We’re gonna read some epic poetry!
Tuesday, September 21 at 8pm
Free

Welcome to Epic Poetry… SLAM!

We’re gonna read some epic poetry… out loud! AND THAT IS ALL!

The first rule of Epic Poetry Club:
there will be no discussion, philosophizing, or theorizing of epic poetry!

The second rule of Epic Poetry Club:
there will be no discussion, philosophizing, or theorizing of epic poetry!!!

We will have a stack of EPIC POEMS!

We will have everything you could possibly want!

We will have Heavy Books!

We will have Books with Well Designed Covers!

WE WILL HAVE THE WORKS!!!

Epic Poetry! How does it work???

Someone will pick up some epic poem!

They will read it for five minutes!

Then they will put it down!

Then the next reader will begin!

It will go on as long as it has to!

Booze it up with Milton and Virgil, just like they did in the Ye Olden Days!

It’s Epic Poetry… SLAM!!!

Pyaasa
Thursday, January 7
Doors at 8pm; movie starts at 8:30pm
Free

From Bollywood’s golden age and awash in gauzy chiaroscuro, Pyaasa owes more to film noir than Busby Berkeley. It tells the story of Vijay, who is a poet. Which is to say that he is unemployed, broke. He can’t get his poems – laments about the poor, damnations of the rich – published. He is not taken seriously by his family, who want him to find real work. His brother sells his manuscripts as scrap paper. Vijay takes to drink, gets in trouble with the law, ends up in a brothel. There he meets a prostitute who wants to help him get the recognition he deserves.

A New Poetry Reading
Wednesday, November 5 at 7:30pm

New poets in the Ph.D. in Literature & Creative Writing Program at USC, Stuart Grace, Brandon Som, and Elizabeth Wilcox, will be joined by Andrew Allport, author of THE ICE SHIP & OTHER VESSELS, in an all USC evening. Mark Irwin will introduce.

Evening of Three Happiness: AMAZING ENTERTAINMENT. The event beyond your wildest dreams, never before, never again. Words can’t convey the majesty, the joy, the excitement, the utter bliss. If you miss this event, forget about heaven.

Ojos Que No Ven
by Allen D. Glass II
14 minutes, Color, Silent, 16mm
What the eyes do not see, the heart does not feel.

Dorothea Grossman and Michael Vlatkovich: Call and Response
Dorothea Grossman and Michael Vlatkovich present poetry and creative new music in a unique “call and response” format. The late Allen Ginsberg called Dorothea (Dottie) Grossman’s poetry, “clear, odd, personal, funny or wild-weird, curious and lucid.” The award-winning poet lives, works and writes in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in many poetry magazines and anthologies. Her book, “Cuttings: Selected Poetry 1978-1988″ was published by Tango Press in 1996. “Poems From Cave 17″ was published in 1996, and “Museum of Rain” was published by Take Out Publications in 2001. Her latest publication (1/08) is a chapbook, “The First Time I Ate Sushi,” published by Zerx Press.

“Grossman and Vlatkovich give us a free jazz session that inspires us and fires our imaginations. Our daily lives are filled with poetry in motion. We take it for granted. Recommended, Call And Response applies what’s on our minds to an outward form of communication that includes soulful improvisation.”

~ Jim Santella , allaboutjazz.com

The Sky Walks Me Home
by Allen D. Glass II
24 minutes, Color, Silent, 16mm
Humankind in the unfamiliar landscape, composing itself rhythmically and even lovingly into poetry. Nature as mammal music. The Life Dance. Foreign smells. And silences that are, of course, their own music.

Evangina – The Love Band
juli crockett and lisa dee are best friends, late bloomers, and totally goofy. they have made an artform out of humility via humiliation and take great joy in showing people that it’s okay to be completely retarded in public. they are best friends, not lesbian lovers. they are very romantic girls, love the d, and like to play their guitars and sing. they are in the band the evangenitals.