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Sunday, February 9th – 2pm
Poets James Yeary, Chris Ashby
& Julien Poirier

James Yeary makes poems, art objects, performances, readings, books and the like. For the last couple years he has worked in a surgery-adjacent laboratory turning human tissue into colorful pictograms, very occult and ethically suspicious but presumably for a good cause. He will eventually do something else but presumably still will make poems.
 
Chris Ashby is a poet, writer, and musician living in Portland, OR by way of Oklahoma, Texas, and Idaho. They are the editor and publisher of Couch Press, and a co-organizer of the Spare Room Reading Series since 2014. They’ve worked with artist Nate Orton on his multi-decade MY DAY project situated in the Pacific Northwest, and on several collaborations with James Yeary. Their most recent chapbook is From Tiered Walls with art by Joe Galván (Vesta/Couch Press). They work in public service.
 
Julien Poirier teaches poetry in the San Francisco public schools and at San Quentin State Prison. His book Out of Print was published by City Lights in 2016. He is also the author of El Golpe Chileño (2010), Stained Glass Windows of California (2012), and Way Too West (2015), among other volumes. With Garrett Caples, he edited Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems (2016) by Frank Lima for City Lights. He is also a co-founder of Ugly Duckling Presse Collective, where he edited a poetry newspaper, New York Nights, as well as an anthology of writing by Jack Micheline, One of a Kind (Ugly Duckling, 2008), and a book of travel journals by Bill Berkson, Invisible Oligarchs (Ugly Duckling, 2016). He is currently the mastermind behind the mail art publication Night Mail.

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The Independent Musicians Alliance

Gigging musicians! You have nothing to lose but your lack of a collective voice to achieve fair wages for your work!
The IMA can be a conduit for you, if you join in to make it work.

https://www.independentmusiciansalliance.org/

Read more here - Andy Gilbert's Feb 25 article about the IMA from KQED's site

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