(Evan Karp) D. A. Powell, happy to be back in San Francisco after a stint on the East Coast, casually explained that he had “smoked The Godfather” before his reading. A lion with mastered roar enunciated every nuance of feeling, conscious of cadence, swan song, snakeskin phoenix. A headless virgin. Tamim Ansary was asked by a Read More
Category: Week in Review
Week in Review: poetry is not dead, we demand zipcopters
(Evan Karp) An old 16th& Mission regular moved to New Zealand 5 months ago, wrote new poems there and memorized them, came back last week to the corner excited to perform them. “16th & Mission is over,” said his best friend and poetry cohort, though there were easily 150 people there to celebrate the 8th Read More