BANG OUT Volume IX: Greatest Hits – At Litcrawl!
“The Rotor Man” by Lindsey Wolkin – NEW for BANG OUT Volume IX: Greatest Hits
“Bare Hands” by Michelle Puckett – from BANG OUT Volume II: Change
“Santa Crawl” by Ana Maria Ventura – from BANG OUT Volume III: (Naked)
BANG OUT Volume IX: Greatest Hits took place during Phase I of Litcrawl (6 – 7 pm) on Saturday, October 9th at the Double Dutch Lounge on 16th St . This year’s Litcrawl marked BANG OUT Reading Series’ two-year anniversary, and to celebrate, we invited some of our best readers from past events to return and read for us once again. Our readers either read the piece from their original BANG OUT performance, or banged out something new along the theme of “Greatest Hits.”
Michelle Puckett holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. She works as the Events Coordinator for Tarpaulin Sky Press and was the winner of the 2009 Mary Merritt Prize in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Hot Metal Bridge, Bang Out San Francisco, The Walrus, Flaneur Foundry, and Monkey Puzzle Magazine.
Selected by SF Guardian for the 2010 Hot Pink List, Arisa White is a Cave Canem fellow, holds a MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is the author of the chapbook Disposition for Shininess. She has received residencies, fellowships, or scholarships from Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Hedgebrook, Atlantic Center for the Arts, University of Western Michigan, Fine Arts Work Center, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2005, her poetry has appeared in numerous journals. She currently lives in Oakland, CA.
Ana Maria Ventura moved to San Francisco from Salt Lake City, Utah, where she quickly learned to tack on the disclaimer, “And, no, I’m not Mormon,” to any introduction. After finishing her master’s degree in creative writing at San Francisco State University, she was left in a quandary concerning What to Do With Her Life. After a few years of corporate editing, she rededicated herself to the utterly fulfilling art of teaching high school. To appease her innate editorial desire, she now works as copyeditor for Instant City, one of San Francisco’s finest literary journals.
Lindsey Wolkin is a graduate from the MFA Fiction program at San Francisco State. She is the recipient of a 2009 San Francisco Individual Artist Commission Grant and is currently working on a novel.