Wednesday March 6: San Francisco RADAR Reading Series

RADAR welcomes the Winner of the 3rd Annual Eli Coppola Memorial Chapbook Prize, Amber Dawn.

Eli Coppola was a San Francisco based poet who was an important part of the city’s spoken word and literary scenes in the 1990’s.  She died in 2000.  Her many chapbooks have been collected in the volume Some Angels Wear Black, published by manic d press.

AMBER DAWN is a writer from Vancouver, Canada. Author of Lambda Award-winning novel Sub Rosa, and editor of the anthologies Fist of the Spider Women: Fear and Queer Desire and With A Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn. Until August 2012, she was director of programming for the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. Amber Dawn was 2012 winner of the Writers’ Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers. She currently teaches Speculative Fiction writing at Douglas College. Her winning manuscript, How I Got My Tattoos, will be available at the reading.

BRUCE ISAACSON is a poet living in Las Vegas, Nevada.  He is often associated with the Cafe Babar reading of the 1980s, as a champion in the inaugural Nuyorican Poets Cafe Slam, and with the Helena’s-Largo readings in 1990s L.A..  He wrote a thesis for Allen Ginsberg, unique American bard, Brooklyn College, 1990.  He is  also publisher of Zeitgeist Press, which produced 98 books to date, from the Babar poets to a 2012 Lambda Literary Award winner. His love for the poetry and memory of Eli Coppola is what brings him back to San Francisco.

STACEY WAITE is currently Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nebraska and has published three four collections of poems: Choke (winner of the 2004 Frank O’Hara Prize), Love Poem to Androgyny (winner of the 2006 Main Street Rag Chapbook Competition), and the lake has no saint (winner of the 2008 Snowbound Prize from Tupelo Press), and most recently Butch Geography (also with Tupelo Press). Waite’s poems have been published most recently in The Cream City Review, Bloom, and Black Warrior Review.

CHAVISA WOODS is a Brooklyn-based lesbian writer, artist, and activist, and recipient of the 2009 Jerome Foundation Award for emerging writers. Her debut collection of short stories, Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind, was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Debut Fiction. Woods has read or performed at The Whitney Museum, Penn State, the New York Vision Festival, the NYC HOWL festival, and the New York Hot Festival. She has been published in the New York Quarterly,The Evergreen Review,Union Station,The Brooklyn Rail, and others. She will publish her first novel, The Albino Album, in the spring of 2013.