Ellyn Maybe, S.A. Griffin, John Dorsey, William Taylor Jr, Joe Pachinko

Sun, Apr 23
2 pm-4pm
free

A Cadillac wrangling son of The Lone Star State, S.A. GRIFFIN is a
crash vampire living in Los Angeles. Griffin has been a contributing
writer for The L.A. Weekly, Angry Thoreaun, Sure - A Bukowski
Newsletter, and Lummox Review among others. He has served on the
editorial staff of Shattersheet, The Moment and Nuthin' Sacred and
was publisher/editor for (Sic) Vice & Verse and The Fool. Best
performance/poet, The L.A. Weekly. A member of poetry/performance
supergroups The Lost Tribe, The Carma Bums and White Trash
Apocalypse; all three groups touring extensively throughout the
western U.S. and Canada. In '96, Sacred Beverage Press published
Twisted Cadillac, a somewhat chronicle of The Carma Bums road trips
as written by The Bums themselves. The L.A. Times called it "an On
The Road for the '90's", and beat legend Lawrence Ferlinghetti said
that it was, "a hot rod of a book". Twisted Cadillac is now required
reading for beat studies at Loyola Marymount Also a contributing
writer for The Underground Guide to Los Angeles (Manic d Press),
which remained on the L.A. Times bestseller list for 9 weeks and
editor of the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. A father, husband, and
Vietnam era
vet, S.A. Griffin currently lives in Los Angeles and has been lucky
enough to make his way as a professional actor for almost 30 years,
most recently in Oliver Stone's World Trade Center. ELLYN MAYBE is
the author of The Cowardice of Amnesia (2.13.61), The Ellyn Maybe
Coloring Book (Sacred Beverage), Putting My 2 Cents In, Walking
Barefoot in the Glassblowers Museum (Manic D Press) and her latest
work is Praha and the Poet written during the two years she went to
film school abroad. She has read all over the country, including
Bumbershoot, the Poetry Project, the New School, Taos Poetry Circus,
South by Southwest, Lollapalooza, Albuquerque Poetry Festival and
Seattle Poetry Festival. She has also read in Europe at the Bristol
Poetry Festival, on the BBC, and in poetry slams and readings in
Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Stuttgart. She opened the MTV Spoken
Wurd Tour in Los Angeles. In addition, she has also read at USC,
UCLA, CSUN and Cal State Fullerton, among other colleges. Writer's
Digest named her one of ten poets to watch in the new millennium.
Her work has been included in many anthologies, including The Outlaw
Bible of American Poetry, So Luminous the Wildflowers, Poetry Slam,
Another City: Writing From Los Angeles, Poetry Nation and American
Poetry: The Next Generation. She was on the 1998 and 1999 Venice
Beach Slam teams. She was seen reading her work in Michael Radford's
(Il Postino) film Dancing at the Blue Iguana. Her website is
www.ellynmaybe.com WILLIAM TAYLOR JR. is a Pushcart Prize nominated
poet .His work has been widely published in the small press and on
various sites across the net. He is the author of several chapbooks
including: Any Abyss Will Do (Lummox Press), The Sad Dumb Beauty of
Everything (Big Star Press), The Bones Of Things (Marianas Trench
Press) and Knowing Most Things Break (Like A Dog Press). He was also
a contributing writer to Last Call: The Legacy of Charles Bukowski
(Lummox Press). His new book, So Much Is Burning, is now available
from Sunnyoutside Press. He does not own a cell phone or an Ipod. He
lives in San Francisco. JOHN DORSEY has been publishing as a poet
since age of 15. His work appeared in a number of underground
magazines and anthologies. He is the author of several collections
including "Harvey Keitel,Harvey Keitel, Harvey Keitel with S.A.
Griffin and Scott Wannberg, Butcher Shop Press/Rose of SharonPress/
Temple of Man, 2005. Oakland poet JOE PACHINKO is an Executive
Custodial Analyst for a San Francisco office where his employers
insist on calling him a "janitor." He has been quoted as saying:
"poetry is a bunch of cocakamamie bullshit!" Yet he inexplicably
continues to write it. His influences include: Sir John Wilmot,
Raymond Chandler, W.C. Fields, Bo Johnson, Lucille Bogan and Jewel.
He is the author of a poetry collection. "The Urinals of
Hell" (Superstition Street Press, 2003) and a novel 'SWAMP!" He also
published Lenore Kandel's banned masterpiece, "The Love Book" in 2003.
(www.superstitionstreet.com)
This event is wheelchair accessible. Please phone the Bird & Beckett
for more info.

Venue:

Bird&Beckett Bookstore
2788 Diamond
San Francisco
415-586-3733
www.bird-beckett.com

2788 Diamond @ Cheney in Glen Park, San Francisco

Additional Info:

415 -586-3733
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