poetry
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“Its body grew small and yet, it towered before us” (anonymous)
Thoth by Alex Nizovsky, acrylic on canvas Alex Nivosky is a designer, and biologist who is focused on the beauty of living organisms. His art expresses his passionate engagement with the beautiful forms of insects and their relatives. His new art project WWW.BUGSUR.COM is devoted to creation of the fantastic worlds of surrealistic creatures which…
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Jane Underwood Poetry Prize
The Jane Underwood Poetry Prize Open to Submissions! Currently in its inaugural year, The Jane Underwood Poetry Prize was established to celebrate and memorialize Jane Underwood, both founder and long-time director of The Writing Salon, who passed away in 2016. Open to all California poets, the prize is awarded for a single poem. For a…
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Forum Magazine Presents…Fiction and Poetry from CCSF at Lit Crawl 2013.
For the first time ever, Forum Magazine will have a presence at Lit Crawl! Our readings will take place at the Latin American Club (3286 22nd St.) from 6pm to 7pm, and feature artists from our Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 issues including Charlotte Hull, Real Lapalme, Seth Luther, Natalie Saunders, John Silverman, and Jerome Steegmans. If you don’t…
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Vicious, You Hit Me With A Flower by Natalie Saunders
VICIOUS, YOU HIT ME WITH A FLOWER -Lou Reed. “Vicious”. Transformer by Natalie Saunders Poetry, like an essay or any piece of writing partaking of both literary composition and a theme of nature is green literature. Poetry differs, but only slightly in it’s presentation, from other forms of literary work. Usually, poetry incorporates rhythm and…
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Speak To Me: Poetry From Survivors
SPEAK TO ME: POETRY FROM SURVIVORS Thursday, October 25 Ocean Campus Cloud Hall Reading Garden (Between Science and Cloud Halls at the Flagpole Plaza) 11 a.m. -12:30 p.m. Join us for a free public poetry reading addressing domestic and sexual violence. Refreshments will be provided. Persons requiring disability-related accommodations for this event should contact Disabled…
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A Reading at L’s Caffe (May 31st (Updated!)
L’s Caffe have been kind enough to sponsor a reading/fundraiser for Forum. Reading will be crime novelist and teacher Seth Harwood and poets Nic Alea and Aimee Suzara and possibly others (watch for updates). There will also be the usual open mic, maybe a raffle and, excitingly, the latest issue of Forum will be out so you’ll have your first chance…
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Another Forum Reading
Benjamin Bac Sierra author of the novel Barrio Bushido and poet Athena Kashyap whose work has appeared in Noe Valley Voice, Spork, The Fourth River and many others will be reading this coming Monday, May 7 in Visual Arts 114. There will also be standard reading fare — an open mic as well as food…
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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…
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