BANG OUT Volume IV: Toxic Assets
“The Orgasm Museum” by Sarah Fran Wisby
“You Make My Assets Feel Toxic” by Marisa Crawford
“Right Livelihood” by Brent Armendinger
“Ten Suggestions on How to Write a Story Based on a Dream” by Jamey Genna
Visit the Video Library to watch the readers’ live performances.
The fourth installment of BANG OUT Reading Series Saturday was on July 18th at Amnesia in San Francisco. The reading featured drinks, debauchery and a full helping of fresh new work from local writers inspired by our theme “Toxic Assets.”
Truong Tran is a poet and visual artist. His publications include The Book of Perceptions, Placing The Accents, dust and conscience (awarded the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Prize in 2002), within the margin and Four Letter Words. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including two San Francisco Arts Commission’s Individual Artist Grants in poetry, The Arts Council of Silicon Valley Grant, The California Arts Council Grant, The Creative Work Fund Grant, The Fund For Poetry Grant and most recently, The SF Arts Commission Grant in Visual Arts. Truong lives in San Francisco in an apartment at the corner of Haight and Ashbury rumored to be the former home of Janis Joplin.
Sarah Fran Wisby (is the author of Viva Loss. She lives in San Francisco.)
Marisa Crawford grew up in New York and in Connecticut. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts, where she studied Creative Writing and Women’s Studies, and received her MFA from San Francisco State University. Some of her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Invisible Ear, Big Bell, GlitterPony, Parthenon West and Shampoo. Her first book, The Haunted House, was the winner of the 2008 Gatewood Prize and is forthcoming from Switchback Books in 2010.
Matt L. Rohrer is a writer and musician living in San Francisco. His writing has appeared in Tinfish, Watchword, the Surfer’s Journal and other publications. He is a founding editor of Small Desk Press, and works as a substitute teacher. You can find his music at: www.myspace.com/goldenwestservice.
Jamey Genna teaches fiction writing at the Writing Salon in Berkeley, California and is also a high school English and creative writing teacher. Her short stories and flash fiction have been published in many fine literary magazines, most recently in Georgetown Review, 580 Split, Storyglossia and The Iowa Review. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart, and her collection Stories I Heard When I Went Home for My Grandmother’s Funeral was a semifinalist for the Iowa Prize in 2008.
Brent Armendinger is a satellite orbiting San Francisco while he also teaches creative writing at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA. His chapbook Archipelago was published this spring by Noemi Press. He is also the author of a poem contained in a can of Beanie Weenies, available for purchase at the Frankenart Mart, where he wrote on the window until he disappeared in April.
