Ted Washington
Ocean Beach, San Francisco
“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… Read More
Ted Washington
The Night Before
“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.… Read More
Ola Hadi
Mud
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… Read More
Ola Hadi
night before valentine’s/bad breakup poetry
“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… Read More
Ola Hadi
Purpose of Life
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… Read More
Michael Klam, News, Uncategorized
“A Celebration of Toys and the Art of Play” — Michael Klam at the San Diego Museum of Art, Sunday, Feb. 21
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 with Torres-Garcia’s… Read More
Michael Klam, News
3 For $300
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… Read More