, Snake At The Wrist
Jackie Kudler, Sausalito, Sacred Precinct
Nina Lindsay, Oakland, Today's Special Dish
Carolyn Miller, San Francisco, After Cocteau

Heyday Books
William E. Justice, Albany, Essential Saroyan
Nesta Rovian, Albany, Tree Barking: A Memoir
Stan Yogi, San Francisco, Highway 99: A Literary Journey through California's Great Valley
Lucille Day, Oakland, Chain Letter, a children's book, illustrated by Doug Dworkin

nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts
Latasha N. Nevada Diggs, San Francisco, Ichi-Ban and Ni-Ban and Manuel is destroying my bathroom
Aja Couchois Duncan, Commingled : Sight, San Francisco
Jacob I. Evans, San Francisco
Douglas "D. Scot" Miller, San Francisco
giovanni singleton, San Francisco, Editor of Publisher / nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts

O Books
Laura Moriarty, Albany, The Case
Bob Grenier, Bolinas, Phantom Anthems
Norman Fischer, Muir Beach, Precisely the Point Being Made
Leslie Scalapino, Oakland, Editor and Publisher of O Books
David Brazil, Oakland, Moe's Books

WritersCorps
Milta Ortiz, Oakland, Scatter My Red Underwear (theater piece)
Myron Michael Hardy, Oakland, www.rondeaurecords.com.
Antoinette Osborne, Notre Dame de Namur University
Robin Black
Annie Yu, City College
Indiana Pehlivanova, School of the Arts


Thanks to the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, The Marin Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation and the Friends of SPD!

Tanea Lunsford reads her work

Words and writers filled Valencia Street in San Francisco’s annual Litquake “Litcrawl” event on Saturday October 13th, 2007. This year, Small Press Distribution took part for the first time by holding a New Lit Generation Reading and Poetry Trading Post at Marsh Café, one of many venues enjambed with people and language.

As fellow writers shouldered their way into the demi-staged event there was more than just a poetry reading: SPD also offered our famous Poetry Trading Post. The Trading Post generated writing on the spot, and allowed litcrawlers to add to their collection of books by offering their poem for a book of poems.

In support of New Lit Generation, SPD presented readings from established poets Eileen Tabios who recently published The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes (2007); Joseph Lease who teaches at CCA in SF and just published new poems in Broken World (2007); Elaine Kahn, a poetry buyer at City Lights Bookstore and a graduate of CCA; and Dennis Somera who works with kids in SF and Oakland and recently got his MFA from Mills College. SPD also brought bright young word crafters, Tanea Lunsford and Eli Wolfe, both juniors at School of the Arts to add their new voices to the reading.

Meanwhile, the literary arts took over the streets, cafés and other venues to create an inviting, innovative, and inspiring night given over to poetry and power of the word.


More Pictures: SPD @ Litquake !!

Thanks to the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, the Marin Community Foundation, the Fund for Poetry, The San Francisco Foundation and the Friends of SPD for their support of New Lit Generation and SPD.