The 8th Annual San Francisco Altered Barbie Exhibition is proud to present an evening of Barbie inspired poetry featuring the Bay Area's outstanding: Amber Brianne Bouman, Meg Day, Lara Durback, Gina Goldblatt, Nicole Hammersla, Raymond Hobbs, Keely Hyslop, Daniel Weatherfield Lichtenberg, Sean Labrador y Manzano, Herbert Foster Kaufman, Juliana Korysno Miller, Chris Pine, Margaret Rhee, MG Roberts, Dennis Somera, Nora Toomey, and Rebecca VanDeVoort!

Admission Free

Raffle ticket with Altered Barbie 2010 Anthology purchase!

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Amber Brianne Bouman is a regular performer at the 16th & Mission open mic for the past five years, Amber has also performed at the Brainwash, Fingersnaps, Cafe Prague in North Beach, Cafe International on Haight Street, Sacred Grounds, Club Deluxe, the Park Branch Library, the now-defunct Canvas Cafe. She has featured at Blue Six, the San Francisco State University Poetry Center, Dalva and the now-defunct Unity Cafe. She has performed at San Francisco City Hall four times – three times for the annual city-wide open mic, Poems Under the Dome, and once in Supervisor Mirkarimi’s office for an art event. Amber’s poetry/spoken word has appeared in four issues of the 16th & Mission Review. She owns a bicycle named Gretel, a motor scooter named Elroy and a cat named Simon. She can be found in various virtual locations all over your interwebs.{C}{C}

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Meg Day hails from San Diego but is currently teaching young poets to hold their own at the mic with Youth Speaks in San Francisco. She was a finalist for the Best New Poets of 2010 & was recently named a 2010 Lambda Fellow & is working on a manuscript of poetry in American Sign Language. Her poems have appeared most recently in The Greenbelt Review, The Walrus, and ZYZYYVA. She lives & writes in Alameda with her sweet, dumb dalmatian. 

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Lara Durback is a notebook writer, using handwriting primarily, and that means walking around and writing. Public transportation is a big part of that city writing. She is also a letterpress printer. She only enjoys letterpress as collaboration, otherwise it is tedious. She is constantly prowling for diverse types of small press work to post on Deep Oakland, where she is a contributing editor. You can find recent work with and without handwriting in WORK, Try!, There Journal, etc. She is currently printing text over old photography magazine pages, using lead type and a Vandercook press, with the artist Ariel Goldberg. She reads about EMFs and all other things at the border of science and spirituality. She is the Book Art studio manager at Mills College.

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Gina Goldblatt writes lyrical prose aimed at pushing the reader to relate to the sentiment of the story. She is a New York to Bay Area transplant who has yet to lose her edge. She, like all good writers, has a kitten named Zora that she rescued from the engine of a car. Zora is named after Zora Neale Hurston because she's that much of a dork. Her poetry is found in elegant thorn, Gloom Cupboard and Language and Culture.

Nicole Hammersla is a producer, writer, actor, and director for PianoFight Production's female-driven variety/"SHEketch" comedy show, Monday Night Foreplays. She has written/directed/composed/collaborated on over 50 comedic sketches, 5 videos, and 1 musical for PianoFight, and hopes to continue to produce new work in 2011 and beyond. 

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Ray Hobbs is a producer/writer/actor for the weekly sketch comedy show "The S.H.I.T. Show", appearing at the Off-Market Theaters via PianoFight Productions. He has headlined the SF and LA Comedy Festivals with this same sketch comedy group, and recently hosted the opening night of the San Francisco Improv Comedy Festival. His work variously tends toward both the vulgar and intellectual. Hopefully his performance reflects this trend.

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Keely Hyslop is a prodigious doer of approximately heroic deeds. She slays dragons, but only the mean ones. She rescues damsels, but only the ones who don't really need rescuing. She would never make light of her undying adoration for okapis. She has been published in Zambomba, Muir Creative Magazine, 400 Words, Forth Magazine, Shrapnel, A Leery Pistol Press, and sPARLE & bLINK.

Herbert Foster Kaufman has published short fiction and poetry in Wasted Space, Errata, The Underwood Review, Sugar Mule, Cherry Bleeds, Thought Magazine, Outsider Ink, Gothic Fairy Tales, and Caveat Lector. He has written restaurant reviews for local papers, ad copy for Playboy, and the play Montgomery Clift Can't Save You. He is the author of A Testament to Grace. 

