Superhero Portrait Art Show, Author Readings & Free Beer | SF

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Quiet Lightning presents readings by Randall Babtkis, Jason Magabo Perez, Brynn Saito, and Ahmunet Jessica Joron in response to Modern Eden Gallery’s annual group portrait show, themed “Superhero.”

Free, but an RSVP is requested.

The authors will read their responses, and attendees will be encouraged to sketch their own; ArtSpan, co-presenting the show, will hand out sketchbooks (while supplies last). Free draft beer, courtesy of Lagunitas. Readings guest curated by Carolyn Cooke.

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Randall Babtkis is blood-related to an action figure: his Great Uncle Barney brought The Adventures of Superman to television. Babtkis is the editor of Mission at Tenth, San Francisco’s inter-arts print magazine. His poetry chapbook Banister and writings for Slash magazine figured in L.A.’s early punk rock scene. The Originals, a non-fiction-novel-in-progress, landed him in the Ukrainian village his super-hero ancestors fled.

Jason Magabo Perez is the author of The Passion of El Hulk Hogancito, a live multimedia literary performance-in-progress commissioned by Kularts, supported by an NEA Challenge America Grant, and staged at various universities across California, the National Asian American Theater Festival, the International Conference of the Philippines, and the Bayanihan Community Center.

Brynn Saito is the author of The Palace of Contemplating Departure, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press and finalist for the 2013 Northern California Book Award. Currently, Brynn lives in Palo Alto and teaches at California Institute of Integral Studies. Her second book of poems will be published by Red Hen Press in the Spring of 2016.

Ahmunet Jessica Jordon is a Queer poet and writer from gutsy Baltimore. Her stories investigate the Black experience, human conditions, and the raw residue of lust and sexuality. She published her chapbook, Salty, after completing her MFA in Writing and Consciousness at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

Jay Santa Cruz is a Filipino writer from San Jose. She has had fellowships with Kundiman and VONA, and her work has appeared in PANK, Whole Beast Rag, and Tayo Magazine, among other publications. You can find her writing poems on Twitter after dark.

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