EILEEN TABIOS' NOVEMBER EVENTS IN BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA

Eileen R. Tabios' first November event will focus on one of her Marsh Hawk Press books, The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes!  She will be presenting a lecture and Q&A in an event open to the public at San Francisco State. click on link below for more information!

NOVEMBER EVENTS:

Nov. 2, 2015: Writers on Writing, San Francisco State University

http://eileenappearances.blogspot.com/2015/08/writers-on-writing.html

Nov. 15, 2015: East Wind Books Reading
http://eileenappearances.blogspot.com/2015/10/east-wind-books-reading-berkeley.html

OUTSIDE/INSIDE MARTHA KING'S MEMOIR

Prose Pros – Thursday, November 5 (6:30 at SideWalk Café, Avenue A @ 6^th Street)—will celebrate publication of a large excerpt from Martha King's full length memoir, Outside/Inside,in the fall issue of “A Public Space” magazine. She says:

"Stories, some sad and some glorious with Paul Blackburn, Dan Rice, Frank O’Hara, Lucia Berlin, G.R. Swenson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Jim Rosenquist and many many others, in the life of Martha and Basil King.  On hand to read their own prose –and mine—the redoubtable “Friends of Basil King”: Burt Kimmelman, Vincent Katz, Kimberly Lyons, and Mitch Highfill.

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"Photo by Lynn St. John.  (I was 22.)   Other photos by Lynn and others are inside.

"I do hope you'll be encouraged to explore the Fall 2015 issue of "A Public Space" for a look at the feature excerpted from my memoir!  And drop me a line."

http://apublicspace.org

"AJAX IN AMERICA" by PAUL PINES

You are invited to Paul Pines' all vets project, Veteran's Voices, which is an off-shoot of his  The Theater of War. Paul shares that the project's "vision is that the classic Greek tragedies speak powerfully to contemporary issues of returning vets and the impact of war on the culture. Sophocles was a General and most of the audience at these plays had been touched by war. 'Ajax' may be one of the most powerful statements on it. I am directing a concert reading of the play to be held at Skidmore College on 11/12. "  See below for details:

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FILM BASED ON A PAOLO JAVIER POEM!

Lynne Sachs and Sean Hanley's short film, Starfish Aorta Colossus, is based on a poem of the same name in Paolo Javier's newest book, Court of the Dragon.  The film has been making the film fest circuit. Here are some details:

Anti-Matter Media Art Festival in Vancouver, B.C.   
http://www.antimatter.ws/     Oct. 16 - 31

Transient Visions Festival of the Moving Image in Johnson City, NY  http://www.transientvisions.org/2015tv.html  Oct. 16  

Haverhill Experimental Film Fest in Haverhill, Mass.  http://www.haverhillexperimental.org/#!films--videos-2015/cyvg

The film also will screen Nov. 13 at Spectacle Theater and Nov. 25 at Anthology Film Archives.

Last but not least, here is a nice review of the film (last paragraph)!

CONGRATULATIONS Paolo!

CELEBRATE FILIPINO-AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH WITH EILEEN TABIOS' BOOK!

October in the United States is Filipino American History Month. In California, over at the American Canyon Public Library, the commemoration includes a book exhibit that includes several of Eileen Tabios' Marsh Hawk Press books!  Here are some photos from an October 14 event promoting the celebration, as co-curated by librarian Ricah Quinto and poet-professor Janet Stickmon:

Display with THE THORN ROSARY

Caramel Cake!

Display with SUN STIGMATA

Display with NOTA BENE EISWEIN, THE LIGHT SANG AS IT LEFT YOUR EYES and THE AWAKENING

Janet Stickmon and Ricah Quinto

Sheila Bare with Eileen's books!

Huge Filipino flag on library fence.

The kulintang!

Highlighted accomplished Filipinos included Cristeta Comerford

Presenter on the need for Fil-Am Studies

Student performer

Event coordinators and performers

More books!

MARY MACKEY AND EILEEN TABIOS AT SAN FRANCISCO LITQUAKE!

Mary Mackey and Eileen R. Tabios are part of this year's LitQuake in San Francisco!  Click on the links for information on their appearances, both of which will take place from 6- 7 p.m. on Saturday, October 17, 2015:

http://www.litquake.org/events/bay-area-generations

Mary Mackey

http://www.litquake.org/events/eleven-eleven-and-fourteen-hills-present-your-lucky-numbers

Eileen R. Tabios

PAOLO JAVIER IN PS1 MoMA'S GREATER NEW YORK SHOW!

