Join us for an evening of live readings, burlesque, and music in celebration of Linda Ravenswood's newest poetry collection, The Stan Poems: Indictments & Amendments (Pedestrian Press, 2022).

Featuring burlesque goddess, RedBone, and writers: Hadas Goshen, Nazelah Jamison, Thea Matthews, Loria Mendoza, Christine No, and Linda Ravenswood, alongside a musical score by Nick Jaina.

With musical guest: Elizabeth Lubin

Tickets $15 in advance (no fees) and $20 at the door!

Photograph by Javier Gonzalez, @javi_glz

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REDBONE: 'Internationally known, Minnesota grown' RedBone is one of the biggest names in burlesque! She began traveling the world as one of the Wham Bam Thank You Ma’ams, backing up the infamous Foxy Tann in her quest for world domination in 2005. RedBone has featured at Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend, is the 2019 reigning 'Princess of Burlesque' of The Miss Exotic World competition at The Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekender in Las Vegas and 2016-2021 made 21st Century Burlesque Magazine Top 50 Most Influential Industry Figures!!

HADAS GOSHEN: is a San Francisco based poet and former journalist, whose words have been published in the New York Times, the Oprah Magazine, the Jerusalem Post, CNN, and more. Previously, Hadas volunteered as an interim board member for SF's beloved literary non-profit Quiet Lightning, and hosted YouTube's monthly open mic series for musicians and writers. A former spoken word poet, Hadas has also competed on four national slam teams, and prefers to share her words with live audiences. These days, you can find Hadas in the Mission, playing Wordle in the bath or reading poems to her plants. www.hadasgoshen.com

NICK JAINA: is a musician and writer living in Oakland. His live performance is an amalgamation of all he has learned from composing for dance and film, all the songs he wrote while touring the country with his band, and all the stories he has compiled in his memoir, "Get It While You Can." His performances are combination of storytelling and song. Nick loops electric guitar passages, mixing in sounds from distant rocket launches played from his phone into the pickups of his guitar. He is also the author of the novel "Hitomi" and teaches writing workshops at www.nickjaina.com.

NAZELAH JAMISON is a Bay Area-based performance poet, author, actor, vocalist and emcee. Her first book of poetry, Evolutionary Heart, was released on Nomadic Press in 2016. Her work can also be found in Culture Counts Magazine (2021), The Racket Journal : Issue Fifteen (2020) and others. In her spare time, Nazelah enjoys writing horror screenplays and saving the day. She hosts the Nomadic Press Virtual Open Mic every Friday on zoom, and gives the best hugs in the Bay Area. www.nazelah.wixsite.com/nazelah

ELIZABETH LUBIN's songwriting is a catalyst for contemplation, her rhythms a rootsy homage to intimacy. There is a tenderness in this music that feels like the kin of your own heartbeat. The melodies are digging for the roots of the ancestral, seeking new growth and healing to replace where a stump beholden to a discouraged heart once stood. www.elizabethlubinmusic.bandcamp.com

THEA MATTHEWS is a poet, author, and educator originally from San Francisco, California. She attained her BA in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Some of her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Southern Indiana Review, the Rumpus, Tahoma Literary Review, The New Republic, Green Mountains Review, and others. Her collaboration with micro press & curator series Red Light Lit resulted in the publication of Unearth [The Flowers]. This book was listed as part of Kirkus Reviews’s Best Indie Poetry of 2020. Currently, Thea Matthews is an MFA Poetry candidate at New York University; and teaches at the Writing Salon. She also serves as the Donald Everett Axinn Fellow at the Academy of American Poets. www.theamatthews.com

LORIA MENDOZA (she/they) is a queer Chicanx writer, curator, musician, and performance artist. They hail from Austin, Texas, where they learned to keep it weird. Seeking the constancy of the bizarre, they attended Swarthmore College and San Francisco State University where they earned their MFA in Creative Writing. Their first book, Life’s Too Short, won the Michael Rubin Book Award, and they are currently finishing a novel, a book of poetry, and a horror novelette. They live in Austin again- where they are the curator and host of Red Light Lit Austin and co-founder of POV @povstudio.atx- they are still weird.

CHRISTINE NO is a Korean American poet, filmmaker and daughter of immigrants. She is a Sundance Alum, VONA Fellow, two-time Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Nominee. Christine is interested in the power of storytelling at the intersection of health, healing and social justice. Her first full length poetry collection “Whatever Love Means” is available via Barrelhouse Books. You can find her on the internet at @iamchristineno

LINDA RAVENSWOOD has her​ BFA, MA(Perf. Studies), MA(Psy)​​, PhD, Abd. She is the author of The Stan Poems: Indictments & Amendments (Pedestrian Press, 2022) and rock waves/sloe drags (Eye Wear London Press, 2022). Her newest poetry collection,The Stan Poems: Indictments & Amendments,(Pedestrian Press, 2022) is "part eulogy, part elegy, and part ode," says poet Bernadette McComish. A masterful and pioneering double volume of poetic thunder that explores ways in which we're bound to each other in life and beyond time and space. Former L.A. Poet Laureate Luis J. Rodríguez praised Linda's poetry as she "paints with words that move minds, hearts, and mountains. She's a true poet in a true poet's constellation."