Kim Shuck, former San Francisco Poet Laureate, hosts S.A. Griffin and Linda Ravenswood in her ongoing, twice monthly online poetry reading series. The first session of each month, on the 2nd Mondays, leads off with two featured readers and concludes with an open mic. The second session, on the 4th Mondays is all open mic.

Karma bum, Vietnam era veteran of the USAF and left handed lefty from Los Angeles, S.A. Griffin is most recently the author of Pandemic Soul Music (Punk Hostage Press) which includes art by his late sister Robin Lynne Griffin, Suckers & Losers (River Dog) and Good Madness is Hard to Come By with Michael Lane Bruner (Rose of Sharon Press). Editor The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Basic Books, Firecracker Award) and along with Rich Ferguson, Alexis Rhone Fancher and Kim Shuck, S.A. is the co-editor of Beat Not Beat (Moon Tide Press). Queued up for publication, he is the co-editor of Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts with Richard Modiano and the editor of Earful of Sun by Scott Wannberg with art / collages by Ray Swaney. A proud dad, S.A.’s son Spencer Lane Griffin recently released his award winning Poem Pie (Rose of Sharon), a children’s book of poetry with illustrations by his mother Sharon Grish Griffin. He and his wife Lorraine are lovingly owned by their cat Rosy. Photo by Mark Hanauer

Winner of both an Oxford Prize in Poetry and the Edwin Markham Prize in Poetry, Linda Ravenswood is a poet and performance artist living in Los Angeles. Working closely with arts organizations, including the Poetry Society of New York and Red Light Lit, Ravenswood fuses visual and performance art in poetry reading and burlesque venues as well as deconstructed live literature events. Her collection Cantadora: Letters from California was published in January 2023. Other publications include The Stan Poems (Pedestrian Press, 2022), the forthcoming a poem is a house (FlowerSong Press, 2023), and If we never meet again: A Pandemic diary (X Artists’ Books, 2023). Her latest, a poem is a house is out now.