Saturday, July 6th, 2013 @ Downtown Oakland's 2nd Annual BeastCrawl!
Venue:
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2272 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland, California |
Time:
8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
H.K. Rainey hosts an hour of vengeful tactics, immature actions and ill-advised shenanigans in poor taste for the heartbroken.You'll fall in love with this show! And then it will break your heart, throw you a towel and cab fare and stop returning your calls.
Starring:
Maisha Z Johnson
... is a writer, blogger, activist, and trouble-maker who lives in Oakland, works in San Francisco, and plays all over the Bay. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Pacific University and a BA in creative writing from San Francisco State University. Maisha has been a featured reader at literary events and social justice rallies throughout the Bay area, including Queer Rebels of the Harlem Renaissance, LitQuake's Write On, and the inaugural Beast Crawl. By day, she supports LGBTQ community members in healing from and responding to violence, and by night, she writes about the relationship between writing and social change on her blog, Inkblot.
John Panzer
...is losing it: After a fine rookie year in 2012, in which he burst onto the literary scene with cinematic memoir for his former life as a racecar driver, a homeless addict, and a man who loves men – with words to articulate these passions we never saw before, and with our help and friendship no less, he appears to have crashed that racecar into the Tenderloin for 2013. Winner of the Samuel C Irving Prize for American whit and humor for his piece The Beautiful Hurt, he better god damn show up and read for me, or I’ll kick his ass.
Hosted by H.K. Rainey
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Joel Landmine
...according to a text message from his ex-girlfriend: Bang foxy broads, hang out with the gays, write a poem once in a while, and smoke inside. Ahhhhhhh, bliss.
Na'amen Tilahun
... is an SF bay-area based writer, a former book reviews editor for Fantasy Magazine and fiction editor for 580 Split for Mills College. His writing has appeared in/on So Speak Up, Collective Fallout, Faggot Dinosaur, Dead Animal Handbook, The WISCon Chronicles vol. 2, Fantasy Magazine, Feminist SF - The Blog, io9.com and he has an essay in the forthcoming collection, Queers Dig Time Lords. He holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and an MFA in Fiction and Literature from Mills College. He is constantly hard at work trying to finish one of the many novel-length work he's started....is a writer of poetry, science fiction and fantasy who holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and English from Mills College. He currently writes/blogs his social commentary at http://naamenblog.wordpress.com.
with a special musical performance by:
Jam Hands
...is the ukulele outfit of Abigail Young, a San Francisco-based maker of things and editor of Camel Toe: The Zine.
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H.K. Rainey is the creator and curator of the Anger Management & Revenge Reading Series. The series is now entering its fourth season on the Bay Area Literary Scene. The first show of the year will occur at Oakland's BeastCrawl on Saturday, July 6, 2013. The theme of this year's inaugural show is "Dirty Trixxx" about love lost and the revenge that follows. Shhhhhh! We won't tell it was you...