SAVE THE DATES: Spring 10 Season!

For over 35 years SPT has been at the heart of where experimentation and community intersect. This season we continue to present a multi-pronged conversation that highlights some of the concerns of our readers’ work. These conversations include: bodies, communities and empires.

Our Spring lineup is as follows:

Jan 15: Poets Theater
Jan 22: Poets Theater
Jan 24: Poets Theater

As part of SPT's annual fundraiser, we will be staging several works from the anthology, along with new plays, performances, and surprises by Julie Patton, Dodie Bellamy, Tonya Foster, Brent Cunningham, Cassandra Smith, Stephen Boyer, and a celebration of the release of the epic Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater: 1945-1985, edited by Kevin Killian and David Brazil. . In addition, on Sunday the 24th we will present the first ever off-site Poets Theater event, with multiple simultaneous performances staged in and around the CCA campus. Please check out the SPT website and blog in January for details!

Jan 30: Brenda Coultas and Cedar Sigo on communities Feb 12: Evelyn Reilly and Angela Carr on empiresat Nahl Hall

Feb 20: Spring Ulmer and Jen Hofer and Erica Hunt on empires

Feb 26: Lasana Sekou and Taylor Brady on empires

March 6: an evening with Harryette Mullen on bodies

March 12: on communitiesImmortal Cupboard in Search of Lorine Neidecker with filmmaker Cathy Cook and a lecture on ecopoetics by Jonathan Skinner: Thoughts on Things:Poetics of the Third Landscapeco-sponsored by Kino 21, Artists Television Access and Poetry Center

March 13: an evening with Ronaldo Wilson on bodiesa reading and discussion of The Visible Black Body: An Interventionist's Reflection

March 20: Bruce Andrews and Leslie Scalapino on bodies

April 9: an eveing with Ammiel Alcalay on empires
with special guest Charming Hostess singing Sarajevo Blues

April 17: Aaron Vidaver and Dorothy Trujillo Lusk on empires

April 23: Pamela Lu and Mary Burger on bodies

April 25: Kindergarde: Avant Garde Poems, Plays, Stories and Song for Children on communities

April 30: Laynie Browne and Lee Ann Brown on bodiesat Nahl Hall

May 7: Eileen Tabios and Susan Gervitz on empires

May 13: Charles Bernstein and Norman Fischer on communities Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture Co-sponsored by Taube Center for Jewish Life

May 22: SPECIAL EVENT: the Relequarium (a fundraiser and party for SPT)


It should go without saying that there is no better time to become a member of SPT. If you value SPT and the incredible writers we showcase, show your support by becoming a member (or, if you already are, by making an additional donation) today at sptraffic.org.

I am grateful and honored to be a part of Small Press Traffic. I hope you are too.
Happy New Year!Samantha

This Friday: an evening with Renee Gladman

Please note this event has moved to
NAHL HALL, CCA CAMPUS, OAKLAND
5212 Broadway, Oakland

event begins at 7:30pm
$8-15 sliding scale; members FREE


Renee Gladman is the author of one collection of poetry, A Picture-Feeling (Roof Books, 2005), and four works of prose, Juice (Kelsey St. Press, 2000), The Activist (Krupskaya, 2003), Newcomer Can't Swim (2007), and most recently Toaf (Atelos, 2008). She is the publisher of Leon Works, a press for experimental prose and other thought projects based in the sentence, and teaches at Brown University.

see you there!

in case you missed it: The Smith Family review

here!

and: Join us on Saturday for Dialogues with Anne Tardos!

Come back for more with Anne Tardos in this one day only experience:


Saturday September 26th
Classroom 101, CCA San Francisco
1pm-4pm
$25 admission/$20 members and students
sliding scale entrance available- please email smallpresstraffic@gmail.com
Class limited to 20.

In this workshop the participants will compose new texts, using voice, pen & paper (or electronic device). We will address monolingual, multilingual, and neolingual aspects of literary composition. Using certain techniques, we will illuminate the creative process by voicing our works as we compose them. If there is time, we will perform and discuss the works we have just created.

This Friday! Anne Tardos and Amina Cain on the Inverted I

Join us for these dynamic writers as they consider the Inverted I and narritivity.

Friday September 25th

Timken Hall, CCA SF

1111 8th Street

San Francisco, CA

event begins at 7:30pm

Anne Tardos, a 2009 Fellow in Poetry form the New York Foundation for the Arts, is a poet, performer, visual artist, and composer. She is the author of several books of poetry and the multimedia performance work and radio play Among Men. A selection of her readings and performances (many with Jackson Mac Low) can be heard on the University of Pennsylvania’s web site : PennSound and on UbuWeb Sound. Her book of new poetry, I Am You, has appeared from Salt Publishing in 2008, and she is the editor of Thing of Beauty, by Jackson Mac Low, University of California Press, 2008. See also author page on EPC and http://www.annetardos.com/.

Amina Cain is the author of I Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues Press, 2009), a collection of stories that revolve quietly around human relationality, landscape, and emptiness. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as 3rd bed, Action Yes, Denver Quarterly, Dewclaw, Encyclopedia vol. 2, La Petite Zine, and Sidebrow and has been translated into Polish on MINIMALBOOKS. She is also a curator, most recently for When Does It or You Begin? (Memory as Innovation), a month long festival of writing, performance, and video that took place at Links Hall in Chicago last January. She currently lives in Los Angeles.

Thank you Brandon and David! That was great!

In case you missed these fantastic performances, you can get thoughts and reading reports by Robin Tremblay-McGaw here and by Stephen Vincent here.

Thanks Robin and Stephen!

Frank Sherlock and CAConrad on Voicebox

If you missed their reading, go listen here.

Thank you Andrew Kenower for providing this awesome public service!