Intersection for the Arts Wed. Lit. Night Re-cap
Posted in poetic on Apr 27th, 2007
Intersection’s performance space, with its stage lights and tiered-seating, really lends itself to intimate, yet not overly casual, relationships between reader and audience. I was so amazed and pleased that people came out on a Wednesday night for tastes of literary work by writers from this year’s Intergenerational Writers Lab, as well as from Octavio Solis, Genny Lim and Prince Gomolvilas.
The line-up, with snapshots of their excellent words, held in memory darting around this afternoon:
- Oscar Bermeo: the prism of taxicabs, answers to the question, what of racism?, in haiku
- Ramekon O’Arwisters: sleep, then sleep, then sleep some more
- Prince Gomolvilas: The Hooters Training Manual
- Jaime Omar Yassin: walls, distrust, problems, Israelis, searching, finding, losing
- me: Un(in)tended Garden; On Certain Decisions Made Some Mornings; The Logic of Aversion, and Other Nonsense; Little Things About Her Husband
- [intermission]
- Octavio Solis: garbled plays of football players in huddles, if only they could enunciate!
- Maile Arvin: shimmery things, the ruinous condition of spelling out a name with rocks
- Carlo Sciammas: on being a dad, little hands, baby
- Genny Lim: political poetry, and she can sing too
More of photographer Jay Jao’s atmospheric eye here.
debbie yee– ground stubble, purple cuffs, humanism, grapes & more grapes!