Lone Glen

Join us Saturday May 12th at 7:30 pm as we feature two amazing artists. Both Leon and Ravine will inspire you with their raw, emotive imagery, experimental forms, and commanding reading presence.

Poet Marin Espada describes Raina’s poems as “explosions of pain and transcendence, jagged epiphanies, surreal, haunting, erotic and anguished by turns.” Of Ravine’s first book, poet Ronaldo V. Wilson praises, “Jai Arun Ravine’s แล้ว and then entwine is gorgeously seductive in its multiple sonic and visual fields of symmetrically balanced lyric narratives, striking [cuts], interposed by poetic explorations layered in charts, documents, and workbooks.”

Come relish these incredible creators to see for yourself!

Lone Glen is a reading and art series motivated by a love of creative community and a passion for all art forms. We seek to create a space in which diverse artists, writers, and genre bending creators can mingle, share, and inspire.

Find us at 239 Cotter Street, SF, 94112

Feel free to bring a friend who creates or admires those who do. We will provide some wine, soda, and simple treats but if you have the means or memory, please bring something to share.

More about our writers:

Jai Arun Ravine is a text-based artist working in film/video, movement and performance. They are the author of AND THEN ENTWINE (Tinfish Press, 2011) and a staff writer for Lantern Review.

Raina J. León is a CantoMundo fellow, a Cave Canem graduate fellow, and a member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective. Her first collection of poetry, Canticle of Idols, was a finalist for both the Cave Canem First Book Poetry Prize and the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize. Her second manuscript, Boogeyman Dawn, will be published by Salmon Poetry in 2013. She co-founded The Acentos Review, an international quarterly online review fostering the work of Latino and Latina artists and writers.

Come join us on Friday at 7:30 pm as we feature four incredible writers: John Buckley, Dan Lau, Lindsay Merbaum, & Joel Tomfohr. Lone Glen is a quarterly reading and art series motivated by a love of creative community and a passion for all art forms. Our intention? To create a space in which diverse artists, genres, and genre bending creators can mingle, share, and inspire…On March 9th, we will see what happens when fiction meets poetry, hearing from four talented and eclectic writers who share a sharp eye for image. John and Dan might be described as narrative poets with often a deep satiric or comedic edge, while Lindsay’s irony strewn and captivating stories frequently rewrite Greek myth. Joel’s experimental prose is a mastery of metaphor and character complexity.

Find us at 239 Cotter Street, SF, 94112 (see “Directions” on this site for more details!)

Feel free to bring a friend who creates or admires those who do. We will provide some wine, soda, and simple treats but if you have the means or memory, please bring something to share.

More about our writers:

Originally from the Detroit area, John F. Buckley now lives in Orange County. He has published his work in a number of places. Like everyone else in the world and his dentist, he was once nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His chapbook Breach Birth appeared on Propaganda Press in March 2011. His full-length collaboration with Martin Ott, Poets’ Guide to America, is coming out on Brooklyn Arts Press in summer 2012. This is his real hair. Those are his real teeth. All recent weight gain should be blamed on his quitting smoking.

Dan Lau is a Kundiman Fellow, William Dickey Fellow and a native of Queens, New York. Currently, he is completing an MA in English, Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bateau, RHINO, The Collagist, CRATE, and The Olive Tree Review.

Lindsay Merbaum holds an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College where she was a recipient of the Himan Brown Award for Fiction. Her stories have appeared in a number of magazines/journals such as Gargoyle, Epiphany, and PANK. She is currently finishing a magical-realist novel inspired by the four years she spent living in Ecuador.

Joel received his MFA in 2010 from Mills College. He currently works at the Academy of Art University and lives in Oakland.

— Henry Scott Riddel, 1870