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Upcoming Readings
I'll be doing up to two poetry readings a month this year to promote my new poetry book The Horizontal Poet. Below is the schedule so far. As you can see, I'll be doing at least two readings this year in Santa Barbara as well as several in the San Francisco Bay Area.
If I can raise the money for travel, I'd like to do readings in any of the following towns where I have relatives and friends: Chicago IL, Seattle WA(especially Bellevue), Santa Cruz CA, Santa Monica CA, Sacramento CA, Ft. Bragg or Mendocino CA, Costa Mesa or Newport Beach CA, Sonoma CA. Secretly I dream of making it to NYC in June.
If you have poetry contacts in any of the above towns and could arrange a reading for me there, please message me on Goodreads or email me at Jmsteckel at AOL dot com.
February 4 Santa Barbara Poetry Series, Contemporary Arts Forum, Paseo Nuevo Mall, Santa Barbara, CA
February 11 Book Launch Party, Plymouth United Church of Christ, Fireside Room, Oakland, CA
March 16 Expressions Gallery, Berkeley, CA
April 2 Poetry Express, Priya Indian Restaurant, Berkeley, CA
April 14 The Poetry Zone, Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
July 14 All Women's Poetry Potluck and Salon Reading at Lakeview Library, Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA
September 8 Frank Bette Center for the Arts, Alameda, CA
October 27 Women's Poetry Potluck and Salon, featured reader, Frank Bette Center for the Arts, Alameda, CA
Want me to come to your town? (I'm looking at you, San Franciscans.) Email me at Jmsteckel at AOL dot com or message me here on Goodreads to discuss the possibility.
If I can raise the money for travel, I'd like to do readings in any of the following towns where I have relatives and friends: Chicago IL, Seattle WA(especially Bellevue), Santa Cruz CA, Santa Monica CA, Sacramento CA, Ft. Bragg or Mendocino CA, Costa Mesa or Newport Beach CA, Sonoma CA. Secretly I dream of making it to NYC in June.
If you have poetry contacts in any of the above towns and could arrange a reading for me there, please message me on Goodreads or email me at Jmsteckel at AOL dot com.
February 4 Santa Barbara Poetry Series, Contemporary Arts Forum, Paseo Nuevo Mall, Santa Barbara, CA
February 11 Book Launch Party, Plymouth United Church of Christ, Fireside Room, Oakland, CA
March 16 Expressions Gallery, Berkeley, CA
April 2 Poetry Express, Priya Indian Restaurant, Berkeley, CA
April 14 The Poetry Zone, Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
July 14 All Women's Poetry Potluck and Salon Reading at Lakeview Library, Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA
September 8 Frank Bette Center for the Arts, Alameda, CA
October 27 Women's Poetry Potluck and Salon, featured reader, Frank Bette Center for the Arts, Alameda, CA
Want me to come to your town? (I'm looking at you, San Franciscans.) Email me at Jmsteckel at AOL dot com or message me here on Goodreads to discuss the possibility.
Impressions of a Reader
Thank you to Hilcia Suarez for her very thoughtful and kind review of my poetry book The Horizontal Poet on her blog, Impressions of a Reader, at
http://www.impressionsofareader.com/2...
I had a great time last night at a Mind/Body poetry reading in Santa Barbara. It was hosted by a friend, Ron Alexander, who organized the first Whitman-Stein Memorial LGBT Reading in which I took part last year. Among the readers were Suzanne Frost, who will be hosting me at The Poetry Zone at the Karpeles Manuscript Museum in Santa Barbara on April 14. Phil Taggart was there, and very kindly offered to host me at his reading in Ventura in July.
One of the things I love about Ron's readings is that he has each reader read poems of their own AND poems by a famous poet they admire. The result is that the quality of poetry at his readings is extremely high. The setting, the Wall Space Gallery in a beautifully restored Victorian house, couldn't be more lovely. Add delicious refreshments and the friendly presence of Ron himself, as well as the very appreciative Santa Barbara audience, and you've got a great reading series.
