behind the scenes

• April 1, 2013

  Meet the Spring 2013 Staff

  Jerome Steegmans, General Editor Author. Editor. Occultist. Publisher. On my bedside table: Terisa Batista; Home From the Wars by Jorge Amado; Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston; Norse Mythology and the Modern Human Being by Ernst Uehli; The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi; the February 2013 issue of Poetry; the Winter 2012 issue of The Paris Review; A…
• May 25, 2012

  Week 16: At Semester’s End

  by Ayo Khensu-Ra Monday was the final class period for Forum this semester. In a way it’s hard to believe it’s all over and done with but within a week we (and you) could be holding a copy of the completed magazine, the very thing all that work was for. Monday was the last class…
• April 12, 2012

  Spring 2012 Forum Staff

  Spring 2012 Forum staff bios.
• March 20, 2012

  Weeks Five and Six

  by Ayo Khensu-Ra Week Five As I’ve noted before, the our class time has been much reduced thanks to three holidays in the early part of the semester. And in week four* we had our reading as chronicled so well by Michael…Finally we were back to a more regular class and it was much needed…
• March 6, 2012

  Week Four / Reading One

  by Michael Thomson Last monday we had our first reading for the Spring 2012 issue of Forum. If you missed it, you missed a lot. If you were there, then you know how good it was. We started the evening by enjoying the wonderful guitar stylings of CCSF instructor Steve Mayer. In addition to the…
• February 9, 2012

  Week Two

  by Ayo Khensu-Ra Yes, there was a week two. Several people have joined up and apparently we’re now fine on numbers so we get to keep doing this. This week Jen taught the class and she announced the filling of a few of the key editing positions based on applications we completed last week. Several, like…
• January 31, 2012

  Week One

  by Ayo Khensu-Ra Well this is embarrassing. I scheduled this post for tonight without actually writing the post and thus it went up without there being much any text. Why is it a post for last Friday when it’s clearly Tuesday? Long story but in mostly unrelated news last night was the first night of class…