"Excerpts from my Grocery List" Now Available from Beard of Bees!

Photo attributed to Meagan Donegan

I'm happy to announce that my chapbook Excerpts from my Grocery List is now available for download at Beard of Bees! Beard of Bees is an independent, free press. They have published chapbooks by Rae Armantrout, Paul Hoover, and Keith and Rosemarie Waldrop. I am excited to have my chapbook published alongside them.

You can download my book at http://beardofbees.com/pubs/Excerpts_From_My_Grocery_List.pdf

Makers Market - December 5

What: a miniature holiday fair with hand-crafted gifts, live music, and DIY stations
When: Thursday, December 5
Time: 12pm to 8pm
Where: Cesar Chavez Center, 3rd Floor Art Gallery at San Francisco State University
Free to Enter!

Get into the holiday spirit at the Makers Market. We'll have live music, literary readings, libations, tasty treats, and art stations for you to make your own DIY gifts. 

Art Workstations include: Button making, mini-book binding, hand-made gift wrap and cards, snow globes, and felt java jackets. Don't forget to stop by the free photo booth. Art workstations are open throughout the event.
 
I will be selling ornaments, pendants, collages, and Excerpts from my Grocery List. Come by to say hello!

My Chapbook forthcoming from Beard of Bees Press!

I'm happy to announce that my chapbook "Excerpts From My Grocery List" will be coming out mid-December e-book style from Beard of Bees Press! Below are a few sneak previews in the form of my collage poems. Check back soon for details on when and where the downloads will be available.

Nancy Graves' "Perfect Syntax of Stone and Air" w/Excerpts

 

Joan Mitchell's untitled oil on canvas w/Excerpts

Milton Glaser's "Dylan Poster" w/Excerpts

APAture '13 Comix & Zines Expo @ the Cartoon Art Museum

Image courtesy of Eddie H. Ahn/EHA Comics

Kearny Street Workshop proudly presents:

APATURE 2013
A Window into the Art of Emerging Asian Pacific American Artists

Comix & Zines Expo

Get into the D-I-Y spirit and check out a full lineup of artist tables, workshops, screenings and a ton of interactive fun. Local artists will have illustrations, comics, zines, and cartoons on display and for sale. I will be selling Excerpts from my Grocery List as well as other poems and pendants all repurposed from abandoned books, office supplies, and art.


Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013
Time: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Venue: Cartoon Art Museum
Address: 655 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105

Programs:

• Department of Illegal Superheroes - a live art performance
• Film Screenings - Watch non-stop animated shorts playing throughout the day!
• Comic Jam - Grab a pencil and bust out a comic book page or two with your fellow fair attendees!
• Make a Sketchbook - Make your own sketchbook using basic bookbinding and Gocco printmaking techniques.
• Two Panels - D-I-Y Publishing and Asian American Women Comic Book Creators
• Featured Artist - Eddie H. Ahn

$5 presale/$7 at the door
Purchase tickets here: www.kearnystreet.org
For more information: www.kearnystreet.org
For the complete festival schedule: http://on.fb.me/16npFcF

Excerpt Art with Frankenthaler, the iPhone, Mondrian, and O'Keeffe

Here's some more artwork that I admire paired with Excerpts From My Grocery List. This one's "Madame Butterfly" by Helen Frankenthaler.

Apple iPhone paired with an Excerpt From My Grocery List.

Piet Mondrian's "Composition with Blue, Black, Yellow and Red" paired with an Excerpt From My Grocery List.

Georgia O'Keeffe's "Canna Red and Orange" paired with an Excerpt From My Grocery List.

Excerpt Art - Warhol, McGraw, Little, Marin

Andy Warhol's 100 Cans; An Excerpt from My Grocery List

DeLoss McGraw, Mother and Child 'Bleak and Lonely Heights' in August Moving Sunlight; Excerpts

James Little, Sneak-Attack; An Excerpt from My Grocery List

John Marin, Sun Spots; An Excerpt from My Grocery List

Last year McGraw-Hill had layoffs and was going to fill a dumpster with beautiful paper, artwork, files, and office supplies. I snatched them up and am now re-purposing excerpts of artwork and collaging them together with excerpts from my poetry.

An Excerpt from my Grocery List in lieu of participating in "Poetry Month"

This year I decided not to participate in the poem-a-day challenge for Poetry Month. Because every month has been poetry month for me for the last three years, and forcing myself to write under quantifiable constraints always produces the worst poetry from me. That said, without that pressure, I somehow woke at 6am on a sunny morning in San Francisco with the intense urge to put something down. The only paper within my reach was my grocery list. Here's a little bit of what happened that day...

—Three Excerpts from my Grocery List—

I eat the carousel in my sleep. Horse flesh carries the never-ending pipe organ of whinnies. It is not a sound that subtitles protect. My unborn child will emerge in a society too lazy for words. Her imagination will only be as wide as a movie screen. While my innerchild’s imagination will have the depth of a page. Locked in a book. Every word a hyperlink. Mental. Popping up everywhere before its time. Like a purple gluestick. Twisting in and out. Inside a temple. Outside a theme park. The water I sip in sleep tastes sweeter than holy water.

“I need to add something to my grocery list,” I tell the time traveler. He warns me not to write the secrets of the universe. I will alter the space-time continuum. The first thing I do when I wake up is use the toilet. When I crawl back in bed I find an uncapped pen and the words cadavers galloping into history under my pillow, still warm.

When the toast catches fire, it’s hard to look away. Even when knowing a hundred tons of meteoroids will hit the Earth’s atmosphere today. This happens daily. There’s an art to juggling fire. You put as much thought into it as lightning does to striking. There is a meteoroid as small as the strawberry seeds you roll on your tongue. There is a planet composed entirely of streams of lightning.