tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67572623332315704492024-03-13T13:08:50.466-07:00Portuguese Artists ColonyWords will not fail us.Chemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-6327527409802301292015-04-05T23:29:00.001-07:002015-04-19T09:28:04.356-07:00Nomads and Homebodies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Home, you think, as you drop keycard next to desk blotter with the hotel's name across the bottom, exactly the same here as in Newark as in Indianapolis as in Madrid, the bar to your left when you exit the elevator, Starbuck's to your right, a relief, barstool knows the shape of your ass, bartender the very same guy no matter where, those deep parentheses around his mouth tell you he understands, you don't need to say more than the drink you want. Later tonight a voice on the phone will ask When are you coming home, and it will take a minute to remember the place, small bodies that used to fit against your waist now grown tall and distant, too much space between couch and coffee table, conversation goes around your face in words you almost know but can't quite translate anymore.<br />
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Come home with Portuguese Artists Colony on Thursday, April 30th, at <a href="http://secondactsf.com/">Second Act</a>.<br />
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Guest readers:<br />
<b>Poupeh Missaghi</b> is a writer and wanderer, a translator and a PhD candidate at the University of Denver, Creative Writing program. Her work has appeared under a pen name in <i>World Literature Today</i>, <i>Guernica</i>, <i>The Quarterly Conversation</i>, <i>The Barcelona Review</i>, <i>Short Fiction Magazine</i>, <i>The Baltimore Review</i>, and elsewhere.<br />
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<b><a href="http://chiwanchoi.com/">Chiwan Choi</a> </b>is the author of <i>The Flood</i>, <i>Abductions</i>, and his newest book, <i>Ghostmaker</i>, which he'll be writing, presenting, and destroying in 2015. He is also a partner at <a href="http://writlargepress.com/">Writ Large Press</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://siamakvossoughi.com/"><b>Siamak Vossoughi</b></a> was born in Tehran, grew up in Seattle, and lives in San Francisco. He is a recipient of the 2014 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction<span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">, </span>for his collection entitled <i>Better Than War</i>.<br />
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Colonists <b>Maw Shein Win</b> and <b>Caitlin Myer</b>.<br />
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<a href="http://secondactsf.com/">Second Act</a><br />
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Doors at 7:00 pm<br />
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Chemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-82134040028086273982015-01-11T15:21:00.000-08:002015-01-17T18:50:18.561-08:00Apologies and Promises<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Look look, we said we were sorry. Well, we're saying it now. Happy? Anyway, it's not like we weren't justified. You just don't know what we had to deal with, I mean, these people. No, we're not saying what you think we're saying. When we say These People we mean, you know, these specific people. And other people like them. Not that we're saying we didn't go a little far, I mean, accidents happen. The most important thing is to move on, right? Just keep walking. We promise, it won't happen again.<br />
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Clear your conscience with Portuguese Artists Colony on Sunday, January 18, at the <a href="http://secondactsf.com/">Second Act</a>.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.nayomimunaweera.com/"><b>Nayomi Munaweera</b></a> is a Sri Lankan-American writer. Her debut novel, <i>Island of a Thousand Mirrors</i> was originally published in Sri Lanka in 2012. It was long listed for the Man Asia award, shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian literature and won the Commonwealth Regional Prize for Asia. The novel was published in America in September 2013. <i>The New York Times </i>called the book "luminous."</span></span></div>
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Vote on a prompt as you enter the show, and four writers will write on the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired. Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be read at the next PAC performance.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;"><a href="http://www.siamakvossoughi.com/"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Siamak Vossoughi</b></span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><a href="http://www.mhandthensome.com/">Rohan DaCosta</a></b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://methodwritingsf.com/"><b>Alexandra Kostoulas</b></a></span></span><br />
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Sunday, January 18<br />
<a href="http://secondactsf.com/">Second Act</a><br />
1727 Haight Street<br />
between Cole and Shrader<br />
San Francisco<br />
Doors at 7:00 pm<br />
<a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1152089">Advance tickets</a>, sliding scale $3-7<br />
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Chemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-84245075443285050132014-08-22T13:35:00.003-07:002014-08-22T13:38:02.915-07:00We are back<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Chemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-45555731436888155812014-02-09T11:51:00.002-08:002014-02-09T11:55:48.086-08:00Eternal cakes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">we're going on hiatus</span></b><br />
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We love you most of all, and though we're taking a break, we're still here, still fake Portuguese, still colonizing literature all over the world. <br />
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Look for us in <b>August</b> or <b>September</b> of <b>2014</b>. We'll have a fresh show to celebrate four years of Portugueseish love and general rowdiness.</div>
Chemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-49126719476243644322013-12-15T13:51:00.002-08:002013-12-15T14:00:53.937-08:00Victimless<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It isn't personal, she says. You see words falling out of her mouth and piling up in no particular order, some of them launched at bullet speed, but she isn't, she says, trying to hurt you. It's only words, you tell yourself, but still you feel them like punches, you want to check yourself for broken bones.<br />
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Let Portuguese Artists Colony lead you into safety on Sunday, January 5, at the <a href="http://www.makeoutroom.com/">Make-Out Room.</a><br />
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<b>Tom Barbash</b> is the author of the short story collection, <i>Stay Up With Me</i>, published this fall by Ecco/Harper Collins. His novel, <i>The Last Good Chance</i>, was a <i>Publishers Weekly</i> Book of the Year.<br />
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<a href="http://www.maishazjohnson.com/"><b>Maisha Z. Johnson</b></a> is a queer writer and activist with an MFA in poetry from Pacific University. She blogs about writing and social change at <a href="http://www.maishazjohnson.com/">www.maishazjohnson.com</a>.<br />
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Vote on a prompt as you enter the show, and four writers will write on the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired. Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be read at the next PAC performance.</div>
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<b><a href="http://carolyncooke.com/">Carolyn Cooke</a></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.edwardgauvin.com/">Edward Gauvin</a></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.iramarlowe.com/iramarlowe.com/home.html">Ira Marlowe</a></b></div>
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<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aOUuXYuSJ0">Daniel Suárez</a></b></div>
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Sunday, January 5<br />
<a href="http://www.makeoutroom.com/">The Make-Out Room</a><br />
3225 22nd Street<br />
San Francisco<br />
Show at 5:00 pm<br />
Sliding scale $5-10<br />
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It's over, she says, and you believe it. You nod and agree, Yes, it's over, best we go our separate ways. But then of course there's the party and it would be too awkward to back out and you've had a drink, or several, and the balloons have sunk to the floor and the two of you are dancing and your head is on her shoulder and maybe maybe you can stay over just for tonight except when she's undressing you have to open your mouth and you don't even remember what you said but in a hot second she's crying and pushing you out the door, she doesn't even care she's half-naked.<br />
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The next morning you text her an apology. It's over, you say. Yes, she texts, it's over. But neither of you believe it.<br />
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Join Portuguese Artists Colony and their undead hearts on Sunday, November 3 at the <a href="http://www.makeoutroom.com/">Make-Out Room.</a><br />
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Guest readers:<br />
<a href="http://www.camilledungy.com/"><b>Camille T. Dungy</b></a> is the author of <i>Smith Blue</i>, <i>Suck on the Marrow</i>, and <i>What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison</i>. Her honors include an American Book Award, two Northern California Book Awards, and a fellowship from the NEA.<br />
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<b>Joe Loya</b> is author of the memoir, <i>The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell: Confessions of a Bank Robber</i>. His TV commentary ranges from crime to politics and religion. That's why his prison zombie apocalypse ebook, <i>The Red Mile,</i> was no real literary stretch.
