Gerald Locklin will read his poetry at the Hotel Cafe, 1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Hollywood, California, Sunday, July 29th at 6 p.m. — the July installment of Tongue & Groove‘s monthly literary series. Find more info here. Wendy Rainey, Dana Johnson, Yuvi Zalkow, and Kerrie Kvashay Boyle (T.C. Boyle‘s daughter) will also appear, along with musical guest Foster Timms. The performers promise a fun, thought-provoking evening — and it’ll only set you back $6!
Nighthawks (1942) by Edward Hopper, © The Art Institute of Chicago
Nighthawks, 1942 (excerpt) by Gerald Locklin
In those days, even thenighthawks wore suits, notto mention ties and fedoras.but notice they were hawks,not owls…gangsters? gamblers? policedetectives? private eyes?politicos?…it is a clean place, withgood wood, and it is a sourceof light for a dark and emptydowntown neighborhood, where thesecond-story shades are drawnto half-mast.
A shout out to Tongue & Groove and host Conrad Romo for organizing the Charles Bukowski tribute on June 30th. The event was an installment of Tongue & Groove’s monthly literary series, which features short fiction, personal essays, poetry, spoken word, and music. For more information, visit the Tongue & Groove website.
The weather was perfect. The crowd was enthusiastic. The performers were sublime. The guest of honor was har-har-haring somewhere on the mild summer breeze. A good time was definitely had by all — the living and the departed — at the Charles Bukowski tribute on June 30, 2012 sponsored by Tongue & Groove.
In the above photo, Joan Jobe Smith, author of an upcoming Silver Birch Press release, swaps some Bukowski stories at intermission with Kenneth Sonny Donato. Both had questions about the original poems the other had read before the break. Sonny wanted to know where Joan had go-go danced (answer: Whisky A-Go-Go and other hot spots) and Joan wanted to know more about the radio Bukowski had appropriated from Sonny. While the two chatted, Buk sat between them taking it all in. Find Sonny’s book, A Poet’s Guide to the Bars, here.
(Photo by Silver Birch, Los Angeles, June 30, 2012)
Silver Birch Press author Joan Jobe Smith will perform at a celeb-filled Bukowski tribute in downtown Los Angeles sponsored by Tongue & Groove on June 30, 2012. Readers will also include Dan Fante, Harry Dean Stanton, and Rebecca DeMornay. Best of all…it’s FREE. For location, time, and other details, visit: www.grandperformances.org.
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COMING SOON FROM SILVER BIRCH PRESS…
Charles Bukowski Epic Glottis:
His Art & His Women (& me) by Joan Jobe Smith
Joan Jobe Smith was born in Paris, Texas, then moved to San Francisco and eventually to Southern California. A go-go girl for seven years, she boogaloo’d live with Jim Morrison, the Ike and Tina Turner Review, and Dick Dale. Founding editor of Pearl and Bukowski Review, she received a BA from California State University Long Beach and attended one year of law school before receiving an MFA in writing from University of California Irvine. In 1974, she founded Pearl Magazine.
Since 1973, her poetry, stories, reviews, essays, and memoirs have appeared internationally in more than 500 publications as well as 21 published books of poetry, notably Jehovah Jukebox (Event Horizon, 1993, USA) and Pow Wow Café (Poetry Business, UK, 1998) and anthologies The Outlaw Bible, Literature and Its Writers, New Geography of Poets, Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust and The Best of California Women Poets.
Her many honorariums include US and UK arts council grants and a finalist post for the 1999 UK Forward Prize. With her husband, poet Fred Voss, she did five-whistle-stop poetry reading tours (1991-2001) around the UK — debuting at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival and ending at the Hull Literature Festival. In 2011, Fred Voss and she headlined the Pittsburgh University Writers Festival and performed at the Long Beach Poetry Festival.
UPCOMING SUMMER READING DATES:
June 30, 2012: Joan will read at the Grand Perfomance Tongue & Groove Tribute to Charles Bukowski in Los Angeles with actors Rebecca DeMornay and Harry Dean Stanton and poet/writers Dan Fante, Gerald Locklin, Jack Grapes and more. For more information, visit: www.grandperformances.org
July 5, 2012: Joan will appear with Fred Voss at the 2012 Humber Mouth Literature/Arts Festival in Hull, England, at the Hull Truck Theatre. Info available at: www.thisisull.com
July 13: Joan and Fred will read in London at the Betsey Trotwood. Get additional info here: www.thebetsey.com
Photo: Courtesy of Joan Jobe Smith
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