Kirk Lumpkin Live Events and News

2006 Events

Anna's Jazz Island
–Presents
Island Literary Series
2120 Allston Way, Berkeley
Sunday, January 22, 3-5PM
$3 Cover at door
Hosted by Avotcja
Poets & Writers Performing:
Kirk Lumpkin
Reginald Lockett
Karla Brundage
Lynn Scott
Flossie Lewis
Linda Joy Meyers
Randy Peyser

The Hairy Eye Ball:
– a Mardi Gras theme dance/party benefit for East Bay & New Orleans Food Not Bombs
Live music:
Wild Buds
Funky Nixons (political satire funk rock)
Cost: $3 to $23 sliding scale donation for the music and hall (no one will beturned away for lack of funds).
The food, as always, is free.
Saturday, February 18th, 2006
doors open: 8pm (show soon to follow)
686 28th Street (off MLK), Oakland
(warehouse at the end of cul-de-sac; must be approached from MLK, Jr. Way)
also costume contest
For More Information: Event specific: (510) 547-7486; East Bay Food Not
Bombs:(510) 644-4187; and check out www.berkeleymardigras.org

Kirk's Los Angeles Area Poetry Mini-Tour
(4 readings in 6 days)

1. featured reading, Tuesday, March 14, at the Cobalt Cafe in Canoga Park, hosted by Rick Lupert
2. mini-feature, Thursday, March 16 at the Velocity Cafe in Santa Monica with features Laurel Ann Bogan and Michael C. Ford, hosted by Peggy Dobreer
3. featured reading, Friday, March 17 at the Sunland-Tujunga Library with co-feature, Christopher Buckley, hosted by Katerina Canyon
4. featured reading, Sunday, March 19 at Beyond Baroque in Venice with co-features, Thea Iberall, Jackson Wheeler, & Peggy Dobreer, hosted by Carlye Archibeque

Appearance on Avotja's show on KPOO - 89.5 FM
San Francisco at 12 noon, April 28th

BERKELEY POETRY FESTIVAL
April 29th, 2006
North Berkeley Senior Center
MLK Way & Hearst
Noon to 6 PM
Part One
12:25 (9 min. each, 50 min. total)
Julia Vinograd, Lucy L. Day, Debra Grace Khattab, Judy Wells &
Dorothy Jesse Beagle
1:20 (4min. each, total 40 min.)
9 Open Mike Poets
Part Two
2:00 (4 min. each, total 10 min.)
Louis Cuneo & Randy Fingland
2:10 (18 min. each, total 40 min.)
Jack and Adelle Foley & Jennifer Stone
2:55 (award- 5 min., poet- 7 min = total 15 min)
L.T.A. Award given to Maggie Meyer by Councilperson Kriss
Worthington and she will read
Part Three
3:10 (4 min. each, total 10 min.)
Philip Nails & Tsahai Unger
3:20 (9 minutes each, 40 min. total)
Dale Jensen, Tim Donnelly, KIRK LUMPKIN, & Mark Schwartz
4:00 (4 min. each, total 25 min)
5 Open Mike Poets
4:30 (20 min, each, total 43 min)
Gail Ford & Haleh Hatami (20 min.) & Jack Hirschman (Poet Laureate of San Francisco)

Kirk's Poetry Tour of Colorado
Featured poetry readings in:
Telluride, CO on Wed, June 7
Norwood, CO on Thurs., June 8
Grand Junction on Fri., June 9
Lafayette (just east of Boulder) on Thurs., June 15

Katrina Benefit
Sunday, June 25th from 3-6 PM
Fundraiser for Katrina victims at the Center for Independent Living in Mississippi
(if you cannot make the event you can still contribute by buying a chapbook with a piece by each of event participants in it)
Co-sponsored by PEN Oakland, the Before Columbus Foundation, and Poetry Flash.
Anna's Jazz Island, 2120 Allston Way (just off Shattuck Ave.), Berkeley
Admission: $5
Performers & Poets:
Gael Alcock
Stephanie JR Russell
Susan & Morton Felix
KIRK LUMPKIN
Adam David Miller
Pablo Rosales
Ramon Pinero
Avotcja
Tres Santos - Chokwadi, Mark G., Muteado
Kaylah Marin
Alex Middlebrook
Judith Cody
Zigi Lowenberg & Raymond Nat Turner
Carla Trujillo
Judith Coburn
Jeanne Lupton
John Curl
Claire Ortalda
Floyd Salas
Susan Lieu
Karen Folger Jacobs
Lucille Day
Diana Quartermaine
Jeanne Powell
Mark States
Garrett Murphy
Sharon Doubiago
Gerald Nicosia
Reginald Lockett
Karla Brundage
Boadiba
Sara Biel
Mary Mackey
Cesar A. Cruz
Kim Shuck
Selene Steese
Ntozake Shange
Tennessee Reed
Andrew Phillips Hayes

Island Literary Series
Anna's Jazz Island, 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley
Sunday, August 20th, 3-5pm, $3
Kirk Lumpkin hosts & reads with
Raymond Nat Turner & Zigi Lowenberg
Avotcja
Patriece
Lebanese poet Elmaz Abinader with musician Kamal Ghammache Mansour

Oakland Libraries Fundraiser
"Poets & Writers Who Care: A Few Choice Words for Libraries"
Sept. 16, 5:30 to 10 pm
Rotunda Building, 300 Frank Ogawa Plaza
Kirk Lumpkin reads with Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, Mary Mackey, Adam David Miller, Nina Serrano, Lucy Day, Daniel Alarcon, Shailja Patel, Bill Wong, Opal Palmer Adisa, Rebecca Solnit, Dave Eggers, Philip Kan Gotanda, etc.

Words Upon the Waters Anthology
Benefit for Hurricane Katrina Victims
Cody's Books, 2 Stockton St., San Francisco, 7-9pm
(see line up from June 25th event, this will be very similar)

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2005 News and Events

On Saturday, April 2nd I performed some of my poetry outside of the Cesar Chavez Public Library in Salinas as part of a 24 hour "read-in" to bring more attention to the insanity of the community that heralds itself as the home of John Steinbeck closing all of it libraries due to a budgetary shortfall. Salinas alone has already spent millions on the war in Iraq. Though under disheartening circumstances, I was pleased and proud to be a part of this event that included close to my time slot Medea Benjamin & Kevin Danaher (Global Exchange/Code Pink), Norman Soloman (media critic), Mike Ferrel (actor, MASH), etc. At other times in the event their were also presentations by Maxine Hong Kingston, Hector Elizondo, Dr. Loco, etc.

Thursday, April 14
–Kirk Lumpkin is the featured poet
along with an open mic
Poetry Mission Thursdays @DALVA
3121 16th Street (near Valencia), San Francisco
This is a great scene hosted by Elz Cuya
IN THE BACKROOM!
which always fills up, so get there early.
7pm - 9pm
no cover, donations accepted
21 and over w/ID only!
GET THERE:
14 Mission, 22 Fillmore,
26 Valencia,
49 Van Ness - Mission,
16th and Mission BART

Thursday, June 9
–Kirk Lumpkin is the featured poet
reading from his book, In Deep
for the Nevada County Poetry Series
at the Performing Arts Center in Grass Valley, CA

Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 5, 2005, (sometime in the afternoon) – short Poetry reading/performance by Kirk Lumpkin
as a part of Art & Soul Festival's Oakland Literature Expo
in downtown Oakland,
(more details soon)

Monday, Sept. 19th, 7:00-9:30pm –Kirk Lumpkin is the featured poet
along with an open mic
in the
Poetry Express Series
at the
Priya Restaurant (Indian cuisine)
2072 San Pablo Avenue
(near University Ave.)
Berkeley
Come early and enjoy a meal; say you are there for the
poetry reading and get a 20% discount!

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005, 7:00pm – Poetry reading/performance by Kirk Lumpkin
(with one other featured poet, Dennis Fritzinger and an open mic)
Whole Note Series at the Beanery,
2925 College Ave. (near Ashby), Berkeley

Admission: Free

Thursday, Nov. 17
–Kirk Lumpkin is the featured poet
reading from his book, In Deep
in Point Arena, California

"The Witness of Poetry"
–Featuring: Tim Nuveen, Kirk Lumpkin, David Madgalene, Christopher J. Luna, Marianne Robinson, Julia Vinograd, David Gollub, Jeremy Morris Seigel, Debra Grace Khattab & others
Saturday, Dec. 10, 8 pm
at the Ecology Center
2530 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley
Admission: Free & Open to the public

Oak Plaza Restaurant Literary Series
–105 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland
2nd Tuesday of each month
6:30 PM-8:30 PM
Tuesday, December 13
Lucille Day
Jeanne Powell
Kirk Lumpkin
Karla Brundage

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As 2004 ends and 2005 begins I wanted to share some positive feedback from the world at large. We need the Arts at dark times like these to shine some light while we cope with the worst administration of my lifetime, here in this mad empire seemingly on the decline. Though most of my artistic focus was on my new book, In Deep, I have kept up work on the musical end of things. The Wild Buds are working on an album of covers and originals, Vid Andrews and I are working on a seperate album of original rock songs, and The Word-Music Continuum is working on our second album. I was a finalist in the Unisong International Song Contest and received an Honorable Mention in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest (both with songs I co-authored with Brian Payne). I was also recently asked to serve on the Board of PEN Oakland, which I am very honored to be able to do. I wish you all a great 2005 and thanks for your support in 2004....Kirk Lumpkin

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