To members of The International Poetry Library of San Francisco
from Kim Mahler;
September 29 at 3:06pm Reply • Report
Dear Friends of IPLSF:
SF Litquake 2010 is upon us. All week there will be major literary events, culminating in the famed Litcrawl (think pubcrawl with readings). On Saturday, October 9 The Intl.
Poetry Library of SF will be hosting five fabulous poets
during Phase 3 (8:30-9:30pm)
at Café Que Tal on Guerrero @ 22nd St. in the Mission District. Come to the FREE reading to hear:
Tran
Kenji Liu
Mahnaz Badihian
Keetje Kuipers
Tianna Cohen-Paul

MARIN POETRY CENTER SUMMER TRAVELING SHOW 2010
Poetry reading by:

Tue Sep 7, 07:00 PM 3300 Club
3300 Mission Street at 29th, San Francisco
Zara Raab, Mahnaz Badihian, Kim Nunes,
Renata Santerre, Bruce Sams, Ethel Mays

Or by suppression of subordination
It means being destitute to lose all your dignity
Means no one can possibly read your concealed suffering
Only through tears will notice you exist
 •  Read more

Yet I am I, who long to be
Lost as a light is lost in light.

 •  Read more

From time to time
I journey backwards
It is my way of remembering.
 •  Read more

Because if we can be silenced when it comes to Ahmadis, then we can be silenced when it comes to Shias, we can be silenced when it comes to women, we can be silenced when it comes to dress, we can be silenced when it comes to entertainment, and we can even be silenced when it comes to sitting by ourselves, alone in a room, afraid to think what we think.

 •  Read more

Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak
To the earnest love that laid the swale in rows,
 •  Read more

But do you really think, Gardener,
that I didn’t notice how often you nuzzled the wisteria?

 •  Read more

I will reveal
you who I am.
I am your reflection
 •  Read more

Darwish has many poems that are considered very strong, but I have always thought the poem he wrote to his mother is one of the strongest poems ever written for a mother. In this poem Mother is used as a metaphor for his homeland, for Palestine.
He starts the poem with a very iconic subject in Middle Eastern culture: Bread.
 •  Read more

But the things are different,
because it happened different
I had moved to a place far from our garden
I have left my moon on the other side of the sky
 •  Read more

If I were damned of body and soul,
I know whose prayers would make me whole,
Mother o’ mine, 0 mother o’ mine!
 •  Read more

Eat Not Thy Mind is a piece of art. A collage by Claude Pelieu on the front cover and a foreward written by friend and bass spanker Mike Watt. This book comprises of 18 contemporary poems by the Outlaw Poet that is Charley Plymell who was known to have rubbed elbows with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassidy and William Burroughs.
 •  Read more

a.d. winans is a native San Francisco poet and the former editor and publisher of Second Coming. He is the author of fifty books and chapbooks of poetry. His work has been published in nine languages. In 2006 he was awarded a PEN National Josephine Miles award for excellence in literature. In 2009 PEN Oakland presented him with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
 •  Read more

The dictionary brain
once containing the
darkest secrets of humanity
suddenly bursts like a bubble
 •  Read more