by Frances Phillips | Nov 27, 2013
Kevin Simmonds collaborated with Theatre of Yugen to create Emmett Till a river, combining African American and Japanese artistic expression in a cross-genre poetic work. The collaborators noted that Noh is a particularly appropriate creative tradition to address...
by Frances Phillips | Nov 6, 2013
Poets Theater Performances: April 2010; Kindergarde published by Black Radish Books: June 2013 With Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center (Small Press Traffic), writer Sarah Anne Cox and 13 other writers collaborated to create Kindergarde—a series of...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 25, 2013
Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti collaborated with Bay Area Radio Drama and Earwax Productions to produce a series of three original hour-long audio compositions titled Open Mind, Open Heart. Ferlinghetti explored three sites–“Seas and Shores,”...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 6, 2013
Poet, musician, scholar, and editor David Meltzer and Big Bridge Press, founded by poet and songwriter Michael Rothenberg, collaborated to create Rockpile. The writers took a road trip to what was going to be eight cities in the United States (and expanded to 21...
by Frances Phillips | Aug 29, 2013
Collaborating with Community Works and with students at San Francisco’s International Studies Academy, writer Gloria Frym created a work of fiction that re-imagined Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles in a contemporary setting. Frym lead an in-school class and...