Curated by Sean Taylor & Jason Whitacre
Admission is a suggested $15 donation, with all proceeds directly benefiting Bay Area artists. No one is ever turned away for lack of funds. sPARKLE & bLINK featuring cover art by Claire Rabkin for the first 100 people!
Thanks to everyone who sent in work for our first show of 2020 — and our second decade!
a literay mixtape, starring:
Curated by Sophia Passin and Kathleen Torrez, all selected authors will be paid and published in sPARKLE & bLINK 103, featuring cover art by Golbanou Moghaddas!
We never turn away anyone due to lack of funds! If you can’t afford a ticket for any reason, please send us a line at submit@quietlightning.org to let us know and we’ll reserve you a seat, or simply show up and let us know at the door – tickets will be available on the night of the show.
Stats for this show:
Matt Leibel
Minyoung Lee
Simone Kurial
Ginny Rider
Ralph Paone
Florencia Milito
Steven Hill
Lisa Galloway
Steven Meloan
Sean Taylor
Barbara Hodder Toohey
Teresa Poore
Grey Rosado
Johnny Alvarez
Sage Curtis
Peggy Schimmelman
André Le Mont Wilson
Mairav Zonszein
Diana Donovan
Join us for our Jul 1 show, which will also be the publication of sPARKLE & bLINK 100!
What could be more exciting than that?
This show will be the first curated by one of our new Disruptors, Edmund Zagorin, and guest co-curator Kevin Dublin!
:: Thanks to everyone who submitted! ::
We received 64 submissions and selected 19 (30%).
Of the 19 selected, 7 have read @ QL before (37%) and 12 are reading @ QL for the first time (63%).
This show will be at The Laundry in San Francisco (3359 26th Street)!
Admission is free, with a suggested $5-20 donation if you’d like Quiet Lightning to be sustainable. Doors at 7pm; show begins at 7:30pm.
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On November 5, Quiet Lightning returns for a series of 9 surprises:
Peter Bullen
Shirley Huey
Fernando Meisenhalter
Maia Bull
Cassandra Dallett
Sarah Henry
Sean Taylor
Paolo Bicchieri
Brian Kirven
This is a FREE, all-ages show!
Monday, November 5, 2018, 7:30pm
Cupid’s Span in Rincon Park
The Embarcadero & Folsom St, SF 94105
Readings begin at 7:30pm
But come early, bring some dinner or a drink if you want, it’s turn back the clock the night before so sunset will be just after 5pm … let’s take in the sky, the Bay Lights, and this mixtape together!
The first 100 people will receive a book featuring all of the selected writing and photography by Evan Karp.
Monday, January 1, 2o18, 4pm
Wave Organ / 83 Marina Green Drive, San Francisco
Free + all ages
readings by:
Ruth Crossman
Andrea Mejri
Sean Taylor
Nicolette Daskalakis
Cassandra Dallett
D.S. Black
Elise Hunter
Jennifer Lewis
art by Julia Barzizza
sPARKLE & bLINK 91 featuring all selected writing + art free for the first 100 ppl
( RSVP )
Our next show is on Nov 6, 2017 @ Peacock Lounge!
SIDE A
K.R. Morrison
Kristina Ten
Sean Taylor
Natasha Dennerstein
Matt Carney
Megan Levad
Riss Rosado
Roberto F. Santiago
SIDE B
Eric Kurhi
Cassandra Rockwood-Rice
John Panzer
Wild Red Hawk
Heather Robinson
Lena Nicodemus
Akinyele Sadiq
The first 100 people receive a free copy of sPARKLE & bLINK 90 featuring cover art by Cat Sommer!
This show was curated by Kate Folk + Evan Karp. Thanks to everyone who submitted! We received 97 submissions for this show and accepted 15 (15%). Of those:
This will be our 113th show since December 2009. We’ve now featured 1,100+ readings by 800+ authors—as selected by 50+ curators—and produced shows in 80+ venues of all kinds. We’re proud to say that all participating artists are paid. Send us some work for our secret day 001 show! And invite someone to join you at the peacock lounge?