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<a href="http://sylviesimmons.com/"><b>Sylvie Simmons</b></a>, or as Leonard Cohen calls her, "darling", is a British, ukulele-playing, award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction, Cohen's biographer and the subject of BBC documentary <i>The Rock Chick</i>.</div>
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PLUS! We'll hear from our last show's live writing winner, <b>Christopher Worrall.</b><br />
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Musical guest: <b><a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/threetimesbad">Three Times Bad</a></b></div>
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Live writing:<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.karenmacklin.com/">Karen Macklin</a> <br /><a href="http://sylviesimmons.com/">Sylvie Simmons</a><br /><a href="http://www.nicolemtaylor.com/blog/?page_id=68">Nicole M. Taylor</a></b><br />
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Sunday, November 3<br />
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<a href="http://www.makeoutroom.com/">The Make-Out Room</a><br />
3225 22nd Street<br />
San Francisco<br />
Show at 5:00 pm<br />
Sliding scale $5-10</div>
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Chemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-85979520398148914502013-08-21T12:48:00.004-07:002013-10-17T17:51:46.987-07:00Little fish<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Just down the street from your apartment is a little shop you've never entered. Something pulls you in one afternoon, maybe you want a prayer candle, and while you talk with the woman at the counter, you glimpse, behind a curtained doorway, people in white. You hear singing, and laughing, and, is it your imagination, or was that the strangled squawk of a chicken, the furious flapping of wings?<br />
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The woman behind the counter smiles, and you see, for a moment, that she lives at the center of a lively universe that has nothing at all to do with you. When you step out into the dark street, you feel somehow lighter, freed of the burden of your own importance.<br />
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Swim with Portuguese Artists Colony in the wide ocean of experience on Sunday, September 8, at the <a href="http://www.makeoutroom.com/">Make-Out Room</a>.<br />
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Featuring guest host <a href="http://aliavolz.com/"><b>Alia Volz</b></a>!<br />
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Guest readers:<br />
<b><a href="http://www.zahracomedy.com/">Zahra Noorbakhsh</a></b> is a writer, performer and stand-up comedian. <i>The New Yorker Magazine</i> dubbed her one-woman show, “All Atheists Are Muslim” a highlight of the <i>Int’l NYC Fringe Theater Festival</i>.<br />
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<b><a href="http://jryanstradal.com/">J. Ryan Stradal</a></b> is from Minnesota. His recent work has appeared in <i>Hobart</i>, <i>The Rumpus</i>, <i>Los Angeles Review of Books</i>, <i>Joyland</i>, <i>Trop</i>, and <i>The California Prose Directory</i>. He likes books, wine, and peas.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.zarinazabrisky.com/">Zarina Zabrisky</a></b> is the author of short story collections <i>Iron </i>and <i>A Cute Tombstone</i> and a novel, <i>We, Monsters</i>, a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee and recipient of 2013 Acker Award. <br />
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PLUS! We'll hear from our last show's live writing winner, <b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">Mũthoni Kiarie</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">.</span><br />
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Musical guest: The ever-wonderful <a href="http://brookedmusic.com/"><b>Brooke D</b></a></div>
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Live writing:<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRpPGExYqNQgctRkezQ0S940ZblKL4Frg1_XBuDtG95dFOOENqGQh8iXKjrSVXQK4kr4rfvTJ0pSrdofK6LTeV_dbWD2HvdfgbOnKLU4WQq5f3p8nI33yqh6Y5yAch60coBVKo2obdqVeG/s1600/SmPACPosterLittleFish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRpPGExYqNQgctRkezQ0S940ZblKL4Frg1_XBuDtG95dFOOENqGQh8iXKjrSVXQK4kr4rfvTJ0pSrdofK6LTeV_dbWD2HvdfgbOnKLU4WQq5f3p8nI33yqh6Y5yAch60coBVKo2obdqVeG/s320/SmPACPosterLittleFish.jpg" width="229" /></a>Vote on a prompt as you enter the show, and four writers will write on the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired. Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be read at the next PAC performance.<br />
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<b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/9gxe6yr">Michael Capozzola</a><br /><a href="http://tarintowers.tumblr.com/">Tarin Towers</a></b><br />
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<b>Christopher Worrall</b><br />
<b>Cybele Zufolo</b></div>
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Sunday, September 8<br />
<a href="http://www.makeoutroom.com/">The Make-Out Room</a> - New Venue!<br />
3225 22nd Street<br />
San Francisco<br />
Show at 5:00 pm<br />
Sliding scale $5-10</div>
Chemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-5331151233775220232013-06-11T17:23:00.004-07:002013-08-21T12:50:26.765-07:00Disaster tourist<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
You can't help yourself. You're attracted to drama: the tear-streaked trailer owner whose home was tossed across the road, the man slowly emerging from the collapsed building, those live interviews on TV, Area Woman wide-eyed and nearly incoherent.<br />
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You can't help it. Your heart jumps when the lights in your office building flicker out, you can't even feel shame in the hope that it's an attack, a bomb, a fire, something something to pull you into a larger story. The temptation grows, every day, to give the world a little nudge, an announcement that you're here.<br />
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Sift through the wreckage with Portuguese Artists Colony on Sunday, July 7.<br />
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Featuring guest readers:<br />
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<b>Elizabeth Bernstein</b>‘s fiction has appeared in the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Sunday Magazine, the <i>SF Bay Guardian</i>, <i>Tin House</i> online, and other journals. She's the founding editor of the literary magazine <i>The Big Ugly Review</i>. She's a freelance book and story editor, and she teaches short story workshops at the San Francisco Writers' Grotto.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.seth-fischer.com/">Seth Fischer</a></b>’s writing is in <i>Best Sex Writing 2013</i>, <i>PANK</i>, <i>The Rumpus</i>, <i>Buzzfeed</i>, <i>Guernica</i>, and elsewhere, and he has a notable essay in <i>The Best American Essays 2013</i>. He’s at work on a memoir called <i>The Three Year Switch</i>. He teaches at Antioch University LA and Writing Workshops LA.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.headlands.org/artist/maw-shein-win/">Maw Shein Win</a></b>’s poetry and prose has appeared in many journals. She was co-founder of <i>Comet</i> and is currently a co-publisher for <i>Stretcher</i>. Her latest poetry book, <i>Ruins of a glittering palace</i>, with paintings by Mark Dutcher, was recently published by SPA. She is a freelancer at the SF Writers' Grotto.<br />
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We'll hear from our last show's live writing winner, <b>Daniel Heath</b>.<br />
PLUS! Introducing our newest Colonist, <b><a href="http://pinkghettoproductions.com/">Alix Lambert</a></b>.<br />
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Great tunes from <a href="http://heathermarieyager.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">Heather Yager</a>, of <a href="http://ladiesinblouses.com/">Ladies in Blouses</a>.<br />
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Live writing:<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieqg-E4UN2Xxac9e_FCpH-XtcLUN7k8nQD8ZtHlKaneoej05b9W_gq9Q6RWUMcHFWTiMZcVnZtWg5pOU98VRrhyphenhyphen29vV7k5Q3EZ7ZK05NG8-gtpu7jZ1HwwPID0NHOdp1Q1wG4QksEKi4U2/s1600/2013-07-07+disaster_sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieqg-E4UN2Xxac9e_FCpH-XtcLUN7k8nQD8ZtHlKaneoej05b9W_gq9Q6RWUMcHFWTiMZcVnZtWg5pOU98VRrhyphenhyphen29vV7k5Q3EZ7ZK05NG8-gtpu7jZ1HwwPID0NHOdp1Q1wG4QksEKi4U2/s1600/2013-07-07+disaster_sm.jpg" /></a>Vote on a prompt as you enter the show, and four writers will write on the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired. Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be read at the next PAC performance.<br />
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<b>Mũthoni Kiarie </b><br />
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<b>Allison Landa</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.mmanwaring.com/"><b>Marge Manwaring</b></a></div>
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<b>Courtney Moreno</b></div>
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Sunday, July 7<br />
<a href="http://www.makeoutroom.com/">The Make-Out Room</a> - New Venue!<br />
3225 22nd Street<br />
San Francisco<br />
Show at 5:00 pm<br />
Sliding scale $5-10</div>
Chemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-86117928711978912972013-04-14T17:33:00.002-07:002013-06-11T17:37:39.411-07:00Paper trail<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
These are the traces you leave behind, your prescriptions, applications for reimbursement, outdated resumes, shopping lists. You imagine that, after you're gone, someone will follow one to another and try to reconstruct you. A biographer, a grandchild not yet even thought of. A scrap of a to-do list posted on Facebook like Woody Guthrie's "Wash teeth, if any." Your sixth grade essay on your mother's face will be found an early classic, a sign of greatness.<br />