Tonight I'm reading for the first time at the Santa Barbara Poetry Series in the Contemporary Arts Forum at the Paseo Nuevo Mall on State Street in Santa Barbara from 7 to 9 PM. I'll be reading with Dean Rader, a writing professor from the University of San Francisco, and Elijah Imlay, a poet from Ventura. Again, it's a beautiful space, with great acoustics. Can't wait.
http://www.impressionsofareader.com/2...
I had a great time last night at a Mind/Body poetry reading in Santa Barbara. It was hosted by a friend, Ron Alexander, who organized the first Whitman-Stein Memorial LGBT Reading in which I took part last year. Among the readers were Suzanne Frost, who will be hosting me at The Poetry Zone at the Karpeles Manuscript Museum in Santa Barbara on April 14. Phil Taggart was there, and very kindly offered to host me at his reading in Ventura in July.
One of the things I love about Ron's readings is that he has each reader read poems of their own AND poems by a famous poet they admire. The result is that the quality of poetry at his readings is extremely high. The setting, the Wall Space Gallery in a beautifully restored Victorian house, couldn't be more lovely. Add delicious refreshments and the friendly presence of Ron himself, as well as the very appreciative Santa Barbara audience, and you've got a great reading series.
Tonight I'm reading for the first time at the Santa Barbara Poetry Series in the Contemporary Arts Forum at the Paseo Nuevo Mall on State Street in Santa Barbara from 7 to 9 PM. I'll be reading with Dean Rader, a writing professor from the University of San Francisco, and Elijah Imlay, a poet from Ventura. Again, it's a beautiful space, with great acoustics. Can't wait.
"The Sunny Side of Being Bi"
That's the title of a delightful blog by Sara Chittenden, a bi woman who plays bass in the indie band Soundmeetsound. If you want to learn more about bi people (or get a shot in the arm of pride!), check out her inspiring and beautiful Tumblr at http://thesunnysideofbeingbi.tumblr.com
You can find her great review of The Horizontal Poet at
http://thesunnysideofbeingbi.tumblr.c...
Soundmeetsound's first album is coming out soon.... I can't wait.
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I'll be doing at least three San Francisco Bay Area readings in September. Save the dates:
September 5 PM I'm featured at Sacred Grounds Cafe Open Mic in San Francisco, hosted by Dan Brady, who recently read his own work at the SF Public Library.
September 8 PM I'm cofeatured with my friend and mentor Julia Vinograd at an open mic hosted by the lovely Tanka and performance poet Jeanne Lupton at the Frank Bette Center for the Arts in Alameda.
September 22 PM I'm featured with my husband Hew Wolff and several other queer and/or kinky erotica writers at Perverts Put Out, San Francisco's literary smut salon hosted by Carol Queen and Simon Shepard at the Center for Sex and Culture.
Details and invitations to follow!
You can find her great review of The Horizontal Poet at
http://thesunnysideofbeingbi.tumblr.c...
Soundmeetsound's first album is coming out soon.... I can't wait.
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I'll be doing at least three San Francisco Bay Area readings in September. Save the dates:
September 5 PM I'm featured at Sacred Grounds Cafe Open Mic in San Francisco, hosted by Dan Brady, who recently read his own work at the SF Public Library.
September 8 PM I'm cofeatured with my friend and mentor Julia Vinograd at an open mic hosted by the lovely Tanka and performance poet Jeanne Lupton at the Frank Bette Center for the Arts in Alameda.
September 22 PM I'm featured with my husband Hew Wolff and several other queer and/or kinky erotica writers at Perverts Put Out, San Francisco's literary smut salon hosted by Carol Queen and Simon Shepard at the Center for Sex and Culture.
Details and invitations to follow!
Horizontal Poet Sings Bidyke Blues
Bidyke writer and disabled former pediatrician Jan Steckel writes about poetry, fiction, sexuality, doctoring, poverty, and what it feels like to remember what kind of socks everyone at her readings w
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