by Suki O'Kane | Jul 18, 2014 | 2014, Literary Arts
Kuwentohan (Talkstory) brings together eight poet-artists, led by Barbara Jane Reyes, to participate in a four-day residency and public readings followed by a sustained correspondence among the writers—leading to a new work of poetry by Reyes. Alongside Barbara Jane...
by Suki O'Kane | Jul 18, 2014 | 2014, Literary Arts
Writer Linda Norton is collaborating with staff and visitors to Peralta Hacienda Historical Park to explore how mass incarceration affects the daily lives of people living in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood where the Peralta Hacienda historic house is based. She will...
by Suki O'Kane | Jul 18, 2014 | 2014, Literary Arts
Fiction writer Suzanne Rivecca is collaborating with Homeless Youth Alliance (HYA) to create a work of fiction about homeless youth in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury neighborhood. HYA offers a comprehensive youth-targeted health and human services program serving...
by Suki O'Kane | Jul 18, 2014 | 2014, Literary Arts
In Tracing Poetic Memory in Bayview Hunters Point, poet Michael Warr will capture aspects of everyday life and experience, past and present, in his childhood neighborhood through an interactive Website that incorporates spoken word, text, animated graphics, and still...
by Frances Phillips | Nov 20, 2013 | 1998, Literary Arts, News
Heather Stallings (then Heather Drohan) collaborated with Zyzzyva in 1998 to develop and publish her first novel, False Alarm, as part of a “Zyzzyva Discovery” book publication series featuring new writers. Now installments of her fictional “Click...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 12, 2013 | 2011, Literary Arts, News
On November 7, Theater of Yugen is premiering Emmett Till A River, developed by poet and composer Kevin Simmonds and poet and Yugen Artistic Associate Judy Halebsky, in collaboration with the Yugen Ensemble and Artistic Director Jubilith Moore. Performances will take...