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The greatness that for now, eludes you. Every day more paper slips in through the letter slot in your door, every day the pile on your desk grows deeper, and you remember when people talked about a paperless society, and all you can do is laugh. Buried somewhere under those receipts and bills is the kernel of your bright and innocent heart.<br />
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Start clean with Portuguese Artists Colony on May 5th at our fresh new venue, <a href="http://www.makeoutroom.com/">The Make-Out Room</a>.<br />
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Featuring an all-<b>Los Angeles</b> roster of guest readers:<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.davidrocklin.com/">David Rocklin</a></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;"> </span>is the author of the 2011 novel <i>The Luminist</i>. He is also the founder of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/roarshackpac?fref=ts">Roar Shack</a> reading series in Los Angeles. He is currently at work on his new novel, <i>The Daylight Language</i>.<br />
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<a href="http://booksandbreath.wordpress.com/"><b>Zoë Ruiz</b></a> is the Saturday Editor for <a href="http://therumpus.net/"><i>The Rumpus</i></a> and staff member of FOUND magazine. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, <i>Two Serious Ladies</i>, and <i>Fine Print</i>. Currently she’s working on her interview project “Learn People Better” and curates READINGS, a Los Angeles based reading series. <br />
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<b><a href="http://www.aishasloan.com/"> Aisha Sloan</a></b>'s work has been published in <i>Ninth Letter</i>, <i>Identity Theory</i>,<i> Michigan Quarterly Review</i> and <i>The Southern Review</i>. Her first book of essays,<i> The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White</i> was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2013.<br />
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Fun fact: both <b>Aisha</b> and <b>Zoë</b> teach yoga.</div>
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PLUS! Live writing winner <b><a href="http://thepoetrystore.net/">Silvi Alcivar</a> </b>will be back with her finished piece, and new work from Colonist <a href="http://peterorner.net/" style="font-weight: bold;">Peter Orner</a>.</div>
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Fabulous music from <a href="http://www.jethrojeremiah.com/"><b>Jethro Jeremiah</b></a>. </div>
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Live writing:<br />
Vote on a prompt as you enter the show, and four writers will write on the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired. Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be read at the next PAC performance.<br />
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This month's live writing matchup is an epic throwdown between <b>Portuguese Artists Colony</b> and our Los-Angeles-based sister series, <b>Roar Shack</b>. Place your bets now!</div>
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<a href="http://timbauer.wordpress.com/"><b>Tim Bauer</b></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.salon.com/writer/julia_ingalls/"><b>Julia Ingalls</b></a></div>
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<a href="http://blog.playground-sf.org/2011/05/daniel-heath-muses-on-origin-of-his-new.html"><b>Daniel Heath</b></a></div>
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<b><a href="http://booksandbreath.wordpress.com/">Zoë Ruiz</a></b></div>
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Sunday, May 5<br />
<b><a href="http://www.makeoutroom.com/">The Make-Out Room</a> - New Venue!</b><br />
3225 22nd Street<br />
San Francisco<br />
Show at 5:00 pm<br />
Sliding scale $5-10<br />
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Chemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-22088594274389669292013-02-27T14:11:00.003-08:002013-04-16T12:37:06.786-07:00Road trip<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The blue ice in the cooler isn't cold anymore and you can smell sandwiches, the kids will not settle down for one minute, Leticia keeps kicking the back of your seat, and you're not even out of Nebraska yet. You watch those rich families cruising by with glowing screens in the backs of the seats and you think, It's never going to end. Someday, sure, the kids will grow up and maybe maybe they'll get out on their own, but who's kidding who about retirement, nobody gives out gold watches and a bucket of money to last until you die, that was your dad's generation, you'll get too old for your job and keel over behind the counter of a Del Taco, that dumb paper hat still hugging your sad old head.<br />
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It's just you and the kids since their father walked out so why spend another vacation with family? Take the next exit and see where it goes, remember that feeling when you were in college, a full tank of gas and cash in your pocket, anything could happen.<br />
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Join Portuguese Artists Colony on Sunday, March 24th, to see where the road takes you.<br />
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Featuring guest readers:<br />
<a href="http://patriciaannmcnair.com/"><b>Patricia Ann McNair</b></a>’s short story collection, The Temple of Air, was awarded Book of the Year by the Chicago Writers Association, Southern Illinois University’s Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award, and a finalist award by the Society of Midland Authors. She is an associate professor of Fiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.riverandsoundreview.org/Fiction/Issue6/VossoughiNineInnings.htm">Siamak Vossoughi</a></b> was born in Tehran, Iran and lived in London, Orange County, and Seattle growing up. He moved to San Francisco eighteen years ago, in part because he loved William Saroyan. He writes short stories, and some of his work has appeared in <i>Fourteen Hills</i>, <i>Prick of the Spindle</i>, the <i>Massachusetts Review</i>, and forthcoming in <i>Glimmer Train</i>.<br />
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We'll hear from our last show's live writing winner, Colonist <a href="http://www.shanthisekaran.com/The_Prayer_Room.html"><b>Shanthi Sekaran</b></a>, as well as work from Colonist <a href="http://timbauer.wordpress.com/"><b>Tim Bauer</b></a>.</div>
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Great tunes from the fabulous <a href="http://brooked.bandcamp.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">Brooke D</a>.</div>
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Live writing:<br />
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<b><a href="http://thepoetrystore.net/">Silvi Alcivar</a></b><br />
<b>Sona Avakian</b><br />
<b><a href="http://patriciaannmcnair.com/">Patricia Ann McNair</a></b><br />
<b>Amol Ray</b><br />
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Sunday, March 24<br />
<a href="http://www.jdvhotels.com/hotels/sanfrancisco/rex">Hotel Rex</a><br />
562 Sutter Street<br />
In the Salon, just behind the Library Bar<br />
San Francisco<br />
Show at 5:00 pm<br />
Sliding scale $5-10<br />
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Chemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-48441678240758659372013-01-13T14:02:00.001-08:002013-03-02T13:12:08.290-08:00Everything new<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's your first date, she's wearing a dress and you shaved just before going out the door. She finds your jokes funny, and you aren't thinking about the moment when she won't anymore, when she'll give you that weary face instead of tonight's full-out laugh. You order a bottle of wine, and you don't know that soon you'll notice the hairs that sprout from her enchanting mole, you wouldn't believe it if your future self came back in time to tell you that the pitch her voice gets when she asks, again, if you've taken out the garbage will make you want to cover her face with your hands.<br />
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Join Portuguese Artists Colony in that tender moment of freshness, let's live here forever.<br />
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<b>Kim Addonizio</b>’s verse novel, <i>Jimmy & Rita</i>, was reissued by Stephen F. Austin State University Press. Her other recent books are <i>Lucifer at the Starlite</i> and <i>Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within</i>, both from W.W. Norton. She teaches poetry workshops in Oakland, CA and online at <a href="http://www.kimaddonizio.com/">www.kimaddonizio.com</a>.<br />
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<b>Glen David Gold</b> is the author of the novels <i>Sunnyside</i> and <i>Carter Beats the Devil</i>. He has written essays, memoir and fiction for the <i>New York Times Sunday Magazine</i>, <i>McSweeney's</i>, <i>Playboy</i> and <i>Tin House</i>, and comic books for DC and Dark Horse. His episode of <i>Hey Arnold</i> is streaming on Netflix.<br />
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<b>Katie Wheeler-Dubin</b> and <b>Joe Loya</b> tied to win in December's live writing. In a brilliant move, they have collaborated on a finished piece!<br />
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The first ever public performance from the band <b>Nonstop Beautiful Ladies</b>, featuring <b>Peter Kline</b> and <b>Kim Addonizio</b>.<br />
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PLUS! Readings from our newest Colonist, <b>Roxane Beth Johnson</b> and Founding Colonist <b>Daniel Heath</b>.<br />
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Live writing:<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHyLyJf4VNW23ZG16sLwri4Y4g5XxilxRX_tX21ZHtdKVT7nBQE3A1iK4WnTWYc4Iofa6rJr2_6vaju8h4iI7HhwxipmX2uyQX8NlTs0Z5H6V1Pvl6hyphenhyphenfylpg00vq1EbGj6AiJniTWZhj7/s1600/01-27-13sm.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHyLyJf4VNW23ZG16sLwri4Y4g5XxilxRX_tX21ZHtdKVT7nBQE3A1iK4WnTWYc4Iofa6rJr2_6vaju8h4iI7HhwxipmX2uyQX8NlTs0Z5H6V1Pvl6hyphenhyphenfylpg00vq1EbGj6AiJniTWZhj7/s320/01-27-13sm.jpeg" width="213" /></a>Vote on a prompt as you enter the show, and four writers will write on the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired. Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be read at the next PAC performance.<br />
