Beast Crawl literary extravaganza

16 JULY 2016 — saturday

Beast Crawl features more than 100 writers in a single night, in dozens of events, spread out over three hours and numerous local galleries, bars, restaurants, cafés, performance spaces, and storefronts, each leg lasts one hour, with a half hour break between legs, chose one reading per leg, Oakland, free, 5:00-9:00, After party 9:00-midnight (415/706-9128, beastcrawl.weebly.com)


Beast Crawl extravaganza: Lee Rossi, Nadine Lockhart, more
Beast Crawl : Leg 1 presents Milvia Street/Poetry Flash reading by Milvia Street: Art and Literary Journal, featuring contributors Katie Gallagher, Xochitl Frausto, and Sherry Wilson, hosted by Sharon Coleman, followed by a Poetry Flash reading hosted by editor Joyce Jenkins, featuring poet, associate editor Richard Silberg, poet and contributor Lee Rossi, and poet and editorial assisant Nadine Lockhart, Mohari Wellness, 9 Grand Avenue, Oakland, free, 5:00-6:00 (415/706-9128, beastcrawl.weebly.com)

Beast Crawl literary extravaganza: Leg 1
Beast Crawl: Leg 1 presents “Be About It,” reading by Lauren Traetto, Kelly Landmine, Katya Delaney, Christine No, Hanna Pesha, and Adam Binash, host Alexandra Naughton, E.M. Wolfman Books, 410 13th Street; “Crow Show West,” reading by Steve Goldberg, Chansonette Buck, Laura Jew, Roger Porter, Richard Loranger, and Nancy P. Davenport, host Paul Corman-Roberts and Elynn Alexander, Econo Jam Records, 2519 Telegraph Avenue; Kundiman Fellows reading by Iris A. Law, Sally Wen Mao, Margaret Rhee, Brynn Saito, host Mg Roberts, Taiwan Bento, 412 22nd Street; Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review and St. Mary’s College reading by Loria Mendoza, Lisa Alden, Daniel Riddle Rodriguez, Paul Ebenkamp, Alex Green, and Risa Nye, hosts Danielle Truppi, Bradley Penner, and Kelsay Myers, Pro Arts, 150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza; “Literary Speakeasy and Write from the Gut!” reading by Ocean Capewell, G Macias Gusman, Rowena Choy Henry, Tracey Lien, Nazelah Jamison, Yvonne Campbell, David Welper, and Elena Mauli Shapiro, hosts James J. Siegel and Alexandra Kostoulas, Picán Restaurant, 2295 Broadway; “Word Performances” reading by Aaron Kitchen, Joshua Mohr, Jamey Genna, Nana K. Twumasi, Pitta of the Mind with electronic music and poetry by Amanda Chaudhary and Maw Shein Win, hosts Cybele Zufolo Siegel and Todd Siegel, Ozumo, 2251 Broadway; “Tectónico: Voices in Shifting Times” reading by Naomi Quiñonez, Garrett Murphy, Moon Flower, Norman Antonio Zelaya, and Tony Robles, hosts Harold Terezón and Ricardo Tavarez, Kingston 11, 2270 Telegraph Avenue; “We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For,” Oakland Crossroads reading by Oscar Bermeo, David Maduli, Liz Mayorga, Asha Sudra Finkel, host Denise Benavides, Betti Ono Gallery, 1427 Broadway; Milvia Street art and literary journal and Poetry Flash reading by Richard Silberg, Nadine Lockhart, Lee Rossi, Katie Gallagher, Xochitl Frausto, and Sherry Wilson, hosts Sharon Coleman and Joyce Jenkins, Mohari Wellness, 9 Grand Avenue; Red Light Lit art and literary journal reading by Fisayo Adeyeye, Andrew Paul Nelson, Chad Koch, Lara Coley, Kar Johnson, Tara Rose, host Jennifer Lewis, The Venue, 420 14th Street; “Night Sounds with Pandemonium Press” reading by George Korolog, John Oliver Simon, Lucille Lang Day, host Leila Rae, Spice Monkey Café, 1628 Webster Street; “Taming the Beast Curators Reading” with Charlie Jane Anders, Marguerite Munoz, nick johnson, Aya de Leon, J.K. Fowler, host Mk Chavez, Casa Cubana, all in downtown Oakland, free, 5:00-6:00 (415/706-9128, beastcrawl.weebly.com)

Beast Crawl extravaganza: Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Alyssa Montantes, more
Beast Crawl: Leg 2 reading presents “Bay Area Generations,” a series with readers from different generations performing their work in tandem: poet Hugh Behm-Steinberg with poet Alyssa Montantes, editor/writer Jennifer Lewis with writer/educator Juliana Delgado Lopera, poet Clive Matson with writer Andrew O. Dugas, Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster Street, Oakland, free, 6:30-7:30 (415/706-9128, beastcrawl.weebly.com)

