by Frances Phillips | Aug 29, 2013 | News
Silicon Valley Creates announces that Poets and Writers are invited to apply to become the county’s Poet Laureate. Applications are due September 30, 2013. The Laureate post was created in 2008 by the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and the nominee is...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 12, 2013 | News
On Thursday, June 27, 8-10 p.m., writer Kirk Read, author of How I Learned to Snap, brings the group reading/performance “Biggest Quake East Bay” to Subterranean Arthouse in downtown Berkeley. Read writes: “This will be a show of ideas and thoughts...
by Frances Phillips | May 10, 2013 | News
Fiction writer Summer Brenner’s collaboration with the West Contra Costa Unified School District led to publication of Richmond Tales: Lost Secrets of the Iron Triangle, a warmly-received novel written for and with young adult readers and set in the heart of...
by Frances Phillips | May 2, 2013 | News
On Tuesday, May 14, at 6 p.m. at Brava Theater Center, WritersCorps, a project of the San Francisco Arts Commission, presents Iron Mom, Not Just a Baby Mama, a collaboration among poet Leticia Hernandez, visual artist Ana Teresa Fernandez, young mothers attending...
by Frances Phillips | Apr 12, 2013 | News
As part of their in-depth exploration of poetics and healing, on Friday, April 19 and Saturday, April 20, writer Eleni Stecopoulos and The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, are presenting “VITAL FORMS: Healing and the Arts of Crisis” at the...