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This month it's an epic showdown, featuring all writers from <a href="http://www.sfgrotto.org/"><b>The San Francisco Writers' Grotto</b></a>!<br />
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<b>Elizabeth Bernstein</b><br />
<b>Zahra Noorbakhsh</b><br />
<b>Glen David Gold</b><br />
<b>Shanthi Sekaran</b><br />
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Sunday, January 27<br />
<a href="http://www.jdvhotels.com/hotels/sanfrancisco/rex">Hotel Rex</a><br />
562 Sutter Street<br />
In the Salon, just behind the Library Bar<br />
San Francisco<br />
Show at 5:00 pm<br />
Sliding scale $5-10<br />
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Chemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-9299695011505158782012-11-17T12:09:00.000-08:002013-01-13T16:07:15.564-08:00People are good<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The number isn't one you recognize, but you answer anyway. It's a voice you almost know, you knew once, and as he talks, the memories bloom in your head, his voice was once all you heard, you woke and fell asleep to his voice, to the words he aimed at you like blows. The time between then and now zeroes down and you're twenty again, you're the girl who learned to doubt everything, who paused before each step for the blame, the fault, the roaring gap he never failed to see between what was right and your own sorry attempt. <br />
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I was wrong, he says now on the phone, You deserved none of that, and you feel it like a sword in your heart, that bright moment of liberation, finally free. I'm sorry, he says, and with those words he redeems you both.<br />
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Let Portuguese Artists Colony show the good in all of us, we will dig down through all the layers of violence and spite and find that shining light.<br />
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<a href="http://pinkghettoproductions.com/"><b>Alix Lambert</b></a> has written for magazines including: <i>Stop Smiling</i>, <i> ArtForum</i>, and <i>Filmmake</i>. She is an editor at large for the literary journal <i>Open City</i>. She wrote Episode 6, season 3 of <i>Deadwood</i>: “A Rich Find” (for which she won a WGA award) and was a staff writer and associate producer on <i>John From Cincinnati</i>. She is the author of four books: <i>Mastering The Melon</i>, <i>The Silencing</i>, <i>Russian Prison Tattoos</i>, and <i> Crime</i>.<br />
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<b>Joe Loya</b> is author of the memoir, <i>The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell: Confessions of a Bank Robber</i>. His TV commentary ranges from crime to politics and religion. That's why his prison zombie apocalypse ebook, <i>The Red Mile</i>, was no real literary stretch. (Although the pseudonym The Zombie Whisperer definitely was.) <br />
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<b>Sarah Karlinksy</b> returns with her winning piece from last month's live writing! <br />
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Sweet tunes from <b><a href="http://www.jeremyhatch.com/">Jeremy Hatch</a></b>.<br />
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Live writing:<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEk3ROy1k9ZLK7ZlAryIr4o8Sw1tAJZTEY64y3cdpc6P7nXefY0XTkukgQtmHIuhYuNWtkI8PAUqO8T3RIrvCT73lhJ_dyKen4l3dTWTloUlIhnhGMIVHL3Ec0guSAawvjcoT0vcc7W6Rk/s1600/12-02-12sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEk3ROy1k9ZLK7ZlAryIr4o8Sw1tAJZTEY64y3cdpc6P7nXefY0XTkukgQtmHIuhYuNWtkI8PAUqO8T3RIrvCT73lhJ_dyKen4l3dTWTloUlIhnhGMIVHL3Ec0guSAawvjcoT0vcc7W6Rk/s320/12-02-12sm.jpg" width="213" /></a>Vote on a prompt as you enter the show, and four writers will write on the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired. Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be read at the next PAC performance. It's always a thrill.<br />
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<b><a href="http://pinkghettoproductions.com/"><b>Alix Lambert</b></a> </b><br />
<b><b>Joe Loya</b> </b><br />
<a href="http://www.k-w-d.blogspot.com/"><b>Katie Wheeler-Dubin</b></a><br />
<b><a href="http://monicanomiddlenamezarazua.wordpress.com/publications">Monica Zarazua </a></b><br />
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Sunday, December 2<br />
<a href="http://www.jdvhotels.com/hotels/sanfrancisco/rex">Hotel Rex</a><br />
562 Sutter Street<br />
In the Salon, just behind the Library Bar<br />
San Francisco<br />
Show at 5:00 pm<br />
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Chemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-5766717587773466372012-11-07T15:42:00.002-08:002012-11-07T15:42:57.914-08:00Welcome new Colonists<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Portuguese Artists Colony has expanded by two. Soon, we'll be an empire. Please welcome:<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/roxane-beth-johnson"><b><span class="il">Roxane</span> Beth Johnson</b></a>’s first book of poetry is<i> Jubilee </i>(Anhinga, 2006). Her second book, <i>Black Crow Dress, is</i> forthcoming
from Alice James Books. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, 2007,
and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Cave Canem and The Bread
Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming
from: <i>The Pushcart Prize Anthology Harvard Review,</i> <i>The Georgia Review, Image,</i> <i>Callaloo</i>, <i>Beloit Poetry Journal, Chelsea </i>and elsewhere.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><b><a href="http://peterorner.net/">Peter Orner</a> </b>is the author of three books of fiction, including <i>Esther
Stories</i>, <i>The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo</i>, and the recently
published novel, <i>Love and Shame and Love</i>, a <i>New York Times</i> Editor's
Choice book, just out in paperback. He lives in Bernal Heights and is generally against
colonization, except in circumstances such as these. </span></span></div>
Chemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-55060367066649814582012-09-30T12:13:00.002-07:002012-11-07T21:32:54.511-08:00Outliers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
You know who you are. You're the kid who's always on the far left of the back row, the one who's taller than the teacher, they make you stand on the floor rather than the bleachers, and still you're in the back row. You're the one who knows who the bad guy is in the first fifteen minutes of the movie, but you've learned to keep your mouth shut, your friends don't appreciate your wisdom. You can drink all night and never get drunk, all while looking tiny and delicate, you watch your date try to keep up until he's barely able to walk. You're like us.<br />
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We're <b><a href="http://litcrawl.org/sf/events/outliers/">outliers</a></b>. Join Portuguese Artists Colony in our special, all-Colonist <a href="http://www.litquake.org/">Litquake</a> show, as part of the beautiful, wordy chaos of the <a href="http://litcrawl.org/sf/">Lit Crawl</a>. <br />
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Featuring:<br />
<a href="http://timbauer.wordpress.com/">Tim Bauer</a><br />
<a href="http://portugueseartistscolony.blogspot.com/p/leslie-ingham.html">Leslie Ingham</a><br />
<a href="http://www.shanthisekaran.com/">Shanthi Sekaran</a><br />
<a href="http://carytennis.com/">Cary Tennis</a><br />
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Hosted by <a href="http://chemicalbilly.blogspot.com/">Caitlin Myer</a><br />
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Saturday, October 13<br />
Phase 3, 8:30-9:30<br />
<a href="http://www.revolutioncafesf.com/#%21/">Revolution Cafe</a><br />
3248 22nd St., San Francisco <br />
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Chemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-92135215015294142582012-09-03T02:43:00.001-07:002012-09-30T11:54:34.397-07:00Permanent Fatal Error<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The light changes and you step out into the street, you're late for work and you're thinking about a cup of coffee, already, you should cut down, but not this week, the project is due and it'll take a fucking miracle, Brandon is useless since his girlfriend left him, he can't focus for two minutes and everyone else is taking up the slack, and you don't, you really don't want to work late tonight, you have a real date and you want time to get home and change, that sweet dress you bought last week, and you've already decorated the little one-bedroom you'll rent together, you and your date, between the light changing and that first step into the street, and a hand grabs at you, pulls you short, you feel a mass shove through the air a cracked inch from your nose, a city bus running the light.<br />
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How long does it last, that pulse-pumping realization, <i>I could have died</i>? Long enough to thank the stranger who saved you by the breadth of his hand, long enough to shake and laugh and maybe tell your co-workers when you sit, alive, at your desk, but you can't really feel it, you can't begin to believe you're only a wrong step from oblivion.<br />
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Portuguese Artists Colony will take you over the edge, bring that bus all the way to its destined catastrophe. Take your last wrong turn with us Sunday, September 23.<br />
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<a href="http://chiwanchoi.com/"><b>Chiwan Choi</b></a> is the author of two poetry collections, <i>The Flood</i> and his new book, <i>Abductions</i>.
