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Saturday, October 24 • 8:30pm - 9:00pm
Colossus: Home

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Colossus:Home is the second installment of an anthology series that gives voice to Bay Area writers as they respond to the housing crisis. Over 70 writers and artists contributed work to this collection. At Lit Crawl, 7 poets who participated in our anthology will read their work on the theme "home".  They wrote about the joy and pain that we experience in our personal homes, in our home towns and home countries. They wrote of the effort to maintain and create homes that  nurture our truest selves. All proceeds from Colossus:Home are donated to Moms4Housing.

Speakers
avatar for Noor Al-Samarrai

Noor Al-Samarrai

Noor Al-Samarrai is a Californian poet and performer with Mesopotamian roots. As a Fulbright Fellow based in Amman, Jordan she is studying the oud and working on a book about urban life in mid-20th century Baghdad through the memories of Iraqis in diaspora.
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Sara Biel

Editor, Colossus Press
Sara Biel and Karla Brundage are the editors of the Colossus anthology series. Colossus:Home is the second installment of an anthology series that gives voice to Bay Area writers as they respond to the housing crisis. Over 70 writers and artists contributed work to this collection... Read More →
avatar for Karla Brundage

Karla Brundage

Born in Berkeley, California, Karla Brundage spent most of her childhood in Hawaii where she developed a deep love of nature. She is the founder of West Oakland to West Africa Poetry Exchange (WO2WA), which has facilitated cross-cultural exchange between Oakland and West African... Read More →
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Tony Aldarondo

Tony Aldarondo is a Puerto Rican writer (actor) and POET. He humbly admits to falling in love with rhymes from the moment he read Dr. Seuss in the 1970s and heard rap music in the 1980s. From then on Rhymes have been a part of his poetical DNA. He has performed in award winning films... Read More →
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Shilpa Kamat

Shilpa Kamat is a poet, writer, educator, and healing arts practitioner with an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. Her poetry chapbook Saraswati Takes Back the Alphabet was a finalist for the Gloria Anzaldua Poetry Prize. She will be reading her poem from Colossus: Home... Read More →
avatar for Shawna Sherman

Shawna Sherman

Shawna Sherman is a poet and librarian born and raised in Hawaii and living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her writing focuses on race and place and borrows from history in order to make sense of the present. As a librarian, she works to hold space for African American writers and... Read More →
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Fred Dodsworth

An ink stained wretch, Fred Dodsworth spent most of the last thirty years in newsrooms picking fights with mayors, police chiefs, and editors. He lost most fights, but notches on his belt include one police chief, one mayor and numerous politicians. He's happy to say he's outlived... Read More →

Saturday October 24, 2020 8:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
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  San Francisco Lit Crawl