I’m off to San Francisco for a BIKERGO ride, a poetry reading for “The Book of Practical Pussies” & DECOMPRESSION SF!

This weekend, I get to go on a BIKERGO ride with inventor Steven Ascher! He saw my post about how much fun I had riding the BIKERGO at Burning Man, he loved my enthusiasm and he invited me to go for a ride sometime! Read my post about the Bikergo, the best bike at Burning Man!

Just so happens that I was looking for an excuse to go to the Bay Area this weekend to attend SF Decompression on Sunday and to visit with NYC experimental poet Lee Ann Brown who’s in SF with others to read from her latest anthology The Book of Practical Pussies.

Plus I’ve been invited to a shindig thrown by Murphy-Goode’s Hardy Wallace.

What a weekend! Poetry, cycling, art, wine! Who knows what adventures the weekend may bring! I know I am up for it all! Bring it on, world! I’m ready and willing!

Uh, the book of the what? The Practical Pussies?  Lee Ann Brown writes:

Please join us Sunday Oct. 11 at 6pm at Books & Bookshelves to celebrate the Book of Practical Pussies, with drawings by Michelle Rollman and with texts by D-L Alvarez, Dodie Bellamy, Lee Ann Brown, Bob Glück, Kevin Killian, Scott MacLeod, Yedda Morrison, Camille Roy, Jocelyn Saidenberg. On Sunday, Lee Ann Brown, Robert Glück, Kevin Killian, Scott MacLeod and Camille Roy will be reading. Books & Bookshelves is located in the Castro at 99 Sanchez St. http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781928650294/the-book-of-practical-pussies.aspx

Editor & publisher of Tender Buttons press, Lee Ann Brown author of Polyverse, and The Sleep That Changed Everything, The 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time and SOP DOLL! A Jack Tale Noh which features a chorus of black cats lives in NYC & NC.

Robert Glück is the author of nine books of poetry and fiction, including two novels, Margery Kempe and Jack the Modernist and a book of stories, Last year he and artist Dean Smith completed the film Aliengnosis. Gluck teaches at San Francisco State University.

Kevin Killian is a San Francisco poet and the author of ACTION KYLIE. His new book comes out in November from City Lights, a book of stories called IMPOSSIBLE PRINCESS.

Artist and writer Scott MacLeod has been based in the Bay Area since 1976 and currently lives in Oakland. He has exhibited and published widely yet randomly in the USA and Europe.

Camille Roy is a writer and performer of fiction, poetry, and plays. One of the editors of Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative (CoachHouse 2005), her earlier books include CHEAP SPEECH, a play, from Leroy, and CRAQUER, a fictional autobiography from 2nd Story Books , as well as SWARM (two novellas, Black Star Series), among others.