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Kevin Simmonds and Theatre of Yugen

Kevin Simmonds and Theatre of Yugen

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...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Bay Area Radio Drama

Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Bay Area Radio Drama

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,”...
David Meltzer and Big Bridge Press

David Meltzer and Big Bridge Press

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...
Gloria Frym and Community Works

Gloria Frym and Community Works

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...