BANG OUT Volume I: First Times
“Blood and Guts and Messy, Endless Faith” by Page McBee
“It Feels Like Dying” by Geri Kim
On Saturday, October 11, BANG OUT Reading Series made its debut at The Elixir on 16th and Guerrero in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA.
The reading was part of the annual Litcrawl: an evening of debauchery and multiple readings staged in three phases throughout the Mission as a culmination of San Francisco’s week long international literary festival, Litquake.
The readers for the first ever BANG OUT were:
Kim Addonizio is the author of two novels, Little Beauties and My Dreams Out in the Street, from Simon & Schuster. She has also published four collections of poetry, most recently What Is This Thing Called Love (W.W. Norton). Her work has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She has two new books forthcoming from Norton in 2009: Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within, and a new poetry collection, Lucifer at the Starlite.
Jason Morris grew up in Vermont. His poems have appeared in Forklift, Ohio, Mirage #4 Period(ical), and elsewhere. Auguste Press will be publishing his sonnets this winter.
Page McBee has been an artist-in-residence and guest teacher for the last three years at the San Francisco School of the Arts, where she now works as Assistant to the Director of the Creative Writing program. She’s a MFA candidate at San Francisco State University. Page’s writing has been published in Boston’s “Weekly Dig,” Pittsburgh’s “City Paper,” “Lifeboat: A Journal of Memoir,” “Deek Magazine,” “Curve Magazine,” and the anthology “Baby, Remember My Name,”edited by Michelle Tea. She’s currently working on a hybrid project about the body. She lives in Oakland.
James Meetze is the author of I Have Designed This For You, and the forthcoming Dayglo. He sings and plays guitar in the shoegaze band, Dreamtiger, whose debut EP “Glisten” was just released on Purr Factory Records. He co-curates the Agitprop reading series and teaches poetry and creative writing at UC San Diego.
Geraldine Kim is the author of Povel (Fence Books) and the play, Donning Cheadle. She lives in San Francisco.