He is now trying to finish<i> Exit to Hope Street</i>, a collection of short
stories. Chiwan also runs Writ Large Press with his wife and partner,
Judeth Oden, and is spearheading an effort to establish a badass
lit/music/art crawl in downtown Los Angeles, using tactics learned from
watching <i>The Wire</i>.<br />
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<b><a href="https://twitter.com/DougCordell"><span class="il">Doug</span> <span class="il">Cordell</span></a></b> is an Emmy-nominated television writer,
essayist and radio storyteller whose pieces have been broadcast on, among others, National Public Radio’s <i>Snap Judgment</i> and American Public Media’s <i>Marketplace</i>.
A former host of the <i>Brooklyn Rail</i> magazine’s <i>Rant/Rhapsody</i>
reading series in New York City, he has also performed at HERE Arts Center in
NYC, LA’s <i>Tongue & Groove</i> and <i>Vermin on the Mount</i>, and the
Bay Area’s <i>Quiet Lightning</i> and <i>Lip Service West</i>. <br />
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<b><a href="http://sarahladipomanyika.com/">Sarah Ladipo Manyika</a></b> was raised in Nigeria and has lived in
Kenya, France, and England. She is the author of <i>In Dependence</i> (Legend
Press, 2008) and Editor of <i>Pulsations, The Journal of New African Writing</i>. She
currently lives in California where she teaches at San Francisco State
University. She is a Hedgebrook alum and serves on the Board of the
Museum of the African Diaspora.<br />
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The victorious<b> <a href="http://jeremyravdin.com/">Jeremy Ravdin</a> </b>returns with his completed piece from our last show!<br />
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Crazy great music from <b>Jhene Canody.</b><br />
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Live writing:<br />
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the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired.
Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which
piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be
read at the next PAC performance. It's always a thrill.<br />
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<a href="http://www.jennyart.com/"><b></b></a><b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6757262333231570449">Jenny Bitner</a> </b><br />
<b><a href="http://www.kristinfitzpatrick.com/">Kristin FitzPatrick</a></b><br />
<b>Sarah Karlinsky </b><br />
<b>Sean Owens</b><br />
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Sunday, September 23<br />
<a href="http://www.jdvhotels.com/hotels/sanfrancisco/rex">Hotel Rex</a><br />
562 Sutter Street<br />
In the Salon, just behind the Library Bar<br />
San Francisco<br />
Show at 5:00 pm
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Chemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-52178018255913862582012-08-12T03:41:00.001-07:002012-08-15T11:34:59.655-07:00Work with us!<div style="color: black;">
Portuguese Artists Colony is looking
for a Producer and Marketer. This may be one fabulous person or two
separate brilliant people.<br />
<br />
<b>Producer description:</b><br />
- Research and contact potential readers and "live writers" to perform at bi-monthly shows.<br />
- Research and contact musicians who can play at PAC shows.<br />
- Communicate with guests as the show approaches: gather bios and URLs, let them know what to expect, etc.</div>
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- Create each show's printed program and supervise printing.<br />
- Day-of-show support, including: donations, book sales, room set up, live writing prompts.<br />
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Our ideal producer will have contacts within the San Francisco literary
community, but will be able and willing to look beyond the usual circle
of local readers. We love to pair lesser-known but wonderful authors
with more well-known authors. We also seek all sorts of diversity:
discipline (non-fiction, fiction, poetry, rant), race, gender,
orientation, and subject matter.<br />
<br />
<b>Marketing description:</b><br />
- Facebook promotion<br />
- Press releases<br />
- Newsletter<br />
- Website updates<br />
- General promotion of events, and post-show wrap-up.<br />
- Monitoring for press about PAC, as well as pictures and videos of shows, for promotion on PAC website.<br />
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Our ideal marketer will have contacts in the press world and know how
to spread the word. Some familiarity with Blogger for light website
updating would be lovely.<br />
<br />
This is a/these are volunteer
position(s). No salary is available at this time, but any perks that
come our way will be shared. This is, however, an opportunity to take an
active role in the Bay Area literary scene and meet our extended
circles of artists and writers, and introduce us to yours.<br />
<br />
If
you're already attending readings/live music on a regular basis, this
won't require much more of your time - no more than 10-15 hours a month. <br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.asterisksanfrancisco.com/v2i2/portuguesesartcolony.html">Asterisk Magazine</a> had this to say about Portuguese Artists Colony:<br />
"PAC is easily the classiest reading series in the city. What is
special about this reading is how well the program fits together, and
how thoughtfully curated the whole event is. You never once get that, Oh
my god, did I just wear a beret to an open mic? feeling. More likely
you'll get the feeling that you gained special access to literary
pilgrims at work, as they pen swords all over the battlefields of the
imagination."<br />
<br />
Be a part of something beautiful!<br />
<br />
To find out more, email caitlin (at) portugueseartistscolony (dot) com.</div>
Chemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-40102508032430111072012-07-11T08:41:00.003-07:002012-09-03T02:47:08.173-07:00Narrow placesYou took the turn, pretending certainty, and when asphalt turned to cobblestone and the street curved upward through a stairstepped neighborhood, you looked at your wife with your Isn't This An Adventure face, and her smile was overbright. The houses were tall and narrow, walls of shifting color, and tiny European cars parked on both sides of the road now. You're creeping forward, just half-revolutions of the wheels until you stop. No way to pass without scraping cars on both sides, and a men in heavy mustaches gather, arms crossed over paunches, watching, you can't back up, not with that steep curve and it's a miracle you got this far, you feel the chill of sweat under the arms of your shirt and you want to start swearing, fuckstick assfiddle needledick, but your wife puts a hand on your arm and you try to take in a breath.<br />
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Let Portuguese Artists Colony guide you home Sunday, July 22nd. Featuring guest readers:<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.craigclevenger.com/">Craig Clevenger</a></b> <span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">was born in Dallas, Texas. He is the author two novels, <i>The
Contortionist’s Handbook</i> and <i>Dermaphoria</i>. He currently lives in San
Francisco and is at work on his third novel.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://laureneggertcrowe.com/"><b>Lauren Eggert-Crowe</b> </a></span>has written for <a href="http://salon.com/">Salon</a>, <a href="http://therumpus.net/">The Rumpus</a> and L.A. Review of Books. She is the author of two forthcoming poetry chapbooks: <i>The Exhibit </i>and <i>In The Songbird Laboratory</i>.
She's also the managing editor of <a href="http://freedomroad.org/askasocialist/">Ask A Socialis</a>t. (If you'd like to
ask a socialist out, follow Lauren on Twitter @LaurEggertCrowe.)<br />
<br />
The ever enchanting <b><a href="http://ethelrohan.com/">Ethel Rohan</a></b>, victorious in May's live writing contest, returns with her finished piece!<br />
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Sweet live tunes from musical guest <b><a href="http://www.jaschamusic.com/">Jascha Hoffman</a></b>.<br />
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Live writing:<br />
Vote on a prompt as you enter the show, and four writers will write on
the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired.
Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which
piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be
read at the next PAC performance. It's a thrill - place your bets now!<br />
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<b><a href="http://clairehennessy.blogspot.com/">Claire Hennessy</a></b><br />
<b>Marianne Lonsdale</b><br />
<b><a href="http://jeremyravdin.com/">Jeremy Ravdin</a> </b><b> </b><br />
<b><a href="http://parishighnoon.com/">Trent Tano</a> </b><br />
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Sunday, July 22<br />
<a href="http://www.jdvhotels.com/hotels/sanfrancisco/rex">Hotel Rex</a><br />
562 Sutter Street<br />
In the Salon, just behind the Library Bar<br />
San Francisco<br />
Show at 5:00 pm
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<br />Chemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-23428832393539574122012-07-01T09:57:00.001-07:002012-07-11T08:17:39.304-07:00ElsewherePortuguese Artists Colony is taking a stroll.<br />
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It all begins <b>Sunday, July 8, 5:00 pm at </b><a href="http://blogspot.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=1b551896f94038597c8d1582f&id=39c34047c1&e=2b3b5d850e" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Stories</a>, with the maiden appearance of <b>PAC Los Angeles'</b> <a href="http://blogspot.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1b551896f94038597c8d1582f&id=3b5b7d2bb8&e=2b3b5d850e" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b>Roar Shack</b></a>.<br />
Featuring <a href="http://blogspot.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=1b551896f94038597c8d1582f&id=8950b61aec&e=2b3b5d850e" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Chiwan Choi</a>, <a href="http://blogspot.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1b551896f94038597c8d1582f&id=918172f6d0&e=2b3b5d850e" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Jillian Lauren</a>, <a href="http://blogspot.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1b551896f94038597c8d1582f&id=d31dfadf2d&e=2b3b5d850e" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Shilpa Agarwal</a>, Live Writing with <a href="http://blogspot.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1b551896f94038597c8d1582f&id=d10f6d9bca&e=2b3b5d850e" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">J Ryan Stradal</a> and <a href="http://blogspot.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=1b551896f94038597c8d1582f&id=81341210a0&e=2b3b5d850e" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Ameni Rozsa</a>, and music by <a href="http://blogspot.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=1b551896f94038597c8d1582f&id=759844e4bf&e=2b3b5d850e" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Scott Shriner</a>.<br />
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On <b>Monday, July 9</b>, we're wandering across the ocean to host the participant open mic as part of <a href="http://blogspot.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1b551896f94038597c8d1582f&id=da3b3c5340&e=2b3b5d850e" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Dzanc Books/CNC DISQUIET International Literary Program</a> in <b>Lisbon, Portugal</b>. This is our second year as part of DISQUIET, and we're mighty pleased to return. Live Writing in a 150-year old literary club. What could be sweeter? <b><a href="http://blogspot.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1b551896f94038597c8d1582f&id=536b15a714&e=2b3b5d850e" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Grémio Literário</a>, at 6:00 pm.</b><br />
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We're back to our original home in San Francisco on <b>Sunday, July 22</b>, with a wonderful lineup: <b><a href="http://blogspot.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1b551896f94038597c8d1582f&id=10bec84b30&e=2b3b5d850e" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><br />
Craig Clevenger</a></b> and <a href="http://blogspot.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=1b551896f94038597c8d1582f&id=4d936117a8&e=2b3b5d850e" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b>Lauren Eggert-Crowe</b></a><br />
Musical guest: <b><a href="http://blogspot.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1b551896f94038597c8d1582f&id=f007cb0b0d&e=2b3b5d850e" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Jascha Hoffman</a> </b><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzppqyAJ0iXbpfdvWxFEL-Nk4biGewM7A2yUVF_4MXME_xXqpUkfzCn8n7zYVQNfqAY7k6YTOP9ahaeSbo2bQIbNuiF_W1kpmwo1BXfHDfJFKrPvxsF3PzaawGQaMfpcbMPdaPgvE680F6/s1600/PAC-portugual-2012-sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzppqyAJ0iXbpfdvWxFEL-Nk4biGewM7A2yUVF_4MXME_xXqpUkfzCn8n7zYVQNfqAY7k6YTOP9ahaeSbo2bQIbNuiF_W1kpmwo1BXfHDfJFKrPvxsF3PzaawGQaMfpcbMPdaPgvE680F6/s320/PAC-portugual-2012-sm.jpg" width="213" /></a>Live writing winner: <b><a href="http://blogspot.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=1b551896f94038597c8d1582f&id=961a73adc1&e=2b3b5d850e" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Ethel Rohan</a> </b><br />
Live writers: <b><a href="http://clairehennessy.blogspot.com/" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Claire Hennessy</a><span style="color: black;">, Marianne Lonsdale, <u><a href="http://jeremyravdin.com/" style="color: black;">Jeremy Ravdin</a>,</u> </span><a href="http://parishighnoon.com/" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Trent Tano</a> </b><b> </b><br />
<b>Sunday, July 22</b><br />
<a href="http://blogspot.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1b551896f94038597c8d1582f&id=50c9284530&e=2b3b5d850e" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Hotel Rex</a><br />
562 Sutter Street<br />
In the Salon, just behind the Library Bar<br />
San Francisco<br />
<b>Show at 5:00 pm <b> </b></b><br />
<b>Sliding scale $5-10</b>Chemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-32398303735654405512012-05-27T17:00:00.000-07:002012-07-01T09:54:21.368-07:00Take your medicineYou've had it coming for a while. Your wife asked about the smell on you when you crept in between the sheets last night, you'd hoped she wouldn't notice. Just that, her voice coming calm out of the dark, and it was clear she knew. She turned her back on you to sleep, but you can't, you'll lie awake all night. <br />
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Man up with Portuguese Artists Colony on May 27 at <a href="http://www.jdvhotels.com/hotels/sanfrancisco/rex">Hotel Rex</a>. We'll hold your hand in the grim morning-after light. <br />
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Featuring guest readers:<br />
Local singer Songwriter <b><a href="http://www.davidberkeley.com/">David Berkeley</a></b> wrote most of the songs from his latest album <i>Some Kind of Cure</i> while living in a 40-person village in the mountains of Corsica. He also penned a memoir called <i>140 Goats and a Guitar</i>, which tells the stories that inspired those songs.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.janeganahl.com/">Jane Ganahl</a> </b>has been a journalist, author, editor and arts producer in San Francisco for 30 years. She is the co-founder and co-director of <a href="http://litquake.org/">Litquake</a>, the West Coast’s largest independent literary festival. She is also the author of the memoir <i>Naked on the Page: the Misadventures of My Unmarried Midlife</i>.<br />
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Plus! We have <b>two</b> live writing winners:<br />
Actual Portuguese-American <b><a href="http://portuguese-american-journal.com/linette-escobars-gift-of-self-goes-beyond-her-community-interview/">Linette Escobar</a></b> won March's live writing with the prompt, "She craved nachos."<br />
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"Not-a-writer" <b><a href="http://www.greenapplebooks.com/">Kevin Hunsanger</a></b> returns with his winning piece about a hoarder from February's show.<br />
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Live music from the wonderful <a href="http://facebook.com/missermatunes"><b>Erma Kyriakos</b></a>. <b><a href="http://youtube.com/missermasband">Listen to her songs here</a></b>, and watch for the full-length album!<br />
<br />
Live writing:<br />
Vote on a prompt as you enter the show, and four writers will write on
the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired.
Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which
piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be
read at the next PAC performance. It's a thrill - place your bets now!<br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBV12Lt1x9UH7n-vngR2W_xH_MIG_XlDsSpV0uMfEZLJmq2OQSk-fb2HDYWdGICZcxgwVTEJnT3zX8h4m46KIz-m3_tprxmjcBDzeaoctxYscncCszGZ_hn3r8uHHVlz7QnPG1SmYuz9jz/s1600/2012-05-27-sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBV12Lt1x9UH7n-vngR2W_xH_MIG_XlDsSpV0uMfEZLJmq2OQSk-fb2HDYWdGICZcxgwVTEJnT3zX8h4m46KIz-m3_tprxmjcBDzeaoctxYscncCszGZ_hn3r8uHHVlz7QnPG1SmYuz9jz/s320/2012-05-27-sm.jpg" width="218" /></a><b> </b><b><a href="http://therumpus.net/author/julie/">Julie Greicius</a></b><b> </b><br />
<b>Douglas Henderson</b><br />
<b><a href="http://www.iramarlowe.com/">Ira Marlowe</a></b> <br />
<b><a href="http://ethelrohan.com/">Ethel Rohan</a></b><br />
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Sunday, May 27<br />
<a href="http://www.jdvhotels.com/hotels/sanfrancisco/rex">Hotel Rex</a><br />
562 Sutter Street<br />
In the Salon, just behind the Library Bar<br />
San Francisco<br />
Show at 5:00 pm
<b> </b><b><a href="http://www.iramarlowe.com/"></a></b>Chemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-9633691092213137022012-03-25T17:00:00.000-07:002012-04-26T14:49:31.660-07:00Reality showThere's a camera behind your bathroom mirror, another over your bed, behind your left ear, under your tongue. You're being watched by millions, over dinner, faces lit by the screen. Your whole life is a reality show. You're the dickhead on a power trip, the weakling who pisses himself under pressure, the compulsive crier. Under the eye of the camera, as under God's obsessive stare, you are your worst self. Every time you pick your nose, every stupid confession to your boyfriend is tallied on the crawl at the bottom of the screen.<br />
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So why not let it all go? Why not go flamboyant, give the gods of your world some real entertainment? Bring out the pogo-stilts and the flamethrower. Join Portuguese Artists Colony on March 25 at <a href="http://www.jdvhotels.com/hotels/sanfrancisco/rex">Hotel Rex</a> as we blur the line between life and performance, if there ever was a line in the first place.<br />
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Featuring guest readers:<br />
<a href="http://poetlaureateblog.org/"><b>Sally Ashton</b></a> is a poet and Editor-in-Chief of the <a href="http://www.dmqreview.com/">DMQReview</a>. She teaches creative writing and is the current Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County, blogging at <a href="http://www.blogger.com/poetlaureateblog.org">poetlaureateblog.org</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.deanrader.com/"><b>Dean Rader</b></a>’s <i>Works & Days</i> received the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize, was a finalist for the Bob Bush Memorial First Book Prize, and won the Writer’s League of Texas Book Award for Poetry. <i>Verse Daily</i> named his poem “Ocean Beach at Twilight: 14” one of the best poems of 2010, and another of his poems will appear in <i>Best American Poetry 2012</i>. He is a professor at the University of San Francisco.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi75PrPnP-qJV4lMuy6nE1gO4BNYhhW50sE6TFjcOqpSKSBt4cUD5m0EvumaAtFx1vtmm5MyAPTDGJbys_L6sKA6FI2FXSg78lQjNF4FwgpahldaWrTSBCL2SeJNDn9d9zs5USmTTalkMmA/s1600/march-pac-2012sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi75PrPnP-qJV4lMuy6nE1gO4BNYhhW50sE6TFjcOqpSKSBt4cUD5m0EvumaAtFx1vtmm5MyAPTDGJbys_L6sKA6FI2FXSg78lQjNF4FwgpahldaWrTSBCL2SeJNDn9d9zs5USmTTalkMmA/s1600/march-pac-2012sm.jpg" /></a><br />
PLUS!<br />
<b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=641948050">Sona Avakian</a></b> lives in San Francisco and has had work published or forthcoming in <i>ZYZZYVA</i>, Sonora Review, Instant City and Sand Hill Review. <br />
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Live music from the fabulous <b>Sadie Contini</b> of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/theinvisiblecities"><b>The Invisible Cities</b></a>.<br />
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Live writing:<br />
Vote on a prompt as you enter the show, and four writers will write on the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired. Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be read at the next PAC performance. The live writing gets more exciting with every show. Place your bets!<br />
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<a href="http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/missychurch"><b>Missy Church</b></a><br />
<b><a href="http://www.portugueseamericanreview.com/?p=397#pt">Linette Escobar</a></b><br />
<a href="http://www.garyturchin.net/"><b>Gary Turchin</b></a><b> </b><br />
<b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1666980613">Matthew DeCoster</a></b><br />
<br />
Sunday, March 25<br />
<a href="http://www.jdvhotels.com/hotels/sanfrancisco/rex">Hotel Rex</a><br />
562 Sutter Street<br />
In the Salon, just behind the Library Bar<br />
San Francisco<br />
Show at 5:00 pmChemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-18880753708938645802012-02-26T09:29:00.000-08:002012-03-15T15:01:42.502-07:00I can't hear youBaby, I can't hear you, she says. You try again, but your words get mangled along the way. There's too much interference, too many years, betrayals, the gap between your pickup basketball game in Chicago and her Kyoto classroom unbridgeable. You open your mouth and all she hears is static, sirens, the thwack of knuckle on cheek. You want to say love, Baby, love, but it turns to roadkill in her ear.<br />
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Join Portuguese Artists Colony at our <b>new location</b>, the <a href="http://www.jdvhotels.com/hotels/sanfrancisco/rex">Hotel Rex</a>, on February 26 to get the message straight.<br />
<br />
<b>Featuring guest readers:</b><br />
<b><a href="http://thecrazypetesblotter.blogspot.com/">Kelly Luce</a></b>'s story collection received the San Francisco Foundation’s Jackson Award and was a finalist for the 2010 Bakeless Prize. Her fiction has recently appeared in <i>The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, </i>and<i> Kenyon Review</i>. This summer she’ll be a resident at Fogo Island Arts Corporation in Newfoundland.<br />
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<b><a href="http://peterorner.net/">Peter Orner</a></b><span style="color: black;"> is the author of three books of fiction, including <i>Esther Stories</i>, <i>The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo</i>, and the recently published novel, <i>Love and Shame and Love</i>, a <i>New York Times</i> Editor's Choice book. He lives in Bernal Heights and is generally against colonization, except in circumstances such as these.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">PLUS! <b>Geetha Reddy</b>'s winning play from last month's live writing, inspired by the prompt: <i>The restaurant served only meat.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Live music from <b><a href="http://thebarbaryghosts.com/">The Barbary Ghosts</a></b>. </span><br />
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<b>Live writing:</b><br />
Vote on a prompt as you enter the show, and four writers will write on the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired. Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be read at the next PAC performance. The live writing gets more exciting with every show. Place your bets!<br />
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<b>Katrin Arefy </b><br />
<b><a href="http://www.greenapplebooks.com/">Kevin Hunsanger </a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.iramarlowe.com/">Ira Marlowe</a></b><br />
<b>Don Menn</b><br />
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</b>Sunday, February 26<br />
<b>NEW LOCATION!</b><br />
<b><a href="http://www.jdvhotels.com/hotels/sanfrancisco/rex" style="color: #d47e3a; text-decoration: none;">Hotel Rex</a></b><br />
562 Sutter Street<br />
In the Salon, just behind the <a href="http://www.jdvhotels.com/dining/sanfrancisco/library_bar">Library Bar</a><br />
San Francisco<br />
Show at 5:00 pm <span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"> </span>Chemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-70142103917088058672012-01-22T17:00:00.000-08:002012-02-21T09:13:46.800-08:00Not loadedShe says it isn't loaded as she passes it to you, but it feels heavy, the metal still warm from her hand. You could open the chamber and check, but that would violate some rule of trust between you. You have to believe her, it isn't loaded. The neighbor kid thought the gun wasn't loaded when he took it out to show his friend, just that little thing, and the shot was heard for years after, the story whispered from kid to kid through two generations. Your uncle must have thought the shotgun wasn't loaded when he leaned it against the fence before climbing over, but we'll never know, his mouth is closed forever.<br />
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So it isn't loaded. So you trust her, and put your finger on the trigger. Join Portuguese Artists Colony on January 22 to see what happens next.<br />
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<b>Featuring guest readers:</b><br />
