by Ayo Khensu-Ra Timeliness is important and frankly Boeotia hasn’t been quite as timely this past semester as might be desirable. There are plenty of literary events around City College and San Francisco each semester and though some time has passed, this post and the next chronicle a couple of those events in an effort… [Read more…]
December 21, 2011
by Michael Thomson Christopher Hitchens (Apr 13, 1949-Dec 15, 2011) In a short story I submitted to Forum, I jokingly paid tribute a writer and personal hero of mine, Christopher Hitchens, knowing that the dreadful day would eventually come when he would truly fall silent. Like a sick joke, cancer claimed his voice before it claimed his… [Read more…]
December 3, 2011
By Ellie MacBride It’s a Tuesday. I only know this because my cat knocked over a glass of water on my nightstand, waking me from a dream in which I ate six bacon cheeseburgers before walking a red carpet at some Jewish Film Festival. I’m not Jewish. I disregard the diverging rivers of stale tap… [Read more…]
November 29, 2011
by Ayo Khensu-Ra Most of the Forum crew rolled up to Brainwash around the same time Sunday (November 20th) night. It was dark and cool out and Brainwash looked warm and welcoming…though it didn’t necessarily like a place a reading was about to take place. The cafe was full of patrons and some of them… [Read more…]
November 27, 2011
By Ellie MacBride For those of you who missed it, last night (October 23rd) was a great turn-out! Jazz guys ran late, Joseph Lease was falling asleep on a big purple chair, and I was freaking out…but that was just the beginning! By the time the reading started, it flowed like a soda fountain and… [Read more…]
November 17, 2011
Need to do your laundry this weekend but also want some literary entertainment? Well there’s another Forum event coming this Sunday at Brainwash – a reading and open mic. Starts at 7 pm. Hope to see you there. http://www.brainwash.com/index.html
October 26, 2011
Did you miss Forum’s Kristie Logan, Kyanne Rose and Ellie MacBride on Karaoke Clubhouse on Mutiny Radio? They were fantastic of course and you can still catch the show in podcast form here (under Karaoke Clubhouse, podcasts, 19-Oct-2011). The Forum part starts about 52 minutes in.
October 25, 2011
by Ayo Khensu-Ra The other day at the end of a class I started to talk to one of my classmates about Forum, specifically the concept of getting CCSF students from outside of Forum to share their literary experiences with Boeotia, to give voice as I discussed a bit in a post last week. The thing… [Read more…]
October 18, 2011
As we look forward to another Forum-related event (October 23rd) we take a moment to revisit the last Forum-related event — the reading at Cafe La Boheme last month. Photos courtesy Cafe La Boheme (like ‘em!) http://www.facebook.com/cafelabohemesanfrancisco
October 14, 2011
by Ayo Khensu-Ra I cringe at the sight of myself, especially on video, so it was quite by accident that I recently came across a video of a Forum reading in Rosenberg Library’s room 304 I attended some time last year. The spring semester in 2010 was my first stint with Forum and this is… [Read more…]
October 10, 2011
And really, where else would you go for your Halloween-themed literary events? Yes, music, refreshments as well as Joseph Lease, Seth Harwood, Paul Roccanova, our own Kwame Opoku-Duku III live and in person. Plus a Halloween game or two with what will undoubtedly be fabulous prizes, perhaps a costume contest and an open mic so check it out. kaleidoscope http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=157448387680695… [Read more…]
September 26, 2011
It has been a slightly slow start to the fall semester here at Boeotia but that should be changing soon. It is important to note, however, that the deadline for submissions for the fall issue of Forum is fast approaching. As you may have surmised that deadline is this Saturday, the first of October, so get… [Read more…]
May 18, 2011
Today, Wednesday May 18 @ 5pm: all are invited to celebrate the launch of the Spring 2011 issue of Forum. Crash the party at the Visual Arts Building Room 114. Food, drinks, sweets, and literary treats!
May 11, 2011
Please join us to celebrate this semester’s issue of Forum, CCSF’s literary magazine, hot off the press! Come to the reading and check out the stunning cover of this edition, which features work by CCSF faculty, students and staff [past and present]. Wednesday May 18 5-8pm Visual Arts 114 Light refreshments will be served. Copies… [Read more…]
April 17, 2011
Posted by Joseph Ramelo It’s been said that if Shakespeare were alive today, his bread and butter would be writing for soap operas. Sure, he’d probably still conjure up a Hamlet or Macbeth. But his day job? Probably similar to that of Agnes Nixon, the creator of All My Children and One Life To Live,… [Read more…]
April 13, 2011
A warm birthday shout out to our blog editor, Joe!
March 16, 2011
Poetry, Poesie, Poesia By James H. Miller I have an undying respect for poetry translators. I’ve never had the patience or discipline to truly learn a foreign language myself. I tried Spanish so that I might read Cesar Vallejo in the original, attempted German because I thought Goethe was really rad, and then French for… [Read more…]
January 3, 2012
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