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January 11, 2015

Poets and Writers Live: Of writers and political conscience

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I write from passion and desperation; my heritage is as a punk and a hippie, a fan of visionary and beat poetics, a lover of revolutionaries and rebels. I also am drawn to the severe aesthetics of writers like Nabokov and Wallace Stevens. I straddle worlds. But let’s have a little context. The Friday before the Jan. 10, 2015,  Poets and Writers Live event at the Brava Theater in San...

My screed for the Poets & Writers Live event

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I felt so strongly about reaching out to San Francisco writers at the Poets & Writers Live event, such a strong sense of localness that I found myself staying up late the night before writing this long screed, pouring out my heart in the matter of what it’s like to be in San Francisco today, having moved from the Mission to the Outer Sunset, having seen Salon.com move its operations to...

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