“It’s here!
Preview night should now be called the first salvo. Traditionally the preview night has been for industry pro’s and the media but I think many more people are in the business or… What an awesome time.”
Here are some before it opened and after it opened pics

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I halt
stand staring at the tree outside of my apartment
say sincerely
I wish this was an orange tree
you know, I could come out into this front yard
pick the fruit
like when I was young and we
with our small grasping hands picked
the lemons and the oranges
off the branches of the trees in our own backyards
instead of some alien [...]

Often they congregate close enough to cough
Yuck germy humans
Heavy cell phone conversations
Islands of egoism
All walks of life
Acting like
It’s totally normal
To follow the rules
To be all ears on
your attention please
Final boarding call
Recorded, not a human voice
They wait in line
Watch monitors
Buy starbucks
Are getting old
Stroll stride trip pass by
I, crosslegged,
criticize the human choice
To follow rules
Like anyone good
and bored
Your [...]

“Daniel Gonzalez contacted me in the spring of 2009 about a movie project he was working on. He is a talented and driven artist that get things done. I was impressed and told him to please include my words since he was inquiring about using my poems in the movie. ‘Ten Days’ premiered at [...]

darling,
I am conflicted.
part of me is enjoying the building
anticipation
of kissing your full delicious lips in just four days
there is the almost pleasurable agony in the length and space between us that makes
the waiting
that much more intense
that sets my whole being into this burst of excitement
that I don’t have the heart to extinguish
yet there is [...]

“My San Francisco reading tour is going great. Tonight I read at Sacred Grounds, it’s noted as being the longest running open-mic in SF. The host and the audience, which was comprised of many long standing bay area poets, was very welcoming. Marc Kockinos, a former San Diego poet now in SF, told me about [...]

“Om Shan Tea! What an unexpected treat. I went with the idea that I would be one of several readers and it turned out that I got to feature. The place was full of tea drinkers but not many poets which worked out great for me. I never understood the attraction of the tea service [...]

“Well that was easy. 8 1/2 hours of driving and I’m back in Ocean Beach, OB, San Francisco style. That’s my hotel behind the coffee shop. You gotta love a cheap hotel at the beach with a great coffee shop next door that also serves food and beer. These shots are from the beach across [...]

“Last night in San Diego before I drive to San Francisco. Actually I leave in six hours: 3am Tuesday, March 30.
My Friend Robyn has set me up to read at Om Shan Tea in the Mission District on Tuesday night. This should be a great time, starts around 7:00pm. Hope to see you there.
Here is [...]

there is the absurd question of semantics
left
to wrestle with
limbs so lifeless
heavy tree branches
gnarly natural monsters
difficult wrestling
left
absurd to wrestle with the question of what is left
there
nude or naked in the muddied interpretations
of ideologies, communist/democratic/polka
dotted/
never powerful enough
to make a difference
bruised/battered/left to
lose form
or strengthen
or be difficult to distinguish
from any other abstraction
whereever you are
the world loves ideas because
the [...]

“That last half an hour of studying was fucking pointless.”
I kept rereading about crimes against humanity and missing the subtle differences between various definitions and switching back and forth so frequently between that and writing really terrible breakup poety that at one point I was confused about what I was looking at, notes or confused [...]

I just wrote a long blog about the purpose of life, at the repeated requests of a friend, and alas, the internet gods have destroyed it…I have no idea where it went.
I was pretty happy with the original, and I have no time to rewrite it completely so this will be the purpose of life [...]

“The first Pruitt Igoe performance of the year!”

Ola Hadi, September 25, 2009

Please,
I.
I begged you
to take an hour
and go down the street
instead of to a war zone to escape
your inner battle
for me
for you
for your worried mother
to see someone who can help you
see you though this low valley
that’s got you going in unpredictable
directions, self medicating,
and aiming cut-throat questions of what is it
that makes you [...]

I’m proud of this one (because it has been so much fun) and looking forward to performing as part of SDMA’s Joaquin Torres-Garcia’s wood abstractions (including his Aladdin toys) exhibit. I’ve written a series of poems as a teacher, father, and little boy in a grown man’s body. The poetry is in dialogue [...]

“Warning you in advance.”

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For Immediate Release
January 24, 2010

Contact: Michael Klam
(619) 957-3264 cell
(619) 236-0011 office
mkklam@gmail.com
www.sandiego-art.org

Poetry & Art Series: 3 for $300 Poetry & Art Slam at Museum of the Living Artist quarterly event

San Diego, CA – Wednesday, February 17 at 7:00 p.m. is the next Three for $300 Poetry & Art Slam in the Museum [...]

“Being recognized as part of the San Diego artists’ community is awesome, but does that mean I have to stop, and smell the roses?
Hell no!

Brave the weather and step out.”

Movers and Shakers information

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