Reminder: GuyWriters presents: Poets in Cool Limbo at Magnet @ Tue Sep 20 7pm - 8:30pm (Queer Things)

more details » GuyWriters presents: Poets in Cool Limbo at Magnet Magnet 4122 18th St. San Francisco, CA GuyWriters Presents Poets in Cool Limbo featuring Michael Montlack and special guest. GuyWriters is celebrating the release of Michael Montlack's first full-length poetry collection "Cool Limbo." If you want to know what kind of collection Montlack has put together, take a look at the cover which features the title poem's sexy 70's chick lounging--stoned--by the pool (as she neglects the water-winged kids she's supposed to b...e babysitting). The book is described as the best kind of party -- unofficial, unpretentious, and unabashed. Montlack's latest collection is a series of portraits that are accessible yet complex, hilarious yet poignant, down-to-earth yet ethereal, where everything is covered, including Liz Taylor, Gertrude Stein, The Golden Girls, Orpheus, Vanity Smurf and Stevie Nicks. Montlack will be joined by several special guest writers and performers he has selected for the night: Kirk Read, Baruch Porras-Hernandez, Wonder Dave, Cole Krawitz, Richard Loranger and MC Crumbsnatcher. Come and celebrate Cool Limbo with us! Author Bios: Michael Montlack is the author of the poetry collection Cool Limbo (NYQ Books, 2011) and the editor of the Lambda-nominated essay anthology My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009). He also has had three poetry chapbooks: Cover Charge (Winner of the 2007 Gertrude Chapbook Competition); Girls, Girls, Girls (Pudding House, 2008); and The Slip (Poets Wear Prada, 2009). His work has appeared in Cimarron Review, Court Green, Swink, Columbia Poetry Review, 5 AM, Poet Lore, Gay and Lesbian Review, Bloom, and other journals. He has been awarded residencies at Soul Mountain Retreat (CT), Ucross (WY), Lambda Literary Foundation (CA) and VCCA (VA). He splits his time between San Francisco and New York City, where he acts as an Associate Editor for Mudfish and teaches for Berkeley College. He earned an MFA at New School, an MA from San Francisco State and a BA from Hofstra University, all in Creative Writing. Kirk Read is the author of "How I Learned to Snap" and the upcoming books "This is the Thing" and "Fannie Floyd and the Book of Life." He is director of Army of Lovers, which produces events including Formerly Known As and Smack Dab. He is looking for hunting buddies to go deer and pig hunting. Baruch Porras-Hernandez is the Co-Host/Co-Organizer for The San Francisco Queer Open Mic and has been a resident artist in the Spoken Word Program 2011, at the Banff Center in Alberta, Canada and Air Space (Artists in Residence) part of the Garage All Stars in San Francisco, where he developed his first solo play, Reasons to Stay on the Ground which later premiered as part of the National Queer Arts Festival 2010. National credits include Noches de Poesia Poetry Cabare (the 2011 Montreal Fringe Festival) the Berkeley Poetry Slam, Sparkle Series at BusBoys and Poets (Washington, DC) , Pace University's Annual Poetry Slam in NYC and the 2010 Capturing Fire Queer Slam Summit where he was a Finalist. Other performance highlights include, Live from the Tender Nob 2010 and Return to the Tender Nob 2011 both a combination of Poetry and Music which he hosted and curated (International Home Theatre Festival). He was born in Toluca, Mexico and grew up in Albany, California. He lives in Western Addition in San Francisco. Wonder Dave is a writer and performer from Minneapolis Minnesota. He has been a featured poet has been featured at a variety of venues across the country as well as in several literary journals. Check him out at WonderDave.net for more information. A Lambda Fellow, Cole Krawitz has been a Lecturer at June Jordan's Poetry for the People Program at UC Berkeley and the MA in English Program at Holy Names University. He loves olallieberry pie, coffee toffee ice cream, bananagrams, and spending time with his niece and nephew. Richard Loranger is a writer, performer, visual artist, and all around squeaky wheel, currently residing in Oakland, CA. He is the author of Poems for Teeth, as well as The Orange Book and eight chapbooks, including Hello Poems and The Day Was Warm and Blue, and is currently working on a series of ecstatic odes. MC Crumbsnatcher began performing as a rap artist since 2005 when he began scandalizing the ears of young gays throughout the world alongside rapper Argyle Miss, selling thier debut "The Lesbian Toothbrushing EP" to horny teens across America, London, and Australia. He went on to do a brief stint with the group Homosaywhat?!? which ruined childhoods from SF to Florida, most notably at the 2009 Homo a Gogo Festival. MC Crumbsnatcher is now taking off with his solo career and has performed all over the Bay Area. He is currently working on his debut album that will splatter the lips of every gay man in San Francisco when he completes his first recordings in September. He lives in the TL. For more info, visit www.facebook.com/mccrumbsnatcher When Tue Sep 20 7pm – 8:30pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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