Poetry & Pizza a first-Friday-of-the-month reading series in San Francisco
7:30pm $10 requested donation (less for students & seniors) pizza is all-you-can-eat
Escape from New York Pizza 333 Bush St (at Montgomery) nearest BART is Montgomery Stn nearest parking garage Sutter Stockton or take MUNI (read some reviews of Escape from New York pizza here)
November 6 Emmanuel Williams Cathy Barber Jean Sward benefit: California Poets in the Schools
more about the poets & CPITS: Emmanuel Williams works as a poet-teacher for California Poets In The Schools. His poetry and writings have been published in numerous magazines both here and in the UK (Emmanuel is English) including Pennwood Review, Snowy Egret, Staple, Penthouse, The Countryman, Resurgence, Sacred Fire, Toyan and Penumbra, and featured on BBC and NPR. Two collections of his original riddles have been published – Robert R. Reed, and Pomegranate. He is a charismatic performer of poetry.
Cathy Barber is a poet and fiction writer. She has an MA from the usually unnoticed California State University, Hayward, which had a darn good creative writing program. Her work has been published most recently in Tattoo Highway, Pearl, and the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal. She is the author of two self-published poetry chapbooks, All We Hungered For and a slim book of haiku, one drop of water and the glass overflows. She is president of the board of California Poets in the Schools and a poet teacher in San Mateo.
Jean Sward grew up hearing the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, Ogden Nash,
and Felicia Lamport, recited by her father. She then spent seventeen
years teaching junior high school English. She still has and likes the
poems she wrote at girl scout camp. Social groups to which Jean has
belonged regularly published her writing in their monthly bulletins.
She writes for fun.
California Poets in the Schools is one of the largest and oldest writers-in-residence programs in the country, this year celebrating forty-five years of bringing creative writing and the joy of poetry to school children from Humboldt County in the north to the Mexican border in the south. Our over one hundred trained poet-teachers work in over a thousand classrooms and teach over twenty-eight thousand students per year. CPITS is also known for its annual anthology of student and poet-teacher work and its annual professional conference.
December 4 ALL OPEN READING benefit: Poetry & Pizza