We are delighted to share that Paolo Javier is included in PS1 MoMA's Greater NY Show. Here is information for the Sunday series: 

http://press.moma.org/wp-content/files_mf/momaps1_sundaysessions_fall2015_pressrelease.pdf

It’s Not What Happens, It’s How You Handle It
Sunday, November 8, 12:00 – 6:00 pm
Organized by John Giorno and Mark Beasley
With Harry Burke, Todd Colby, Andrew Durbin, Ben Fama, Sophia le Fraga, Fanny
Howe, Paolo Javier, Tan Lin, Morgan Parker and Bunny Rogers

Poet, visual artist and originator of Performance Poetry John Giorno is joined by peers and
a contemporary generation of New York based poets. Giorno’s seminal Dial-A-Poem
Poets (1968) in which an audience dialed individual answering machines to hear poems by
poets such as William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and John Cage while his record label
and American artist collective Giorno Poetry Systems broadened the ‘venues’ for poetry to
records, television and radio. Giorno’s poetic use of the technology of the day mirrors the
contemporary generation’s use of language—deploying twitter-like phraseology with the
fluid and malleable text of the internet as poems and text migrate from text box to text
box and from page to page—underscoring text and the staging of language as no longer a
form fixed by the printed page.

Part of Sunday Sessions: Greater New York.

MADELINE TIGER READING

You are invited to a reading (first time in a long time) by Madeline Tiger:

Sunday, October 18th, at 7:00 P.M. 

Bloomfield Public Library

90 Broad Street

Bloomfield, N.J.

SANDY MCINTOSH ON THE CULTURE OF HAZING

You are invited to read Marsh Hawk Managing Editor Sandy McIntosh's article,

"Culture of Hazing: Donald Trump, Me, & The End Of New York Military Academy"

in Long Island Press.  Here's an excerpt:

It’s been more than four decades since I graduated from the bankrupt New York Military Academy, which was just sold after a bidding war to a China-based investor on Wednesday. For six years I’d attended this private boarding school in Cornwall-on-Hudson, some 60 miles north of New York City. I’d been exiled up there by my father, a lawyer and institutional fundraiser, who had abandoned his enthusiasm for Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy, an educational scheme directed by spirit voices, and had become convinced by Fred Trump, his business acquaintance, that a military immersion was just what I needed to flush all that spiritual nonsense out of my system. 

Before I entered military school I spent the summer at the Atlantic Beach Club on Long Island, where the Trumps were also members. Donald, taking the part of an older brother, taught me daily to play Canasta and other card games. But once the school year began, Donald was already in the upper school, while I was in the junior building. We did pass each other occasionally and would talk between roll calls. Throughout my acquaintance with him, he was always kind, though he never laughed at my jokes.

(The young Donald Trump)

EILEEN R. TABIOS' OCTOBER EVENTS

You are invited to Eileen R. Tabios' upcoming events in San Francisco:

Oct. 13, 2015: Kelsey Street Press Reading for Intersection for the Arts’ 50/50 Poetry Nights Series:
7-9 pm
Oct. 13, 2015
Tenderloin Museum
398 Eddy (@ Leavenworth)
San Francisco

http://eileenappearances.blogspot.com/2015/08/kelsey-street-press-reading.html

Oct. 19, 2015: LIT CRAWL with ELEVENELEVEN
6-7 pm
Flax art & design
1699 Market St.
San Francisco, CA 94103

http://eileenappearances.blogspot.com/2015/04/lit-crawl-san-francisco-2015.html

Eileen R. Tabios maintains an Events Schedule Blog, where you also can see "event reports" on her most recent readings/appearances.

PAUL PINES' LATEST ESSAY IN NUMERO CINQ

You are invited to read Paul Pines' wonderful essay, "Trolling with the Fisher King: The Archaeology of Dreams" in Numero Cinq!  Here's an excerpt:

I learned that my nightly dreams constituted a personal myth, but that Mythology functions as our collective dream. Both divulge meaning through symbols and archetypal imagery and serve as portals for information that enlarges waking consciousness. A key function of dream and myth, personally and collectively, is the integration of experience, without which the psyche would split, exist in what might be compared to a schizoid state, “beside itself.” As Carl Jung might have put it, The Spirit of the Times must be informed by The Spirit of the Depths.