Back Room Live: October 31, 2009
Posted by Oscar Bermeo in journals, publications on November 1, 2009
The poetry of Amalia Bueno, Rachelle Cruz, Guillermo Parra and Amir Rabiyah is featured this month’s issue of Back Room Live, guest edited by Oscar Bermeo.
From my editor’s notes:
The poets presented here believe in the value of community. All the poems here happen in the wild open air with interactions as varied as Radiohead in Venezuela, a trip on the Bx1 in the Bronx, communion with the dead, and conversations with God. These poems bristle against the unexpected, invite conversation and (in my idealized world) spread out to create connections with their poetry.
Many thanks again to Life Long Press editor-in-chief Valyntina Grenier for this chance to the work of some very exciting poets.
Acknowledgment: Guest Editing at Back Room Live
Posted by Oscar Bermeo in journals, publications on October 26, 2009
Back Room Live with Guest Editor Oscar Bermeo
Many thanks to Valyntina Grenier of Life Long Press for the opportunity to guest edit this month’s issue of Back Room Live.
Be on the lookout for some great poetry from Amalia Bueno, Rachelle Cruz, Guillermo Parra and Amir Rabiyah.
And for all of y’all on Facebook, please check out the events page.
Amiri Baraka at the San Francisco Public Library, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009
Posted by Oscar Bermeo in readings on October 17, 2009
JUSTIN DESMANGLES PRESENTS, IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CENTER OF THE SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY
WE ARE ALREADY IN THE FUTURE! BARACK OBAMA: YEAR ONE
POET, PLAYWRIGHT, ESSAYIST, AMIRI BARAKA WILL DELIVER A TALK ON THE PRESIDENCY OF BARACK OBAMA
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1PM
SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY
MAIN BRANCH IN THE KORET AUDITORIUM
100 LARKIN STREET (at GROVE)
In a rare West Coast appearance, poet, playwright, essayist and political activist Amiri Baraka delivers a historic speech on our first African-American President, Barack Obama. One of the true giants of international poetry, Amiri Baraka is a towering presence in the history of the United States and throughout the Americas. A transitional figure in both the Beat Generation and Civil Rights Era, Amiri Baraka is also know as the father of the Black Arts Movement. In 2008, during the primary and general election cycles, Amiri Baraka continued to surprise, delight and provoke his friends and enemies with a series of rigorous, inventive, and powerfully deciphering essays on then candidate Barack Obama. With this unique, once in a lifetime, event Amiri Baraka will revisit those essays, and bring his keen, always original, interpretation of the Obama Presidency in it’s first year. The talk will be immediately followed by a discussion with Justin Desmangles, and continue with a question and answer period with the audience.
Ana Castillo at Heller Lounge, UC Berkeley
Posted by Oscar Bermeo in readings on October 6, 2009
Free reading this Thursday, October 8th. Please see flyer for more details.
Author
Born in Ecuador and raised in the Bronx, Oscar Bermeo is the author of the chapbooks Anywhere Avenue, Palimpsest and Heaven Below. He lives and works in Oakland, CA.
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