Beast Crawl extravaganza: Leg 2
Beast Crawl: Leg 2 presents Leg 2 Open Mic, hosted by Rivet Journal, with Deborah K. Steinberg, sign up thirty minutes prior, three-minute limit, Laurel Book Store, 1423 Broadway; Oakland Youth Poet Laureate 2016, finalist performance and new laureate announcement, with teen readers Lucy Flattery-Vickness, Nandi Maunder, Emma Talamantes, Isabel Hallock, Azariah Cole-Shephard, host Aimee M. Espiritu, Impact Hub, 2323 Broadway, earlier time: 6:00; “Rolling Writers Crossing Over” reading by Jacqueline Doyle, Candy Shue, Sandra Wassilie, Lynn Mundell, James Warner, Kara Vernor, host Jon Sindell, Farley’s East, 33 Grand Avenue; “StorySlam Oakland: Unexpected—a true story competition,” Mosa Maxwel-Smith, Chris Breen, Jenn Riek, Gary Pinsky, Luna Malbroux, Kathleen Auterio, host Julie Soller, The Layover Lounge, 1517 Franklin Street; “The Music Continued: In Memory of Justin Chin,” Manic D Press reading by James Tracy, Thea Hillman, Alvin Orloff, Daphne Gottlieb, Daniel LeVesque, and Jon Longhi,host Jennifer Joseph, Woods Bar & Brewery, 1701 Telegraph Avenue; “BustingOut Storytelling” reading, The Golden Bull, 412 14th Street; “Saturday Night Special” reading by Peter Bullen, Karen Penley, Dennis Cruz, and April Sinclair, hosts Hollie Hardy and Tomas Moniz, Telegraph Beer Garden, 2318 Telegraph Avenue; “Youth Radio with Creative Reflections and Commentaries,” reading, Youth Radio Arts Center, 1701 Broadway; “Bay Area Generations” reading, see listing below, hosts Hugh Behm-Steinberg and Alyssa Montantes, The Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster Street; “Get Woke by Nomadic Press” reading by Sonya Renee Taylor, Denise Jolly, Jason Bayani, Cassandra Dallett, Joyce Lee, Amber Flame, and musician Azuah, Awaken Café, 1429 Broadway Avenue; “Live Pedestrians! with Pedestrian Press” reading by Brontez Purnell, Kwan Booth, Jezebel Delilah X, Rick Lupert, Shirley Acuna, and William Taylor Jr., host J de Salvo, Drexl Bar, 382 19th Street; Naked Bulb Open Mic’s “Dionysus” reading by Carla Christensen, Fred Dodsworth, Lee Foust, Paul Corman Roberts, Andrew J. Thomas, Bill Gainer, and Lee Foust, host Missy Church, The Punchdown, natural wine bar and bottle shop, 1737 Broadway; LIMINAL feminist and womanist writing space reading by Brenda Usher-Carpino, Kelechi Ubozoh, Jeneé Darden, and Liz Demi Green, host Gina Goldblatt, Darling’s Elixirs, 1635 Broadway, free, 6:30-7:30 (415/706-9128, beastcrawl.weebly.com)

Beast Crawl extravaganza: Leg 3
Beast Crawl: Leg 3 presents Leg 3 Open Mic, hosted by Richard Loranger, sign up thirty minutes prior, three-minute limit, Club BNB, 2120 Broadway; “Brown People Don’t Read?” Sunday Stories writing group reading by Jenny Irizary, Scott Russell Duncan, Lisa D. Gray, Blanca Torres-Aldana, AU Lounge, 2430 Broadway; The East Bay Review’s “This is the Epicenter” reading by Michael Sakoda, Krista Varela, Jan Steckel, Kaya Oakes, Michael Caligaris, and Alison Moncrieff, SomaR Bar and Lounge, 1727 Telegraph Avenue; Lit Camp reading by Ian Tuttle, Miah Jeffra, Janine Kovac, Travis Peterson, and Alia Volz, host Matthew James DeCoster, Era Art Bar & Lounge, 19 Grand Avenue; “Eyeing the Margins: Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California and Foglifter Press” reading by Nanette Bradley Deetz, Dave Holt, Kim Shuck, Natasha Dennerstein, Genine Lentine, Vernon Keeve III, The Legionnaire Saloon, 2272 Telegraph Avenue; Pochino Press/Spectrum Queer Media reading, Feelmore Adult Gallery, 1703 Telegraph Avenue; “Skinless: New & Raw Writing” reading by Steven Gray, Joel Landmine, Ari Moskowitz, Xan Roberti, Siamak Vossoughi, and Arisa White, host SB Strokes, Bar 355, 355 19th Street; Swill magazine reading by David Corbett, Sean Craven, Renee Asher Pickup, and Holly West, host Rob Pierce, Longitude, 347 14th Street; Tourettes Without Regrets reading by Wonder Dave, Hunny Bunny, Jane Harrison, Irene Tu, L. Abdul Kenyatta, with host Jamie DeWolf, Starline Social Club, 645 W. Grand Avenue; Lip Service West series event, reading by Christina Ingenito, Tom Stern, Patrick O’Neil, William E. Wallace, hosts Joe and Justine Clifford, Café Van Kleef, 347 14th Street; “Un Re-Mixing Tied Tongue” reading with Ani Tascian, Monica Mody, Aura Maru, Jacob Walse-Dominguez, hosts Jef Von Ward, Nick Johnson, and Sean Labrador y Manzano, Stork Club, 2330 Telegraph Avenue; Big Bridge’s “To the Future and Beyond” reading by Sarah Wisby, Colleen McKee, Charlie Getter, Tongo Eisen-Martin, with hosts Youssef Alaoui and Maw Shein Win, The Good Hop Bottle Shop, 2421 Telegraph Avenue; “Chapter 510 & The Dept. of Make Believe tutoring and writing center for teens” reading with teen authors of This is Oakland, Chapter 510 & The Dept. of Make Believe, 2301 Telegraph Avenue, free, 8:00-9:00 (415/706-9128, beastcrawl.weebly.com)

Beast Crawl extravaganza: Leg 4, After Parties
Beast Crawl: Leg 4, After Parties: The Beast howls into the night with two after parties after Beast Crawl, The Legionnaire Saloon, 2272 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, and an all ages after party, The Telegraph, 2318 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, 9:00-midnight (415/706-9128, beastcrawl.weebly.com)