<b><a href="http://sethharwood.com/" style="color: #d47e3a; text-decoration: none;">Seth Harwood</a> </b>received an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and went on to build a large fan base for his first novel, <i>Jack Wakes Up</i>, by first serializing it as a free audiobook. Across iTunes and sethharwood.com, his work has been downloaded over one million times. His second novel, <i>Young Junius</i>, is billed as "<i>The Wire</i> meets Cambridge, MA in 1987″ and was picked by George Pelecanos as one of his best books of 2010. Seth currently lives in San Francisco where he teaches English and creative writing at Stanford and the City College of San Francisco.<br />
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<a href="http://www.brittanyperham.com/" style="color: #d47e3a; text-decoration: none;">Brittany Perham</a> </b>is the author of <i>The Curiosities </i>(Parlor Press 2012). Her recent work may be found in Southern Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, Lo-Ball, Linebreak, and elsewhere. She is a Jones Lecturer in poetry at Stanford University, where she held the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from 2009-2011. She is a member of the word/music project Nonstop Beautiful Ladies and she lives in San Francisco.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d47e3a;">Steven Paul Lansky</span></b> will return with a long-distance reading of his winning piece from December's live writing, inspired by the prompt, "She saw Jesus."<br />
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<b>Live music</b> from "Oakland's sweet little secret," <b style="color: #d47e3a; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.iramarlowe.com/">Ira Marlowe</a>.</b><br />
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<b>Live writing:</b><br />
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MaryBeth Lorence</b><br />
<b>Geetha Reddy</b><br />
<b>Duo Von Dagrate</b><b> </b><br />
<b>Cary Tennis</b><br />
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</b>Sunday, January 22<br />
<b><a href="http://fivepointsarthouse.com/" style="color: #d47e3a; text-decoration: none;">Fivepoints Arthouse</a></b><br />
72 Tehama<br />
One block south of Howard at 2nd Street<br />
San Francisco<br />
Show at 5:00 pmChemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-84367072617167526842011-12-21T17:45:00.000-08:002011-12-21T17:45:54.950-08:00StretchyHead on KALWLovely words from Kevin Hunsanger of <a href="http://greenapplebooks.com/">Green Apple Books</a> on KALW about Ian Tuttle's book <i><a href="http://stretchyhead.com/">StretchyHead</a></i>. Kevin calls this sweet collection of stories "...a cross between Richard Brautigan and Raymond Carver."<br />
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Listen to the whole show (<i>StretchyHead </i>is mentioned in the last ten minutes):<br />
<a href="http://kalw.org/post/today-your-call-what-are-your-favorite-books-year#.TvJnGXbsut8.facebook">Today on Your Call: What are your favorite books of the year?</a><br />
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<i>StretchyHead </i>is the first release from <a href="http://pacbooks.com/">PACBooks</a>, a small publishing house that spun off from Portuguese Artists Colony.Chemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-16510639696123936442011-12-18T19:28:00.000-08:002012-04-26T16:23:58.273-07:00HeavyIt clings around your ankles, curves your back. It's bigger and badder and you squint to peer through its density. On December 18, let Portuguese Artists Colony share your burden.<br />
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We will bring you heavy metals with their mineral certainty, the massive guitar solos, the weighty thoughts to remind you of your center of gravity. Join us in the deep of December, just days before the earth shifts its weight, wobbling back toward the longer days of light.<br />
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<b>Featuring guest readers:</b><br />
<i>The Boston Globe</i> has called <a href="http://www.shawnayangryan.com/"><b><span class="il">Shawna</span> Yang Ryan</b></a> “a writer to watch.” Her debut novel, <i>Water Ghosts</i>, was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, a Maurice Prize winner and a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.streetlegalplay.com/">Kyle Thomas Smith</a></b> is the author of the novel, <i><a href="http://www.85anovel.com/index.htm">85A</a></i> (Bascom Hill, 2010), which has received seven awards, including one from the American Library Association's Over the Rainbow Committee, which named it one of the best books of 2010. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband Julius and his cats Marquez and Giuseppe.<br />
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<b><a href="http://therumpus.net/2011/08/funny-women-62-call-it-what-it-is/">Suzanne Kleid</a> </b>returns to read the conclusion to her hilarious live writing piece inspired by the prompt, "He wore red shoes."<br />
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Live music from the unmatched <b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dawn-Oberg/60791201173">Dawn Oberg</a></b>.<br />
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<b>Live writing:</b><br />
Vote on a prompt as you enter the show, and four writers will write on the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired. Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be read at the next PAC performance. The live writing gets more exciting with every show. Place your bets!<br />
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<b>Steven Paul Lansky<br />
Kyle Thomas Smith</b><br />
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<b>Eric Aragon<br />
Janey Smith</b><br />
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Sunday, December 18<br />
<b><a href="http://fivepointsarthouse.com/">Fivepoints Arthouse</a></b><br />
72 Tehama<br />
One block south of Howard at 2nd Street<br />
San Francisco<br />
Show at 5:00 pmChemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757262333231570449.post-53896146862015218572011-11-20T17:00:00.000-08:002011-12-09T20:29:51.723-08:00Now with moreOn Sunday, November 20, Portuguese Artists Colony now offers more. More live nude girls, more cleaning power, more skinned frogs and dancing soldiers, more conjugal visits, more all-night, twenty-four-hour protests, more tear gas, more than you ordered, more than you can choke down, more than any of us could have dreamed.<br />
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We're Americans, baby, we want more, and Portuguese Artists Colony is here to give it to you.<br />
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Featuring guest readers:</b><br />
<b><a href="http://ethelrohan.com/">Ethel Rohan</a></b> is the author of <i>Hard to Say</i>, PANK, 2011 and <i>Cut Through the Bone</i>, Dark Sky Books, 2010, the latter named a 2010 Notable Story Collection by The Story Prize. Her work has or will appear in <i>BULL Fiction</i>, <i>The Good Men Project</i>, <i>The Chattahoochee Review</i>, <i>Los Angeles Review</i>, and <i>Potomac Review</i>, among many others. She earned her MFA in fiction from Mills College, California. Raised in Dublin, Ireland, Ethel Rohan is now a resident of San Francisco, California. <br />
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/kellycressiomoeller">Kelly Cressio-Moeller</a></b>’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the following poetry journals: <i>Rattle</i>, <i>Southern Humanities Review</i>, <i>Pearl</i>, <i>Melusine</i>, <i>the Aurorean</i>, <i>Switched-on Gutenberg</i>, <i>Pirene’s Fountain</i>, and <i>The Newport Review</i> among others. She shares her deeply caffeinated life with her German husband, increasingly taller sons, and their opinionated basset hound. She has a weakness for fountain pens & purple ink. And like everyone else on the planet, she is working on a book.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.spiralorb.net/two/boxer">Nora Boxer</a></b> returns after her thrilling victory in September's live writing with her finished piece, inspired by the prompt, "His hands were in the sink."<br />
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<b>Live music</b> from <a href="http://www.facebook.com/passengerandpilot"><b>Passenger & Pilot</b></a>!<br />
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<b>Live writing:</b><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh3hGzAW7TsApXpuwLhLviuDVWwqArLHoDhVCEdU68Pca7qsDPBKhUNIxH6M2bU6csMsmvYPFDDiMf9bVjzcRqTgJh_sgLnJhYUnRYLinwjY9jZmr-NCahn1ssqwjQX1bOhNjHwghjKr8U/s1600/11-20-11sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh3hGzAW7TsApXpuwLhLviuDVWwqArLHoDhVCEdU68Pca7qsDPBKhUNIxH6M2bU6csMsmvYPFDDiMf9bVjzcRqTgJh_sgLnJhYUnRYLinwjY9jZmr-NCahn1ssqwjQX1bOhNjHwghjKr8U/s320/11-20-11sm.jpg" width="213" /></a>Vote on a prompt as you enter the show, and four writers will write on the winning topic while you watch them sweat, swear, and get inspired. Each writer will read what he/she wrote, and you get to vote on which piece you'd like to see developed into a finished story/poem/rant to be read at the next PAC performance. The live writing gets more exciting with every show. Place your bets!<br />
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<b>Pam Benjamin<br />
Amy Cruz<br />
Charlie Getter<br />
Suzanne Kleid</b><br />
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Sunday, November 20<br />
<b><a href="http://fivepointsarthouse.com/">Fivepoints Arthouse</a></b><br />
72 Tehama<br />
One block south of Howard at 2nd Street<br />
San Francisco<br />
Show at 5:00 pmChemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.com