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We’ve moved! Our new locale is:
California College of Arts and Crafts
1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco (just off the intersection of 16th & Wisconsin)
All events are $5, and begin at 7:30, unless otherwise noted. Our events are free to SPT members, and CCAC faculty, staff, and students.
Timken Lecture Hall
California College of Arts and Crafts
1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco (just off the intersection of 16th & Wisconsin)
$5
Friday, January 12, 2001, at 7:30 p.m.
Dorothy Trujillo Lusk & Rod Smith
For ten years, ever since we first stumbled on her prophetic books Redactive and Oral Tragedy, we have watched and waited until NASA thought it safe to unleash the Vancouver poet Dorothy Trujillo Lusk onto the porous, red soil of the San Francisco Bay Area. Her intricate and dazzling powers of thought are combined with a seductive music and erudition that bewilder and enchant, like those two little twin fairies in the Godzilla pictures. Her other books include Volume Delays (Sprang Texts 1994) and Sleek Vinyl Drill (Thuja Books 2000). "Writing, here, can initiate a not so softened horizon: exsentimental flying saucers of evidence, severely outside." -- Bruce Andrews.
When Rod Smith last appeared at Small Press Traffic many years ago, he was the boy wonder of the sizzling hot Washington DC poetry scene. His gifts as an editor had long been acknowledged but his consummate mastery of post-modern poetic style was just coming to the surface. From young turk to elder statesman, look at him now. Poetry is the quickest of all the arts: you know nothing one minute and you know everything the next, and no one knows this with more feeling, more empathetic intelligence and wide-ranging experimentalism, than Rod Smith. "Let thy rod be my staff," says the Bible. "For the last shall be first." Two new books, The Good House and The Given, are forthcoming in 2001.
Timken Lecture Hall
California College of Arts and Crafts
1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco (just off the intersection of 16th & Wisconsin)
$5
Friday, January 26, 2000, at 7:30 p.m.
CROSSTOWN TRAFFIC: WRITING, VISUAL ART AND SOUND
Join us on a Friday for the launch of our new Sunday series!
This spring season, Small Press Traffic presents dialogue, crosstalk, strange coincidences and a rich range of dissonances between media in a new series, Crosstown Traffic. Curated by SPT board members Taylor Brady and Yedda Morrison, Crosstown Traffic will feature works, performances, and talks created by writers, visual artists, musicians and sound artists in collaboration and conversation.
The series will present a great opportunity to witness the vitality of creative communities in the Bay Area and elsewhere. Informal discussions with the participating artists, musicians and writers will follow the performances, extending the series' emphasis on dialogue into the audience and (we hope) beyond.
Crosstown Traffic opens with a special double program on Friday, January 26th. Watch your mail for an announcement of the participants, and join us this evening as we kick off what promises to be a memorable series -- then watch our flyers for notices of Crosstown Traffic events on Sunday afternoons throughout the spring.
Timken Lecture Hall
California College of Arts and Crafts
1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco (just off the intersection of 16th & Wisconsin)
$5
These events are supported, in part, by the California Arts Council; California Council for the Humanities; the California College of Arts & Crafts; Community Thrift Store; Cultural Equity Grants Program of the San Francisco Arts Commision; the Fund for Poetry; the W. A. Gerbode Foundation; Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund; the Walter and Elise Haas Fund; the Lane Family Charitable Trust; Poets & Writers Inc., through a grant from the James Irvine Foundation; the Harold and Alma White Memorial Fund; the Zellerbach Family Fund; and anonymous (3).