Bowerbird Treasury: The Reading/ Reckoning

We collect to survive.

This is the reading and closing reception for 'Lectric Collective's month-long show! This last event in the series will consider amassing and arranging--the desires that align us all with the bowerbird. The reading will be immersed in the current show of artwork, and will be fastened together by collections of interest.

Featured readers:

Brandon Brown’s first... [read more]

We collect to survive.

This is the reading and closing reception for 'Lectric Collective's month-long show! This last event in the series will consider amassing and arranging--the desires that align us all with the bowerbird. The reading will be immersed in the current show of artwork, and will be fastened together by collections of interest.

Featured readers:

Brandon Brown’s first two books were published in 2011, The Persians By Aeschylus (Displaced Press) and The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus (Krupskaya.) Poems and prose have recently appeared in Postmodern Culture, BPM, Model Homes, and Art Practical. In 2012, his debut play Charles Baudelaire the Vampire Slayer was staged at Small Press Traffic’s Poet’s Theater and his work was part of the group show FAX at the San Francisco Arts Commission.

Tom Comitta is the collector of calmaplombprombombbalm.com. His writing has appeared in journals, bookstores, galleries, libraries, public space, and online.

Sara Larsen is a poet living in Oakland. Along with David Brazil, she co-edited the lit-zine TRY for 3 years (2008-2011). Chapbooks include Doubly Circulatory, NOVUS, The Hallucinated, and A,a,a,a,a. A new chapbook is forthcoming from Ypolita Press this spring.

Sara Mumolo works for the MFA Program at Saint Mary's College of CA. She is the author of Mortar (forthcoming from Omnidawn in Fall, 2013) and the chapbook March (Cannibal, 2010). Mumolo also publishes the unregular chapbook series CALAVERAS (http://calaverasjournal.wordpress.com/) with Alisa Heinzman. She curated the Studio One Reading Series (studioonereadingseries.blogspot.com) from 2008-2011. Find her poems in Lana Turner, The Offending Adam and Eleven Eleven, among others.

Featuring art by:

Nick Almquist
Lucky Banks-Kenny
Niv Bavarsky
Ben Belknap
Matt Cella
Gill Dreher
Bobby Glass
Ian Huebert
Jae Payne
Sarah Ratchye
Peter Schulte
Willis Stork
Maria Villote
Maryam Yousif

A NOTE ON DIRECTIONS AND PARKING: You may find yourself being directed to turn onto the train tracks on 3rd street. There is a side street by the tracks where the gallery is located, but we don't recommend parking there. Instead, you can find parking on Gilman, or slightly east of the gallery, at the Gilman Grill parking lot.

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