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D.W. Lichtenberg is the author of THE ANCIENT BOOK OF HIP (Fourteen Hills Press, 2009). He is a writer, filmmaker, caffeine addict, and obsessive cleaner. D.W.L. grew up on the Main Line of Philadelphia and currently lives in San Francisco, where he edits LA PETITE ZINE and litblog WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE. He once went five days without eating anything, and often writes about cross country road trips with J.D. Salinger.

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Sean Labrador y Manzano is a poet of postcolonial eroticism. 

Sean Immanuel Labrador y Manzano’s favorite clubs are Death Guild and MEAT.

Sean Immanuel Labrador y Manzano realized he realized he was a performer during a revealing full-body cavity search in a Pensacola naval penitentiary.

In 2010, Sean Labrador y Manzano appears in

Conversations at a Wartime Café (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/wartime/), Fag/Hag, Tayo, Beeswax, Our Own Voice, Try, The Coffee Shop Chronicles, and else where, and has edited JS Waters’ novel, The Modern Primitives.

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Juliana Korysno Miller is a Body Worker/Energy Worker and poet. She has been featured several times at Cafe International And Cafe La Boheme in San Francisco. During 2006, she collaborated with an all female poetry collective called Tara's Tongue. When she is not performing spoken word or practicing bodywork, she is gleaning inspiration from brilliant song lyrics and inevitably, bodies of brilliant blue water.

Chris Pine won an Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize for a long poem about the sky.  Since then he's lowered his gaze to the gravel pit where Barbie gets made. His current project's the ocean because we're under water anyway.  Chris teaches high school English in San Francisco, rides his bike there, and spent the summer farming north of Boston, rode his bike there.

  

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 Margaret Rhee co-edited the chapbook Here is a Pen: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets (Achiote Press, 2009) and has published poems in Back Room Live and the Berkeley Poetry Review. Her current experimental media work, delves in the intersection of poetics, theory, and video. Passionate about women of color feminism and issues of race, gender, and sexuality, examining, questioning and loving Barbie, has been a glorious plastic endeavor. She attended the inaugural Kundiman poetry retreat and fell in love with poetry & there there.

 MG Roberts teaches in the San Francisco Bay area. Her work has appeared and or is forthcoming in Web Conjunctions, Indefinite Space, How2, and KQED'S Writer's Block. Her second chapbook is forthcoming from Magenta Press. If she were not a poet she would be a snake handler, or maybe just a good speller.

 

 

 

 Dennis Somera

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does pokin'wordsplay/brokenswordplay/blokeanswerveplywoodyouwrite  w/a pinch/punch of performancearth collaborations: online at Digital Artifact, Deep Oakland.com, 2ndAvenuePoetry, Cricket Online Review; on the pagenre in POMPOM, Bay Poetics, Chain and Tinfish; onstagenre in the Bay Area at Ohana Open Mic, KSW events, The Lab and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; across the country in New York City's Bowery Poetry Club and Galapagos Art Space, and the University of Miami and the Miami Beach Cinemathique. He teaches writing and performance workshops to youth through Meridian Gallery, Youth Speaks, World Savvy, and Marin Poets in the Schools.

 

Nora Toomey is affiliated with many institutions. The institution of ruby hearts. The institution of cosmic consciousness. The institution of open roads, oceans as churches, being brave when it feels hard. Currently, she is living in Oakland, and feeling pretty tough. 

Or, Nora Toomey has no affiliations with any institutions, whatsoever. She has studied poetry, women, and what it means to be a conscious human. She is the co-founder of The New Sensationists. She's dug up roots from a strange place called Connecticut.

 

Rebecca VanDeVoort landed on planet Earth somehow before the known universe was created. She enjoys poetry, photography, music, tai chi and her cat Friday. Her poetry, graphopoems and photography have appeared in Work #6, Try Magazine, the Peacock Online Review and on the Deep Oakland website. Her blog,"the sordid, soggy splendor" is forthcoming in 2069. She used to have an ample doll collection that scared her tremendously. Once on a long journey both sides of her body split apart to reveal a cakey mutant bear hidden within. 

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