Ava Koohbor at Gallery Ex Libris
Join us Tuesday, August 2nd from 7–9pm for the opening reception of Ava Koohbor: Chromatic Sediments. The show will run through the end of August, open daily from 11–7.
Issue SIX now available
The long overdue SIXTH issue of AMERARCANA: A Bird & Beckett Review is now available, featuring art by Will Yackulic and writing by Garrett Caples, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Derek Fenner, Jackqueline Frost, Evan Kennedy, Frank Lima, Jason Morris, Rod Roland, Aaron Shurin, Cedar Sigo, Syd Staiti, Richard Tagett, Tara Thomas, and the editor, along with translations of Hafez by Patrick James Dunagan and Ava Koohbor. Order now. And/or show your face and flash some cash at Bird & Beckett Books in San Francisco, 7:00 pm on Wednesday, December 9th. Come join us for this oh-so-official celebration; enjoy readings by contributors along with libations and general near-year-end levity. Please help spread the word!
Release Reading and Celebration
Wednesday, December 9, 2015, at 7 pm
& the Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project
653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA 94131
Issue SIX coming soon
After an extended hiatus from official AMERARCANA activities, occasioned by the editor’s wedding, followed immediately by his first year of doctoral work, at long last we’re back on track, expecting the new issue to find its way into the world within the next few weeks. Stay tuned for an announcement of an official release reading and celebration very soon.
In the meantime, we’d like to extend apologies to anyone who has been expecting to hear from us over the last 18-24 months and hasn’t. We’ve notified the many folks whose submissions didn’t make it into the new issue, but two individuals have recently reached out to inquire about submissions we can find neither hide nor hair of, so there may be others. We’d been terribly disorganized and distracted for quite a while, so it is quite likely our fault if anything was misplaced. We aim to improve, but can only offer our apologies for recent failings.
The forthcoming issue will feature art by Will Yackulic and writing by Garrett Caples, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Derek Fenner, Jackqueline Frost, Evan Kennedy, Frank Lima, Jason Morris, Rod Roland, Aaron Shurin, Cedar Sigo, Erika Staiti, Richard Tagett, Tara Thomas, and the editor, along with translations of Hafez by Patrick James Dunagan and Ava Koohbor. 128 pages bound in letterpress-printed covers. Pre-order now.
NEW DATE!!!
ECLIPSE BABEL – Brian Lucas / Jason Morris – TAKES
Tuesday, September 15th, 7 pm – Bird & Beckett Books
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Come celebrate the publication of Eclipse Babel, text and drawings by Brian Lucas. We’ll be marking the occasion not only with a reading from the text, but also with an exhibition of the drawings at Gallery Ex Libris, in the bookshop’s back room (running through October). Joining us for the opening and release will be Jason Morris, reading from his brand new chapbook, Takes, published by Bootstrap Press. Eclipse Babel is co-published by Bird & Beckett and Bootstrap as the first Ensemble Edition, a new collaborative publishing project. Please help spread the word, and come on down.
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Tuesday, September 15th at 7 pm
Bird & Beckett / Gallery Ex Libris
653 Chenery Street, San Francisco
2 blocks from Glen Park BART Station
MUNI lines J, 23, 35, 36, 44 & 52
and ramps for Interstate 280
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Brian Lucas is a self-taught artist, musician, and poet living in Oakland, CA. His books and chapbooks include: Circles Matter (2012, BlazeVox), Telepathic Bones (2010, Berkeley Neo-Baroque), Light House (2006, Meeting Eyes Bindery). and Force Fields (2010, Hooke Press), a poetry/art collaboration with Andrew Joron. He plays electric bass/tapes/electronics in CLOUD SHEPHERD and electric bass in DIRE WOLVES. Some of his artwork can be seen at: brianlucas.tumblr.com. A recent interview is up here.
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Jason Morris was raised in Vermont and has lived in San Francisco for many years, where he edited the magazine Big Bell and continues to publish small books under the PUSH imprint. His poems and essays have appeared in Vlak, The Can, Greetings, TRY!, Where Eagles Dare, Big Bell, The Tsatsawassans, Amerarcana, and elsewhere. Previous chapbooks include Local News (Bird & Beckett), From the Golden West Notebooks (Allone Co./Publication Studios), and Spirits & Anchors (Auguste Press).
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Continue readingNOW AVAILABLE: from Book of Kings, Patrick J. Dunagan
The latest pamphlet in Bird & Beckett’s occasional series, from Book of Kings by Patrick James Dunagan, is all sewn up and ready to sail; it’s for sale here, but do come hear the poet read from it Tuesday, July 28 at 6:30 pm (reading to begin promptly at 7) along w/ Jackson Meazle and Julien Poirier, who both have new books of their own just out: Long Live You & Me (Gas Meter) and Way Too West (Bootstrap), respectively. This one is not to be missed!
