BANG OUT Volume V: Seismic Activity
“Use What You’ve Got, Son of Cuddler” by Joe Cervelin
“The Right Spot” by Toni Mirosevich
“Haleakala” by Rosemary Griggs
“Bridal Shower Postscript” by Rosemary Griggs
“Seismic” by Susanna Kittredge
The fifth installment of BANG OUT Reading Series was held at San Francisco’s annual Lit Crawl — the culmination of the weeklong Litquake literary festival – on Saturday, October 17th. This year’s Litcrawl was on the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, and our theme for the reading was “Seismic Activity.”
BANG OUT Volume V also marked the one-year anniversary of the series, and featured new work from a great group of local writers:
Toni Mirosevich is the author of a collection of nonfiction stories, Pink Harvest, (Mid-List Press, 2007, First Series in Creative Nonfiction Award, 2007 Lambda Literary Award Finalist) and three poetry collections; Queer Street (Custom Words, 2005), My Oblique Strategies, (Thorngate Road, 2005, 2005 Frank O’Hara Chapbook Award), and The Rooms We Make Our Own, (Firebrand Books, 1996.) Literary awards include the Astraea Emerging Lesbian Writer in Fiction Award, fellowships with the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Blue Mountain Center and multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. She is currently a Professor of Creative Writing at SFSU. www.tonimirosevich.com
Rosemary Griggs received her BA from University of Iowa and her MFA from San Francisco State. Her book Sky Girl was published in 2003 by Fence Books. She has recently completed a provocative, political new manuscript of poetry for which she is seeking publication.
Joe Cervelin’s work has appeared in 14 Hills, Bay Nature magazine, and elsewhere. He’s currently working on his first story collection, Kissing the Bomb Dogs. For more info, check out: midnightpudding.com
Susanna Kittredge holds an MFA in Poetry from San Francisco State University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in 14 Hills, Sidebrow, Parthenon West Review, Shampoo, 580 Split, and the anthology Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006).
Meg Day is a poet, spoken word artist & arts educator who hails from San Diego but is currently earning her MFA at Mills College in Oakland and teaching young poets to hold their own at the mic with Youth Speaks in San Francisco. Her poems have appeared in PULP, The Greenbelt Review, Outspoken: An Anthology, Temper Magazine, Monkey Puzzle, and Flaneur Foundry. Meg is a Southern California Poetry Grand Slam Champion & was recently named by OUT-ART Magazine as one of 2009’s “Top 30 Under 30″ up-and-coming performance artists. She lives & writes in Alameda with her sweet, dumb dalmatian.