Reminder: RADAR Presents SHOW + TELL: A Reading for Nayland Blake's... @ Sat Oct 6 6:30pm - 7:30pm (Queer Things)

more details » RADAR Presents SHOW + TELL: A Reading for Nayland Blake's FREE!LOVE!TOOL!BOX! at YBCA Featuring JUSTIN CHIN, author of three books of poetry -- Bite Hard, Harmless Medicine, and Gutted; three collections of essays -- Burden of Ashes, Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes & Pranks, and Attack of the Man-Eating Lotus Blossoms; and most recently, the short story collection, 98 Wounds. KEVIN KILLIAN, one of the original New Narrative writers, the author of two novels, Shy (1989) and Arctic Summer (1997), a book of memoirs, Bedrooms Have Windows (1990), three books of stories, Little Men (1996), I Cry Like a Baby (2001) and Impossible Princess (2009). Two books of poetry, Argento Series (2001), and Action Kylie (2008). He's written often on the life and work of the American poet Jack Spicer [1925-65] and with Peter Gizzi has edited My Vocabulary Did This To Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (2008) for Wesleyan University Press. For the San Francisco Poets Theater Killian has written almost fifty plays. New projects include Screen Tests, an edition of his best film writing, and Spreadeagle, his latest novel, out now from Publication Studio. Next up, Tagged, a collection of Killian's intimate photographs of poets, artists, musicians and filmmakers naked, or near enough. D. SCOT MILLER is a Bay Area writer, visual artist , teacher, and curator. He sits on the board of directors of nocturnes review, and is a regular contributor to The East Bay Express, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Popmatters, and Mosaic Magazine. A 2011 San Francisco Arts Commission recipient for his AfroSurreal San Francisco Project, Miller is the author of The AfroSurreal Manifesto. He is also completing a book of AfroSurreal poems and an AfroSurreal novel, Knot Frum Hear. MAGGIE NELSON,whose most recent book is The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Norton, 2011) was named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times and is recently out in paperback. She is the author of three other books of nonfiction prose, Bluets (Wave Books, 2009), The Red Parts (Free Press, 2007), and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa, 2007), as well as four books of poetry, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull, 2005; finalist, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir). She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction, an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and an Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant. She currently teaches in the School of Critical Studies at CalArts and lives in Los Angeles. Hosted by Michelle Tea Saturday, October 6th 2012 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 6:30pm Supported by James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center, Friends of the Public Library, California Arts Council, Walter & Elise Haas Fund, San Francisco Arts Commission, Rainbow Grocery Cooperative, San Francisco Grants for the Arts, Horizons Foundation, Zellerbach Family Foundation and the San Francisco Foundation When Sat Oct 6 6:30pm – 7:30pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

Invitation from Google Calendar You are receiving this email at the account queerthingssf@gmail.com because you are subscribed for reminders on calendar Queer Things. To stop receiving these notifications, please log in to https://www.google.com/calendar/ and change your notification settings for this calendar.