Jean Day has published seven books of poetry, including Enthusiasm: Odes & Otium (Adventures in Poetry, 2006) and the chapbook Daydream (The Eponym) (Belladonna, 2008). Recent poems from her current project, Late Human, have been published in Try and Cambridge Literary Review, and earlier work has appeared in a variety of venues, most recently in The Sienese Shredder, Zoland Poetry, and Mir (in French).
photo: Isaiah Rapko
Lonely Christopher is a poet, playwright, and filmmaker. He is the author of The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, published in Dennis Cooper’s Little House on the Bowery series from Akashic Books. His latest projects include the chapbook Poems in June (The Corresponding Society) and the feature length film MOM (Cavazos Films), which he wrote and directed. He is also the author, with Robert Snyderman and Christopher Sweeney, of the poetry volume Into (Seven CirclePress). He lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.
Photo: Daniel Graindorge
This was one of my favorite audio interviews from the encampment. Mary had traveled from Barcelona to offer advice from her experience in the 15M Movement. Forgive my rambling. See you on May Day.
Poetry for the People - 12.4.11 - MP3
Featuring: Chris Daniels, Sara Larsen, Laura Woltag, Zack Haber, Lindsey Boldt, Taylor Brady, Matt O'Malley, David Brazil, Claiborne McDonald, Jackeline Frost, and a handful of people I don't know.
Wendy Trevino lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area. 2011 and (so far) 2012 have been the hardest and best years of her life.
Anne Boyer is the author of a book of poetry, "The Romance of Happy Workers" (Coffee House 2008), and the forthcoming novel "JOAN." Her interests include small press and micro-publishing, and she has published many smaller works and chapbooks of poetry and prose, including "Anne Boyer's Good Apocalypse" (Effing Press, Austin, 2006), "Selected Dreams with a Note on Phrenology" (Dusie Collectiv, Switzerland, 2007) and a book of conceptual work, "Art is War" (Mitzvah, Lawrence, 2008). Other forthcoming works include the cyber-opera "The 2000s" and a narrative based on Google Earth called "My Time on Earth."
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Introduction, David Brazil, Chris Daniels MP3 [11:45]
Sara Larsen + etc + anonymous [46:56]
Each Sunday there is an open mic poetry reading at Oscar Grant Plaza.
Angela Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, scholar, and author. Davis was most politically active during the late 1960s through the 1970s and was associated with the Communist Party USA, the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panther Party. Prisoner rights have been among her continuing interests; she is the founder of "Critical Resistance", an organization working to abolish the "prison-industrial complex". She is a retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is the former director of the university's Feminist Studies department. Her research interests are in feminism, African American studies, critical theory, Marxism, popular music and social consciousness, and the philosophy and history of punishment and prisons.
Here is a short history of the last two general strikes in Oakland in 1934 and 1946. Occupy Oakland has called for a general strike on Wednesday November 2nd.