Because we love the challenge at the end of every year to select six of the best pieces we published, we’re thrilled to have nominated the following for the 2022 Best of Small Presses:
“from Anaamaki / What Came from Beneath Ground” by Aja Couchois Duncan / watch | read
“Grandpa’s Gingerbread Cookies” by Kelechi Ubozoh / watch | read
“Bella” by Youssef Alaoui-Fdili / watch | read
“Counting Sheep” by Amanda Muñiz / watch | read
“Nostalgia” by Melissa Merin / watch | read
“Pieces from YOLOTL” by Lourdes Figueroa / watch | read
You can read and watch our previous nominations below:
Sara Post: “Libations, HIPAA Style” / watch | read
Michael Warr, trans. by Chun Yu: “To Your Assailant” / watch | read
Jessica Barksdale: “When I Wash Raspberries” / watch | read
Tomas Moniz: “Masks On, Pants Off” / watch | read
Ernest White II: “Challenger” / watch | read
Emily Dezurick-Badran: “Ghosts” / watch | read
Karla Brundage: “Alabama Dirt” / watch | read
Madeline Cash: “Hostage #4” / watch | read
Alia Salim: “Deep State” / watch | read
Alex Maceda: “Purple is a Late Blooming Color” / watch | read
Halim Madi: “As Home Became Metaphor” / watch | read
Robyn Carter: “Excelsior” / watch | read
Shelley Wong: “To Yellow” « watch | read
Donna Laemmlen: “The Dangers of Helium” « watch | read
Lisa Galloway: “Mercy” « watch | read
Mairav Zonszein: “A Birth Story” « watch | read
Maddy Raskulinecz: “Intruders in Ms. Hansen-Knudsen’s Class” « watch | read
Kevin Dublin: “Argument” « watch | read
Cassandra Dallett: “Jails Have ATM Machines Now” « watch | read
Ruth Crossman: “Tom Petty” « watch | read
Emily Dezurick-Badran: “The Werewolf in Love” « watch | read
André Le Mont Wilson: “The Ass Wiper” « watch | read
Clare Lilliston: “Coelacanth” « watch | read
Sarah Henry: “2017” « watch | read
Charlie Getter: “Geography Lesson” « watch | read
Kate Folk: “Funeral Requirements for Thwarted Children” « watch | read
Jenny Xie: “Wendy Beside Herself” « watch | read
Kazumi Chin: “The Very Last New Year’s Resolution” « watch | read
Jason Bayani: “Antidepressants” « watch | read
Eric Kurhi: “The Snake Guy” « watch | read
Ploi Pirapokin: “David, the Cephalopod” « watch | read
David Welper: “Garlic” « watch |read
Susanna Kwan: “Up, Apart, Away” « watch | read
Yxta Maya Murray: “The Whitney’s 2016 Max Mara Anniversary Bag Designed by Renzo Piano’s Building Workshop” « watch | read
E.C. Messer: “The Poet” « watch | read
Brynn Saito: “How to Prepare the Mind for Lightning” « [vid + text coming soon]
Claire Williams: “The Man Who Drank the Sea” « watch | read
Kristina Ten: “Milkless” « watch | read
Maggie Tokuda-Hall: “Miri and the Squid” « watch | read
Hugh Behm-Steinberg: “Mouse-Colored Penduline Tits” « watch | read
Maw Shein Win: “Score” « watch | read
Bonnie Kwong: “The Moon from the Corner of Her Eye” « watch | read
Elena Mauli Shapiro: “December 25, 1989” « watch | read
Matthew Zapruder: “To Sergio Franchi” « read
Peter Orner: “Shhhhhh, Arthur’s Studying” « watch | read
Kai Carlson-Wee: “Holes in the Mountain” « watch | read | bonus
Christine No: “Mattress Man” « watch | read
Colin Winnette: “Ghost Mountain Island Murder Mystery” « read
erica lewis: “Bodies Dream of Themselves” « watch | read
Susan Steinberg: “Spectator” « watch | read
Brandon Brown: “My Favorite Things” « watch | read
Molly Giles: “Harm Done” « watch | read
