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The Holloway Series in Poetry at UC Berkeley Presents:
MICHAEL McCLURE
with Elizabeth Marie Young
Tuesday, October 14
at 6:30 p.m.
in the Maude Fife Room of Wheeler Hall
Holloway Series in Poetry website
MICHAEL McCLURE is a Bay Area countercultural icon whose numerous works include Dark Brown, Ghost Tantras (which he famously read to the lions at the San Francisco Zoo), the play The Beard, albums with Ray Manzarek, one-time pianist with the Doors, and with Terry Riley, a repubication of The Booobus and the Bunnyduck, a 1957 children's book made with the artist Jess, and, most recently, a collection of poems called Rain Mirror.
ELIZABETH MARIE YOUNG This summer, Elizabeth Marie Young's full-length book, Aim Straight at the Fountain and Press Vaporize, won the Motherwell Prize from Fence Books (it will come out in 2009), and Omahrahu Prss published a chapbook of her Sonnets. She is finishing her PhD in Comparative Literature in Berkeley, and will join the Classical Studies Department at Wellesley College in January.
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MICHAEL McCLURE
in CHICAGO
POETRY READING
at 7:00 p.m.
OCTOBER 11, 2008
The Beat Generation Symposium
October 10-11, 2008
Columbia College, Chicago
All events are in the Film Row Theater
1104 South Wabash Avenue (8th Floor)
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"REBEL ROAR:
THE SOUND OF MICHAEL McCLURE"
Friday, SEPTEMBER 26
Berkeley Video & Film Festival '08
LANDMARK SHATTUCK CINEMA
2230 SHATTUCK AVENUE · DOWNTOWN BERKELEY
Box Office: 510.464.5980
Festival Information: 510.843.3699
www.berkeleyvideofilmfest.org
Screenings Start at 7:30pm Friday
The global premiere of "REBEL ROAR: The Sound of Michael McClure," a short art documentary of the poet and playwright, is produced by Kurt Hemmer and Tom Knoff. "Rebel Roar" advances the cause of Beat and Hip and is an antidote to the rulers.
After the screening, McClure and Hemmer will answer questions.
Following the documentary is Tao Ruspoli's feature "FIX" in its Bay Area premiere, a scorching and gritty L.A. adventure directed by the grandson of Michelangelo Antonioni. Q & A with Tao Ruspoli after the film. The evening begins at 7:30 with several short experimental films by a variety of award-winning filmmakers.
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Please join
MICHAEL McCLURE & JOHN BRANDI
Tuesday, September 9
7:30 pm
MOE'S BOOKS
2476 Telegraph Avenue
Berkeley CA 94704
510-849-2087
www.moesbooks.com
JOHN BRANDI is a poet, writer, artist, and author of thirty-eight books of poetry and nonfiction. He will read from his new book, FACING HIGH WATER. From the Himalayas, Angkor Wat, the barrios of Old Havana, the highlands of Chiapas, and the streets of New York, Brandi's poems lead us toward rapport with the natural world and our own inner landscapes.
"These poems shine with a Taoist sensibility and the wisdom and simplicity of self. John Brandi, as a traveler throughout Asia and the Americas, gives us the artist's heightened sensitivity and clarity of detail; and poems of rare precision, charm and truth." — Joanne Kyger, author of About Now
MICHAEL McCLURE is the poet, playright, songwriter, and novelist who first gained fame as one of the five poets who read at the infamous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955. This summer he performed and spoke at the Prague International Writers' Festival and the Casa della poesia in Salerno, Italy. He'll be reading from his soon-to-be-published MYSTERIOSOS (from New Directions), and other new poems.
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BIG MIX:Michael McClure,
Ray Manzarek,
George Brooks,
Rob Wasserman,
& Jay Lane
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Original Beat icon Michael McClure, who penned Janis Joplin's immortal "Mercedes Benz," and Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer who created one of rock's most memorable instrumental lines (think "Light My Fire"), join forces with saxophonist George Brooks (Summit, Bombay Jazz, Etta James), bassist Rob Wasserman (Lou Reed, Aaron Neville, Rickey Lee Jones), and drummer Jay Lane (Charlie Hunter, Bob Weir) for a evening of sophisticated anti-politics, elegant improvisation, American haiku, and jazz-drenched dharma boogie.
(This past summer BIG MIX took the stage in Golden Gate Park for the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love, thrilling the crowd of 80,000 with their performance of "The God I Worship Is a Lion," which was first performed at the Human Be-In in 1967.)
Download the flyer for this event.
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MICHAEL McCLURE and LOU ROWAN
Thursday · MARCH 6, 2008 · 7:30 p.m.
THE BEAT MUSEUM
540 Broadway, near Columbus
San Francisco
info: 800-537-6822
LOU ROWAN, editor of the stunning review GOLDEN HANDCUFFS, reads from MY LAST DAYS, his freshly published, fabulous, and scurrilous autobiography of Superman.
Poet & playwright MICHAEL McCLURE reads from new manuscripts of MYSTERIOSOS, and MUSHROOM MOUNTAINS; and growls beast language poems from GHOST TANTRAS.
* * * light, life, grahhrr... * * *
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DIANE di PRIMA & MICHAEL McCLURE
A POETRY READING
at Moe's Books
MONDAY JULY 9th 7:30pm
MOE'S BOOKS
2476 Telegraph
Berkeley
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