Nick, via email: "I forget, is there an official chronicler of Groop, or does that change everytime we meet? Ella, if you would like to pen a wrapup of last nite's shenanigans, I for one would be grateful. And if you do, could you add my favorite exchange?
"Ella, all hot and sultry: 'Ok, I have a terrific idea, I think this could really work because I love these characters so much. You have these four people locked up in a sleeper car, and it's so claustrophobic and I want more of that, and we're trying to figure out how to get more out of it, so why not try writing it from their points-of-view, or, ok, as a start, why not write the whole thing from Rosa's Point of view, because I miss her so much?'
"Ben: 'No.'"
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Ella replies:
"uh, you are going to need to chronicle that one yourself. In fact, I think YOU should do the summary this time, Nicky. But don't forget this quote, from Jen:
"Jen, all hot and sultry: 'Weren't you attracted to the characters, you know, like when you see a hooker and you're Hugh Grant?'"
[photo by Your Girl In Milwaukee]
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This didn't deserve it's own posting, but I wanted to broadcast it anyway, since it's a local gig happening once a week.
Back Room Live ! Proudly Presents ! Eleanor Bayne Johnson ! Hillary
Gravendyk ! David Larsen ! Julie Choffel ! Trevor Calvert ! Saturday
Night ! September 29 ! Mc Nally's Irish Pub ! 7pm !
Like a lot of people, Julie Choffel lives in Oakland and writes poems.
Unlike a lot of people, she wishes she lived in Texas and wrote poems
on billboards. For now, she works in a shockingly pleasant office
making up tiny poems about data entry, which may combine into
something enormous and legible at 60 miles per hour.
Hillary Gravendyk lives in Oakland, where she pretends to work on her
dissertation. When she's not doing that, she pretends to write poems.
Occasionally, she actually does write poems; some of them will appear
or have appeared in Tarpaulin Sky, Colorado Review, Fourteen Hills,
1913, The Eleventh Muse and other journals with names that include
numbers.
Originally from New York, Eleanor is now a Berkeley poet and scholar
of medieval literature at UC Berkeley. She studies Chaucerian
poetics, and practices metabolic poetry, eating the archive
morseliciously, and defending it from fetishists of period and
history.
Trevor Calvert is an aspiring librarian, sometimes book-seller, and
sporadic poet living not too far from here. His work can be found in
many places--some electronic and some text--but it's best heard in
groups. Incidentally, an image of an ominous black billy-goat,
printed by David Larsen, hangs over the entrance to his apartment.
David Larsen wrote The Thorn in Oakland, Berkeley and San Jose. Now he
lives in San Francisco, where he's still writing. He loves poetry
readings and will see you at the next one.
LIFE LONG PRESS !
OAKLAND ! SEPTEMBER ! 2007
So that's,
Sat. June 30th at 7pm
McNally's Irish Pub
5352 College Ave
Oakland, CA 94618
(510) 654-9463
Minutes from the Rockrige BART Station
and on the 51 bus line
Next month look forward to prose writers Scott Thomas Cooney, Janett
Hardy and Ben Brashares!
Back Room Live is at Mc Nally's Irish Pub 7pm the Last Saturday of
Every Month barring major Holiday or sporting event.
Also next month Saint Mary's College Presents as a part of their
Graduate Students Reading Series; Robert Baker, Valyntina Grenier,
Victoria Hudson, Jean Pierre LaCrampe, and Julie Weinberg Wednesday,
October 10, 2007, 7:30 p.m. Soda Activity Center for more information
regarding SMC's Creative Writing Reading Series go to:
http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/academics/schools/school-of-liberal-arts/departments-programs/mfa-creative-writing/reading-series.html
I'm so swiping that line...the one about being an aspiring librarian. In fact from now on: B is an aspiring librarian. But I guess that's what I'm always been.
Genius bios, though, no?
Kind of reminds me of one Ashby Ave.
Actually, Ben, I think that did deserve to be its own posting. Post more stuff like that...
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