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What an incredible night!

The evening with the editors of How(ever) was incredible celebration of feminist interventions and communities.
The event not only featured editors Kathleen Fraser, Beverly Dahlen and Susan Gevirtz, but also presentations from former contributors Robin Treblay-McGaw, Norma Cole, Yedda Morrison (on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha) and Camille Roy. It was fantastic!
photos by Camille [...]

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A great time was had by all!

Thank you to all who came out to the launch of Fall 2011 at Artist Television Access! We all enjoyed a fun and provacative early evening in the waning summer days of San Francisco.
Lindsey Boldt made some diagrams. Alan Bernheimer gave a thoughtful introducton to Warren Sonbert’s A Woman’s Touch featuring the ever-charming [...]

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Save the dates for Fall 2011!

After a summer full of sublime thought-provoking performances in collaboration with SFMOMA’s Open Space in the series “Pop-Up Poets”, we are now ready to bring out the autumnal wares in the Fall Season at Small Press Traffic!
This season we are thrilled to present a series of investigations on the motivations and legacies of some of [...]

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and then…

On June 5th
Gotta COLLECT at SFMOMA
Kids get in free! 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Explore a Stein-inspired salon for families in the Schwab room in addition to regular Family Sunday programming.
The Schwab room will be converted into a living room with a continuous reading of The World is Round by Gertrude Stein as well [...]

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Marathon Reading of Making of Americans

Saturday, June 04, 2011
GERTRUDE STEIN’S THE MAKING OF AMERICANS
Haas Atrium at SFMOMA
11:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Co-organized with Suzanne Stein and SFMOMA.
Twenty-six Bay Area poets perform an all-day marathon reading of selections from Gertrude Stein’s epic novel, The Making of Americans. Composed during the years of the legendary Paris salons held by Stein and her siblings, [...]

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The Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics: An Evening with Joan Retallack

Please join us this Friday evening for a very special event as we welcome Joan Retallack to SPT for the inaugural Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics.

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The Reliquarium awaits you

If the end of the world is coming…Celebrate it with Small Press Traffic
at
THE RELIQUARIUM
an apocalyptic fundraiser
Join us for the end of days (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_end_times_prediction) at this end of season bash featuring:
+reenactments from scenes of the end of the world
+the co-generation of a literary time capsule
+an auction of poetic reliquaries
+an end times dance party
+drinks and MORE!
May 21, [...]

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The Survey Results are IN

Dear Small Press Traffic Community:
In the Fall of 2010, Small Press Traffic hosted a survey on SurveyMonkey. We asked you to provide us some feedback about yourselves and about our programming. If you participated in this survey, thank you!
We thought you’d like to know what other survey respondents had to say. So, here’s the 4-1-1:
First [...]

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Directions to Macky Hall

For the next chunk of readings, we will be at Macky Hall on the Oakland campus at 5212 Broadway, Oakland 94618.
For directions from San Francisco: Take the 80 towards the east bay, merge to the 580E and then merge to the 24-Walnut Creek and then exit Broadway. Make a Right on Broadway and CCA will be [...]

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POETS THEATER WRAP UP

A hearty and delirious thank you to all of the writers, directors, performers, volunteers and audience members who joined in together to make our 10th Annual Poets Theater a thing of joy to behold!
If you missed it or want to re-live it follow the links below down the rabbit hole of fantastic:
SPT’s flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/r2v2/sets/72157625948345926/
Alli Warren’s [...]

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