 About the readers/performers: Josiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Pocho spanglish speaking poet from La Area Bahia who learned to write poetry in the kitchen of his Mama’s Mexican restaurant. He was a founding member of San Francisco's outspoken word troupe The Molotov Mouths. He is also a radio insurgente whose stories have appeared on KALW’s “Crosscurrents" and whose show “The Spanglish Power Hour” aired on KPFA. He curates and hosts the Latinx reading series SPEAKING AXOLOTL in Oakland which happens every third Thursday of the month at Nomadic Press Studios.  Isaac Fellman is an archivist in Northern California. He writes sharp, painterly science fiction and fantasy about his various preoccupations: art history, extreme survival, toxic love, queer identity, and terrible moral choices. Most of his protagonists are great at exactly one thing and are continually prevented from doing it. Isaac is transgender, and initially published The Breath of the Sun as Rachel. He does not climb mountains.  Maurisa Thompson was born and raised in San Francisco, and is a proud alum of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People. A poet and educator, she is a graduate of UC Riverside’s MFA program and is currently teaching English at John O’Connell High School in San Francisco. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Pedestal Magazine, The Black Scholar, La Bloga, Cosmonauts Avenue, the anthologies A Feather Floating on the Water: Poems for Our Children and En Vuelo: In Celebration of el Tecolote, and The Haight-Ashbury Journal, which nominated her for a Pushcart Prize. She has worked with arts organizations including Richmond's RAW Talent and the Gluck Fellowship program at UC Riverside. She is currently working on her first poetry manuscript that combines history and folklore with her grandparents’ stories from Louisiana and San Francisco, and a middle-grade novel exploring police brutality, which won the support of a Walter Grant from We Need Diverse Books.  SPECIAL GUEST HOST: Elena Rose rode stories out of rural Oregon and never looked back. A sweet-talking monster at the microphone, she has performed with the Fresh Meat Festival, Queer Rebels, Mangos With Chili, Girl Talk, and many others, and tours nationwide as a speaker and educator. Her political, theological, and creative writing has been featured everywhere from bathroom mirrors to protest marches, most recently in the acclaimed Queer and Trans Artists of Color, Vol. 2, which she co-edited with Nia King, and she was a founding member of the Speak! Radical Women of Color Media Collective. As an ordained minister and community organizer, Elena stays busy building love for people at the edges everywhere, and draws her hope from the strangeness of the world.  | WRITERS WITH DRINKS w/ host Charlie Jane Anders! $5-20 sliding ~ 6:30 door / 7:30pm - 9:45pm February's Writers With Drinks is a special fundraiser for the Trans Lifeline, featuring mind-blowing poetry, brilliant speculative fiction, gay memoir, and an inside view of the tech industry. Hosted by the utterly brilliant Elena Rose! Who: Josiah Luis Alderete, SevanKelee Boult, Isaac R. Fellman, Kyle Thomas Smith, Maurisa Thompson, Leslie Miley, PLUS special guest host Elena Rose! How much: $5 to $20 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the Trans Lifeline  SevanKelee Boult (bka Lucky 7) is a well known Bay Area poet. She has been seen on HBO Real Sex since 2000. She has represented several Bay Area slam teams over the past 10 years. In 2014, she became the only person in the Bay to win the honored title Grand Slam Champion of 4 different Bay teams (SF, Berkeley,Oakland and Palo Alto). She has performed all across the country. Gracing such places as The De Young Museum in San Francisco as well as Yerba Buena, and the Marsh Theater. A UC Berkeley graduate with a minor in Theatre Arts, SevanKelee has been crafting her spoken word performance.  Leslie Miley is the director of engineering at Slack, and has been an advocate for diversity in tech. His blog is "The Musings of a Black Man in Tech," at Shaft.co. In 2015, Miley was the only black engineer at Twitter in a leadership position, and he wrote a widely circulated article about his experiences. Miley formerly worked in leadership roles at Apple and Google and serves as an adviser to several startups founded by women and minorities. He is an investor in a fund dedicated to diverse entrepreneurs.  Kyle Thomas Smith is the author of the multi-award-winning novel, 85A (Bascom Hill, 2010). He recently relocated from Brooklyn to San Francisco, where he lives with his husband Julius and his cats, Giuseppe and Giacomo. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from City University of New York-Queens College. His cross-genre memoir, Cockloft: Scenes from a Gay Marriage, was released on September 17, 2018. The Kirkus Review recently said of Cockloft that: “The storytelling is lighter on its feet than that of David Sedaris but just as funny...A playful and often hilarious book full of New York stories, domestic hijinks, and madcap journeys.”  About Writers With Drinks: Writers With Drinks has won numerous "Best ofs" from local newspapers, and has been mentioned in 7x7, Spin Magazine and one of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City novels. The spoken word "variety show" mixes genres to raise money for local causes. The award-winning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format. |
El SUPERRITMO! ~
DJ El Kool Kyle y DJ Roger Más ~
Cumbia, Dancehall, Hip-Hop, Reggaeton, Salsa Buena y mas! ~
$5 before 11pm, $10 after ~
10:00pm - 2:00am
DJ El Kool Kyle y DJ Roger Más ~
Cumbia, Dancehall, Hip-Hop, Reggaeton, Salsa Buena y mas! ~
$5 before 11pm, $10 after ~
10:00pm - 2:00am
