City Cafe, on the second level of the Student Union Building, Ocean Campus
April 21, 2017 9:00am-12:00pm
Free and open to the public!
Pick up a back issue of Forum and talk to creative writing faculty about our course offerings and Creative Writing Certificate!
It’s spring break, so no Forum lab today. Still, that’s no excuse to neglect y’all!
Seen at the 24th and Mission Muni stop:
An evening of progressive poetry, spoken word and vocal performances for social justice.
Una noche de poesĂa, palabra oral y expresiĂłn creativa.
2969 Mission St, San Francisco (between 25th and 26th Streets)
April 1, 2017 7:00 pm
Open mic sign up starts at 6:00pm
Two of CCSF’s Creative Writing faculty, Xochiquetzal Candelaria and Jen Sullivan Brych, will be reading at Litquake events this week!
Xochiquetzal Candelaria
Look Again, Faces on the Wall; Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
When: Oct. 16 @ 7:00PM
Where: Mission Cultural Center; 2868 Mission St.
Description: Artists widen the scope of time capturing and releasing a moment. Hear this group talk about creating art that persists and emboldens in this era of displacement. Includes screening of Anatomy of a Mural, Rick Goldsmith’s 15-minute film about the creation of the Mission Cultural Center’s mural. Donations accepted at the door.
Jen Sullivan Brych
Anthology SF
When: Oct. 17th @ 8:30PM
Where: Adobe Books; 3130 24th St.
Description: anthology presents a collection of inspiring, compelling, humorous, and beautifully crafted poetry and fiction for those hungry for striking language and captivating voices.
Please join Forum and City College’s Creative Writing department for a night of Poetry with D.A. Powell. The reading will be held at The Mission Campus(22nd and Valencia) Room 107/108. The reading will be followed by an Open Mic with beverages and food.
Come join Steven Mayers to read and discuss the poetry of San Francisco’s first Latino Poet Laureate, Alejandro MurguĂa! The group will meet on Wednesdays 9/10, 9/17, and 9/24, from 4:30 to 5:30, in the Rosenberg Library at City College of San Francisco, R205E.
On Wednesday, October 1st, at 12:00, CCSF’s Creative Writing Program and Forum Magazine will be hosting a reading with Alejandro MurguĂa . The reading will be held at the main campus of the City College of San Francisco, in the Multi-Use (MUB) Building, Room 140, at 50 Phelan Ave., San Francisco, located two blocks from the Balboa Park BART station. Limited parking is available on campus. The reading will take place on Wednesday, October 1st, at noon. Seating begins at 11:30. A Q and A session will proceed the reading, with reception to follow. This event is FREE and open to the public.
MurguĂa’s poems weave together English and Spanish, along with themes such as history, politics, race, culture, and love. His publications include two collections of short stories, Southern Front and This War Called Love, a collection of poetry entitled Stray Poems, and a work of creative non-fiction, The Medicine of Memory. A two-time recipient of the American Book Award, MurguĂa is a founding member and the first director of The Mission Cultural Center, a founder of The Roque Dalton Cultural Brigade, and co-editor of Volcán: Poetry From Central America. He teaches at San Francisco State University.
The reading will be held at the main campus of the City College of San Francisco, in the Multi-Use (MUB) Building, Room 140, at 50 Phelan Ave., San Francisco, located 2 blocks from the Balboa Park BART station; limited parking is available on campus. The reading will take place on Wednesday, October 1st, at noon. Seating begins at 11:30. A Q and A session will proceed the reading, with reception to follow. This event is FREE and open to the public.
You can visit the Facebook invitation here and invite more people!
Thank you so much to everyone who made our Forum Spring 2014 issue launch party such a success! Big thanks especially to: Bird & Beckett Books for so graciously hosting the event in their fabulous bookstore (seriously check it out, it’s amazing!), our contributors for producing all the immensely beautiful content in this issue, to our advisors and staff for putting in the long hours needed to get the work in print, CCSF’s graphics department for dedicating their talents to the layout, and to everyone who came to the launch party to show their support.
A special thank you to Bill McGuire, whose tireless efforts to raise money for the English Department social fund added up to a very generous donation to support our production costs. We still get all teary just thinking about it.
If you’d like to buy an issue of Forum’s Spring 2014 issue, please stop by Bird & Beckett or the CCSF Ocean Campus Bookstore. Each copy is $10, and all profits go toward funding future issues of the magazine.
If you’d like to work for Forum next semester, we’d love to have you! Just apply through CCSF (applications are open to everyone) and register for English 35L. Or, if you’d like to submit your work to be published, please visit our submissions page for more guidelines. The Fall 2014 submissions deadline will be in September.
Have a great summer, everyone! Before you take off to enjoy backyard BBQs and camping trips by the lake, please take a minute check out photos of our launch party over on our Facebook page. Just click the pic below:
