General Blog
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HAVARIE/COLLISION (LITQUAKE SF; OCTOBER 13TH, 2017, 6:00PM-8:30PM)
The European Refugee Crisis: Havarie and the Art of Slow Cinema Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (2550 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110) 6:00PM-8:45PM, October 13, 2017 $15 adv./door Moderator: Nilgun Bayraktar Participants: Merle Kröger, Philip Scheffner Goethe-Institut San Francisco presents a reading with Merle Kröger (Radio Bremen Crime Novel Award 2015 / German Crime Novel Award…
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Poet Javier Zamora Reads at Mission Campus!
Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the United States as a boy. He earned a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA at NYU and is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Unaccompanied is Zamora’s first poetry collection. His poetry has been featured in numerous magazines and he has received…
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Thank you Zyzzyva!
Last semester’s Forum advisor, Jen Sullivan Brych, spoke with Zyzzyva and got this semester’s Forum class free copies of the magazine. Catch us here, enjoying it!
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FORUM Magazine Showcase (LitCrawl SF; October 14th 2017, 6:30PM-7:30PM)
FORUM will be participating in LitCrawlSF. On the final day of LitQuake literary festival, LitCrawl events will be hosted by venues throughout San Francisco’s Mission District. FORUM Magazine Showcase Adobe Books (3130 24th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110) (Phase II) 6:30PM-7:30PM, October 14, 2017 Curators: Jen Sullivan Brych Participants: Brianna Allen, Kevin Cosby, Zachariah Greer…
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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, SEPT 15th to OCT 15th (Academy of American Poets)
Sidonie by Ramón García After Gail Wronsky Reading Colette I am reminded that I, too come from a culture steeped in taste variegated nourriture. But being Mexican, I never made much of it. Amidst fancylesness banqueting, savoring what couldn’t be bought—joie de vivre, the metaphysics of indulgence. Not being French, sex came with complications, incurably…
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“…noted in the record, / but the file cannot be found.” (Ken Kimmel)
Observations by Ken Kimmel Trap is sprung like clockwork. One-million bits of information per second. Bulging files of xerox-white spilling over– onto the floor– magically transformed into opaque microfiche replicas. Acres of trees outlived their usefulness. Recycled from Top-Secret status to end in shreds. Horn-rimmed glasses of dull-witted, indignant welfare worker lay low on his…
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“I need all those hungry friends. / I wanna get warm, / available.” (Ann Nelson Gleeson)
The English Department at City College of San Francisco holds 35 past issues of Forum, the earliest issue dated 1948. Upon request, these issues are available but cannot leave the office. During the 1970s, Forum was renamed with individualized titles: Reality Trip (1973), Double Mirage (1975), & other lovely insects (1976), and Undertow (1977, 1978). In Double Mirage (1975) visual art was creatively incorporated with…
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