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So I've been hoofing it around town with one of the best wanderlust adventure highway poets that I've had the honor to meet.
Last night in a haze of red wine and jazz I watched her handsew her new zine and we shared stories. This meant I got to read her newest zine on the way into work this morning and people - if I was excited about the feature before - just call me Cindy Crazypants excited now because HOT DAMN there are moments where I could feel the road dust in my hair and journeys in my shoes. Get thee to the QOM tonight. There'll be accordion and brilliance.

PLUS - I am gonna read and I am hearing rumors that there will be much SF Literati in the house sharing their stories as well.

Come on a pull up a seat next to the fire. We've all got some stories to tell!

TONIGHT: Queer Open Mic (SF)

featuring J. Fantôme Wilber

Friday July 13, 2007
8pm
Three Dollar Bill Cafe
1800 Market St in SF

Queer Open Mic (QOM to the brief), the adventurous, advantageous and action-packed open mic hosted by Cindy Emch and Sherilyn Connelly, is proud to feature traveling storyteller/poet/accordionist J. Fantome Wilber on Friday, July 13. Open mic participants are welcome to perform art of any style as long as it is one (1) piece that is five minutes (5) or less. Open mic sign up begins at 7:30 on the dot. Cost is a $1 - $5 suggested-but-not-required donation which helps pay the artist.

J. Fantôme Wilber is a traveller girl who loves words, wandering ghosts, wondertales, and whiskey. She tells stories because she is stories. She writes poetry and prose about desire and freedom and danger, travel, nights of boozing, her misspent youth, smoky clubs, and other things that make her ghost-heart thump faster. She writes magical realist fiction about things like mysterious deaths, men who get turned into bears, girls who live in lakes, and the circus. When performing, she often accompanies herself on the accordion. She has run away with the circus five times, and other than being a writer she is also a musician, human pincushion, glass-walker, burlesque dancer, and clown; and she has been known to spin punk rock records at various bars throughout the midwest. You can find out more about her by visiting her website: http://sadandbeautifulworld.net/.