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i am looking for a poet roadmap
because i am on a dirt road that ended in a T
the locals tore down the road signs
and i am just not sure which way i am supposed to turn
then again
i don't think i ever picked a destination

Yar matey - this Friday thar be poemz!

Coming this Friday to a quirky art cafe near you in San Francisco is a once in a lifetime shot to hear, see and maybe even participate in some honest to goodness old fashioned, and even new fashioned edgy avante garde crazy pants writing goodtimes at the Queer Open Mic. It's a hootenanny people and we're waiting for you! Featuring is the fantastic fucking Lauren Wheeler. Pirate by day, go go dancer by night and poet by the wee hours of the morning, she will capture your ears and heart like the sirens of yore... though with arguably more tattoos than those boring mermaids.

Cindy Emch (that's me) and Sherilyn Connelly will be your hosts with the mosts so come on over, hear our newest fancy Queer Open Mic music mix as the warm up and bring some weird performance shit to share. After all - it'll be post election, what better time to let your freak flag fly? See you there...

Friday Nov 10th @ 8pm (sign up @ 7:30)

Three Dollar Bill Cafe

1800 Market St, SF CA

and now - a bit more about our lovely feature

Lauren Wheeler is a recovering slam poet who competed at the National Poetry Slam in 1998, as a member of the renegade Team SF-Mission District, and again in 1999, as a member and the coach of Team Ithaca, NY. She has featured at Cornell University, where she studied English Literature, as well as Los Angeles, Miami, and throughout the Bay Area.

Lauren was the curator and host of two poetry series in Ithaca, Tongue & Groove at Stella's Wine and Whiskey Bar and Re-Verse at the Oak Café, and was a core organizer of the ForWord Girls poetry and spoken word festival in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Lodestar Quarterly and Other Magazine, and she has self-published two chapbooks, anti-matter and mygration.

Lauren is a member of San Francisco-based go-go dance troupe Poor Impulse Control and can often be found stomping around on a box at local industrial and goth nights including MEAT and POP ROXX at DNA Lounge.

it's official

as decreed by final_girl and cindymonkey

it's "Be Nice to Cindy Day"

just thought you should know

please pass it on

Please pass to anyone you think might be interested. 

Are you a San Francisco High School student who likes to write? Are

you, or someone you know, a talented teen artist who deserves to be

recognized?

Bamboozled.org, an online magazine written, designed and produced by

San Francisco teens and based out of the Sunset Neighborhood Beacon

Center, is looking for a few rising high school students (9th or 10th

grade preferred) to join our team!

Our website is a mix of personal essays, entertainment reviews,

political commentary, poetry and artwork, with the goal of combining

technology and creativity to combat negative stereotypes about teens.

We also have an interactive message boards and a submissions page

where other youth worldwide can contribute to the site.

Writers have the opportunity to work with an editor, accomplished poet

and writer E.K. Keith, and the articles due are pretty much anything

you'd like to write, except one week you may have a "Truth" article

due, which is anything from fiction, to a rant, to a poem, and the

next may be an "Entertain", which would be a review about a  book,

movie, game or something about "city life." We also are kicking up a

new section on the site soon, called SHIFT, that is a more collective

platform of writing about a particular subject such as Sustainable

Urban Agriculture or Pro-Life vs Pro-Choice.

Position details:

· Attending weekly meetings with the team (at maximum capacity, 10

high school students) from 6 to 8 pm in the Sunset. Currently we meet

every Wednesday night.

· Writing articles, approx 1-2 per month and contributing to other

group projects, like SHIFT, which is to be launched soon.

· Reading and responding to emails (we use an email loop to

communicate between meetings).

· Planning special events & marketing the site - including writing and

distributing occasional press releases & newsletters

· Designing & assembling the BAM quarterly zine, brainstorming new

projects, and curating the Artist of the Month feature

And get this: BAM members get paid to write! Thanks to grants, we're

able to buy food for every meeting and authors are paid a small

stipend every other month.

We are currently looking to fill approx. 5 author spots. Please

contact us by calling the number below or emailing willo@willobot.com

with your interest, writing experience, contact information and/or any

questions.

We look forward to hearing from you!

~Willo

:: willo o'brien ::

:: 415.826.2114 ::

:: youth facilitator ::

:: http://www.bamboozled.org ::