Jarett Kobek: “#YOLO” « read
Charlie Getter: “Untitled (I live on an iceberg)” « watch
Cassie J. Sneider: “Romance” « watch | read
A.D. Winans: “Fourth of July Poem” « watch | read
Toni Mirosevich: “The Right Spot” « watch | read
Siamak Vossoughi: “Not A Party” « watch | read
Sean Taylor: “It Sings Us Both to Sleep” « watch | read
L.J. Moore: “Fig. 23: Wrecked” « watch | read
Jesús Castillo: from “Remains” « watch | read
Graham Gremore: “Happy Birthday (Sorry You Missed It)” « watch | read
James Warner: from All Her Father’s Guns « watch | read
Siamak Vossoughi: “Don’t Ask Me” « watch | read
Joseph Lease: “Lost Highway” « watch | read
Begin transmission> Lapo Guzzini and Nora Toomey have put together the next literary mmmmm-ixtape >>>>
all appearing live and in person at Chez Poulet
HQ for the San Francisco Institute of Possibility and Radio Valencia
Monday night of the 4th of May 2015, 7pm doors
3359 Cesar Chavez St.
FREE show. All ages. Free Lagunitas draft beer.
sPARKLE & bLINK will be $5. Copies of vitriol for $7. Both for $10!
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7/14 of the authors are readings @ QL for the first time (50%)
returning:
Matt Leibel (4x)
Suzannah Weiss (1x)
Hugh Behm-Steinberg (2x)
Peter Bullen (9x)
Alexander Peterson (3x)
Sean Taylor (3x)
Daniel Riddle Rodriguez (1x)
videos from the last Chemical Wedding
We’re headed to WeWork Golden Gate on Monday, March 2nd, and hot abomunists do we have a show for you!
Melissa Tan
Emily Kiernan
Emily Drevets
L.J. Moore
Katie Aliferis
Apollo Papafrangou
Cassandra Dallett
Annelyse Gelman
Jessica Hahn
Siamak Vossoughi
Jeffrey Kingman
Sean Taylor
curated byAlexandra Kostoulas + Evan Karp (whoever that is), this show:
Monday, March 2, 7pm start « doors at 6:30
$5-10 includes free beer (courtesy Lagunitas!) + sPARKLE & bLINK to first 100 (free for WeWork members)
25 Taylor St. near Market
All ages, all forms and formulations
Do you understand? these dozen author people will converge for one evening, each speak their part in an art piece conceived from their creations—one night only—and then walk down the stairs (or take elevator) onto Market St., and make their decisions?
No one turned away for lack of funds, ever. Come make art // breathe //
Other News:
vitriol. have you seen it? do you have one? we’re almost sold out! get one, if you can… we only made 300 copies, and we’re working on the next issue now. with poetry by Melissa Stein, Maw Shein Win, Alejandro Murguia, Jason Morris, Jason Jimenez, Bill Hughes, Nora Toomey, and Clara Hsu, and fiction by Benjamin Wachs and Juliana Delgado Lopera, music by Shenandoah Davis, Sean Nelson, Taylor Jacobs, AlphaDog (Kristina Dutton and Teddy Rankin-Parker), Kyle Bruckmann‘s quartet Addleds, and Mills composition faculty and pianist Chris Brown playing solo piano and electronics, with essays by Dr. Indre Viskontas, Camille Seaman, and Arnaud Martin, the second issue—out on June 14, as part of a live show—is going to be sexier than a 10-dollar bill has ever been. You can get issue 1 and reserve issue 2 both for only $16.
In case you’re just scanning (and if you’re reading, red-handed!):
RSVP | submit to Quiet Lightning’s April 6 show at Mercury Cafe | contribute to our film | send us visual art for yearlong ekphrasis project culminating in gallery show
For Mar 2, we received 45 submissions:
