Come meet 4 of Radar’s abso fav artists this February!
Thursday, February 12, 2015
SF Main Library – 100 Larkin Street
Latino / Hispanic Rooms (Basement Level)
6pm
Hosted by Virgie Tovar
Featuring fresh baked cookies during the artist Q&A
==FREE==
Featuring…
CHLOE CALDWELL is the author of the novella, WOMEN (Short Flight/Long Drive) and the essay collection LEGS GET LED ASTRAY (Future Tense Books). Her work has appeared in Salon.com, The Rumpus, The Nervous Breakdown, Men’s Health, and Nylon. Her essays have been anthologized in “Goodbye To All That; Writers on Loving and Leaving NYC” and “True Tales of Lust and Love.” She lives in upstate New York. Visit www.chloecaldwell.com
BRENT ARMENDINGER was born in the small town of Warsaw, NY, and studied at Bard College and the University of Michigan, where he received an Avery Hopwood Award in Poetry. He is the author of The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying, a book of poems published by Noemi Press, as well as two chapbooks, Undetectable and Archipelago. He teaches creative writing at Pitzer College and lives in Los Angeles.
RYKA AOKI is the author of Seasonal Velocities, He Mele a Hilo (A Hilo Song) and the forthcoming Why Dust Shall Never Settle upon this Soul. She has been honored by the California State Senate for her “extraordinary commitment to free speech and artistic expression, as well as the visibility and well-being of Transgender people.” She was on the first Trans 100 list of most prominent and influential trans people in the United States, and was named as one to 11 Tran Artists of Color you should know by the Huffington Post. Ryka has MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University is the recipient of a University Award from the Academy of American Poets. She is a professor of English at Santa Monica College and of Queer Studies at Antioch University.
NIA KING documents and shares the work of political artists through her podcast, We Want the Airwaves, and her book of interviews, Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives. During the day, she rings up customers at the UNofficial copy shop of the revolutionary communist party.