‘City of Stairways’ Reading - August 26
July 28th, 2010 by Admin
WritersCorps students at City of Stairways book launch, Get Lost Books, July 15
Join the young authors of “City of Stairways: A Poet’s Field Guide to San Francisco” as they continue blazing new trails through the city for our summer reading series! A recent write-up in the San Francisco Chronicle applauded the book for being “about more than just what’s in the city — it’s about how it feels to be here,” celebrating the young poets’ process of writing poems on location and “lending an elegant craftsmanship to their emotions and observations.” See for yourself what some of our favorite city secrets are at our next reading at Book Passage! Along with our young writers, poet Michael Warr will be reading selections of his work. Writer Chrissy Anderson-Zavala will be our emcee for the evening.
About our guest poet:
Michael Warr wrote his first poem at the age of nine in San Francisco. His awards include the Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets award, a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship for Poetry, The Beat Museum Poet of the Month, and others. He is author of “We Are All the Black Boy” and a co-editor of “Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry from Chicago’s Guild Complex.” His poems are anthologized in many publications including “The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip-hop & the Poetry of a New Generation,” “Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe,” :Changer l’Amerique, Anthologie de la Poesie,” “Protestataire des USA,” and recorded in the CD “A Snake in the Heart: Poems and Music by Chicago Spoken Word Performers.” His digital photo/poetry performance, Poetic Aperture — An African American Interprets Africa, based on his poetry and photographs created as a photojournalist in Ethiopia and Mali, debuted at Chicago’s The Field Museum. Click here for downloads of his poems with music.
WHAT: “City of Stairways” Reading
WHEN & WHERE: August 26, 6-7pm
Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, #42
COST: FREE
