Lone Glen

Join us in our garden from 7-8:30 pm on Friday evening July 27^th to hear seductive and scintillating prose from four inspiring, mind-bending writers: Matt Martin, Paul Ocampo, Rose Tully, and Anna Pulley (see writer bios below).  Expect a prose gamut, including essay, memoir, experimental fiction, and stand-up comedy lines that are sure to bring you to laughter and tears! Please feel free to bring a friend who creates or admires those who do. Meet us at our home at 239 Cotter Street, SF, 94112 (see “Directions” on this site, especially if you are using BART).  We will provide wine, soda, and simple treats but if you have the means or memory, please bring something to share.  Don’t forget to bring a coat in case we are blessed with Twainian fog!

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.

More about our writers:

Matt Martin

Matt Martin is a San Francisco native who began writing and performing sketch comedy in the Boston-based sketch comedy troupe Swollen Monkeys.  He then spent 10 years swimming in the treacherous, shark-infested, show-business waters of Los Angeles where he worked as a sitcom writer on several shows.  Matt is also the creator and curator of an internationally inappropriate comedy collective.  He has authored four very clever and very unpublished kids books that are in need of homes.  For the past 10 years he’s worked as an educator, proudly teaching his young students how to keep him thoroughly entertained until they can all go home.  Mostly he dispenses long-winded life advice to friends who haven’t asked him for any.  According to Facebook, he was educated at Emerson College, he is Born-Again Agnostic, and his political views are “Pro-Barbeque.”

Paul Ocampo

Paul Ocampo earned an MFA in Fiction from Arizona State University. He assisted Maxine Hong Kingston in editing Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace. He currently works at the Asian Law Caucus, the first nonprofit legal and civil rights organization serving Asian & Pacific Islander American communities.

Rose Tully

Rose Tully’s stories found their way to Windy City Queer’s Anthology through University of Wisconsin Press, San Francisco State University’s Transfer Anniversary Anthology, Bay Area’s Lit-Up Writers Best-Of Anthology, Chicago Reader, and SF Weekly. She focused her MFA in Creative Writing on the teaching of writing at San Francisco State University, where she received the Leo Litwak Award in Fiction and
where she was honored a Distinguished Graduate Award. Rose was selected as a 2010 RADAR Lab Retreat writer in Akumal, Mexico, where she continued working on her novel. This year Rose has taught two creative writing classes at San Francisco State, in addition to teaching film and creative writing to youth through the Sunset
Neighborhood Beacon Center in San Francisco, San Francisco Arts Education Network, and San Francisco Unified School District. Rose incorporates disciplines of visual art, sewing, performance and sound to inform her literary work.

Anna Pulley

Hailing from the rough-and-tumble deserts of southern Arizona, where one doesn’t have to bother with such trivialities as “coats” or “daylight savings time,” Anna is the Arts and Culture Editor at SF Weekly and a freelance writer. She tends to put quotes around things unnecessarily and spends altogether too much time justifying the artistic merit of limericks. She has written reviews of everything from bars to restaurants to films to theater to sex toys, in addition to writing several different sex and relationship columns for The Chicago Tribune’s RedEye, AfterEllen, Centerstage Chicago, and Chicago Now. She also writes a weekly social media etiquette column for SF Weekly, and her work has appeared in Mother Jones magazine, AlterNet, The Bay Citizen, Salon, and The Rumpus.

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